Ray Stevenson

Ray Stevenson May 25 1964 May 21 2023 was a film TV and stage actor He moved with his family to Lemington NewcastleUponTyne England in 1972 at the age of eight and later to Cramlington Northumberland where he was raised The second of three sons of a Royal Air Force pilot father and an Irish mother As a child he dreamed to become an actor but he also thought that dream was impossible So he pursued his other love art and went to art school instead He was an interior designer with an architectural firm in London when he at 25 decided to try out acting Eventually he attended Bristol Old Vic Theatre School graduating at the age of 29 At the beginning of 90s he began his career on films He did a few TV films one of them being The Return of the Native 1994 where he appeared opposite Clive Owen Catherine ZetaJones and Steven Mackintosh He also filmed The Theory of Flight 1998 Greenwich Mean Time 1999 GreenEyed Monster 2001 TV and a lot of TV guest roles in series Finally he made a international breakout with King Arthur 2004 as quiet but loyal knight Dagonet again with Clive Owen who played Arthur Keira Knightley Ioan Gruffudd Mads Mikkelsen Ray Winstone and Stellan Skarsgard After a few more TV films Stevensons popularity stared to rise by each film But the real fame comes with HBOs Rome 2005 2007 as funny but heroically fearless legionary Titus Pullo opposite Kevin McKidd Another two wellknown roles were in action horror Outpost 2008 and as comic book dark hero The Punisher Frank Castle in extremely violent Punisher War Zone 2008 opposite Dominic West Jigsaw Doug Hutchison Colin Salmon Wayne Knight Microchip Dash Mihok Det Marin Soap and Julie Benz To mention that Stevenson also worked on stage He played the part of Christ in the York Mystery Plays in 2000 at York Minster In 2001 he took the part of Roger in the play Mouth to Mouth by Kevin Elyot at the Albery Theatre in London with Lindsay Duncan and Michael Maloney His most wellknown part was perhaps that of the Cardinal in The Duchess of Malfi by John Webster with Janet McTeer at the Royal National Theatre in 2003 Stevenson and his girlfriend Elisabetta Carccia have a son Sebastiano Derek Stevenson who was born in 2007 Besides acting he loves art and has a passion for water color painting