Ray Stevenson, the Irish actor who performed the villainous British governor in “RRR,” an Asgardian warrior within the “Thor” movies, and a member of the thirteenth Legion in HBO’s “Rome,” has died. He was 58.
Representatives for Stevenson advised The Associated Press that he died Sunday however had no different particulars to share on Monday.
Stevenson was born in Lisburn in 1964. After attending the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and years of working in British tv, he made his movie debut in Paul Greengrass’s 1998 movie “The Theory of Flight.” In 2004, he appeared in Antoine Fuqua’s “King Arthur” as a knight of the spherical desk and several other years later performed the lead within the pre-Disney Marvel adaptation “Punisher: War Zone.”
Though “Punisher” was not the best-reviewed movie, he’d get one other style of Marvel within the first three “Thor” movies, by which he performed Volstagg. Other distinguished movie roles included the “Divergent” trilogy, “G.I. Joe: Retaliation” and “The Transporter: Refueled.”
A looming presence at 6-foot-4, Stevenson, who performed his share of troopers previous and current, as soon as stated in an interview, “I guess I’m an old warrior at heart.”
On the small display screen, he was the roguish Titus Pullo in “Rome,” a task that actually obtained his profession going within the United States and obtained him a SAG card, on the age of 44. The in style collection ran from 2005 to 2007.
“That was one of the major years of my life,” Stevenson stated in an interview. “It made me sit down in my own skin and say, just do the job. The job’s enough.”
In the Variety evaluation of “Rome,” Brian Lowery wrote that “the imposing Stevenson certainly stands out as a brawling, whoring and none-too-bright warrior — a force of nature who, despite his excesses, somehow keeps landing on his feet.”
He was Blackbeard within the Starz collection “Black Sails,” Commander Jack Swinburne within the German tv collection “Das Boot,” and Othere on “Vikings.”
Stevenson additionally did voice work in “Star Wars Rebels” and “The Clone Wars,” as Gar Saxon, and has a task within the upcoming Star Wars live-action collection “Ahsoka,” by which he performs a foul man, Baylan Skoll. The eight-episode season is anticipated on Disney+ in August.
In an interview with Backstage in 2020, Stevenson stated his performing idols have been, “The likes of Lee Marvin (and) Gene Hackman.”
“Never a bad performance, and brave and fearless within that caliber,” Stevenson stated. “It was never the young, hot leading man; it was men who I could identify with.”
Stevenson has three sons with Italian anthropologist Elisabetta Caraccia, who he met whereas engaged on “Rome.”
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