Ray Stevenson, the Irish actor who performed the villainous British governor in “RRR,” an Asgardian warrior in the ‘Thor’ movies, and a member of the 13th Legion in HBO’s “Rome,” has died. He was 58.
Representatives for Stevenson instructed The Associated Push that he died Sunday but had no other particulars to share on Monday.
Stevenson was born in Lisburn in 1964. Following attending the Bristol Previous Vic Theatre School and a long time of operating in British television, he designed 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 table and various a long time afterwards performed the direct in the pre-Disney Marvel adaptation “Punisher: War Zone.”
Although “Punisher” was not the best-reviewed film, he’d get a further taste of Marvel in the very first a few “Thor” movies, in which he performed Volstagg. Other notable film roles involved 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Stevenson, who performed his share of troopers previous and current, when reported in an job interview, “I guess I’m an outdated warrior at coronary heart.”
On the modest screen, he was the roguish Titus Pullo in “Rome,” a position that genuinely got his job heading in the United States and got him a SAG card, at the age of 44. The well-liked collection ran from 2005 to 2007.
“That was a person of the major a long time of my existence,” Stevenson mentioned in an interview. “It made me sit down in my very own skin and say, just do the job. The job’s adequate.”
In the Range assessment of “Rome,” Brian Lowery wrote that “the imposing Stevenson undoubtedly stands out as a brawling, whoring and none-much too-vivid warrior — a force of character who, in spite of his excesses, in some way retains landing on his ft.
He was Blackbeard in the Starz sequence “Black Sails,” Commander Jack Swinburne in the German television sequence “Das Boot,” and Othere on “Vikings.”
Stevenson also did voice get the job done in “Star Wars Rebels” and “The Clone Wars,” as Gar Saxon, and has a role in the impending Star Wars live-action collection “Ahsoka,” in which he plays a poor guy, Baylan Skoll. The eight-episode year is predicted on Disney+ in August.
In an interview with Backstage in 2020, Stevenson explained his performing idols ended up, “The likes of Lee Marvin (and) Gene Hackman.”
“Never a negative functionality, and courageous and fearless in just that caliber,” Stevenson explained. “It was under no circumstances the younger, hot top male it was males who I could establish with.”
Stevenson has three sons with Italian anthropologist Elisabetta Caraccia, who he met even though doing the job on “Rome.”
