Representatives for Stevenson told The Associated Press that he died Sunday but had no other details to share on Monday.

Stevenson was born in Lisburn, Northern Ireland, in 1964. After attending the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and years of working in British television, he made his film debut in Paul Greengrasss 1998 film The Theory of Flight. In 2004, he appeared in Antoine Fuquas King Arthur as a knight of the round table and several years later played the lead in the pre-Disney Marvel adaptation Punisher: War Zone.

Though Punisher was not the best-reviewed film, hed get another taste of Marvel in the first three Thor films, in which he played Volstagg. Other prominent film roles included the Divergent trilogy, G.I. Joe: Retaliation and The Transporter: Refueled.

A looming presence at 6-foot-4, Stevenson, who played his share of soldiers past and present, once said in an interview, I guess Im an old warrior at heart.

On the small screen, he was the roguish Titus Pullo in Rome, a role that really got his career going in the United States and got him a SAG card, at the age of 44. The popular series ran from 2005 to 2007.

That was one of the major years of my life, Stevenson said in an interview. It made me sit down in my own skin and say, just do the job. The jobs enough.

In the Variety review of Rome, Brian Lowery wrote that the imposing Stevenson certainly stands out as a brawling, whoring and none-too-bright warrior a force of nature who, despite his excesses, somehow keeps landing on his feet.

He was Blackbeard in the Starz series Black Sails, Commander Jack Swinburne in the German television series Das Boot, and Othere on Vikings.

Stevenson also did voice work in Star Wars Rebels and The Clone Wars, as Gar Saxon, and has a role in the upcoming Star Wars live-action series Ahsoka, in which he plays a bad guy, Baylan Skoll. The eight-episode season is expected on Disney+ in August.

In an interview with Backstage in 2020, Stevenson said his acting idols were, The likes of Lee Marvin (and) Gene Hackman.

Never a bad performance, and brave and fearless within that caliber, Stevenson said. It was never the young, hot leading man; it was men who I could identify with.

Stevenson has three sons with Italian anthropologist Elisabetta Caraccia, who he met while working on Rome.

Campaigners supporting groups from 17 countries, including Greenpeace, Extinction Rebellion and Stay Grounded, surrounded jets being exhibited at the annual European Business Aviation Convention & Exhibition (EBACE) at Geneva airport, with some chaining themselves to aircraft gangways and the exhibition entrance.

The protestors also stuck tobacco-style health warning labels onto planes being shown at the fair, with the giant stickers warning onlookers that private jets burn our future, kill our planet and fuel inequality.

Klara Maria Schenk, transport campaigner for Greenpeaces Mobility for All campaign, told Fortune in a phone call on Tuesday that the activists taking part in Tuesdays demonstration believed private aviation which she labeled the utmost unequal [method] of transportation was damaging the climate and social equality. She called on lawmakers to act to rein in emissions from private flights.

For over 20 years, Europes super-rich have popped champagne behind closed doors at EBACE while shopping for the latest toxic private jets, she said. Sales of private jets are skyrocketing, and with them the one percents hugely unfair contribution to the climate crisis while the most vulnerable people deal with the damage.

Speaking to Fortune from EBACE in Geneva, Cordula Markert, a spokesperson from Scientist Rebellion Germany, explained why her campaign group which is comprised of scientists fighting to reduce the impacts of climate change was taking part in Tuesdays protest.

As scientists, we like to look at complex systems like climate and find viable solutions, she said. Private jets are like the low-hanging fruit only 1% of the people in the world are responsible for 50% of the emissions from aviation, and we want to target this 1%.

She argued that it was no longer tolerable that the super-rich keeps buying and flying in their private jets for their own benefit, [knowing] that this fuels the flames of climate breakdown.  

Meanwhile, Mira Kapfinger, a campaigner from the organization Stay Grounded, said in a statement that politicians needed to enforce fair climate solutions that included clamping down on frequent fliers.

Whilst many cant afford food and rent anymore, the super-rich wreck our planet, unless we put an end to it, she said. Apart from banning private jets, its also time to end air miles schemes which reward frequent flying, and instead tax frequent flyers.

Event organizers respond

Ed Bolen, president and CEO of the U.S.-based National Business Aviation Association (NBAA), and Juergen Wiese, chairman of the European Business Aviation Association (EBAA), which co-organized EBACE 2023, said in a statement that the demonstrations were a completely unacceptable form of protest.

We condemn the action, and the threat it has posed to the safety and security of exhibiting companies and EBACE attendees, and others at Geneva Airport, they said.

They added that the private aviation sector was deeply committed to climate action.

This is an industry that has cut its carbon emissions by 40% over the past 40 years, is continually reducing emissions today, and is collectively focused on achieving net-zero emissions by 2050, they said. We as an industry are open to constructive dialogue about the industrys sustainability leadership, and we regret the protestors unfortunate decision to disregard an opportunity for that dialogue to take place.

Greenpeaces Schenk told Fortune that the activists on the ground at EBACE had been careful not to disrupt any security at the airport, and had been in touch with security personnel to discuss their intentions.  

Representatives for Geneva airport did not respond to Fortunes request for comment.

EBACE 2023, which kicked off on Tuesday and will run through Thursday, will have over 10,500 attendees around half of whom own or operate an aircraft.

The conference, the flagship annual event for Europes business jet sector, is making attempts this year to focus on sustainability, with discussion on topics such as electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft and green aviation fuel.

Tuesdays protests followed a series of previous demonstrations against private jets in Europe, including a rally at Amsterdam Schiphol airport in November that saw private planes grounded for more than six hours.

Private jet emissions

Private jet usage has come under scrutiny in recent years, with politicians and celebrities increasingly coming under fire for taking highly-polluting private flights.

A report from The Patriotic Millionaires and the Institute for Policy Studies earlier this month said that private jet sales were likely to reach their highest level ever this year, with the global fleet more than doubling over the past two decades.  

In a single hour, a private jet can emit two tons of carbon dioxide, according to findings from clean transport campaign group Transport & Environment. Meanwhile, the average person in the EU emits 8.2 tons of CO2 over an entire year.

That means private jet passengers emit up to 14 times more carbon than commercial plane passengers, with private planes up to 50 times more polluting than trains.

Earlier this year, a study by Greenpeace found that the number of private jet flights had risen by 64% in Europe in 2022.

The research also found that the carbon emitted by private jets last year surpassed the amount emitted by Uganda, a country with a population of almost 46 million.

The shooting of Christian Glass after his SUV became stuck in the mountain town of Silver Plume last year drew national attention and prompted calls to reform how authorities respond to people with mental health problems.

As part of the settlement, Sally and Simon Glass also negotiated for changes they hope will prevent another family from suffering a loss like theirs. Clear Creek County will establish a crisis response team and its sheriffs office will train and certify all deputies in crisis intervention, according to documents released by their attorneys.

The state of Colorado, which had three officers on the scene of Glass June 11, 2022 killing, in addition to those from local agencies, will create a virtual reality training scenario for the Colorado State Patrol based on the shooting that will focus on de-escalation in stressful situations involving officers from different agencies.

A video message from Simon and Sally Glass will also be shown to state troopers and Division of Gaming officers at the beginning of their active bystander training. The program focuses on encouraging officers to intervene if they think a fellow officer is going too far or needs to step away from an incident.

There was no indication from body camera footage that officers from other agencies attempted to stop the breach of the vehicle before Christian Glass was shot.

An attorney for the Glasses, Siddhartha H. Rathod, said they hope hearing their story will help officers have the strength to intervene if necessary.

Any of the seven officers there could have stopped this simply by saying something. They want to empower law enforcement to have this courage, he said of the shooting.

The settlement, which the communities of Georgetown and Idaho Springs also joined, is the largest for a police killing in Colorado, topping the $15 million settlement reached in 2021 for the death of Elijah McClain, and also ranks among the top in the United States, Rathod said. His law firm, Rathod Mohamedbhai LLC, also represented the mother of McClain, a 23-year-old Black man who died in 2019 after police in the Denver suburb of Aurora forcibly restrained him and a paramedic injected him with the powerful sedative ketamine.

Former Clear Creek County sheriffs deputy Andrew Buen, who shot Glass, and his supervisor, former Sgt. Kyle Gould, are both being prosecuted in Glass death. A grand jury found they needlessly escalated the standoff after he called 911 for help. Gould was not at the scene but was watching events unfold on body camera footage and authorized officers to remove Glass from his vehicle, according to court documents.

Lawyers for both officers unsuccessfully tried to get the charges against them thrown out. While Buens lawyer objected to how information was presented to the grand jury, Goulds lawyer argued that Glass needed to be evaluated for drugs, alcohol and mental health problems and could not just be allowed to leave.

In response to police killings of people in mental distress, reformers have pushed for crisis intervention and de-escalation training for police and even alternative policing programs where mental health responders are sent to some emergency calls instead of law-enforcement.

Some cities, including Denver, have programs where EMTs and mental health clinicians can be dispatched instead of police. But the area where Glass was killed, about an hours drive away from Denver, did not have that option at the time.

Glass, whose car became stuck on a dirt road, initially told the dispatcher that he was being followed and made other statements which the indictment said showed he was paranoid, hallucinating or delusional and experiencing a mental health crisis.

Officers body camera footage showed Glass refusing to get out of his car, making heart shapes with his hands to officers and praying: Dear Lord, please, dont let them break the window.

After roughly an hour of negotiations, officers decided to breach the car even though there was no indication that Glass posed a danger or was suspected of a crime, according to the grand jury.

Once the window was smashed, body camera footage shows officers peppering Glass with bean bag rounds, then tasing him. Glass brandished a knife in a state of complete panic and self-defense before twisting in his seat to thrust a knife in an officers direction, according to the grand jury. Buen then fired his gun five times into Glass.

The grand jury found that at no point was the other officer in imminent danger of being stabbed by Mr. Glass.

But for the decision by Gould to remove Mr. Glass from the vehicle there is no reason to believe that Mr. Glass would have been a danger to any law enforcement personnel, to himself, or to any member of the public, the indictment said.

Body camera footage doesnt show officers from other agencies including the Colorado State Patrol, gaming division, and police from the nearby towns of Idaho Springs and Georgetown attempting to stop the breach of the vehicle.

When Glass parents first publicly called for accountability for their sons death last year, Sally Glass said Christian was petrified the night he was killed and the officers had no empathy for him. She asked for people to pray for their son and for structural change in policing.

They should be protecting us, not attacking us, she said.