Ron Perlman

Biography

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).

CritifyHub Reviews Featuring Ron Perlman

Sniper’s Stare: Love and Death in the Crosshairs of Stalingrad

on Enemy at the Gates | Aug 04, 2025

Ever wonder what it feels like to hold your breath for an entire city’s survival? Enemy at the Gates (2001), Jean-Jacques Annaud’s taut war epic, drops you into the rubble of Stalingrad, where a singl... Read more

A Noir Carnival of Broken Souls and Poisonous Illusions

on Nightmare Alley | Jun 15, 2025

Guillermo del Toro’s Nightmare Alley is a film that slithers a gorgeously grotesque descent into the abyss of human deception, where every character is both predator and prey. This isn’t the 1947 orig... Read more