Actress Jaime Winstone will be playing a key role in the BBC show Four Lives, which depicts the families of the victims of serial killer Stephen Port and their battle for justice.
Winstone will be playing Donna Taylor, the sister of Jack Taylor, who was murdered by evil Port in September 2015.
She will star alongside an a A-list cast that includes Stephen Merchant as Port and Sheridan Smith as Sarah Sak.
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Winstone, 36, has been acting for nearly two decades in British television and film.
She is the daughter of famous actor Ray Winstone and his wife Elaine McCausland. Her elder sister Lois is also an actress.
Growing up in Enfield, North London and then Roydon, Essex, Winstone attended local schools before doing a BTEC in performing arts at Harlow College in Essex.
Her first role was in Bullet Boy, a 2004 film about crime in Hackney, as Natalie.
She also appeared in Vincent (2006) alongside her father.
But she came to prominence with a role in Kidulthood (2006) when she was just 20 years old.
Kidulthood was written and starred in by Noel Clarke, who was accused of sexual misconduct by 20 women in 2021.
Winstone went on to star in sixties feminist drama Made in Dagenham (2010) and Adam Deacon’s Anuvahood (2011).
In 2010, she played Anneli Alderton in BBC’s Five Daughters, one of the victims of the Suffolk Strangler.
Winstone also sings backing vocals in sister Lois’ band, and has appeared in some music videos, including the video for Madness’ song Dust Devil alongside her then boyfriend and Game of Thrones star Alfie Allen.
Allen and Winstone got engaged in 2008, but then split in 2010. They reunited in 2013, only to split again the next year due to their work schedules keeping them apart.
Winstone got together with DJ James Suckling in 2015, and the two had a son, Raymond, in 2016 named after her father.
To celebrate Raymond’s fifth birthday, granddad Ray shared hilarious pictures comparing him and his grandson on Instagram.
More recently, Jaime has starred in films such as Tomb Raider, Love Rosie, and as Barbara in the BBC’s biopic about Barbara Windsor.
She is active on social media, advocating for important causes such as action on the climate crisis, help for refugees and bodily autonomy.
Four Lives will focus on telling the stories of the families of Stephen Port’s four victims: Jack Taylor, Anthony Walgate, Gabriel Kovari and Daniel Whitworth.
Port targeted his victims through Grindr and other dating apps. He was convicted in 2016 for the assault, murder and rape of Taylor, Walgate, Kovari and Whitworth, as well several other counts of rape and poisoning.
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An inquest into the police’s handling of the case in December 2021 concluded that police failings “probably” contributed to more deaths.
The police were accused of not investigating the sudden deaths of the young victims because they were gay.
Posting on Instagram about Four Lives, Winstone wrote: “It was an honour and of much importance to be apart of this project and to do my part in helping to expose the ignorance shown towards young gay/ curious men and how the entire LGBTQ community are still extremely venerable within our society.
“More Should have been done!..lives were lost due to a sheer ignorance and incompetence of basic policing.
“The system failed them and anyone who knew these young men, my heart goes out to all the families that were so deeply effected by these cruel murders. Your strength is beyond inspiring and I thank you for allowing us to tell your side to the story.”
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