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Trivia
Birth name: Vincent Peter Jones
Date of birth: 5 January 1965
Place of birth: Watford, Hertfordshire, England, UK
Height: 6' 2" (1.88 m)
Nickname: Vinnie
Spouse: Tanya Jones (June 1994 - present) 2 children
 Vinnie was a student at Chancellors School located at Potters Bar,
Hertfordshire.
Vinnie is an avid fan of Greyhound racing. He even owns several dogs which he enters into races.
Played 384 league games and scored 33 goals in his soccer career, most
of them with Wimbledon. He was sent off more than ten times.
Vinnie won The Millennium Cigar Award for Male Cigar Personality of the Year.
Was briefly player/coach of Queens Park Rangers football club [1998]
Son Aaron born in 1991 Daughter Kayley born in 1987.
Vinnie has 5 tattoos. A rose on his left forearm, an FA Cup Tattoo on the outside of his right leg (marking his achievement of winning the FA Cup, with Wimbledon in 1988), the Leeds football club rose on the outside of his left leg (for winning the division championship in 1989/90), he has the captaincy for Wales on his chest, and finally the names of his family: Tanya, Aaron & Kayley in the middle of his shoulders.
Vinnie was briefly player/coach of Queens Park Rangers football club in 1998.
Vinnie is an avid supporter of the charity CLIC: Cancer and Leukaemia in Childhood.
Vinnie boasts a huge collection of cars. He owns everything from a Ferrari to various German sports cars.
Holds the record for being the quickest player ever to be yellow-carded
in a game of professional soccer. He was booked 3 seconds into the game.
Vinnie as sent off more than ten times during his footie career.
Vinnie won the Odeon Cinemas Audience award for Best Actor award for his appearance in Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels.
Vinnie owns a thoroughbred racehorse named partially after one of the films he appeared in: Sixty Seconds.
In 1999, Vinnie won the Empire Award for Best Debut for: Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998).
Vinnie married his wife Tanya in 1994.
Is banned from flying on Virgin Atlantic after causing a fight on a
flight to Tokyo.
Shares birthday with Gone in Sixty Seconds (2000) co-star Robert Duvall
Was a student at Chancellors School, Potters Bar, Hertfordshire.
In December of 1995, Vinnie won the Nike Man of the Match for his performance in the The F.A. Premier League match: Arsenal vs. Wimbledon.
In 1997, Vinnie won Satellite TV Europe Magazine's TV Personality of the Year award.
In 1998, Vinnie won the Sir James Carreras award for Outstanding new talent.
Variety Club of Great Britain.
Vinnie won GQ Magazine's Man of the Year Award in 1999.V
Vinnie appeared in a TV commercial for Sky Digital Television in 2001.
Vinnie appeared in a TV commercial for One2One in 1999.
Vinnie appeared in a TV commercial for Walker's Crisps in 1999.
Vinnie was banned from flying on Virgin Atlantic after causing a fight on a flight to Tokyo.
Vinnie played 384 league games and scored 33 goals in his soccer career, most of them with Wimbledon.
In 2001, Vinnie won the Empire Award for Best British Actor for his appearance in Snatch (2000).
In 2002, Vinnie appeared in the music video for Westlife's "Bop Bop Baby."
Vinnie appeared in a series of commercials for Bacardi Rum from 2001 to 2003.
Vinnie appeared in a TV commercial for Puma in 2002.
Vinnie appeared in the 2003 Smirnoff Ice commercials.
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