Who Is Jaime Winstone? Strictly Star’s Age, Husband, Son and Dad Ray
Jaime Winstone is a 41-year-old English actor and the daughter of Ray Winstone, best known for playing Barbara Windsor in the BBC drama Babs and a young Peggy Mitchell in EastEnders. She is dancing with Carlos Gu on Strictly Come Dancing 2026, is married to James Suckling and has a 10-year-old son, Raymond.
Why is Jaime Winstone trending?
She survived her second Strictly dance-off of the series on Sunday 25 October, and next weekend’s Halloween show brings the programme’s first ever triple dance-off.
How did Jaime Winstone survive the Strictly dance-off?
Jaime Winstone and Carlos Gu landed in the bottom two after the public vote, despite scoring 25 for their foxtrot to Man I Need by Olivia Dean. They danced it again against Shaun Wright-Phillips and Alexis Warr, and three of the four judges chose to save them.
Craig Revel Horwood and Motsi Mabuse both picked Jaime and Carlos, Shirley Ballas backed Shaun, and Anton Du Beke’s vote settled it. Many viewers said online that the couple did not deserve to be in the bottom two at all.
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Jaime’s Strictly 2026 scores, week by week
| Week | Dance | Song | Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tango | I Feel Love, Donna Summer | 21 |
| 2 | Cha-cha-cha | Oh, Pretty Woman | 21 (bottom two, saved) |
| 3 | Viennese waltz | Never Tear Us Apart, INXS | 28 |
| 4 | Paso doble | Let’s Dance, David Bowie | 34 (joint top) |
| 5 | Foxtrot | Man I Need, Olivia Dean | 25 (bottom two, saved) |
Her best night so far was Icons week, when the Bowie paso doble put her joint top of the leaderboard. Anton told her: “That was the best thing you’ve done in this whole competition.”
Who is Jaime Winstone’s Strictly partner?
Her professional partner is Carlos Gu, a 33-year-old dancer from Taiyuan in China and a Chinese national champion. He joined Strictly in 2022, finished runner-up that year with Molly Rainford, and won the 2025 series with Karen Carney, becoming the first Chinese professional to lift the Glitterball.
I am no stranger to a dance floor, but the ballroom is a whole new world for me.
Jaime Winstone, announcing she had joined Strictly, July 2026
How old is Jaime Winstone?
Jaime Winstone is 41. She was born on 6 May 1985 in Camden, north London, grew up in Enfield and later moved with her family to Roydon in Essex.
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Is Jaime Winstone Ray Winstone’s daughter?
Yes. Jaime is the second of three daughters of actor Ray Winstone and his wife Elaine McCausland, who have been married since 1979. Father and daughter starred together in the 2012 film Elfie Hopkins, which she said was “the most natural thing I’d ever done”, and Ray has been in the Strictly audience cheering her on.
When she told him she was doing Strictly, she said: “My dad was kind of like, ‘oh my lord’, but everybody’s very, very excited.”
Who are Jaime Winstone’s sisters?
Her older sister Lois, born in 1982, made her acting debut in her dad’s film Nil by Mouth and left acting in 2014 to focus on music, now singing with electro-pop group This Year’s Model. Her younger sister, Ellie, was born in 2001.
Who is Jaime Winstone’s husband?
Jaime Winstone’s husband is James Suckling. They were friends for years on the east London scene before getting together in 2015. “I pursued him, I think,” she told The Times in 2017.
James proposed at Glastonbury in June 2022, and they married in October 2023 at La Tonnara di Scopello, a 13th-century former tuna fishery near Palermo in Sicily. More than 250 guests attended, including Cara Delevingne, Nick Grimshaw and Sheridan Smith.
Does Jaime Winstone have children?
Yes, one son. Raymond was born in February 2016, the year after Jaime and James got together, and is named after his grandad. Jaime said her parents “both burst into tears” when she told them they were going to be grandparents, and when she joined Strictly she said Raymond was among the family members most excited to watch.
Who was Jaime Winstone engaged to before?
Before James, Jaime had an on-off relationship with actor Alfie Allen, the brother of pop star Lily Allen. They started dating in 2007 and got engaged in 2008, split in 2010, reunited in 2013 and parted for good in 2014.
The attention was not easy. “It’s embarrassing being followed by paps,” she told The Times in 2013. “I didn’t want to be known for having a famous dad or for dating Alfie.”
What has Jaime Winstone been in?
Jaime made her film debut in Bullet Boy in 2004 and became known to a generation of British viewers as Becky in Kidulthood two years later. In 2017 she played Barbara Windsor in Babs, and she has since played a young Peggy Mitchell, Barbara’s most famous character, in EastEnders flashbacks. Her 2025 return in the soap’s 40th anniversary week won Best Single Episode at the British Soap Awards.
| Year | Title | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2004 | Bullet Boy | Natalie |
| 2006 | Kidulthood | Becky |
| 2008 | Dead Set | Kelly |
| 2008 | Donkey Punch | Kim |
| 2010 | Made in Dagenham | Sandra |
| 2012 | Elfie Hopkins | Elfie Hopkins |
| 2014 | Love, Rosie | Ruby |
| 2017 | Babs | Barbara Windsor |
| 2022 and 2025 | EastEnders | Young Peggy Mitchell |
| 2022 | Four Lives | Donna Taylor |
| 2023 | Count Abdulla | Kathy |
Where does Jaime Winstone live?
Jaime lives close to her parents. Her dad mentioned it in a 2024 Guardian interview, when he described Elaine’s family Sunday dinners. She has not shared her exact address, and we do not publish it.
What is Jaime Winstone’s net worth?
There is no reliable published figure for Jaime Winstone’s net worth. Numbers on celebrity websites range from about $1.5 million to $185 million, several mix her up with her father, and the highest one carries its own warning that the story “seems to be false”. Her income comes from two decades of film, TV and theatre work.
Jaime Winstone rumours, checked
Jaime is not in The Gentlemen. Her dad, Ray Winstone, is the one in the Netflix series.
Jaime has never been in Game of Thrones. Her ex-fiancé Alfie Allen played Theon Greyjoy.
Frequently Asked Questions
She went to Enfield County School, then Burnt Mill School in Harlow, and studied for a BTEC National Diploma in Performing Arts at Harlow College.
Yes. She was the Firework on the third series of ITV's The Masked Singer in 2022.
Yes. She starred in the West End production of the hit play 2:22 A Ghost Story.
Yes. Alongside acting she has modelled, including walking for Vivienne Westwood.
Yes. She regularly supports queer events and fundraising, and in 2025 she wrote that the community "needs support more than ever" while backing a Choose Love campaign for LGBT+ refugees.
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