RON
PERLMAN - Father Duffy
An
award-winning actor, has moved seamlessly between the worlds of film,
television, and theater for almost three decades. Having received a
Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Minnesota, he returned
to his native New York to begin his professional career in theater,
delving into the works of contemporaries like Pinter and Beckett as
well as the classics of Shakespeare, Marlowe, Ibsen, and Checkov with
two recent trips back to Broadway in A FEW GOOD MEN and BUS STOP.
His film career began in the early eighties with two films back to back
for director Jean Jacques Annaud; QUEST FOR FIRE, for which he received
a Canadian Academy Award nomination, and the role of Salvatore, the
hunchback in Umberto Eco’s THE NAME OF THE ROSE. Perlman continues
his unique collaboration with French directors, starring in Jean Pierre
Juenet and Marc Caro’s award winning CITY OF LOST CHILDREN and
costarring with Sigourney Weaver and Winona Ryder in Juenet’s
ALIEN RESURRECTION. Other film work includes roles in studio ventures
such as THE ISLAND OF DR. MOREAU, ROMEO IS BLEEDING, FLUKE, THE ADVENTURES
OF HUCK FINN, AND SLEEPWALKERS as well as independent films including
CRONOS, THE LAST SUPPER, and WHEN THE BOUGH BREAKS, FROGS FOR SNAKES,
I WOKE UP EARLY THE DAY I DIED, TINSELTOWN, and Miramax’s HAPPY
TEXAS.
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. Other television work
includes HBO’s 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,
marking his second collaboration with CBS, New Line Cinema’s feature
PRICE OF GLORY with Jimmy Smits, Mandalay’s, ENEMY AT THE GATE,
opposite Jude Law, New Line Cinema’s BLADE II, Paramount’s
STAR TREK: NEMISIS, the Oscar winning short film TWO SOLDIERS, Guillermo
del Toro’s HELLBOY for Revolution Studios in which he plays the
title character. Stephen King’s mini-series DESPERATION FOR ABC,
and IN THE NAME OF THE KING with Jason Statham and John Rhys-Davies.
Perlman was recently seen in MASTERS OF HORROR, directed by John Carpenter,
for Showtime, as well as the independent feature MUTANT CHRONICLES,
starring opposite Stephen Rea and John Malkovich.