Ray Stevenson, who played the villainous British governor in RRRa warrior of Asgard in the movies Thor and a member of the 13e legion in the series Rome from HBO, is dead. He was 58 years old.
Representatives for Stevenson told The Associated Press he died Sunday, but had no further details to release Monday.
The actor was born in Lisburn, Northern Ireland in 1964. After attending Bristol Old Vic acting school and working for years in British television, he made his film debut in the film The Theory of Flight by Paul Greengrass in 1998. In 2004 he appeared in the film king arthur by Antoine Fuqua, as a Knight of the Round Table, and a few years later he starred in the Marvel adaptation Punisher: War Zone.
Although Punisher wasn’t the most well-received film, it will taste Marvel again in the first three films of Thor, in which he will play Volstagg. He also starred in the trilogy Divergence, GI Joe: Conspiracy And The Transporter: Legacy.
Standing six feet tall, Stevenson, who has played his share of past and present soldiers, has previously said in interviews that he considers himself “an old warrior at heart.”
On the small screen, he played the mischievous Titus Pullo in Rome, a role that truly launched his career in the United States. The popular series aired from 2005 to 2007.
” It was [dans les] most important years of my life,” Stevenson said in an interview.
In the review of Rome by varietyBrian Lowery wrote that “the hulking Stevenson certainly stands out as a brawling, prostitute, not-too-brilliant warrior – a force of nature who, despite his excesses, always lands on his feet.”
He was Blackbeard in the series Black SailsCommander Jack Swinburne in the German TV series Das Boot and Othere in vikings.
Mr. Stevenson also lent his voice to star wars rebels And The Clone Warsas Gar Saxon, and stars in the upcoming live-action Star Wars series, Ahsoka, in which he plays a villain, Baylan Skoll. The eight-episode season is due out on Disney+ in August.
In 2020, Stevenson notably declared that his idols were “Lee Marvin [et] Gene Hackman”. “They were men I could identify with. »
Stevenson has two sons with Italian anthropologist Elisabetta Caraccia, whom he met while working on Rome.