Jon-Paul Gates

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Jon-Paul Gates (born March 1980) is an actor^[1] who has starred in 84 feature films, predominantly playing the antagonist. Was born in Greenford, Middlesex under the name of Jon Morrey. He spent most of his childhood in a village near Doncaster, South Yorkshire and aspired to becoming a professional footballer before his career was cut short through injury and so decided on a career "treading the boards" instead.

He got his first break starring as Allan Hindle in the BBC's soap, Eldorado. Due to the show's unpopularity, he changed his professional name to Jon-Paul Gates in 1994. After various short films and a Channel 4 TV series, Focus North, he starred in his first feature film Cold Fish in 1999, playing the lead role of Alex. In 2001, he secured lead roles in Palm Tree's and played the antagonist Ida in ; which entered the top 10 DVD films in Russia in 2004. From 2002 to 2006 he accumulated more films in Europe; The Prodigal, Red Rose, before trying his luck in the USA. After getting his big break in vampire flick Revamped, he starred in The Asylum's Dragon, with Gary Busey in Beyond the Ring and Danny Trejo in . Travelling back and forth, he played the evil priest opposite Jeff Fahey and Martin Kove in Messages, Peter in Carmen's Kiss with Hugo Speer and Bruce Payne. Gates has also worked with Bruce Payne on Disturbance.

Jon-Paul Gates continues to work internationally portraying a variety of characters. After starring as Mr. Draper in Dance Star, he was the robotic over voices in ; an alcoholic in , ^[2] a boxer turned gangster in , a medium in the franchise,^[3] a lawyer with a coke habit in , an aggressive prison guard opposite in Borstal, playing Dracula himself in The Howling, Rudi Schneider in 2019 UK independent horror film , and a journalist who perishes in the 1958 Munich Air Disaster with Brian Cox in Believe. In 2020 he played the character of Sarah's husband in They're Outside.

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• Jon-Paul Gates at IMDb