Burn Gorman
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Born | Burn Hugh Gorman 1 September 1974 Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
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Occupation | Actor |
Years active | 1998–present |
Spouse |
Sarah Beard
(m. 2004; div. 2017) |
Children | 3 |
Burn Hugh Gorman (born 1 September 1974) is an American-born English actor and musician.[citation needed] He is known for his television roles as Owen Harper in the BBC series Torchwood (2006–2008), Karl Tanner in the HBO series Game of Thrones (2013–14), Major Edmund Hewlett in the AMC series Turn: Washington's Spies (2014–2017), 'The Marshal' in the Prime Video series The Man in the High Castle (2015), and Adolphus Murtry in Prime Video series The Expanse (2019). His film roles include Phillip Stryver in The Dark Knight Rises (2012) and Hermann Gottlieb in Pacific Rim (2013) and its sequel Pacific Rim: Uprising (2018). He also appeared in Tim Burton's Beetlejuice Beetlejuice as the reverend Father Damien (2024).
Early life
[edit]Burn Hugh Gorman[1][2] was born on 1 September 1974 in Los Angeles, California, the son of English parents.[3] His father was a professor of linguistics at UCLA.[citation needed] He has three older sisters. He has reportedly claimed to be the nephew of Bartley Gorman, considered "King of the Gypsies".[4] At the age of 7, he moved with his family back to England, where they settled in London. He later trained at the Manchester School of Theatre at Manchester Metropolitan University.[5]
Gorman is also an accomplished beatboxer, having participated in the 2003 International Human Beatbox Convention (where he won the title of Radio 1Xtra's Human Beatbox Champion).[6]
Career
[edit]One of Gorman's earliest television roles was in 1998 as Etheric Foundation cult leader Ben Andrews in Granada TV's Coronation Street. He played William Guppy in the 2005 BBC One adaptation of Charles Dickens' Bleak House, before being cast as Owen Harper in the BBC science fiction series Torchwood. Gorman starred in the first two series of the show before his character was killed off in the series 2 finale, "Exit Wounds".[7]
Other BBC television roles include Lark Rise to Candleford, Funland and Bonekickers; he also appeared in Channel 4's political thriller Low Winter Sun.
Gorman played scriptwriter Ray Galton in the BBC Four television play The Curse of Steptoe. He has also appeared in television series such as Dalziel and Pascoe, Casualty, Merseybeat and The Inspector Lynley Mysteries.
Gorman played Jed on the soap opera EastEnders in March 2007. He starred as Hindley Earnshaw in the ITV adaptation of Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights. In 2011, he starred in Sky1's second Martina Cole adaptation, The Runaway and in 2014, portrayed Adam, the lead character's stalker and fellow immortal, in ABC's Forever. He played Karl Tanner in seasons 3 and 4 of HBO's Game of Thrones,[8] Major Hewlett in the AMC miniseries Turn and Nicholas Farlow on the BBC miniseries Jamestown.
On film, Gorman has had roles in Layer Cake, The Best Man, Penelope, Fred Claus, Cemetery Junction and The Dark Knight Rises. He also appeared as Dr. Hermann Gottlieb in the film Pacific Rim and its sequel Pacific Rim: Uprising.
On radio, Gorman played Elizabethan spy Robert Poley in Michael Butt's The Babington Plot (2008)[9] and Unauthorized History: The Killing (2010)[10] and Mike Walker's The Reckoning: The Death of Christopher Marlowe (2022).[11]
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Gorman's stage credits include Ladybird (Royal Court), Flush (Soho Theatre), and Gong Donkeys (Bush Theatre), prompting Michael Billington of The Guardian to write that "Gorman proves that he is one of the best young actors in Britain".[12] He has performed in readings, workshops, and development initiatives with the National Theatre Studio, Young Vic, Royal Court, Oxford Stage Company, Paines Plough and Soho Theatre.[13] Outside London, he has worked with Nottingham Playhouse, the Theatre Royal, Plymouth and the Royal Exchange and Contact Theatres, where he was nominated for a Manchester Evening News Best Newcomer Award.[citation needed]
From 2008 to 2009, Gorman played Bill Sikes in the West End revival of the musical Oliver! for which he was nominated for Best Supporting Actor in a Musical in the 2010 Whatsonstage Theatre Awards.[14]
Personal life
[edit]Gorman married schoolteacher Sarah Beard on 17 July 2004. They have three children, two girls and a boy.[15] Their first child, Max, was born in Cardiff, where Gorman was filming the first series of Torchwood. They later separated and divorced in 2017.
Filmography
[edit]† | Denotes works that have not yet been released |
Film
[edit]Television
[edit]Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1998 | Coronation Street | Ben Andrews | Recurring role, 16 episodes |
2000 | Casualty | Geoff Simpson | 1 episode |
2001 | Merseybeat | Sean Finnigan | 1 episode |
2002 | A Good Thief | DC Fairchild | Television film |
2005 | The Inspector Lynley Mysteries | Billy Verger | Episode: "In Divine Proportion" |
2005 | Funland | Tim Timothy | 3 episodes |
2005 | Bleak House | William Guppy | Main role, 11 episodes |
2006 | Low Winter Sun | Det. Con. Kenny Morton | 2 episodes |
2006 | Dalziel and Pascoe | Jerry Hart | Episode: "A Death in the Family" |
2006–2008 | Torchwood | Owen Harper | Main role, 26 episodes |
2007 | Agatha Christie's Marple | Jacko Argyle | 1 episode |
2007 | EastEnders | Jed | 1 episode |
2008 | Bonekickers | Banks | 1 episode |
2008 | The Curse of Steptoe | Ray Galton | Television film |
2009 | Wuthering Heights | Hindley Earnshaw | Miniseries, 2 episodes |
2011 | The Runaway | Richard Gates | Miniseries, 5 episodes |
2011 | The Hour | Thomas Kish | 4 episodes |
2011 | Lark Rise to Candleford | Reverend Marley | 1 episode |
2013 | Spies of Warsaw | Jourdain | Miniseries, 4 episodes |
2013 | Revenge | Mr Trask | 4 episodes |
2013 | It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia | Scientist | 1 episode |
2013–2014 | Game of Thrones | Karl Tanner | 4 episodes |
2014–2015 | Forever | Adam / Lewis Farber | Recurring role, 8 episodes |
2014–2017 | Turn: Washington's Spies | Major Edmund Hewlett | Main role, 28 episodes |
2015 | And Then There Were None | Detective Sergeant William Blore | Miniseries, 3 episodes |
2015 | The Man in the High Castle | The Marshal | 2 episodes |
2016 | Stan Lee's Lucky Man | Doug | 3 episodes |
2017–2019 | Jamestown | Nicholas Farlow | Main role, 15 episodes |
2019 | The Expanse[17] | Adolphus Murtry | Recurring role, 10 episodes |
2019 | Cheat | Ben Jarvis | 4 episodes |
2022 | Halo | Vinsher Grath | Recurring role, 5 episodes |
2022 | The Offer | Charles Bluhdorn | Miniseries, 10 episodes |
Video games
[edit]Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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2009 | Risen | Fincher, Brent, Dwight, Flavio, Tucker | Voice English dub |
2011 | Star Wars: The Old Republic | Darth Angral, Darth Tormen, Apprentice Ortosin | Voice |
Radio
[edit]Year | Title | Role |
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1998 | The Old Man and the Angel | |
1999 | And Counting | |
1999 | Glad To Be Back | |
1998 | The Taming of the Shrew | Grumio |
2002 | The Go Slow Club | Bob |
2002 | Fat Campl | Craig |
2003 | The Wire | Otis |
2004 | Classic Serial: The Pickwick Papers | Sam Weller |
2007 | King Trash | Clint |
2008 | Classic Serial: The Mayor of Casterbridge | Abel |
2008 | The Babington Plot | Robert Poley |
2008 | New Metamorphoses | Andre |
2009 | The Wonderful Wizard of Oz | Tin Man |
2010 | Unauthorized History: The Killing | Robert Poley |
2012 | The Odd Job | Clive |
2012 | The Spy | Harvey Birch |
2013 | He Died With His Eyes Open | The Detective |
2022 | The Reckoning: The Death of Christopher Marlowe | Robert Poley |
References
[edit]- ^ Herman, Sarah: "Burn Gorman, Where's Your Head At?"., Torchwood Magazine (August 2008): page 60. (wayback 20120313031654). Here, Burn states that the name on his birth certificate is "Burn Hugh Winchester Gorman".
- ^ "Chicago TARDIS 2015: Burn Gorman During a talk at the Doctor Who convention Chicago TARDIS, which took place from 27 to 29 November 2015, Gorman was prompted to point out inaccuracies in his Wikipedia article. He allowed the moderator's reading of his name as "Burn Hugh Gorman", but clarified, "For a while [...] I would get some questions saying 'So, your name's Burn Hugh Winchester Gorman?' and I don't know where that started! It may be with Wikipedia, or something, but for some reason somebody had edited and put my name as 'Burn Hugh Winchester Gorman', and that is not either true or relevant in any way. So that is a lie." (timecode 9:00-9:35).
- ^ "Meet the characters and cast of Wuthering Heights". PBS.org. Retrieved 29 December 2015.
- ^ Fulton, Rick (7 July 2013). "Movie star Charlie Hunnam braced for biggest role to date in new blockbuster Pacific Rim". Daily Record. Retrieved 2 February 2022.
- ^ "Notable Alumni". Manchester Metropolitan University. Archived from the original on 15 August 2010. Retrieved 29 December 2015.
- ^ "IMDB Trivia". IMDB.
- ^ Ling, Thomas (18 April 2020). "John Barrowman thinks some key Torchwood deaths happened "too soon"". Radio Times. Retrieved 26 March 2023.
- ^ Oswald, Anjelica (16 June 2019). "21 'Game of Thrones' actors who have played DC characters". Insider. Retrieved 13 January 2021.
- ^ "BBC Radio 4 - Drama, Michael Butt - The Babington Plot". BBC. Retrieved 16 May 2022.
- ^ "BBC Radio 4 - Drama, Michael Butt - Unauthorized History: The Killing". BBC. Retrieved 16 May 2022.
- ^ "BBC Radio 4 - Drama, Mike Walker - The Reckoning: The Death of Christopher Marlowe". BBC. Retrieved 16 May 2022.
- ^ Michael Billington (8 November 2004). "Gong Donkeys". The Guardian. Retrieved 24 October 2006.
- ^ "Flush by David Dipper" (Press release). Soho Theatre Company. 22 April 2004. Archived from the original on 19 May 2006. Retrieved 21 April 2006.
- ^ "Burn Gorman | TV Guide". TVGuide.com. Retrieved 22 November 2020.
- ^ "Game of Thrones' Burn Gorman". Global News. Retrieved 21 March 2016.
- ^ Yoo, Eun-bi (26 July 2023). "비공식작전', 모로코 정우성→'미임파7' 배우…5인 5색 해외 조연" [Unofficial Operation', Moroccan Jung Woo-sung → Mimpa 7' actor... 5 people, 5 colours overseas supporting cast] (in Korean). SPOTV News. Retrieved 26 July 2023 – via Naver.
- ^ Whitbrook, James. "Hell Yeah, Burn Gorman Is Joining The Expanse". Gizmodo. Retrieved 7 February 2019.
External links
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- Burn Gorman at IMDb
- Burn Gorman on Twitter
- Burn Gorman Interview on Starpulse Archived 3 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine
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- Alumni of the Manchester School of Theatre
- British male film actors
- British male radio actors
- British male soap opera actors
- British male stage actors
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- Male actors from Hollywood, Los Angeles
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