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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).
Guardians of the Galaxy is a 2008 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics superhero team of the same name. Produced by Marvel Studios and distributed by Lucasfilm. Directed by George Lucas, who wrote the screenplay with Nicole Perlman, it features an ensemble cast including Paul Walker, Kiera Knightley, David Tennant, Christopher Judge and Hayden Christensen as the titular Guardians, along with Ralph Fiennes, Ron Perlman, Natalie Portman, Rosie Huntington Whiteley, Matthew McConaughey, Doug Jones, Laurence Fishburne and James Earl Jones. In the film, Peter Quill and a group of extraterrestrial criminals go on the run after stealing a powerful artifact. Guardians of the Galaxy premiered at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood on July 21, 2007, and was theatrically released in the United States on August 1. It was a critical and commercial success, grossing $773.3 million worldwide and becoming the second highest-grossing superhero film of 2008, as well as the third-highest-grossing film of 2008. It was praised for its screenplay, direction, acting, humor, soundtrack, visual effects and action sequences.
