Richard Dormer

Known for ActingBorn 1969-11-11 (age 56)Portadown, County Armagh, Northern Ireland, UK

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.Read more

Movies & web series

Game of Thrones

The Day of the Jackal

Togo

Gangs of London

Castlevania: Nocturne

Blue Lights

Wodehouse In Exile

The Musketeers

The Assassin

Safe And Sound

Fortitude

'71

Shooting for Socrates

Good Vibrations

Secret Invasion

Mrs. Henderson Presents

Soldier Soldier

Holy Cross

My Boy Jack

We're Doomed! The Dad's Army Story

The Mighty Celt

Puckoon

Five Minutes of Heaven

Rellik

Casualty

Jump

COBRA

Hyena

11 Minutes

SLR

The Watch

The Irish Rock Story: A Tale of Two Cities

Dark Touch

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

Pumpgirl

Best: His Mother's Son

Middletown

Ghost Machine

A Further Gesture

Lily's Driftwood Bay

Brendan Smyth: Betrayal of Trust

The Rule of Thumb

Bloody Friday

The Beauty of Books

Those Were the Days

Scapegoat

Apollo Has Fallen