2023-05-22 18:20:45
The industry says goodbye to one of the most beloved secondary in recent years. He was 58 years old.
Hollywood is in mourning: ray stevenson dieda Northern Irish actor known, among other things, for having been part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) and because in August he will appear in Ahsokathe new series of the Star Wars franchise that will be released on Disney +.
the causes of his death are still unknown. At the moment it is only known that the 58-year-old interpreter died on Sunday.
In addition to being part of the first Thor movie, where he played Volstaggand to perform in Ahsoka, where it will be Baylan SkollStevenson had important roles in the series Roma (Titus Pullo) and Dexter (Isaak Sirko), as well as in movies like Punisher: War Zone, The Three Musketeers, RRR y King Arthur.
Who was Ray Stevenson?
Ray was born in Lisburn, Northern Ireland, and when he was 8 years old he moved to England, where he studied. At 29 he graduated from the Bristol Old Vic Theater School which he attended in Bristol.
Stevenson began her career by acting on 1990s television shows. In his late 2000s, however, he began developing his work in Hollywood action movies until he came up with King Arthur, his first major project.
in the film of Antoine Fuqua made by Clive OwenStevenson interpreta a We are hereone of the Knights of the Round Table who earns all the affection of the public by sacrificing himself for the protagonist.
Stevenson finished consecrating himself in 2008 by starring in Punisher: War Zone, becoming the third actor to play the famous Marvel character after they did. Dolph Lundgren y Thomas Jane.
The actor had married in 1997 with the English actress Ruth Gemmellwhom he met on the set of Band of Gold, in 1995.
After participating in that film together, the couple played a married couple in Peak Practice, released in 1997. They divorced in 2005 after eight years of relationship.
When asked by Backstage what was the performance of his career that left a mark on him, Stevenson did not hesitate: that of Titus in Rome.
“I realized at that moment what it was like to get out of your own way and trust your instincts, and trust that a lot of your work had been done unconsciously and silently,” he said.
And he added: “And also focusing on the career I’m having instead of the career I should have; it’s this moment now and that’s all that matters: this moment, this production, the actors around me, the director with whom I’m working on. It’s where my life completely changed.”
One of the actor’s last public appearances was at a panel at the Star Wars Celebration held in London last April. There he answered questions about his involvement in Ahsoka.
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