Jason Statham is an English actor born 26 July 1967 in Shirebrook, Derbyshire. He was a member of Britain's National Diving Squad for about 12 years and competed for England at the 1990 Commonwealth Games. He later sold goods on market stalls and modelled for French Connection, Tommy Hilfiger and Levi's before Guy Ritchie cast him in Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels.

He is best known for tough, gritty action-thriller leads in The Transporter films, Crank, The Expendables, The Meg and Hobb