Richard Dormer
Born: 1969-11-11 in Portadown, County Armagh, Northern Ireland, UK
Known For: Acting
Biography
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.
Filmography
2025
- The Assassin as Damien Hammond
2024
- The Day of the Jackal as Norman Stoke
2023
- Secret Invasion as Agent Prescod
- Castlevania: Nocturne as Abbot Emmanuel (voice)
- Blue Lights as Gerry Cliff
2021
- The Watch as Captain Sam Vimes
2020
- Gangs of London as Cornelius Quinn
- COBRA as Fraser Walker
2019
- Togo as Dr. Curtis Welch
2017
- Rellik as DCI Gabriel Markham
2015
- Fortitude as Dan Anderssen
- We're Doomed! The Dad's Army Story as David Croft
- Hyena as Nick Taylor
- 11 Minutes as Richard Martin
- The Irish Rock Story: A Tale of Two Cities as Himself - Narrator
2014
- The Musketeers as Christophe
- Lily's Driftwood Bay as Lily's Dad (voice)
- '71 as Eamon
- Shooting for Socrates as Arthur
2013
- Dark Touch as Henry
- Wodehouse In Exile as Werner Plack
- SLR as Mr. Verma
2012
- Good Vibrations as Terri Hooley
- Jump as Johnny
- Bloody Friday as Narrator
- The Rule of Thumb
2011
- Game of Thrones as Beric Dondarrion
- The Beauty of Books as Narrator
- Those Were the Days as Self - Narrator (voice)
- Brendan Smyth: Betrayal of Trust as Chris Moore
2009
- Five Minutes of Heaven as Michael
- Scapegoat as Narrator (Voice)
- Ghost Machine as Taggert
- Best: His Mother's Son as Ad Director
- Pumpgirl as Hammy
2007
- My Boy Jack as Corporal John O'Leary
- Middletown as Ned
2005
- Mrs. Henderson Presents as Comic
- The Mighty Celt as Ronan
2003
- Holy Cross as Seamus
2002
- Puckoon as Arthur Faddington
2000
- The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Love's Sweet Song as Young Civilian
1997
- A Further Gesture as Joe
1996
- Safe And Sound as Doctor Norris
1991
- Soldier Soldier as Cpl David Lutchens
1986
- Casualty as Rick Tomlinson