Kratos is a fictional character and the protagonist of Santa Monica Studio’s God of War series, based on Greek mythology and, later, Norse mythology.
He first appeared in the 2005 video game God of War, which led to the development of eight additional titles featuring the character as the protagonist.
Kratos also appears as the protagonist of the 2010 and 2018 comic series, as well as three novels that retell the events of three of the games.
The character was voiced by Terrence C. Carson from 2005 to 2013, with Christopher Judge taking over the role in 2018’s continuation, also titled God of War.
Throughout the Greek era of the series, Kratos is portrayed as a Spartan warrior, who becomes known as the “Ghost of Sparta” after accidentally killing his family due to the trickery of his former mentor Ares, the God of War.
Who plays Kratos’ son?
Sunny Suljic as the voice and motion capture actor for Atreus, the son of Kratos in the 2018 video game, God of War for which he was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Performance in a Video Game.
He again reprised the role in the game’s 2022 sequel, God of War Ragnarök. Suljic had his first lead role in Jonah Hill’s film Mid90s, also in 2018.
Suljic is from Roswell, Georgia. He played Gabriel in the 2015 film 1915, and Bob Murphy in the 2017 film The Killing of a Sacred Deer, Atreus in the 2018 video game, God of War.
In 2018, he played the lead, Stevie (Sunburn), in the drama film Mid90s, directed by Jonah Hill, and had a supporting role as Tarby Corrigan in the fantasy-horror family film The House with a Clock in Its Walls. Suljic is studying at a local private school in Los Angeles, California.