
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).
Filmography
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The Saviors
2027
as Mr. Harrison

Come with Me
2026
as Dalton Kirby

The Way Things Seem to Be
2026
as Self

Meister der Apokalypse - Roland Emmerich
2025
as Self

The Gentleman
2025
as Theo

Asteroid
2025

Cottonmouth
2025
as Victor Cain

Paradise Records
2025
as The Chief

Saurus City
2025
as Slade Klossus (voice)

Play Dirty
2025
as Murray

Scream Before You Die
2024
as Governor Starks

Day of the Fight
2024
as Stevie

Absolution
2024
as Charlie Conner

Succubus
2024
as Dr. Orion Zephyr

The Instigators
2024
as Mayor Miccelli

Joe Baby
2024
as Prentice Stanton

Chuck Zito: An American Story
2024
as Self

The Retirement Plan
2023
as Bobo

The Baker
2023
as Pappi

Heroes of the Golden Mask
2023
as Kunyi (voice)

Transformers: Rise of the Beasts
2023
as Optimus Primal (voice)

How I Got There
2022
as The Merc

Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio
2022
as Podesta (voice)

American Badass: A Michael Madsen Retrospective
2022
as Self