Ronald Francis "Ron" Perlman (born April 13, 1950) is an American television, film and voice over actor. He is known for playing the character Vincent in the television series Beauty and the Beast and the comic book character Hellboy in the film of the same name and its sequel, Hellboy II: The Golden Army.
Perlman was born in Washington Heights, New York. His mother, Dorothy, is a municipal employee, and his father was a jazz drummer and repairma...
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Ronald Francis "Ron" Perlman (born April 13, 1950) is an American television, film and voice over actor. He is known for playing the character Vincent in the television series Beauty and the Beast and the comic book character Hellboy in the film of the same name and its sequel, Hellboy II: The Golden Army.
Perlman was born in Washington Heights, New York. His mother, Dorothy, is a municipal employee, and his father was a jazz drummer and repairman. Perlman stated in a 1988 interview that "It was not a bad childhood but...I had a perception of myself that was, I was terribly overweight as a young kid, and it was sort of a low self image." Perlman continued to say that this experience is one thing that attracts him to "playing these sorts of deformed people who are very endearing."
He attended George Washington High School and later Lehman College in New York City in 1971, where he received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Theatre. Perlman states that he and his father were "very close...
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