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Rory McCann
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 and Michael “Lurch” Armstrong in Edgar Wright’s crime-comedy Hot Fuzz. He also played Jurgen the Brutal, the main villain in the adventure comedy Jumanji: The Next Level.
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McCann was born in Glasgow, Scotland.[2] He has a sister, Sally-Gay McCann, born in 1972.[3]
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.[4] Rory McCann was first trained as an actor by writer-artist Robert Parsifal Finch in The Actor’s Workshop, Glasgow in 1998.
