Ray Stevenson
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George Raymond "Ray" Stevenson was born on May 25, 1964 in Lisburn, Northern Ireland. He is a British film and television actor. At age 27, he began studying acting at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.
One of Ray's earliest roles was in the British television drama The Dwelling Place, an adaptation of a popular novel by Catherine Cookson. That was followed with the critically acclaimed Some Kind of Life, a work for which he was later most proud, where he played a man severely injured in a motorcycle crash, with the story focusing on the grief experienced by his wife, Jane Horrocks. He appeared in a number of British television dramas from there on, including the police drama City Central and Band of Gold. Ray also appeared in At Home with the Braithwaites, Green-Eyed Monster; and in episodes of such popular series as Waking the Dead, Dalziel and Pascoe, and Murphy’s Law, among others. His first big-budget Hollywood feature was Jerry Bruckheimer's King Arthur (2004) where he played the part of Dagonet alongside stars Clive Owen, Kiera Knightley, Ray Winstone and Ioan Gruffud.
After the final season of Rome, Ray starred in the BBC mini-series Life Line with Joanne Whalley and Jemima Rooper. Written by Stephen Gallagher (Dr. Who, Eleventh Hour), the program is a "supernatural love story" about a businessman who seeks to connect with his true love - after she's killed in a freak accident.
Ray was in Scotland earlier this year to film the horror movie Outpost, in which he stars as the leader of a team of mercenaries hired to retrieve an alleged geological find inside an old WWII bunker located in a remote area of eastern Europe. Instead they encounter something lurking within, the product of terrifying Nazi experiments. Outpost is produced by Black Camel Pictures and Cinema One in association with Matador Pictures and Regent Capital. Sony Pictures recently acquired the distribution rights for the US, UK and other English speaking territories.
Ray Stevenson is currently set to begin work on Punisher 2, an action film based on the fictional vigilante anti-hero The Punisher from the Marvel Comics Universe. Lexi Alexander (Green Street Hooligans) will direct and the film is slated for a 2008 release.
Filmography
- Cirque du Freak (2008)
- Punisher: War Zone (2008)
- Outpost (2008)
- Life Line (2007) (TV)
- "Rome" (22 episodes, 2005-2007)
- Babylon Fields (2007) (TV)
- "Waking the Dead" (1 episode, 2004)
- King Arthur (2004)
- "Murphy's Law" (1 episode, 2003)
- "Red Cap" (1 episode, 2003)
- "Dalziel and Pascoe" (1 episode, 2001)
- Green-Eyed Monster (2001) (TV)
- "The Bill" (1 episode, 2000)
- "Holby City" (1 episode, 2000)
- "At Home with the Braithwaites" (2000) TV series
- G:MT Greenwich Mean Time (1999)
- "Love in the 21st Century" (1 episode, 1999)
- Real Women II (1999) (TV)
- The Theory of Flight (1998)
- "City Central" (1998) TV series
- "Drovers' Gold" (1997) TV mini-series
- "Peak Practice" (1 episode, 1997)
- "The Tide of Life" (1996) TV mini-series
- "Band of Gold" (1995) TV series
- Some Kind of Life (1995)
- The Return of the Native (1994) (TV)
- The Dwelling Place (1994) (TV)
- A Woman's Guide to Adultery (1993) (TV)
