Ray Park Net Worth

Ray Park's Quotes

• [on having to shave his head for the role of Darth Maul] "At first, I lost my confidence a little. I'm used to having my hair, but now you have this bald thing on top. Then I got into it. It was easy and free; I didn't have to wash my hair. I just took a hot towel and buffed it to make it nice and shiny."
• I'm a big Batman fan; to be honest, to be a part of any superhero movie would really fulfill all of my childhood fantasies. If I could get beaten up by Batman, and just be part of the franchise, even getting kicked through a window would be great!
• When I played Darth Maul, it sort of came from inside. I'm not saying it was natural, but I really enjoyed it, and I think I was tapping into my childhood, growing up with 'Star Wars.' And I grew up with G.I. Joe as well. Same as 'Thundercats' and 'Transformers' and 'He-Man.' And so I think it was the inner kid in me just came out.
• There's something mysterious about ninjas because they're deadly and they're scary.
• Growing up as a kid, I wanted to be a ninja. In martial arts, even though I did Chinese kung fu, I always wanted to be this secret samurai or a ninja. There's something about ninjas that was very appealing to me as a kid. So of course, I was climbing a lot of trees and other things and getting up to mischief - good mischief.

Interesting Facts about Ray Park

1. Was a member of the British Wushu Team.
2. Holds a second degree black belt in Wushu and came in second place at the 1995 world championships.
3. Has a younger brother and a younger sister.
4. He was en route to a martial arts exhibition when he got the cell phone call from producer Rick McCallum that he gotten the part of Darth Maul. He was so shocked and excited that had to pull over.
5. His first real speaking part came in X-Men (2000) in the part of Toad. Although his character Darth Maul briefly spoke in Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999), his voice was dubbed over with that of actor Peter Serafinowicz.
6. 15th-17th April 2005 - Attended the Wellington Armaggeddon Pulp Expo Convention in New Zealand as the special Star Wars guest.
7. In X-Men (2000), both he and Shawn Ashmore play characters originally voiced by Frank Welker.
8. Has a daughter called Sienna and a son called Rokko.
9. Picture wrap as Snake Eyes in G.I. Joe: Retaliation (2013) [December 2011]
10. Star Wars Weekends: Lake Buena Vista, Florida (Walt Disney World; Disney-MGM Studios) [June 2007]
11. Signing autographs at Collectormania 11 in Milton Keynes, UK. [May 2007]
12. Attending Revelations 2005. A Star Wars convention in Mérida, Yucatán, México. [June 2005]
13. Attending Collectormania 7 at Milton Keynes [May 2005]
14. Bears a strong physical resemblance to actor Tim Roth.
15. Was set to play Danny Rand/Iron Fist in an Iron Fist movie between 2000 and 2004 but the project never went through. Iron Fist would eventually become a Netflix series starring Finn Jones in 2017.