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Richard Dormer
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Richard Dormer
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1969-11-11,Portadown, County Armagh, Northern Ireland, UK
Gender
Male
Biography
Richard Dormer is a Northern Irish actor, playwright and screenwriter. He was born in Lisburn, Northern Ireland. After to being accepted to the Royal College of Art Richard accepted a scholarship at the RADA school of acting in London. After living and working in London, he returned to Northern Ireland. He lives in Belfast and is married to director Rachel O'Riordan. Dormer is perhaps best known for his performance as Northern Irish Snooker star, Alex Higgins in Hurricane, which he wrote and starred in. The production received praise from critics and even from Higgins himself and saw Richard win The Stage award for best actor in 2003. He is currently the bookie's third favourite to play Higgins in the scheduled film of his life behind Cillian Murphy and Jonathan Rhys Meyers. In 2004 Richard won the Irish Times Best Actor Award for his performance in Frank McGuinness's Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme and in 2005 completed a season with Sir Peter Hall at the Theatre Royal and performed Bath in the George Bernard Shaw play, You Can Never Tell, William Shakespeare's,Much Ado About Nothing, Noël Coward's play, Private Lives, and in a production of Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot. Since, Dormer has written a number of plays including The Half and Gentleman's Tea Drinking Society which were produced through Belfast's Ransom theatre company. He has also provided the voices for over twenty BBC Radio 4 plays, documentaries and advertising campaigns. Following a run of film castings playing secondary characters, he was cast as the lead in the 2012 Good Vibrations which tells the story of Northern Ireland personality and punk rock visionary Terri Hooley. The film premièred at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival and was awarded 'best film' at the Galway film awards. 2012 also saw Dormer taking over the role of Lord Beric Dondarrion, known as the "Lightning Lord", the leader of the "Brotherhood Without Banners" for Season 3 of HBO series Game of Thrones.

Filmography

4.763

Ghost Machine
2009-02-01

5.9

Jump
2012-06-08

Good Vibrations

6.701

Good Vibrations
2012-05-31

5.5

SLR
2013-07-13

5.651

Hyena
2015-03-06

Shooting for Socrates

6.8

Shooting for Socrates
2014-07-11

5.087

Dark Touch
2013-09-27

6.806

'71
2014-10-10

5.508

11 Minutes
2015-09-02

We're Doomed! The Dad's Army Story

6.5

We're Doomed! The Dad's Army Story
2015-12-22

6.558

My Boy Jack
2007-11-11

5

Pumpgirl
2009-04-02

Five Minutes of Heaven

6.093

Five Minutes of Heaven
2009-01-19

Wodehouse In Exile

7.2

Wodehouse In Exile
2013-03-25

Best: His Mother's Son

5

Best: His Mother's Son
2009-04-29

Brendan Smyth: Betrayal of Trust

4

Brendan Smyth: Betrayal of Trust
2011-03-13

Mrs. Henderson Presents

6.666

Mrs. Henderson Presents
2005-09-08

The Mighty Celt

6.346

The Mighty Celt
2005-02-11

6.667

Holy Cross
2003-10-10

4.8

Middletown
2007-03-02

6.286

Puckoon
2002-01-01

The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Love's Sweet Song

5.2

The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Love's Sweet Song
2000-07-12

0

Scapegoat
2009-10-26

The Irish Rock Story: A Tale of Two Cities

5.333

The Irish Rock Story: A Tale of Two Cities
2015-03-13

8.137

Togo
2019-12-20

A Further Gesture

4.846

A Further Gesture
1997-01-01

The Rule of Thumb

0

The Rule of Thumb
2012-02-11

0

Bloody Friday
2012-07-19

7.54

Blue Lights
2023-03-27

6.815

Fortitude
2015-01-29

Lily's Driftwood Bay

4

Lily's Driftwood Bay
2014-05-05

Secret Invasion

6.464

Secret Invasion
2023-06-21

Game of Thrones

8.467

Game of Thrones
2011-04-17

7.069

The Musketeers
2014-01-19

6.2

Casualty
1986-09-06

6.06

Rellik
2017-09-11

Castlevania: Nocturne

7.802

Castlevania: Nocturne
2023-09-28

The Beauty of Books

0

The Beauty of Books
2011-02-07

7

Safe And Sound
1996-08-09

5.415

The Watch
2021-01-03

Soldier Soldier

6.875

Soldier Soldier
1991-06-10

5.885

COBRA
2020-01-17

The Day of the Jackal

8.226

The Day of the Jackal
2024-11-07

Castlevania: Nocturne

7.802

Castlevania: Nocturne
2023-09-28

Gangs of London

7.822

Gangs of London
2020-04-23

Apollo Has Fallen

0

Apollo Has Fallen

Those Were the Days

0

Those Were the Days
2011-02-21

6.847

The Assassin
2025-07-25