Six foot six inches tall, with brown eyes and dark hair, Rory McCann from Glasgow began his working life at the top - as a painter on the Forth Bridge in Scotland. He came to notice in a television commercial for Scotts' Porridge Oats, in which he appeared as a scantily-clad hunk in a vest and kilt and little else wandering snowbound streets but ...
Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series
Movies
Hot Fuzz, Slow West, Alexander, Clash of the Titans, Young Adam, Solomon Kane, Beowulf & Grendel, Season of the Witch, Sixty Six, The Crew
TV Shows
Heroes and Villains, Rockface, The Book Group, Game of Thrones
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I'm single because I move about so much that I can't really get attached.
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If I had a long-term partner, I don't think I'd be an actor. It'd be too much of a strain; you have to work too hard to balance that life with a family and a mortgage and all that stuff - it would be too much.
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I'm on my boat, training, rehearsing; I spend all my energy on the job that's coming up, and I found that's the way that works for me. The more energy you have on set, the better you'll be; it's all about being alive in that moment and listening.
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I was a lumberjack for years, a pub bouncer, I've sung in a band; in fact, I still sing, and I even trained myself to be a tree surgeon.
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In the business I meet some beautiful women, but to be honest, 80 per cent of them are raving lunatics and are to be avoided. It's just insecurity; actors are generally quite insecure. I wouldn't date, or I've never had a fling with an actress, and I'd quite like to keep it that way.
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I don't have a mortgage, I don't have a wife and I don't have kids, so I'm quite happy bumbling along.
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I'm a man's man. I go out climbing and live outdoors.
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