Carel Struycken (* 1948) is a Dutch actor. He studied at the Nederlandse Film Academie after which he completed a one-year internship at the American Film Institute in Los Angeles. Struycken went on from there to work closely with director and screenwriter Rene Daalder. The seven footer made his film debut in Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (1977), which was followed by roles in Star Trek, Twin Peaks and The Addams Family which brought him international recognition. Ironically, Karel has endured his own recent upheaval. He rescheduled his recording of the Curt Bloch poem when his home in Altadena California was destroyed along with all his possessions by the California wildfires in January 2025.
