Perlman is known as a collaborator of Hellboy director Guillermo del Toro, having roles in the del Toro films Cronos (1993), Blade II (2002), and Pacific Rim (2013). He is also known for his voice-over work as the narrator of the post-apocalyptic game series Fallout, Clayface on Batman: The Animated Series, Slade on the animated series Teen Titans, The Lich on Adventure Time, and The Stabbington Brothers in Disney\'s animated film Tangled (2010). \n', '

Ronald Perlman was born in Washington Heights, New York. His mother, Dorothy (née Rosen), was a municipal employee, and his father, Bertram "Bert" Perlman, was a jazz drummer and television repairman. Perlman said in 1988, "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." He cited this experience as one thing that attracts him to roles where he portrays "these sorts of deformed people who are very endearing". His parents are Jewish (their families were from Hungary and Poland). Perlman had a Bar Mitzvah ceremony.\n', '

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 him that he "had to" pursue a career as an actor. Perlman later said that his father essentially "gave [him] permission to be an actor". He attended the University of Minnesota, where he graduated with a master\'s degree in theater arts in 1973.\n', '

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