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Ray Stevenson (May 25, 1964 – May 21, 2023) was a film, TV and stage actor. He moved with his family to Lemington, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, England in 1972 at the age of eight, and later to Cramlington, Northumberland, where he was raised. The second of three sons of a Royal Air Force pilot father and an Irish mother, As a child he dreamed to become an actor, but he also thought that dream was impossible. So he pursued his other love, art, and went to art school instead. He was an interior designer with an architectural firm in London when he at 25 decided to try out acting. Eventually he attended Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, graduating at the age of 29. At the beginning of 90s, he began his career on films. He did a few TV films, one of them being The Return of the Native (1994), where he appeared opposite Clive Owen, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Steven Mackintosh. He also filmed The Theory of Flight (1998) Greenwich Mean Time (1999), Green-Eyed Monster (2001) (TV) and a lot of TV guest roles in series. Finally, he made a international breakout with King Arthur (2004), as quiet, but loyal knight Dagonet, again with Clive Owen (who played Arthur), Keira Knightley, Ioan Gruffudd, Mads Mikkelsen, Ray Winstone and Stellan Skarsgard. After a few more TV films, Stevenson's popularity stared to rise by each film. But, the real fame comes with HBO's "Rome" (2005 - 2007), as funny, but heroically fearless legionary Titus Pullo, opposite Kevin McKidd. Another two well-known roles were in action horror Outpost (2008) and as comic book dark hero The Punisher / Frank Castle in extremely violent Punisher: War Zone (2008), opposite Dominic West (Jigsaw), Doug Hutchison, Colin Salmon, Wayne Knight (Microchip), Dash Mihok (Det. Marin Soap) and Julie Benz. To mention that Stevenson also worked on stage. He played the part of Christ in the York Mystery Plays in 2000 at York Minster. In 2001 he took the part of Roger in the play Mouth to Mouth by Kevin Elyot, at the Albery Theatre in London with Lindsay Duncan and Michael Maloney. His most well-known part was perhaps that of the Cardinal in The Duchess of Malfi by John Webster with Janet McTeer at the Royal National Theatre in 2003. Stevenson and his girlfriend Elisabetta Carccia have a son Sebastiano Derek Stevenson, who was born in 2007. Besides acting, he loved art and had a passion for water color painting.
Ray Stevenson
Gar Saxon
for Gar Saxon in Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith - The Ultimate Cut
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After three onset years of the Clone Wars, two Jedi Knights return to Coruscant after General Grievous has kidnapped the Supreme Chancellor while Ahsoka Tano leads a clone battalion with Bo-Katan Kryze's Nightowls against Maul and Death Watch to retake the Mandalorian planet of Mandalore. After rescuing the leader of the Galactic Senate from the clutches of the CIS, he experiences visions of his wife Padme Amidala dying in childbirth while Yoda leads a Clone Army of the 32nd on Kashyyyk to reinforce the Wookiees against the Droid Army as Obi-Wan leads the 212th clones on the sinkhole planet of Utapau where the droid general has been located. Two genetic clones by the names of X1 and X2 Grey are under the commands of Jedi Masters Plo Koon and Ferroda on the Nemoidian planet of Cato Nemoidia. Meanwhile Anakin is tasked to spy on him and report to the Jedi Council of his motives and intentions that will change the fate of the galaxy, the Republic and the Jedi Order. On the Planet of Kaller, the enhanced clones AKA CF99/Bad Batch assists Jedi Master Depa Billaba and her Padawan Caleb Dume in a struggling battle against Separatists. After the death of Grievous and an attempt on Palpatine (revealed as Darth Sidious), seduces the young Jedi Knight to the dark side and dubs him "Darth Vader" prior to Order 66 and the rise of the Galactic Empire as the new Sith apprentice faces is former master on the volcanic world of Mustafar while the galaxy falls into total darkness.
