Rory McCann
- a.k.a. Рори МакКанн
- 罗伊·麦克凯恩
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Rory McCann (born 24 April 1969) is a Scottish actor, best known for portraying Sandor "The Hound" Clegane on the HBO series Game of Thrones, Michael "Lurch" Armstrong in Edgar Wright's crime-comedy Hot Fuzz (2007), Jurgen the Brutal in the adventure comedy Jumanji: The Next Level (2019), and the voice of Megatron in Transformers: EarthSpark. McCann was born in Glasgow, Scotland. He has a sister, Sally-Gay McCann, born in 1972. Before becoming an actor, McCann was a painter who studied at the Scottish School of Forestry near Inverness. He also worked as a bridge painter (on the Forth Road Bridge), landscape gardener, and carpenter. Rory McCann was first trained as an actor by writer-artist Robert Parsifal Finch in The Actor's Workshop, Glasgow, in 1998. McCann's first acting job was as an extra on the film Willow (1988). He was fired because he laughed during the takes. He appeared in an advertisement for Scott's Porage Oats, dressed in a vest and kilt. As his first major acting role, McCann played a disabled personal trainer in the 2002 television comedy-drama The Book Group, winning the Scottish BAFTA for the best television performance of 2002. Since then, he has taken television roles as Detective Inspector Stuart Brown in State of Play, Peter the Great in Peter in Paradise, 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 go through training in the African desert and included shooting in Thailand, Morocco, and a London studio. In 2007, he appeared as Michael "Lurch" Armstrong in Hot Fuzz. In 2008, he played Moby in The Crew and Attila the Hun in the BBC docudrama Heroes and Villains. McCann portrayed Sandor "The Hound" Clegane in 7 out of 8 seasons of the HBO series Game of Thrones. Other projects include a BBC TV series by writer Jimmy McGovern called Banished, set in Australia in the 18th century. McCann plays a blacksmith named Marston. In 2022 he became the narrator of the ITV1 series DNA Journey. McCann's younger sister, Sally-Gay McCann, works on costumes for film and television; he worked alongside her on Alexander and Game of Thrones. McCann is a supporter of the Scottish Green Party, and appeared in its 2007 Scottish Parliament general election broadcast. In 1990, McCann broke multiple bones in a near-fatal rock climbing accident in Yorkshire. McCann is the former frontman of a defunct band called Thundersoup. He plays the piano, guitar, banjo, and mandolin. McCann lives a solitary, transient lifestyle. He often lives on his boat or in places without modern conveniences. In 2006, he went to Iceland with Gerard Butler to attend the premiere of Beowulf & Grendel. He ended up living in Iceland for a year, part of the time in a tent after losing his apartment, and working as a carpenter. Description above from the Wikipedia article Rory McCann, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
German (Deutsch)
Rory McCann (* 24. April 1969 in Glasgow) ist ein schottischer Schauspieler. Rory McCanns Laufbahn als Schauspieler begann mit dem Film Ratcatcher, der 1999 in den Kinos erschien. Es folgten weitere Rollen in zahlreichen Fernsehserien und Fernsehfilmen, bis er 2004 eine Rolle für den Film Alexander erhielt. Im folgenden Jahr war er in Beowulf & Grendel zu sehen. Weitere international bekannte Filme mit seiner Mitwirkung waren Hot Fuzz – Zwei abgewichste Profis, der 2007 veröffentlicht wurde und der 2010 in den Kinos erschienene Kampf der Titanen. Von 2011 bis 2014 war er in den ersten vier Staffeln als Sandor Clegane in der HBO-Serie Game of Thrones zu sehen. 2016 kehrte er in dieselbe Rolle zurück und spielte sie bis 2019 in der finalen achten Staffel. Quelle: Wikipedia
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- male
- Date of Birth
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- Place of Birth
- Glasgow, Scotland, UK