Rory McCann
Rory McCann was born in Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom on April 24th, 1969 and is the TV Actor. At the age of 55, Rory McCann biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, movies, TV shows, and networth are available.
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Rory McCann (born 24 April 1969) is a Scottish actor best known for portraying Sandor "The Hound" Clegane on HBO's Game of Thrones and Michael "Lurch" Armstrong in Edgar Wright's crime-comedy Hot Fuzz.
Early life
McCann was born in Glasgow, Scotland. Sally-Gay McCann, he has a sister who was born in 1972, has a sister.
McCann was a painter who studied at the Scottish School of Forestry near Inverness before becoming an actor. He has also worked as a bridge painter (on the Forth Road Bridge), a landscape gardener, and carpenter. In 1998, Rory McCann first trained as an actor by writer-artist Robert Parsifal Finch in The Actor's Workshop, Glasgow.
Personal life
Sally-Gay McCann, McCann's younger sister, works on film and television; she appeared on Alexander and Game of Thrones alongside her; she was also a costume designer. McCann is a member of the Scottish Green Party, and he appeared in the 2007 Scottish Parliament general election broadcast.
McCann fractured multiple bones in a near-fatal rock climbing crash in Yorkshire in 1990.
McCann is the former frontman of a defunct band called Thundersoup. He plays the piano, guitar, banjo, and mandolin.
McCann leads a quiet, transient life. He lives on his boat or in places that lack modern conveniences. In 2006, he and Gerard Butler went to Iceland with Gerard Butler to attend the premiere of Beowulf & Grendel. He spent a year in Iceland, part of the time in a tent after losing his apartment and working as a carpenter.
Career
McCann's first acting role was as an extra on the film Willow (1988). He was shot because he chuckled during the exams. He appeared in a Porage Oats commercial dressed in a vest and kilt. McCann played a disabled personal trainer in the 2002 television comedy drama The Book Group, winning the Scottish BAFTA award for the best television performance of 2002.
Since then, he has starred in State of Play, Peter the Great in Peter, and a priest in the award-winning British comedy-drama series Shameless.
He made his Hollywood debut in the 2004 film Alexander, which required the actors to get a training in the African desert and included shooting in Thailand, Morocco, and a London studio. In 2007, he appeared in Hot Fuzz as Michael "Lurch" Armstrong. In 2008, he appeared in The Crew and Attila the Hun in the BBC docudrama Heroes and Villains.
Sandor "The Hound" Clegane was portrayed by McCann in seven seasons of HBO's Game of Thrones.
Banished, a BBC TV series set in Australia in the 18th century, is among writer Jimmy McGovern's other projects. Marston, McCann, plays a blacksmith.
He appeared on the ITV series DNA Journey in 2022, becoming the narrator.