Ron Perlman
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Ron Perlman, a classically trained actor, has appeared in
countless stage plays. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife, Opal,
and their two children, Blake and Brandon. He was born in Washington
Heights, Manhattan, New York. His mother, Dorothy, still lives there
and is retired from the City Clerk's Office. His father, now
deceased, was a repair man and a drummer with Artie Shaw's Band.
With a career spanning over three decades, Perlman has worked
alongside such diverse actors as Marlon Brando, Sean Connery,
Cameron Diaz, Brad Dourif, Ed Harris, John Hurt, Jude Law, Christina
Ricci, Wesley Snipes, Sigourney Weaver, Michael Wincott, and Elijah
Wood to name a few.
While he has never been a bankable star, Perlman has always had a
large fan-base. He started out strong as Amoukar, one of the
tribesmen in Jean-Jacques Annaud's Academy Award-winning film La
guerre du feu (1981), for which he got a Genie nomination. Perlman
teamed up with Annaud again in '86, this time as a hunchback named
Salvatore in Der Name der Rose (1986).
His first real breakthrough came later, when he landed the role of
Vincent, the lion-man, opposite Linda Hamilton in the cult-series
"Beauty and the Beast" (1987). His work in this role earned him not
only a Golden Globe Award, but a huge fan following.
After that, he spent time working on independent films such as
Sleepwalkers (1992), The Adventures of Huck Finn (1993), Cronos
(1993), and Jean-Pierre Jeunet's surreal La cité des enfants perdus
(1995). He returned to mainstream films in Alien: Resurrection
(1997), again with Jeunet, and, in 2004, his good friend Guillermo
del Toro helped him land the title role in the big-budget comic book
movie Hellboy (2004).
Perlman has played everything from a prehistoric tribesman to a
good-hearted Colonel, and will always be a rarity in Hollywood.
His other films include The Last Supper (1995), The Island of Dr.
Moreau (1996), Enemy at the Gates (2001), Blade II (2002) and Star
Trek: Nemesis (2002).