Ray Porter is an American actor and audiobook narrator known for his narrations of Dennis E. Taylor’s Bobiverse, Jack Carr’s The Terminal List, and Andy Weir’s Project Hail Mary, which won the 2022 Audie Award for Audiobook of the Year. He is also known for portraying the DC Comics villain Darkseid in Zack Snyder's Justice League and some voice acting work for The Scarecrow, The Path of Atticus: Gods and Monsters and The Little Engine That Could.
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Career
After narrating audiobooks and appearing in several television series, he gained attention when he was cast as Darkseid in the 2017 film Justice League, becoming the first actor to have been cast as the character in a live-action feature film. However, Darkseid did not appear in the theatrical cut, meaning Zack Snyder's Justice League marked the character's first appearance in a live-action film. Porter played Darkseid through the use of motion capture and "went through a few different vocal gymnastics trying to figure out the voice". In February 2022, he was cast in Snyder's film Rebel Moon.
Porter has also been recognized for his work narrating the Project Hail Mary audiobook with an appearance at Hall H at San Diego Comic-Con with the author of the book and cast from the movie.
