Ray Stevenson

George Raymond "Ray" Stevenson (born 25 May 1964) is a Northern Irish film and television actor. He is widely known for playing Titus Pullo in the BBC/HBO television series Rome (2005–2007), and in film as Dagonet in King Arthur (2004) and as Frank Castle/The Punisher in Punisher: War Zone (2008).
Born in Lisburn, Northern Ireland, 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, Stevenson, as a child, dreamt of becoming an actor but thought the dream impossible to achieve. 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.
Stevenson finished filming Punisher: War Zone in December 2008. He starred as Frank Castle, a former Marine turned vigilante. The movie opened on December 5, 2008 and premiered at the Chinese Theatre in Hollywood on Monday, December 1, 2008. His first lead role in a movie