
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).

Pacific Rim
2013 · as Hannibal Chau

Tangled
2010 · as Stabbington Brother (voice)

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
2016 · as Gnarlak

Enemy at the Gates
2001 · as Koulikov

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

Hellboy
2004 · as Hellboy

Drive
2011 · as Nino

Hellboy II: The Golden Army
2008 · as Hellboy

Monster Hunter
2020 · as Admiral

The Spiderwick Chronicles
2008 · as Red Cap (voice) (uncredited)

Don't Look Up
2021 · as Benedict Drask

Season of the Witch
2011 · as Felson

The Book of Life
2014 · as Xibalba (voice)

Alien Resurrection
1997 · as Johner

Blade II
2002 · as Reinhardt

The Devil's Tomb
2009 · as Wesley

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

Conan the Barbarian
2011 · as Corin