I couldn't make it on the swimming team in high school. In fact, I got thrown off the swimming team and was forced to audition for the school play because they had at the audition about 35 girls show up and no boys, so my swimming coach suggested that I might be able to do the drama department more good than I was doing the swimming team.

His mother Dorothy was a municipal employee and his father was a jazz drummer and repairman. His appearances in television series include Highlander: The Series The Outer Limits and The Magnificent Seven. Perlman stated in a 1988 interview that "It was not a bad childhood but.

"Ron" Perlman (born April 13 1950) is an American television film and voice actor. He was the narrator of the television series 1000 Ways to Die on Spike. Kellerman in an episode of Charmed titled Wrestling with Demons and as the narrator of the post-apocalyptic game series Fallout.