1. Richard Dormer was born on 11 November 1969 and is an actor and playwright from Northern Ireland.
18 Facts About Richard Dormer
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Richard Dormer is best known for his roles as Beric Dondarrion in the HBO television series Game of Thrones and Dan Anderssen in Sky Atlantic's Fortitude.
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Richard Dormer studied at the RADA school of acting in London.
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Richard Dormer gained recognition following his performance as Northern Irish snooker star Alex Higgins in the 2003 play Hurricane, which he wrote and starred in.
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In 2004, Richard Dormer 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 starred in Bath as Angelo in William Shakespeare's Measure for Measure, Jean in August Strindberg's Miss Julie and in a production of Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot.
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Richard 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.
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In 2012, Richard Dormer was commissioned by the Abbey Theatre to write a play.
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Richard Dormer has provided the voices for over twenty BBC Radio 4 plays, documentaries and advertising campaigns.
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Richard Dormer has described his early career as difficult owing to his Northern Irish accent, which he said "everybody associated with terrorism".
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Richard Dormer refused to play roles he described as "terrorists or thugs", which limited his opportunities in film and television, although he felt the decision to focus on stage acting had sharpened his acting skills.
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Richard Dormer has since played roles in Yann Demange's critically acclaimed film '71 alongside Jack O'Connell.
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In 2019, Richard Dormer portrayed Curtis Welch, town physician of Nome, Alaska, in the Disney film Togo.
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Richard Dormer has become a well known television actor, more recently playing key roles in the Cinemax drama series Hunted and BBC One's Hidden.
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In 2016, Richard Dormer reprised his role as Dondarrion in the sixth season of the series and returned for the seventh season, airing in 2017 as well as the eighth and final season, airing in 2019.
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Richard Dormer is the voice of the Dad on the children's animated series Lily's Driftwood Bay.
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In 2020, Richard Dormer appeared in the lead role of Captain Sam Vimes of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch in the BBC series The Watch, based on the Discworld novels by Terry Pratchett.
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Richard Dormer has played Fraser Walker, Director of the Civil Contingencies Secretariat, in two series of COBRA.
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In 2023, Richard Dormer appeared as Gerald 'Gerry' Cliff in the BBC1 drama, Blue Lights.