Natalie Dormer was born on 11 February 1982 and is a British actress.
35 Facts About Natalie Dormer
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Natalie Dormer's accolades include winning an Empire Award, and receiving nominations for a Critics' Choice Award, two Gemini Awards, and two Screen Actors Guild Awards.
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Natalie Dormer earned international attention and acclaim for playing Margaery Tyrell on the HBO series Game of Thrones and Cressida in the last two parts of The Hunger Games franchise, which rank as her highest-grossing films.
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Natalie Dormer was born in Reading, Berkshire, on 11 February 1982, the daughter of Gary Natalie Dormer and Claire Richards, and the sister of Mark and Samantha.
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Natalie Dormer attended Chiltern Edge Secondary School before going to Reading Blue Coat School for sixth form.
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Natalie Dormer says she was bullied at school, but "still, to this day, can't place why".
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Natalie Dormer says she was the "academic hopeful" of the family and was provisionally offered a place to study history at the University of Cambridge, but on her A-level history examination, she did not achieve the A grade she needed, having misread a question.
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Natalie Dormer chose to audition for drama schools and trained at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art in London.
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Six months after graduating from Webber Douglas, Natalie Dormer won the role of Victoria in Casanova.
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In 2005, Natalie Dormer had a small part in Distant Shores.
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Natalie Dormer was attached to an independent film, although financing caused delays.
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Natalie Dormer says her out-of-work phase "was the best lesson".
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In 2007 and 2008, Natalie Dormer played Anne Boleyn in the first two seasons of The Tudors, for which she received highly positive reviews.
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Natalie Dormer returned to The Tudors as Anne Boleyn in a dream sequence for the fourth and final season in mid-2010.
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In March 2010, Natalie Dormer debuted at the Young Vic theatre in London as Mizi in the play Sweet Nothings.
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Natalie Dormer received a commendation for her performance at the Ian Charleson Awards 2010.
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From 2012 to 2016, Natalie Dormer played Margaery Tyrell in the HBO fantasy TV series Game of Thrones.
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Natalie Dormer received international recognition for the role, and she received critical acclaim for her performance.
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In March 2012, Natalie Dormer worked at the Young Vic to play the title role in After Miss Julie by Patrick Marber.
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Natalie Dormer has more presence and eerie beauty than is apparent from her appearances on-screen, and she shape-shifts almost supernaturally between seductress, child, and tormentor.
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In 2013, Natalie Dormer played Irene Adler in the final three episodes of the first season of the CBS series Elementary; she reprised the role in the second season.
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Natalie Dormer played Cressida in the final two films in The Hunger Games franchise, which were released in 2014 and 2015.
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In September 2014, Deadline Hollywood announced Natalie Dormer was cast in Screen Gems' action thriller Patient Zero, alongside Matt Smith and Game of Thrones co-star John Bradley.
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Natalie Dormer returned to the stage at the Theatre Royal Haymarket in October 2017 for the lead role in David Ives's Venus in Fur.
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The Telegraph described her performance as "sensational" while Lyn Gardner says Natalie Dormer was "dominant in every way".
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Natalie Dormer co-wrote the film In Darkness, released in July 2018, with her ex-fiance Anthony Byrne.
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Natalie Dormer began a relationship with director Anthony Bryne in 2007 after meeting on the set of The Tudors.
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Since 2018, Natalie Dormer has been in a relationship with David Oakes, whom she met whilst appearing in Venus in Fur.
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Natalie Dormer gave birth to their daughter in January 2021.
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Natalie Dormer ran the London Marathon in 2014, in support of Barnardo's, and in 2016, this time alongside 900 other runners all in support of the NSPCC and Childline.
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On World Humanitarian Day in 2016, Natalie Dormer gave a speech at the United Nations headquarters to "highlight the plight of refugees".
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Natalie Dormer highlighted the violence suffered by women and girls, then demanded that men and boys be "engaged" in the conversation.
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In 2017, returning to her feminist roots, Natalie Dormer went on holiday to Tanzania with the development and humanitarian organisation Plan International to ban child marriage.
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In 2019, Natalie Dormer was made the NSPCC ambassador for Childline and began her role by spending the night at the London Childline call centre.
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Natalie Dormer supported the NSPCC Christmas Carol Service in 2020 and in August 2021 it was announced that she would be recording the audiobook for Pantosaurus And The Power Of PANTS, the NSPCC's book for children designed to give families an age-appropriate way of discussing consent.