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Tall, dark, but somewhat gentle-looking actor Ray Stevenson was born in Lisburn, Northern Ireland on 25 May 1964, on a British army base. His father was a British pilot in the Royal Air Force, and his mother is Irish. 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. 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 is The Return of the Native from 1997 to 2005. His girlfriend Elisabetta Caraccia have a son, Sebastiano Derek Stevenson, who was born in 2007. Besides acting, he loves art and has a passion for water color painting.
Is the third actor to play Punisher in living motion picture. All three actors that played Punisher are of different nationality. The first one Dolph Lundgren is Swedish, second Thomas Jane is American and Ray Stevenson is British.
Has a passion for art, especially in water color painting.
Is in relationship with Italian anthropologist Elisabetta Caraccia whom he met while filming "Rome". They have a son Sebastiano Derek Stevenson born on 24 December 2007.
He and his ex-wife Ruth Gemmell played husband and wife in "Peak Practice" .
Did not start acting until he was twenty-five.
Humor is a very important thing. It is a natural predilection. It is an,emotional release.
As an actor, I love working with directors. As much as I love working,with other actors.
Life itself is pretty funny when you realize how absurd it can be.
It is a tough business but if you get yourself in a situation like I,you can maintain a career over many years. That, to me, is a successful,actor.
I suppose you just feel on an instinctive level if something is honest.
I never thought I would get to have my own action figure.
You just have to open the newspapers in most Western news to see real,violence.
The way Shakespeare wrote Fallstaff is with a heightened language and,everything.
Sometimes, I have lost out on a gig because I was not high enough,profile. .
