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09/16/2019 – Brake – Lionsgate’s “3 From Hell” Los Angeles Special Screening – Arrivals – The Vista Theatre, 4473 Sunset Drive – Los Feliz, CA, USA – Photo Credit: Sushi / PRPhotos.com
Birth Name: Richard Colin Brake
Place of Birth: East Glamorgan, Glamorganshire, Wales
Date of Birth: 30 November, 1964
Ethnicity: Welsh, likely English
Richard Brake is an American actor. He is known for his work as a character actor, particularly in the works of Rob Zombie , along with other horror/science fiction projects. His roles include the films Death Machine , Subterfuge (1996), Cold Mountain , Batman Begins , Doom (2005), The Black Dahlia , Hannibal Rising , Outpost (2008), Perkins’ 14 , Halloween II (2009), Legacy (2010), Detention (2011), Water for Elephants , Asylum Blackout , The Numbers Station , The Counselor , Thor: The Dark World , Set Fire to the Stars , Kingsman: The Secret Service , Spy (2015), 31 (2016), Bitter Harvest , The Death of Stalin , Mandy (2018), Perfect Skin , The Sisters Brothers , 3 from Hell , The Dare , The Rhythm Section , Tremors: Shrieker Island , Offseason , The Virtuoso , Bingo Hell , Vesper , Barbarian , The Munsters , R.I.P.D. 2: Rise of the Damned , The Gates (2022), The Last Stop in Yuma County , Hammarskjöld , The Strangers trilogy (2024-2026), Altered , Sisu: Road to Revenge , and Cold Storage ; the shows Mob City , Game of Thrones , Ray Donovan , Absentia , The Royals , Creeped Out , Sanctuary , and Mayor of Kingstown ; the video game Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 ; and the music video for “Knights of Cydonia.”
He was born in East Glamorgan, Glamorganshire, Wales. His family moved to the U.S. in 1967, and he was raised in Atlanta, Georgia, and then in North Carolina, Tennessee, and Ohio. He has two children.
His father’s side of the family is likely of at least part English descent.
Richard’s maternal grandfather’s surname is Morris.