Richard Dormer
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.
Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 11.141 |
Birthday | 1969-11-11 |
Place of Birth | Portadown, County Armagh, Northern Ireland, UK |
Also Known As |
2009
Ghost Machine
4.8/48
Two technicians battle a vengeful spirit that has infected their stolen military software.
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Ghost Machine
2012
Jump
6/15
The lives of four twenty-somethings collide one fateful New Year's Eve in this twisty, blackly comic crime thriller set amidst the ancient walls of De...
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2012
Good Vibrations
6.74/100
The story of music legend Terri Hooley, a key figure in Belfast's punk rock scene. Hooley founded the Good Vibrations store from which a record label...
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Good Vibrations
2013
SLR
7.1/4
SLR is a short thriller about a man obsessed with "voyeur pornography". When he makes a shocking discovery online, he is forced onto the trail of an a...
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SLR
2015
Hyena
5.6/74
Good policing doesn't necessarily mean doing everything by the book. But as the business of crime in London turns to favour the Albanians and Turks, h...
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Hyena
2014
Shooting for Socrates
6.2/6
Set in Belfast against the backdrop of the 1986 World Cup, Shooting for Socrates tells the story of a momentous time in Northern Ireland's football hi...
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Shooting for Socrates
2013
Dark Touch
5.1/111
Niamh is the lone survivor of a mysterious massacre in which the furniture and objects in her family’s isolated house took on a monstrous life of thei...
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Dark Touch
2014
'71
6.797/1107
A young British soldier must find his way back to safety after his unit accidentally abandons him during a riot in the streets of Belfast.
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'71
2015
11 Minutes
5.7/60
The lives of urbanites intertwine in a world where anything can happen at any time.
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11 Minutes
2015
We're Doomed! The Dad's Army Story
6.5/8
Comedy drama about the beginnings of Jimmy Perry and David Croft's writing partnership and their struggles to get Dad's Army on the screen in 1968.
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We're Doomed! The Dad's Army Story
2007
My Boy Jack
6.6/74
Author Rudyard Kipling and his wife search for their 17-year-old son after he goes missing during WWI.
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My Boy Jack
2009
Pumpgirl
5/1
The dark story of three people who become playthings of the devil: a man, Shawshank, human enough but with a glee for spoiling people’s lives. There’s...
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Pumpgirl
2009
Five Minutes of Heaven
6.154/201
The story of former UVF member Alistair Little. Twenty-five years after Little killed Joe Griffen's brother, the media arrange an auspicious meeting b...
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Five Minutes of Heaven
2013
Wodehouse In Exile
7.2/6
An all-star cast heads up this intimate film about how author, P.G.Wodehouse, came to face a charge of treason during the Second World War and how thi...
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Wodehouse In Exile
2009
Best: His Mother's Son
5/2
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Best: His Mother's Son
2011
Brendan Smyth: Betrayal of Trust
4/1
The true story of the notorious paedophile priest Brendan Smyth, and how one family in Belfast, aided by journalist Chris Moore, uncovered the true ex...
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Brendan Smyth: Betrayal of Trust
2005
Mrs. Henderson Presents
6.7/212
Eccentric 70-year-old widow purchases the Windmill Theatre in London as a post-widowhood hobby. After starting an innovative continuous variety review...
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Mrs. Henderson Presents
2005
The Mighty Celt
6.4/12
Donal is a 14-year old who develops a passion for greyhound racing. He works in a kennel, which is owned by Good Joe. Good Joe promises Donal ownershi...
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The Mighty Celt
2003
Holy Cross
4/0
Violence erupts in north Belfast when the residents of Glenbyrn, a predominantly Protestant suburb, object to schoolgirls walking through their neighb...
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Holy Cross
2006
Middletown
4.2/4
An overzealous priest returns to his home town and ends up battling against his brother for the heart of the locals.
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Middletown
2002
Puckoon
6.6/5
Spike Milligan's book about the divided Irish village of Puckoon comes to the big screen.
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Puckoon
2000
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Love's Sweet Song
4.8/12
In the seventh film in the series, in April 1916, a disillusioned Indy hops the ocean to Europe where he figures the Great War might offer him a great...
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The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Love's Sweet Song
2009
Scapegoat
0/0
This is the fascinating true life story of one of Ireland's most famous unsolved murders. It is the tale of how an innocent man was found guilty but i...
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Scapegoat
2015
The Irish Rock Story: A Tale of Two Cities
4.5/2
This musical celebration charts the lives and careers of some of the biggest selling acts in Irish rock, punk and pop from Van Morrison and Thin Lizzy...
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The Irish Rock Story: A Tale of Two Cities
2019
Togo
8.2/1986
The untold true story set in the winter of 1925 that takes you across the treacherous terrain of the Alaskan tundra for an exhilarating and uplifting...
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Togo
1997
A Further Gesture
4.7/9
Dowd, an IRA prisoner in the H-blocks, is gloomily facing his sentence, until he joins a comrade in a risky escape. Dowd begins a new life in New York...
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