This past year, Ray Stevenson was seen in two very big hit movies: the post-apocalyptic Warner Bros. feature Book of Eli, opposite Denzel Washington and Gary Oldman for directors Albert and Allen Hughes, and the Columbia Pictures action comedy The Other Guys, opposite Mark Wahlberg and Will Ferrell for director Adam McKay.
Ray just finished shooting one of the leads in Paul W.S. Anderson’s The Three Musketeers, as the Musketeer ‘Porthos’ opposite Logan Lerman, Orlando Bloom, Christoph Waltz and Milla Jovovich. The film is based on the famous novel by Alexandre Dumas and is set for release in the fall of 2011.
Prior to that, he shot one of the leads in Marvel Comics’ Thor, playing ‘Volstagg,’ a character inspired by the Shakespearean character Falstaff and described as being over 1,000 pounds of muscle and the life of the party. This reunited him with the director, Kenneth Branagh, who acted opposite him in Theory of Flight for director Paul Greengrass. The film will be released this summer by Paramount.
Stevenson received international acclaim for his starring role in the HBO/BBC television series Rome, where he portrayed the legionary ‘Titus Pullo’. He also was featured in the fantasy thriller Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant. In 2008, he was seen as the lead in Punisher: War Zone, about the Marvel Comics anti-hero Frank Castle and his quest to rid the world of evil after the death of his wife and daughter. Stevenson’s prior film work includes the role of ‘Dagonet’ in Antoine Fuqua’s King Arthur, for producer Jerry Bruckheimer; the cult favorite Outpost, for director Steven Barker; The Return of the Native, opposite Catherine Zeta-Jones; and Some Kind of Life, opposite Jane Horrocks.
His stage work includes playing ‘Christ’ in the York Mystery Plays in 2000 at York Minster. In 2001, he played ‘Roger’ in Mouth to Mouth, by Kevin Ely, at the Albery Theatre in London, with Lindsay Duncan and Michael Maloney and, in 2003, appeared as Cardinal in The Duchess of Malfi, by John Webster with Janet McTeer, at the Royal National Theatre.
Born in Northern Ireland, Stevenson grew up in England. He studied acting at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.
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