Ron Perlman
Acting

Ron Perlman

Born 13 April 1950 · Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
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Ronald Perlman (born April 13, 1950) is an American actor and voice-over actor. His best known roles are as Clay Morrow on Sons of Anarchy (2008–2013), Hellboy in Hellboy (2004) and its sequel Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008), Vincent on the series Beauty and the Beast (1987–1990) for which he won a Golden Globe Award, Salvatore in The Name of the Rose (1986), Johner in Alien Resurrection (1997), Nino in Drive (2011), and Benedict Drask in Don't Look Up (2021). Perlman is also known as a collaborator of Hellboy director Guillermo del Toro, having roles in the del Toro films Cronos (1993), Blade II (2002), Pacific Rim (2013) and Nightmare Alley (2021). His voice-over work includes the narrator of the post-apocalyptic game series Fallout (1997–present), Clayface in the DC Animated Universe, Slade in Teen Titans (2003–2006), Mr. Lancer in Danny Phantom (2004–2007), Lord Hood in the video games Halo 2 (2004) and Halo 3 (2007), the Stabbington brothers in Tangled (2010), The Lich in Adventure Time (2011–2017), Xibalba in The Book of Life (2014) and Optimus Prime in both the Transformers: Power of the Primes (2018) animated series, and the film Transformers: Rise of the Beasts (2023).

Known for

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
Drive
Pacific Rim
Tangled
Don't Look Up
Hellboy
Alien Resurrection
Hellboy II: The Golden Army
Transformers: Rise of the Beasts
Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters
Blade II
Avatar: The Last Airbender
Stranglehold
Come with Me
Foster
Cottonmouth
Play Dirty
Saurus City
The Gentleman
Asteroid
Paradise Records
Day of the Fight
The Instigators
Succubus
Scream Before You Die
Joe Baby
Absolution
Heroes of the Golden Mask
The Baker
Transformers: Rise of the Beasts
The Retirement Plan
There Are No Saints
How I Got There
Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio
The Last Victim
Nightmare Alley
Don't Look Up
This Game's Called Murder
Monster Hunter
Clover
The Big Ugly
A Place Among the Dead
Hell on the Border
Run with the Hunted
Westside vs the World
The Great War
Go Fish
Havana Kyrie
The Escape of Prisoner 614
Sergio and Sergei
Asher
The Steam Engines of Oz
Transformers: Power of the Primes
Chuck
Pottersville
Prison Fighters: Five Rounds to Freedom
Howard Lovecraft & the Undersea Kingdom
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
Howard Lovecraft & the Frozen Kingdom
Stonewall
Moonwalkers
13 Sins
Kid Cannabis
Before I Disappear
Tbilisi, I Love You
The Virginian
The Book of Life
Poker Night
Desiree
Skin Trade
Nfinity Champions League Cheerleading Event
Elwood
Pacific Rim
Crave
Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters
Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox
Forget Us Not
3, 2, 1... Frankie Go Boom
Bad Ass
The Scorpion King 3: Battle for Redemption
The Savoy King: Chick Webb & the Music That Changed America
Season of the Witch
Conan the Barbarian
Drive
The Littlest Angel
Bunraku
Killer by Nature
Acts of Violence
Dark Metropolis
The Legend of Secret Pass
Tangled
Dark Country
The Job
The Devil's Tomb
Outlander
I Sell the Dead
Hellboy II: The Golden Army
Mutant Chronicles
Uncross the Stars
Local Color
5ive Girls
In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale
Hellboy Animated: Blood and Iron
Hellboy Animated: Iron Shoes
No. 6
Battle for Terra
Afro Samurai the Movie
Desperation
Scooby-Doo! Pirates Ahoy!
The Last Winter
Hellboy Animated: Sword of Storms
How to Go Out on a Date in Queens
Pro-Life
Missing in America
Tarzan II
The Second Front
Scooby-Doo! in Where's My Mummy?
What's New, Scooby-Doo? Vol. 5: Sports Spooktacular
Danny Phantom: The Ultimate Enemy
Hellboy
Quiet Kill
Comic Book: The Movie
Absolon
Rats
Two Soldiers
Boys on the Run
Looney Tunes: Back in Action
Hoodlum & Son
Star Trek: Nemesis
Blade II
Shakedown
Enemy at the Gates
Down
Night Class
Titan A.E.
The Trial of Old Drum
Price of Glory
The King's Guard
Operation Sandman
Happy, Texas
Primal Force
Supreme Sanction
I Woke Up Early the Day I Died
An American Tail: The Treasure of Manhattan Island
Houdini
A Town Has Turned to Dust
Frogs for Snakes
Prince Valiant
Alien Resurrection
The Protector
The Second Civil War
Betty
Tinseltown
The Island of Dr. Moreau
Animaniacs: Spooky Stuff
The City of Lost Children
Original Sins
Fluke
Picture Windows: Lightning
The Last Supper
The Adventures of Captain Zoom in Outer Space
Mr. Stitch
Tiny Toon Night Ghoulery
Police Academy: Mission to Moscow
Sensation
Phantom 2040: The Ghost Who Walks
When the Bough Breaks
The Cisco Kid
Double Exposure
Cronos
The Adventures of Huck Finn
Romeo Is Bleeding
Blind Man's Bluff
Sleepwalkers
A Stoning in Fulham County
The Name of the Rose
The Ice Pirates
Quest for Fire
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