George Raymond Stevenson (25 May 1964 – 21 May 2023) was a British actor born on 25 May 1964 in Northern Ireland, the second of three sons born to an Irish mother. His father was a pilot in the Royal Air Force.
He migrated to England with his family when he was eight years old, first to the Lemington suburb of Newcastle upon Tyne and then to Seaton Delaval. He graduated from the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School at the age of 29.
Who is Ray Stevenson wife Ruth Gemmell?
Ruth Gemmell married the late actor Ray Stevenson (1964-2023) in Westminster, London, in 1997. They met in 1995 while filming the TV drama Band of Gold. In 2005, the couple divorced.
Ruth Katrin Gemmell was born in Bristol in October 1967 and grew up in County Durham, first in Barnard Castle and then in Darlington after her parents divorced. She is the youngest of three brothers.
She went to Polam Hall School. Gemmell then moved to London, where her father lived, to seek a career as an actress. She received her training at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art.
Gemmell has appeared in both stage and television productions. She starred with Colin Firth in Fever Pitch, based on Nick Hornby’s novel of the same name, and had another big part in the comedy/drama 2 January (2006).
She appeared as Detective Constable Kerry Cox in the first season of the BBC police procedural Silent Witness, which aired in 1996. In 2006 and 2014, she returned to the series as different characters.
