Rory McCann

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“sometimes there’s no acting required. There’s a lot of the hound in me by the way. we’ve been on it for eight seasons and i’m going to miss all my friends. i tell you what i won’t miss. walking around with half a fucking beard looking like a fanny.”

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ALSO KNOWN FOR

Jumanji: The Next Level (2019)

Hot Fuzz (2007)

The Book Group (2003)

xXx: Return of Xander Cage (2017)

Rory McCann is a Scottish actor born on the 24th of April, 1969 in Glasgow, Scotland. 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. He 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 later appeared in an advertisement for Scott's Porage Oats, in which he appeared as a scantily-clad hunk in a vest and kilt and little else wandering snowbound streets but warmed by the inner glow of the porridge. He claims that as a consequence he was often approached by people demanding that he "lift his 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 that year. 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.

McCann 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 studio in London. In 2008, he played Moby in The Crew and Attila the Hun in the BBC docudrama Heroes and Villains. 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.

McCann is best known for portraying Sandor "The Hound" Clegane on the hit HBO fantasy series Game of Thrones and Michael "Lurch" Armstrong in Edgar Wright's crime-comedy Hot Fuzz. His latest film role in 2019 was the main villain in the adventure comedy sequel Jumanji: The Next Level, and most recently McCann starred in a two-episode stint of the Netflix series, The Irregulars (2021), which was based on the works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, it features the Baker Street Irregulars working for Dr. Watson saving London from supernatural elements.