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"As a kid, I used to always fantasize about, you know, being in movies and doing the type of martial art moves and skills and tricks as my masters would do, so I would go away and practice it and, because I would see that and visualize it, it was there in my head to keep on practicing. Even though it was hard, I've not always got it and I got frustrated, I knew as a kid and a teenager that by putting the work in and the practice and the sweat, blood, and tears and the dedication it would get there eventually. And then I got lucky. Y'know, my sort-of dreams were answered in the sense of being part of movies, but I never thought in a million years that that I would be doing Star Wars or G.I. Joe. The sort of thing I wanted to do was Hong Kong action, you know?"
―Ray Park[2]

Raymond Michael "Ray" Park (born August 23, 1974) is a Scottish actor, martial artist and stuntman who portrayed Darth Maul in Star Wars: Episode I The Phantom Menace[3] and Solo: A Star Wars Story.[4] Maul was voiced first by Peter Serafinowicz and later by Sam Witwer, whose lines were dubbed over Park's. In 2019, during Star Wars Celebration, Dave Filoni revealed that Park reprised his role as Maul for the seventh and final season of Star Wars: The Clone Wars through a motion capture performance, with Witwer again providing the voice.[5] Ray Park's talents as a martial artist allowed him to perform the difficult moves required by the role.

Park performed stunts as The Headless Horseman in Sleepy Hollow (1999, Tim Burton), although the Horseman was played by Christopher Walken in non-combat scenes. Park also portrayed another athletic villain, Toad, in the first X-Men film (2000, Bryan Singer). Toad briefly showed off his "lightsaber" skills in the movie with a metal pole as homage to his Star Wars counterpart; similarly, the Headless Horseman also moves his sword in this fashion.

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SASWS Slashfilm Maul HS

Park as Maul in Solo: A Star Wars Story.

Year Title Contribution(s)
1999 Star Wars: Episode I The Phantom Menace Maul[3]
2018 Solo: A Star Wars Story Maul[4]
2020 TCW mini logo Star Wars: The Clone Wars — "The Phantom Apprentice" Maul (Motion capture)[5]

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