Godfrey Guinan

Godfrey Guinan was born and raised in West London, England to a Sri Lankan father and Portuguese mother. His father's vocation as a motor mechanic inspired Godfrey's interest and fascination for cars and motorbikes which eventually developed into track racing. This adrenaline fuelled curiosity led him to become a martial artist, snowboarding instructor, SCUBA diver and qualified skydiver. He left school at the age of eighteen choosing not to pursue a degree in physics and to work as a software developer. However at the age of twenty five he felt his career was stifled and decided to invigorate it by going to University to read Computer Science. Two weeks after graduating he was on a plane which embarked a round the world journey travelling through Asia, Australasia and the U.S. for a year. Upon return from his travels he worked as a freelance software engineer for various companies. It was within one of these companies that he met Barri Costello who asked him to audition for the part of The Salesman, the devil in disguise, in the short film The Lion's Skin. From this point onwards he got the acting bug and went on to stage work and further study of acting which eventually led him to audition and gain a place at London's prestigious East 15 acting school.