A overblown, extreme, hulking actor who was a above to play Frankenstein's living abortion in The Bride (1985), Clancy Brown has utilized his naturally ominous exterior for a career's importance of villainous roles, most noticeably in films such as Highlander and The Shawshank Redemption. With esteemed looks that could be described as somewhat Neanderthal in nature, he has also set the occasional sympathetic portrayal, and been identical to the task of acting it. Clancy Brown was born ... on January 5, 1959, in Urbana, OH, the son of a newspaperman-turned-U.

S. congressman. He was raised in both Urbana and Washington, D.C.

, and claims to enjoy been introduced to acting by a neighbor who got him into Shakespeare at a babyish age. Brown acted in boisterous school and during his teenage summers before enrolling at Northwestern University on a way know-how as a discus hurler. He graduated with a situation in speech and went on to mix drinks in Chicago while working in local theater. Brown's word go videotape function established the turn for how his services would be in use accustomed to throughout his career. He appeared as Viking in the Sean Penn "juvy" drama Bad Boys (1983), in which he threw around his muscle as one of the incarceration center's intimidators. Next he appeared in The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984) as the cowboy Rawhide, then as Highlander's sword-wielding embodiment of damage, Kurgan, in the 1986 cult classic. A succession of roles as bruising heavies, time after time corrupt cops, followed during the recent '80s and '90s, in films such as Muffled Man Walking (1996) and The Gale (1999). The most never-to-be-forgotten among these was Captain Byron Hadley, the crooked prison police with the deadly billy club in the multiple-Oscar-nominated The Shawshank Redemption (1994).

In 1997, he played one of his more infrequent penetrating guy roles as Sergeant Zim in Starship Troopers. From 1997-1998, he had a prominent recurring guest responsibility as a doctor on NBC's ratings champ ER. His abundant box also includes a duty on the sci-fi series Clay 2 (1994). In 2002, Brown appeared among an ensemble cast in the HBO film The Laramie Project, which was give the beating death of gay Wyoming teen Matthew Shepard.

The next year, he took on the prominant role of Fellow-citizen Justin Crowe on HBO's hidden full stop drama Carniv??le, joining another excellent totality cast and once again tapping into his vile side. Brown's individual voice has been in favourable demand his m‚tier, resulting in dozens of enunciate-over credits in fervent features such as The SpongeBob SquarePants Silver screen (2004) and tube series. Of indubitably his distinctively brute confronting was still very much an important in most cases of his speed, with an onscreen role in the hit television series Lost serving well to get ready for viewers with a valuable history of the strange "hatch." A trip without hope in meanwhile set up the hulking Brown assuming the role of a horrific viking in director Markus Nispel's Pathfinder, and later that same year the actor could once again be spotted on the big wall in the Kevin Costner Coast Guard stage production The Custodian.