Ron Perlman
An award-winning actor, RON PERLMAN (Norick) has moved seamlessly between the worlds of film, television and theater for almost three decades. He is well known for his breakthrough role as the hunchback in 1986's The Name of the Rose (starring Sean Connery and Christian Slater), his starring turn on the CBS television series 'Beauty and the Beast' (opposite Linda Hamilton), and for playing Hellboy in two live-action features and three animated films. Hellboy II: The Golden Army is slated for wide release in July 2008. Perlman has a number of upcoming projects on the schedule, including providing voice acting to a number of animated films and video games.
Born in the Washington Heights area of Manhattan, Perlman is a classically trained theatre actor. After receiving a Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Minnesota, Perlman returned to his native New York to begin his professional career on stage. There, he delved into the works of contemporaries like Pinter and Beckett as well as the classics of Shakespeare, Marlowe, Ibsen and Chekhov.
His film career began in the early eighties with back-to-back assignments for director Jean-Jacques Annaud: playing Amoukar in Quest for Fire, for which he received a Canadian Academy Award nomination, and as the hunchback Salvatore in Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose.
Perlman resumed his unique collaboration with French directors by starring in Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro's award-winning City of Lost Children and costarring with Sigourney Weaver and Winona Ryder in Jeunet's Alien Resurrection. In recent years, Perlman has lent his talents to studio ventures such as The Adventures of Huck Finn, Sleepwalkers, The Price of Glory, The Island of Dr. Moreau, Romeo is Bleeding, Fluke, Star Trek: Nemesis, Blade II and Hellboy as well as independent films like When the Bough Breaks, Cronos, The Last Supper, Happy Texas and The Last Winter.
Perlman's film career was interrupted for a three-year run on CBS' critically acclaimed 'Beauty and the Beast,' for which he received a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor along with two Emmy nominations and three Viewers For Quality Television Awards. His other television credits include HBO's telefilm 'The Second Civil War,' 'Mr. Stitch,' The Adventures of Captain Zoom,' the Rob Nilsson adaptation of the Rod Serling classic 'A Town Has Turned to Dust' for the Sci-Fi Channel, 'The Magnificent Seven,' Stephen King's 'Desperation' and a leading role in John Carpenter's second-season episode of 'Masters of Horror' on Showtime.
Perlman is most proud of his pro bono work, appearing in the short films Two Soldiers (which won an Academy Award) and No. 6. He recently returned to his Broadway roots with the productions 'A Few Good Men' and 'Bus Stop.'
The actor lives in Los Angeles with his wife, Opal, and their two children, Blake and Brandon.