Ray Stevenson: Actor Ray Stevenson, who played the villainous British governor in RRR, has died. He also played an Asgardian warrior in the “Thor” films and roguish Titus Pullo in “Rome” on the small screen. The cause of Ray Stevenson’s sudden death was not immediately known. He was 58.
Representatives for Stevenson told the media that he died on Sunday but gave no other details.
Debuted in 1998
Stevenson was born in Lisburn, Northern Ireland, in 1964. After attending the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and years of working in British television, he made his film debut in Paul Greengrass’s 1998 film “The Theory of Flight.” In 2004, he appeared in Antoine Fuqua’s “King Arthur”. Heplayed a knight of the round table and several years later played the lead in the pre-Disney Marvel adaptation “Punisher: War Zone.”
Though “Punisher” was not the best-reviewed film, he’d get another taste of Marvel in the first three “Thor” films, in which he played Volstagg. He also acted in many prominent film including the “Divergent” trilogy, “G.I. Joe: Retaliation” and “The Transporter: Refueled.”
Old warrior at heart
Ray had an imposing physique at 6-foot-4 inches. Stevenson, who played his share of soldiers past and present, once said in an interview, “I guess I’m an old warrior at heart.”
On the small screen, he was the roguish Titus Pullo in “Rome,” a role that really got his career going in the United States and got him a SAG card, at the age of 44. The popular series ran from 2005 to 2007.
“That was one of the major years of my life,” Stevenson said in an interview. “It made me sit down in my own skin and say, just do the job. The job’s enough.”
Stevenson also did voice work in Star Wars Rebels and The Clone Wars, as Gar Saxon. He has a role in the upcoming Star Wars live-action series Ahsoka, in which he plays a bad guy, Baylan Skoll. The eight-episode season is expected to stream on Disney+ in August.
Stevenson has three sons with Italian anthropologist Elisabetta Caraccia. He met her while working on Rome.
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