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Date of Birth

24 May 1964, Lisburn, Northern Ireland, UK

Birth Name

George Raymond Stevenson

Height

6' 4" (1.93 m)

Mini Biography

Ray Stevenson has Gaelic roots, although he was brought up in the North-East of England. He was born in the north of Ireland. His father was a pilot in the air force, his mother is Irish, and he has two brothers - one older, one younger. Got the acting bug in his youth during his visits to the Saturday Morning Picture Show at the Newcastle Odeon. He kept a lid on his aspirations as an actor for a while, and during that time had a career as an interior designer. He was further inspired to become an actor after seeing John Malkovich in the play Burn This at the Lyric Theatre in the West End. At 27 he studied acting at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. Ray is married to actress Ruth Gemmell, who he met when they worked together on the Granada TV drama Band of Gold. They later played husband and wife on the series Peak Practice.

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Mini Biography

A tall, dark, but somewhat gentle-looking actor Ray Stevenson was born in Lisburn, Northern Ireland on 25 May 1964. He is a film, TV and stage actor. He moved with his family to Lemington, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, 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 is The Return of the Native (1994), where he appeared opposite Clive Owen, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Steven Mackintosh. He also filmed The Theory of Flight (1998) Greenwich Mean Time (1999), Green-Eyed 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, Stevenson's popularity stared to rise by each film. But, the real fame comes with HBO's "Rome" (2005 - 2007), as funny, but heroically fearless legionary Titus Pullo, opposite Kevin McKidd.

Another two well-known 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 well-known part is 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.

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Spouse

Ruth Gemmell

(November 1997 - 2005) (divorced)

Trivia

Is the third actor to play Punisher in living motion picture. All three actors that played Punisher are of different nationality. The first one Dolph Lundgren is Swedish, second Thomas Jane is American and Stevenson is Irish.

Has a passion for art, especially in water color painting.

Is in relationship with Italian anthropologist Elisabetta Craccia (whom he met while filming "Rome"). They have a son Sebastiano Derek Stevenson (born on 24 December 2007).

He and his ex-wife Ruth Gemmell played husband and wife in Peak Practice (1997).

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