War Zone’ and ‘RRR’ Star, Dies at 58

Shocking information: Ray Stevenson, the commanding display presence recognized for his roles on the TV sequence Rome and in a number of Marvel tasks, has died. He was solely 58 years previous.

Details of his demise haven’t been made public but; based on TheWrap, “while his passing has been confirmed by his publicists, the cause of death is currently undisclosed.” At least one Italian web site claims Stevenson was within the nation filming a challenge, and was hospitalized over the weekend.

Stevenson was born in Lisburn, Northern Ireland in 1964. After attending the Old Vic Theatre School, he started showing in tv and movies beginning within the Nineteen Nineties. His first main Hollywood function got here in 2004, when he was one of many Knights of the Round Table in Antoine Fuqua’s King (*58*). A couple of years after that, he took over the function of the Punisher for Tom Jane in Punisher: War Zone. Whether you like the film or not, Stevenson was undeniably intimidating within the title function. He appeared like he stepped proper out of certainly one of artist Tim Bradstreet’s well-known covers for the Punisher Marvel comedian.

Stevenson by no means bought to play the Punisher in one other film, however Marvel Studios took discover of his work, and then forged him because the Asgardian god Volstagg in Thor, Thor: The Dark World, and Thor: Ragnarok. Stevenson’s different notable big-screen roles included The Book of Eli, The Other Guys, Kill the Irishman, 2011’s The Three Musketeers, the Divergent franchise, and RRR, the latest Tollywood smash the place he performed the important thing villain, Governor Buxton.

For tv, Stevenson was finest recognized for his starring function on HBO’s Rome, which lasted for 2 seasons within the mid-2000s. He can have a key function within the upcoming Star Wars sequence, Ahsoka; he was featured within the present’s latest trailer taking part in an evil Jedi character.

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Stevenson was a younger man; his 59th birthday was only a few days away at the time of his passing. Given his specialty of morally-flawed heroes and menacing antagonists, he was actually simply beginning to enter his prime. This is a horrible loss.