Happy Birthday Ray Park! He first worked in stunts for Mortal Kombat: Annihilation (1997). The part Park is well known for was as Darth Maul in Star Wars: The Phantom Menace (1999). It was not only the make-up and design of the character, it was the fierceness and martial arts prowess that Ray Park brought to the role. I saw Ray and Nash Edgerton, the Obi-Wan Kenobi stunt double, recreating the duel at Wizard World in 2004. It was at full speed which was impressive! We saw Maul cut in half by Obi-Wan Kenobi’s lightsaber, but you can’t keep a Sith down. Next, he had a speaking part as the Toad in X-Men (2000). In the action movie, Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever (2002), Park played A.J. Ross, leading the agents going after Lucy Liu’s Sever. Ray Park had a cameo part as a security guard at Lucasfilm in Fanboys (2009). He had another iconic role as Snake Eyes in G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (2009).
Ray Park dueling as Maul at Wizard World Philadelphia, 2004, photo by the author.
Ray Park had a lead role in Hellbinders (2009) playing a mercenary, Max, who teams up with an assassin and a Knights Templar to take on demonic forces. On television, Park played Edgar, who could move at super speeds in Heroes (2009-2010). Next, Park was the evil Rugal Bernstein, who fights against Maggie Q’s May Shiranui in the adaptation of the video game, The King of Fighters (2010). He had a cameo role in 2011 on Maggie Qu’s series Nikita. Park returned to play Snake Eyes in G.I. Joe Retaliation (2013). He starred in Jinn (2014) playing Gabriel caught in the battle with supernatural jinn. The surprise cameo in Solo: A Star Wars Story was the return of Maul. In the Clone Wars episode “Brothers”, Maul was found alive and given cybernetic legs. The Star Wars: Rebels two part episode “Twilight of the Apprentice” (2016) picked up Maul’s appearance. Park played Mac in the action movie Accident Man (2018). He did motion capture for Maul in “The Phantom Apprentice” episode of Star Wars: The Clone Wars. Happy Birthday Ray Park!
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