Burn Gorman

• Name — Burn Gorman • Birth Name — Burn Hugh Gorman • Born — 1 September 1974 • Birthplace — Los Angeles, California, U.S. • Citizenship — * United States • United Kingdom • Occupation — Actor • Years Active — 1998–present • Children — 3

Burn Hugh Gorman was born on 1 September 1974 in Los Angeles, California, the son of English parents. His father was a professor of linguistics at UCLA. He has three older sisters. He has reportedly claimed to be the nephew of Bartley Gorman, considered "King of the Gypsies". 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. Gorman is also an accomplished beatboxer. He participated in the 2003 International Human Beatbox Convention, where he won the title of Radio 1Xtra's Human Beatbox Champion.

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". 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, 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) and Unauthorized History: The Killing (2010) and Mike Walker's The Reckoning: The Death of Christopher Marlowe (2022). • Illustration — Gorman in 2015 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". 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. 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. 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.

Gorman was married to schoolteacher Sarah Beard from 2004 to 2017. They have three children.

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• Year — Title — Role — Notes • 1998 — Coronation Street — Ben Andrews — Recurring role, 16 episodes • 2000 — Casualty — Geoff Simpson — 1 episode • 2001 — Merseybeat — Sean Finnigan — 1 episode • 2002 — A — DC Fairchild — Television film • 2005 — The — 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 — 'Ordeal by Innocence' • 2007 — EastEnders — Jed — 1 episode • 2008 — Bonekickers — Banks — 1 episode • 2008 — The — Ray Galton — Television film • 2009 — Wuthering Heights — Hindley Earnshaw — Miniseries, 2 episodes • 2011 — The — Richard Gates — Miniseries, 5 episodes • 2011 — The — 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 — The Marshal — 2 episodes • 2016 — Stan Lee's Lucky Man — Doug — 3 episodes • 2017–2019 — Jamestown — Nicholas Farlow — Main role, 15 episodes • 2019 — The — Adolphus Murtry — Recurring role, 10 episodes • 2019 — Cheat — Ben Jarvis — 4 episodes • 2022 — Halo — Vinsher Grath — Recurring role, 5 episodes • 2022 — The — Charles Bluhdorn — Miniseries, 10 episodes

• Year — Title — Role — Notes • 2009 — Risen — Fincher, Brent, Dwight, Flavio, Tucker — Voice; English dub • 2011 — Star Wars: The Old Republic — Darth Angral, Darth Tormen, Apprentice Ortosin — Voice

• Year — Title — Role • 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