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 in Edgar Wright\'s crime-comedy Hot Fuzz.\n', '

McCann was born in Glasgow, Scotland. He has a sister, Sally-Gay McCann, born in 1972.\n', '

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.\n', '

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