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50 free Jason Statham trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Jason Statham did not take the usual road into film. He was an international athlete and a fashion model before a first-time director put him in a low-budget British crime comedy, and within a few years he was one of the most bankable action leads in the world. This quiz covers the whole story: his childhood and sporting years, the hustles that paid the bills, the gangster comedies, the driver, hitman and mercenary roles that made his name, the big ensemble franchises, and the voice work, adverts and blink-and-miss cameos in between. It opens with the roles most film fans know and works toward details for people who have seen everything. Every answer comes with a short explanation.
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Q 01Jason Statham spent years in Great Britain's national squad for which sport before he became an actor?
Diving
Diving was Statham's first career, and a sports modelling agency spotted him while he trained at London's Crystal Palace. That led to clothing adverts, then film.
Q 02Which director gave Jason Statham his first film role in Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels?
Guy Ritchie
Guy Ritchie needed someone to play a streetwise con artist and cast Statham after hearing he had worked on market stalls. The role paid him £5,000.
Q 03What is the name of the vengeful older brother Jason Statham plays in the Fast & Furious films?
Deckard Shaw
Deckard Shaw first appears in a mid-credits cameo in the sixth film, then hunts the heroes to avenge his comatose younger brother. Later entries turn him into a reluctant ally.
Q 04In which 2006 film must Jason Statham's poisoned hitman Chev Chelios keep his adrenaline pumping to stay alive?
Crank
Crank sends its hero through brawls, car chases and a hospital raid for epinephrine, all to stop a synthetic drug from slowing his heart.
Q 05Which Hollywood star plays the bare-knuckle boxer recruited by Jason Statham's fight promoter Turkish in Snatch?
Brad Pitt
Brad Pitt plays Mickey, an Irish Traveller whose accent is so thick that the other characters can barely follow him. He is told to throw a fight and wins it anyway.
Q 06What is the name of the knife-wielding former SAS soldier Jason Statham plays in The Expendables films?
Lee Christmas
Lee Christmas is the mercenary team's blade specialist, and Statham played him in four films between 2010 and 2023.
Q 07Which comedy star plays the desk-bound CIA employee who upstages Jason Statham's boastful agent in the 2015 film Spy?
Melissa McCarthy
Melissa McCarthy leads the film as Susan Cooper, while Statham sends up his own tough-guy image as Rick Ford. Critics singled out his unexpectedly comic turn.
Q 08Which former wrestler shared top billing with Jason Statham in a 2019 Fast & Furious spin-off partly set in Samoa?
Dwayne Johnson
Dwayne Johnson and Statham play bickering rivals forced to work together, and Statham also co-produced the film. The Hawaiian island of Kauai stood in for Samoa.
Q 09What did Jason Statham say he sold on street corners to make ends meet while working as a model?
Fake perfume and jewellery
Fake perfume and jewellery kept him afloat, and the hustle paid off twice: his patter as a street seller is what convinced a young director to cast him as a con artist.
Q 10Which Oscar-winning actress plays the mother of Jason Statham's character in the Fast & Furious films?
Helen Mirren
Helen Mirren first played Magdalene in an uncredited cameo in the eighth film, and she has returned to the series several times since.
Q 11Which footballer turned actor made his film debut alongside Jason Statham and later led the comedy Mean Machine?
Vinnie Jones
Vinnie Jones played the enforcer Big Chris in the 1998 crime comedy that launched both men, and it won him the Empire Award for Best Debut.
Q 12Which French filmmaker co-wrote The Transporter as a star vehicle for Jason Statham and produced its sequels?
Luc Besson
Luc Besson wrote the script with the partner who later joined him on the Taken films, and the idea was inspired by a series of promotional short films made for BMW.
Q 13Which martial-arts star shared the screen with Jason Statham in The One, War and three Expendables films?
Jet Li
Q 21Jason Statham's 2011 hitman thriller The Mechanic remade a 1972 film that starred which American tough-guy actor?
Charles Bronson
Charles Bronson first played Arthur Bishop, an assassin who makes his killings look like accidents. A trailer for the remake was banned in Britain for excessive violence.
Q 22The Bank Job cast Jason Statham in a story based on a real 1971 vault burglary at which London address?
Baker Street
Baker Street is where thieves emptied the safety deposit boxes of a Lloyds branch, and the film's makers claimed the story was hushed up to protect a member of the royal family.
Q 23In Death Race, Jason Statham's framed convict is forced to race behind the mask of which legendary driver?
Frankenstein
Jet Li made five films with Statham in all. In the first, back in 2001, Statham was still a supporting player.
Q 14Which action star wrote the script for Jason Statham's 2013 thriller Homefront after first planning to star in it?
Sylvester Stallone
Sylvester Stallone first conceived the story as a Rambo sequel, shelved it for a decade, then produced it and handed the lead to Statham.
Q 15In a 2013 interview, Jason Statham argued that the Academy Awards should add a category for which film workers?
Stunt performers
Stunt performers were, he told Vanity Fair, unsung heroes who risk their necks while actors pretend to have done the work. He is known for doing much of his own action.
Q 16In the 2003 remake of The Italian Job, which member of the heist crew is Jason Statham's getaway driver?
Handsome Rob
Handsome Rob is the crew's wheelman, and the plan relies on three heavily modified Mini Coopers small enough to carry stolen gold out through a mansion.
Q 17Which of the four friends does Jason Statham play in his debut film, Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels?
Bacon
Bacon is one of four small-time London criminals who pool £100,000 for a card game that turns out to be rigged, leaving them a week to find £500,000.
Q 18What is the name of the rule-bound driver for hire Jason Statham plays in the first three Transporter films?
Frank Martin
Frank Martin is a decorated former special operations soldier who takes illicit driving jobs in the south of France and holds himself to three strict rules.
Q 19Which high-street clothing brand was Jason Statham modelling for when he met the director of his first film?
French Connection
French Connection said it chose Statham because it wanted a model who looked like a normal guy, very masculine and not too much like a male model.
Q 20Jason Statham represented England in 1990 at which multi-sport event, where his best finish was eighth?
Commonwealth Games
The Commonwealth Games saw him place eighth, tenth and eleventh across three events. He later said his years in the national squad taught him discipline and kept him out of trouble.
Frankenstein had died after his last race, so the prison warden offers freedom to a skilled stand-in who can keep the crowd-pulling legend alive behind the mask.
Q 24In The Beekeeper, Jason Statham's retired assassin seeks revenge after his landlady loses her savings to what?
A phishing scam
A phishing scam empties her accounts, including $2 million belonging to a charity she runs, and he traces the thieves to a call centre and then far up the chain.
Q 25In Wrath of Man, Jason Statham's secretive new recruit, known only as H, takes a job guarding what?
Armoured trucks
Armoured trucks are his way in: the film, loosely based on the 2004 thriller Cash Truck, slowly reveals that the new guard is hunting the robbers who killed his son.
Q 26Jason Statham voiced which lawnmower-racing bully from the Red garden in the animated film Gnomeo & Juliet?
Tybalt
Tybalt is the hero's nemesis and Juliet's cousin, modelled on the hot-headed kinsman of the same name in the Shakespeare play the film loosely follows.
Q 27Jason Statham makes a fleeting appearance, credited only as Airport Man, in which 2004 Tom Cruise film?
Collateral
Collateral gives him only moments on screen, and the co-director of his first driver-for-hire film has said he reads the scene as that same character making a delivery.
Q 28Jason Statham has an uncredited role as a murdered football coach in which 2006 comedy co-starring Beyoncé?
The Pink Panther
The Pink Panther opens with his character, France's coach Yves Gluant, killed by a poison dart just after a win, while his priceless diamond ring vanishes.
Q 29Which actress plays the Florida estate agent who teams up with Jason Statham's thief in the 2013 film Parker?
Jennifer Lopez
Jennifer Lopez plays Leslie, a struggling divorcee who discovers the thief's identity is fake and, desperate for money, offers to help with his next job.
Q 30Which two-time Oscar winner plays the captive mentor Jason Statham's retired assassin must free in Killer Elite?
Robert De Niro
Robert De Niro plays Hunter, whose life depends on his protege finishing a $6 million job. The film is based on Ranulph Fiennes's 1991 book The Feather Men.