Tamer Hassan is a British

United Kingdom

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 actor of Turkish Cypriot descent.

Early life

Hassan was born in London

London

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, England

England

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 into a Turkish Cypriot

Turkish Cypriots

Turkish Cypriots are the ethnic Turks and members of the Turkish-speaking ethnolinguistic community of the Eastern Mediterranean island of Cyprus. The term is used to refer explicitly to the indigenous Turkish Cypriots, whose Ottoman Turkish forbears colonised the island in 1571...

 family. Having sustained an injury in boxing, Hassan started to run nightclub

Nightclub

A nightclub is an entertainment venue which usually operates late into the night...

s and restaurants and is now the owner, chairman and player/coach of Greenwich Borough

Greenwich Borough F.C.

Greenwich Borough F.C. is a football club based in Eltham, in the London Borough of Greenwich, England. They were established in 1928 and joined the Kent League in 1984. In the 2007-08 season, they reached the 5th round of the FA Vase losing to Hungerford Town after a replay...

 and is also a big fan of Millwall

Millwall F.C.

Millwall Football Club is an English professional football club based in South Bermondsey, south east London, that plays in the Football League Championship, the second tier of English football. Founded as Millwall Rovers in 1885, the club has retained its name despite having last played in the...

. He also runs Eltham Boxing Gym, but he later moved into acting. Tamer's son Taser Hassan currently plays professional football, and also has a godson Sam Bannister. Hassan also plays for Tamber, a small club in London. In his younger days he helped out at his family's kebab shop in Bermondsey. However he later quit this job, largely because he was often abused by drunken punters, who would constantly ridicule him for his mono-brow. It was this stint in the family business which earned him the nicknames "Mono-Brow Mug" and "the Bermondsey Mono". He stated in his biography that these cutting insults left him angry and disillusioned with the world, and it was this rage that inspired him to embark upon an Amateur Boxing career. His record stood at a respectable 25-7, in which he was only ko'd once, whilst scoring 15KO's in the process.

Acting career

Hassan started acting in roles in television before playing a minor role in the comedy The Calcium Kid

The Calcium Kid

The Calcium Kid is a British mockumentary comedy film which was released in 2004. This film is presented in the style of a fictional documentary or a "Mockumentary". It stars Orlando Bloom as a milkman and amateur boxer. Billie Piper and Michael Peña are also featured...

. He later was cast in the role of the leader of a fictional football firm in The Football Factory. Further collaboration with Nick Love

Nick Love

Nick Love is a British film director and writer. Love came to public attention in the UK after making the films The Football Factory, The Business and The Firm. He has two 'Millwall' tattoos, including one on the inside of his bottom lip.Love is well known for collaborating with actor Danny Dyer...

 led to a lead role in The Business

The Business (film)

The Business is a 2005 British drama/crime/gangster film written and directed by Nick Love. The film stars Danny Dyer, Tamer Hassan and Roland Manookian all of which were in Love's previous film The Football Factory. It also stars Geoff Bell and Georgina Chapman...

.

Hassan has also had a number of minor roles in other films, such as The Ferryman, Batman Begins

Batman Begins

Batman Begins is a 2005 American superhero action film based on the fictional DC Comics character Batman, directed by Christopher Nolan. It stars Christian Bale as Batman, along with Michael Caine, Gary Oldman, Liam Neeson, Katie Holmes, Cillian Murphy, Morgan Freeman, Ken Watanabe, Tom Wilkinson,...

, Cass

Cass (film)

Cass is a 2008 British crime drama film. It stars Nonso Anozie as Cass Pennant and is directed by Jon S. Baird-Plot:Cass is based on the true story of the life of Cass Pennant, adapted from his book. The film tells of how he was adopted by an elderly white couple in 1958 and brought up in Slade...

and Eastern Promises.

He is set to star in the upcoming Charlie Creed Miles film, New Beginnings.. 2011 sees him starring in British film noir Jack Falls

Jack Falls

Jack Falls is a British independent feature film starring Simon Phillips, Jason Flemying, Dexter Fletcher, Alan Ford, Adam Deacon, Martin Kemp, Tamer Hassan, Olivia Hallinan, Doug Bradley, Jing Lusi and Zach Galligan and the third installment in the Jack Says Trilogy, the first ever British film...

as a shady police boss.

Filmography

Actor

Year	Film	Role	Notes
1987	No Way Out No Way Out (1987 film) No Way Out is a 1987 thriller film about a U.S. Naval officer investigating a Washington, D.C. murder. It stars Kevin Costner, Gene Hackman and Sean Young...	Officer at party
2002	Dju!	Himself
2002	Judge John Deed Judge John Deed Judge John Deed is a British legal drama television series produced by the BBC in association with One-Eyed Dog for BBC One. It was created by G.F. Newman and stars Martin Shaw as Sir John Deed, a High Court judge who tries to seek real justice in the cases before him. It also stars Jenny Seagrove...	Hussain Husaini	Episode: "Political Expediency"
2003	The Bill The Bill The Bill is a police procedural television series that ran from October 1984 to August 2010. It focused on the lives and work of one shift of police officers, rather than on any particular aspect of police work...	Hasan Ergunsah	Episode: "090"
2004	Murder City	Michael Samuels	Episode: "Big City Small World"
2004	The Calcium Kid The Calcium Kid The Calcium Kid is a British mockumentary comedy film which was released in 2004. This film is presented in the style of a fictional documentary or a "Mockumentary". It stars Orlando Bloom as a milkman and amateur boxer. Billie Piper and Michael Peña are also featured...	Pete Wright
2004	Spivs Spivs (film) Spivs is a British comedy-crime drama film directed by Colin Teague, who also cowrote the screenplay along with screenwriters Gary Young, and Mike Loveday. It is the second of three undertakings by Teague and Young, the others being Shooters and The Last Drop, respectively...	Villa
2004	The Football Factory	Fred
2004	Layer Cake Layer Cake (film) Layer Cake is a 2004 British crime thriller produced and directed by Matthew Vaughn, in his directorial debut. It is based on the novel Layer Cake by J. J...	Terry
2005	Hannibal v Rome	Hannibal	TV Movie
2005	Unleashed Unleashed (film) Unleashed , is a 2005 American-British-French martial arts action thriller film directed by Louis Leterrier and written by Luc Besson. Film stars Jet Li, Bob Hoskins, Morgan Freeman and Kerry Condon...  (aka Danny the Dog)	Georgie
2005	Batman Begins Batman Begins Batman Begins is a 2005 American superhero action film based on the fictional DC Comics character Batman, directed by Christopher Nolan. It stars Christian Bale as Batman, along with Michael Caine, Gary Oldman, Liam Neeson, Katie Holmes, Cillian Murphy, Morgan Freeman, Ken Watanabe, Tom Wilkinson,...	Faden's Limo Driver
2005	7 Seconds 7 Seconds (film) 7 Seconds is a 2005 American action film, starring Wesley Snipes and Tamzin Outhwaite. The film was directed by Simon Fellows and written by Martin Wheeler and was filmed in Bucharest,Romania. It was released Direct-to-DVD on June 28, 2005...	Rahood
2005	The Business The Business (film) The Business is a 2005 British drama/crime/gangster film written and directed by Nick Love. The film stars Danny Dyer, Tamer Hassan and Roland Manookian all of which were in Love's previous film The Football Factory. It also stars Geoff Bell and Georgina Chapman...	Charlie
2005	Revealed	Hannibal	Episode: "Hannibal of the Alps"
2005	The Comic Strip Presents...	Luccio	Episode: "Sex Actually"
2007	The Ferryman	Big Dave
2007	Eastern Promises	Chechen
2007	The Omid Djalili Show The Omid Djalili Show The Omid Djalili Show was a British sketch comedy/stand-up comedy television show produced by Hat Trick Productions for BBC One. Writing by Omid Djalili, Will Smith, Roger Drew, Ian Stone, Ricky Grover with script editor Steve Punt...	Himself	2 Episodes
2001–2007	Casualty Casualty (TV series) Casualty, stylised as Casual+y, is a British weekly television show broadcast on BBC One, and the longest-running emergency medical drama television series in the world. Created by Jeremy Brock and Paul Unwin, it was first broadcast on 6 September 1986, and transmitted in the UK on BBC One. The...	Stan / Barry Rayfield	2 Episodes
2008	Sucker Punch	Del
2008	West 10 LDN West 10 LDN West 10 LDN is a BBC drama starring Ashley Madekwe, Noel Clarke, and Ashley Walters. It is set in the fictional Greenside council housing estate in West London....	Gout	TV Movie
2008	Beyond the Rave Beyond the Rave Beyond the Rave is a twenty-part horror serial that marked the return of Hammer Films in 2008.-Plot:The story follows the last hours of freedom of local soldier Ed, who is flying out to Iraq the following morning...	Rich Crocker
2008	Cass Cass (film) Cass is a 2008 British crime drama film. It stars Nonso Anozie as Cass Pennant and is directed by Jon S. Baird-Plot:Cass is based on the true story of the life of Cass Pennant, adapted from his book. The film tells of how he was adopted by an elderly white couple in 1958 and brought up in Slade...	Ray
2008	EastEnders EastEnders EastEnders is a British television soap opera, first broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC One on 19 February 1985 and continuing to today. EastEnders storylines examine the domestic and professional lives of the people who live and work in the fictional London Borough of Walford in the East End...	Ahmet	2 Episodes
2009	K	Alberto
2009	Goal! III	Ronnie
2009	iD3	Tommaso
2009	City Rats City Rats City Rats is a black comedy feature film, released on April 24, 2009 and starring Tamer Hassan, Ray Panthaki, Susan Lynch, Kenny Doughty, MyAnna Buring, James Lance and Natasha Williams and Danny Dyer.-Cast:* Tamer Hassan as Jimbo Jones...	Jim
2009	Hotel Babylon Hotel Babylon Hotel Babylon was a BBC television drama series based on the book of the same name by Imogen Edwards-Jones, that aired from 19 January 2006 to 14 August 2009, produced by independent production company Carnival Films for BBC One...	Gomez	2 Episodes
2009	Wrong Turn 3: Left for Dead Wrong Turn 3: Left for Dead Wrong Turn 3: Left for Dead is a 2009 American slasher film, directed by Declan O'Brien, and starring Janet Montgomery, Tamer Hassan and Chucky Venice. This film was released direct-to-DVD on October 20, 2009.-Plot:...	Chavez
2009	Dead Man Running Dead Man Running Dead Man Running is a 2009 British crime film directed by Alex De Rakoff and written by Alex De Rakoff and John Luton. The film was budgeted on $1 million...	Nick
2010	Kick-Ass Kick-Ass (film) Kick-Ass is a 2010 superhero comedy film based on the comic book of the same name by Mark Millar and John Romita, Jr. The film was directed by Matthew Vaughn, who co-produced the film with actor Brad Pitt, and co-wrote the screenplay with Jane Goldman...	Matthew
2010	Clash of the Titans Clash of the Titans (2010 film) Clash of the Titans is a 2010 fantasy and action remake of the 1981 film of the same name . The story is very loosely based on the Greek myth of Perseus. Directed by Louis Leterrier and starring Sam Worthington, the film was originally set for standard release on March 26, 2010...	Ares
2010	The Hike	Dean
2010	The Last Seven	Jack Mason
2010	Bonded by Blood Bonded by Blood (film) Bonded by Blood is a 2010 film directed by Sacha Bennett which revolves around the same characters from Rise of the Footsoldier.-Plot:The film is set in 1995, drug suppliers and career criminals Tony Tucker, Patrick Tate and Craig Rolfe were blasted to death by a shot gun whilst waiting in a Range...	Pat Tate
2010	Magic Boys	Splendid Ben
2010	Service Man	Corporal Thomas
2010	Jack Falls Jack Falls Jack Falls is a British independent feature film starring Simon Phillips, Jason Flemying, Dexter Fletcher, Alan Ford, Adam Deacon, Martin Kemp, Tamer Hassan, Olivia Hallinan, Doug Bradley, Jing Lusi and Zach Galligan and the third installment in the Jack Says Trilogy, the first ever British film...	The Boss
2011	Blood Out Blood Out (film) Blood Out is a 2011 American drama thriller film released direct-to-video. The film is written by Jason Hewitt and John A. O'Connell, starring Val Kilmer and Luke Goss, and is Hewitt's directorial debut.- Plot :...	Elias
2011	Red Faction: Origins	Stoller
2011	Amoc	Dell	(post-production)
2011	The Double The Double (film) The Double is a 2011 spy film, starring Richard Gere and Topher Grace, released on October 28, 2011.-Plot:A retired CIA operative is paired with a young FBI agent to unravel the mystery of a senator's murder, with all signs pointing to a Soviet assassin....	Boz	(post-production)
2011	Freerunner Freerunner (film) Freerunner is a 2011 film by Lawrence Silverstein starring Sean Faris , Danny Dyer and Tamer Hassan in lead roles.-Plot:...	Reese	(post-production)
2011	The Hike	Dean	(post-production)
2011	The Reverend	Harold Hicks	(pre-production)

Producer

Year	Film	Notes
2009	Dead Man Running Dead Man Running Dead Man Running is a 2009 British crime film directed by Alex De Rakoff and written by Alex De Rakoff and John Luton. The film was budgeted on $1 million...	Executive producer
2012	Service Man	Executive producer

Personal life

Hassan is married and has two children.He is also the close friend of cockney actor,Danny Dyer. His son, Taser, is a football player.

External links

• Mr. Hassan at Channel 4.com
• Tamer Hassan Interview 2006