1964-05-25 ( 60 years old ) in Lisburn, Northern Ireland, UK
Ray Stevenson (May 25, 1964 - May 21, 2023) was a film, TV and stage actor. He moved with his family to Lemington, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, England in 1972 at the age of eight, and later to Cramlington, Northumberland, where he was raised. The second of three sons of a Royal Air Force pilot father and an Irish mother, As a child he dreamed to become an actor, but he also thought that dream was impossible. So he pursued his other love, art, and went to art school instead. He was an interior designer with an architectural firm in London when he at 25 decided to try out acting. Eventually he attended Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, graduating at the age of 29.
At the beginning of 90s, he began his career on films. He did a few TV films, one of them being The Return of the Native (1994), where he appeared opposite Clive Owen, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Steven Mackintosh. He also filmed The Theory of Flight (1998) Greenwich Mean Time (1999), Green-Eyed Monster (2001) (TV) and a lot of TV guest roles in series.
Finally, he made a international breakout with King Arthur (2004), as quiet, but loyal knight Dagonet, again with Clive Owen (who played Arthur), Keira Knightley, Ioan Gruffudd, Mads Mikkelsen, Ray Winstone and Stellan Skarsgard. After a few more TV films, Stevenson's popularity stared to rise by each film. But, the real fame comes with HBO's "Rome" (2005 - 2007), as funny, but heroically fearless legionary Titus Pullo, opposite Kevin McKidd.
Another two well-known roles were in action horror Outpost (2008) and as comic book dark hero The Punisher / Frank Castle in extremely violent Punisher: War Zone (2008), opposite Dominic West (Jigsaw), Doug Hutchison, Colin Salmon, Wayne Knight (Microchip), Dash Mihok (Det. Marin Soap) and Julie Benz.
To mention that Stevenson also worked on stage. He played the part of Christ in the York Mystery Plays in 2000 at York Minster. In 2001 he took the part of Roger in the play Mouth to Mouth by Kevin Elyot, at the Albery Theatre in London with Lindsay Duncan and Michael Maloney. His most well-known part was perhaps that of the Cardinal in The Duchess of Malfi by John Webster with Janet McTeer at the Royal National Theatre in 2003.
Stevenson and his girlfriend Elisabetta Carccia have a son Sebastiano Derek Stevenson, who was born in 2007. Besides acting, he loves art and has a passion for water color painting.
Movies
Canary Black
2024-10-10
Accident Man: Hitman's Holiday
2022-10-14
Memory
2022-04-28
RRR
2022-03-24
Final Score
2018-09-07
Accident Man
2018-02-06
Cold Skin
2017-10-20
Thor: Ragnarok
2017-10-02
Allegiant
2016-03-09
The Transporter Refueled
2015-09-02
Big Game
2015-03-19
Insurgent
2015-03-18
Divergent
2014-03-14
Thor: The Dark World
2013-10-30
Jayne Mansfield's Car
2013-07-25
G.I. Joe: Retaliation
2013-03-27
Thor: From Asgard to Earth
2011-09-13
The Three Musketeers
2011-08-31
Thor
2011-04-21
Kill the Irishman
2011-03-10
The Other Guys
2010-08-06
The Book of Eli
2010-01-14
Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant
2009-10-23
Punisher: War Zone
2008-12-05
Outpost
2008-03-11
Life Line
2007-04-24
King Arthur
2004-07-07
Wild Child: The Story of Feral Children
2002-01-01
G:MT Greenwich Mean Time
1999-10-01
The Theory of Flight
1999-01-22
Some Kind of Life
1995-08-22
The Return of the Native
1994-12-04
Powered by Powerxsoft Ltd using the TMDB API