Carel Struycken
Gender: Male
Born: 30th July 1948 (currently 63 years old)
Nationality: Netherlands, United States of America
TV programs: The Addams Family, Twin Peaks
Movies: Addams Family Reunion, Addams Family Values, Ewoks: The Battle for Endor, The Addams Family, Men in Black, Framed, Oblivion 2: Backlash, Oblivion, The Fallen Ones, Servants of Twilight, The Witches of Eastwick, Revamped
Carel Struycken (born July 30, 1948) is a Dutch film, television, and stage actor. He is best known for playing Mr. Homn on the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation and Lurch in the films The Addams Family and Addams Family Values. He is an exceptionally tall man at 2.13 metres (7 feet) and thus is often called upon to play character or comedic roles in which height plays a major part.
Struycken was born in The Hague, Netherlands. When he was 4 years old his family moved to Curaçao, an island in the Caribbean. At age 15, while living on the island of Curaçao, he composed several Caribbean waltzes. At 16 he returned to his home country, where he finished secondary school. He graduated from the directing program at the film school in Amsterdam. Following that, he spent a year at the American Film Institute in Los Angeles. In 1978 he was "discovered" as an actor.
Struycken is considered a giant as the result of acromegaly.
Struycken is married to an American woman and has two children. He lives in the Los Angeles area. His brother Peter Struycken is a noted Dutch artist.
Struycken is a vegetarian on ethical grounds.
Struycken collaborated on a number of projects with
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