The Actor

A hulking actor of intense characterizations equally at home in villainy and sympathetic roles, Ron Perlman is perhaps best recalled as the poignant yet heroic half-human, half-animal Vincent in "Beauty and the Beast" (CBS, 1987-90).

Beginning his acting career in the 70s, he worked extensively on stage in New York and the East Coast. He made his off-Broadway debut as the Emperor in "The Architect and the Emperor of Assyria" in 1976 at the famed LaMaMa Theatre. Perlman made his Broadway debut in "Teibele and Her Demon" in 1979.