1. James Peter Maxwell Dornan is an actor, model, and musician from Northern Ireland.
60 Facts About Jamie Dornan
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Jamie Dornan made his acting debut in 2006 with Sofia Coppola's drama film Marie Antoinette.
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Jamie Dornan earned critical acclaim portraying serial killer Paul Spector in the crime drama series The Fall, for which he was nominated for a British Academy Television Award for Best Actor.
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Jamie Dornan was born on 1 May 1982 in Holywood, County Down, Northern Ireland, and grew up in the suburbs of Belfast.
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Jamie Dornan has two older sisters: Liesa, who works for Disney in London, and Jessica, a fashion designer based in Falmouth, Cornwall, England.
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Jamie Dornan is a first cousin, twice removed, of actress Greer Garson.
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Jamie Dornan attended and boarded at Methodist College Belfast, where he played rugby and participated in the drama department.
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Jamie Dornan played Baby Face in Bugsy Malone and the milkman in Blood Brothers during school productions.
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Jamie Dornan was a member of Belfast's youth amateur drama group, Holywood Players and participated in the Ballymoney Drama Festival with this group on several occasions.
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Jamie Dornan played rugby as a winger for the Belfast Harlequins and for Ulster Rugby under-21 team.
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Jamie Dornan later claimed that he could have played professionally if not for a foot and mouth viral infection that broke out during his time on the under-21 team.
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Jamie Dornan attended Teesside University but dropped out and moved to London in 2002 to train as an actor, but never applied to drama school.
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Jamie Dornan worked in a pub in Knightsbridge for six months until he embarked on his modelling career.
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Jamie Dornan performed in the folk band Sons of Jim until it disbanded in 2008.
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Jamie Dornan founded the band with his schoolmate David Alexander and formed their own record label Doorstep Records under which they published their songs "Fairytale" and "My Burning Sun".
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Jamie Dornan was eliminated, but signed a modelling contract with Select Model Management.
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Jamie Dornan was not keen to pursue modelling as a career, but was persuaded by his sisters.
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Jamie Dornan then modelled for Aquascutum, Hugo Boss, and Armani.
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Jamie Dornan never participated in ramp walks because of his unconventional style of walking.
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Jamie Dornan's first acting role in a film was as Count Axel Fersen in the Sofia Coppola film Marie Antoinette.
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Jamie Dornan struggled with auditions and casting agents who treated him only as a model, but he had always wanted to act and so, auditioned in the pilot season in Los Angeles.
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Jamie Dornan returned as the Huntsman for the season finale "A Land Without Magic", and later as Graham for the season two episode "Welcome to Storybrooke" in its flashback segment.
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Jamie Dornan initially auditioned for the role of a police officer, but was later called upon to audition for the lead role, for which he was eventually selected.
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Jamie Dornan read books about serial killers and watched interviews of Ted Bundy to get an understanding of the mindset of his character, and stalked a woman in his preparation for the role.
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Jamie Dornan wanted to play the character with "real stillness".
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Critic Ken Tucker opined that Jamie Dornan was "handsome and skilled".
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Jamie Dornan has said The Fall changed his professional horizons.
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Jamie Dornan later appeared in Flying Home, a romantic drama film and New Worlds, a historical drama series.
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In 2013, Jamie Dornan was cast as Christian Grey in the film adaptation of Fifty Shades of Grey, replacing Charlie Hunnam.
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Jamie Dornan reprised his role in the second and third installments of the Fifty Shades film franchise, Fifty Shades Darker, and Fifty Shades Freed.
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Jamie Dornan later stated that initially he was reluctant about his involvement in the project and knew the franchise would not be treated well by critics.
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In 2016, Jamie Dornan starred as Commandant Pat Quinlan, who led the Irish UN force during The Siege of Jadotville, in Netflix's war film The Siege of Jadotville.
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Jamie Dornan was sent to a boot camp in South Africa with the rest of the cast to train for the film.
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Rupert Hawksley of The Daily Telegraph felt that he made a decent fist of portraying Kubis and said: "Nazi nail-biter Anthropoid shows Jamie Dornan has many more than 50 shades".
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Jamie Dornan appeared in a Miramax film titled The 9th Life of Louis Drax, a supernatural thriller based on a book of the same name, in 2016.
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In 2018, Jamie Dornan co-starred alongside Peter Dinklage, as a journalist Danny Tate, in the HBO television film My Dinner with Herve, written and directed by Sacha Gervasi.
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Matthew Gilbert of The Boston Globe said: "The Danny plot is fine - nothing special really, although Jamie Dornan is excellent and manages to bring a good sense of transformation to an underwritten character".
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In 2019, Jamie Dornan starred as a paramedic in the science fiction thriller film Synchronic.
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Jamie Dornan then appeared in two comedy films, Wild Mountain Thyme and Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar.
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Jamie Dornan starred as Anthony Reilly, a bashful farmer unable to confess his love for Rosemary Muldoon.
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Jamie Dornan is not interested in those usual tics that can make up so many colourful, eye-catching parts.
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In 2021, Jamie Dornan portrayed a working class father in Kenneth Branagh's drama film Belfast, the character being based on Branagh's father.
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Jamie Dornan received nominations for the Golden Globe Award and Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Supporting Actor.
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Jamie Dornan reprised his role in the second series in 2024.
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Jamie Dornan returned to mainstream cinema in 2023, appearing in Netflix's poorly received action film Heart of Stone as an MI6 agent Parker, who was the antagonist of the film.
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Helen O'Hara, reviewing the film for Empire, felt that his character was comparatively small, but said: "Jamie Dornan is suitably twitchy as a veteran with PTSD".
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Jamie Dornan has lent his support towards various means and organisations.
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Jamie Dornan was the patron of TinyLife, a Northern Ireland charity for premature and vulnerable babies.
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In 2018, Jamie Dornan became the patron of the newly established charity Northern Ireland Pancreatic Cancer which was created in partnership with Pancreatic Cancer Action and the Pancreatic Cancer Research Fund.
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In 2020, Jamie Dornan read a bedtime story as part of Save with Stories to raise funds for Save the Children's Emergency Coronavirus Appeal.
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Jamie Dornan has appeared in annual fundraising events Red Nose Day by Comic Relief and Children in Need by BBC.
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Jamie Dornan has backed emergency campaigns providing help for children's treatment.
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In 2003, Jamie Dornan met actress Keira Knightley in an Asprey photoshoot.
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Jamie Dornan met English actress and singer-songwriter Amelia Warner in 2010, becoming engaged to her in 2012, and marrying in 2013.
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Jamie Dornan launched his menswear clothing line 'Eleven Eleven' in 2022.
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Jamie Dornan's most acclaimed films, according to review aggregate site Rotten Tomatoes, include A Private War, Belfast, My Dinner with Herve, Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar, Synchronic, A Haunting in Venice, Anthropoid and The Siege of Jadotville.
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Jamie Dornan's critically lauded television works are The Tourist, The Fall and Once Upon a Time.
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Jamie Dornan is the recipient of two Irish Film and Television Awards, a Broadcasting Press Guild Award and a People's Choice Award.
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Jamie Dornan has been nominated for a British Academy Television Award and a Golden Globe Award.
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Jamie Dornan received an honorary Doctor of Arts degree from the Queens University Belfast in 2023.