Jaime Winstone

Jaime Margaret Winstone (born 6 May 1985) is an English actress, known for playing Becky in the film Kidulthood, and playing Kelly in the E4 horror series Dead Set.

Biography

Early life

Winstone was born in Camden, North London. She is the daughter of actor Ray Winstone and his wife Elaine McCausland. She has two sisters, Lois (born 1982), the eldest, who is a singer and sometime actress, and a younger sister, Ellie (born 2001). Jaime grew up in Enfield, North London, where she occasionally attended Enfield County School, a local state school. Her family later moved to Roydon, Essex where she attended Burnt Mill School in Harlow, Essex before going on to study for a BTEC National Diploma in Performing Arts at the performing arts department of Harlow College, Essex. She studied briefly at drama school, before dropping out to pursue her acting career in movies such as Anuvahood and Kidulthood.

Film career

Winstone's credits include the films Bullet Boy (2004), Daddy's Girl, Kidulthood (both 2006) and Donkey Punch (2008), the television series M.I.T.:Murder Investigation Team, Vincent (alongside her father), Totally Frank, Goldplated and Dead Set and a short film called Love Letters. She was cast in a BBC pilot Phoo Action, but a planned series was cancelled just as filming was about to start.