Ron Perlman

Sozin

 * 3.06	The Avatar and the Fire Lord

Additional Voices

 * 3.06	The Avatar and the Fire Lord

Television work

 * "1000 Ways to Die"
 * "Sons of Anarchy"
 * "Chowder"
 * "Danny Phantom"
 * "The Magnificent Seven"
 * "Beauty and the Beast"

Filmography

 * Tangled (2010)
 * The Legend of Secret Pass (2010)
 * I Sell the Dead (2008)
 * How to Go Out on a Date in Queens (2006)
 * Hellboy (2004)
 * Alien: Resurrection (1997)

Other credits

 * Fallout 3 (Video game)
 * Teen Titans (Video game)
 * The Incredible Hulk: Ultimate Destruction (Video game)
 * Halo 2 (Video game)
 * True Crime: Streets of LA (Video game)
 * Fallout 2: A Post-Nuclear Role-Playing Game (Video game)

Personal Life
Perlman was born in Washington Heights, New York. His mother, Dorothy, was 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, which did not have a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Theatre at that time. He has said that he and his father were "very close", and that it was his father, after seeing Perlman in a college production of Guys and Dolls, who told Perlman, "You have to do this… You understand this? You gotta do this." Perlman says, "So, he gave me permission to be an actor… wow." Perlman attended the University of Minnesota, where he graduated with a master's degree in theater arts in 1973.

He has been married to Opal Perlman since February 14, 1981; they have two children, a daughter, Blake Amanda (born 1984), and a son, Brandon Avery (born 1990). Perlman has volunteered as an actor with the Young Storytellers Program.

Career
He is known for playing roles which require make-up, some to the point where his entire body is covered or his face requires full facial prosthetics. Some examples include his first film role in Quest for Fire where he played a neanderthal, The Name of the Rose where he played a disfigured hunchback, "Beauty and The Beast", where he played Vincent, a man with the face of a half-man half-lion-like beast, The Island of Dr. Moreau where he plays a half man/half animal and the Hellboy films where he plays a demon. He even gave his Beauty and The Beast co-star Armin Shimerman advice when Shimerman was going to be in full-facial prosthetics as Quark for "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine".

Trivia
Both the credits in The Avatar and the Fire Lord are as "Ron Pearlman".