Burn Gorman Biography

Burn Hugh Gorman (born 1 September 1974) is an American-born English actor and musician. He is known for his roles as Dr. Owen Harper in the BBC series Torchwood (2006-08), Karl Tanner in the HBO series Game of Thrones (2013-14), Phillip Stryver in The Dark Knight Rises (2012), Dr. Hermann Gottlieb in Pacific Rim (2013), and Major Edmund Hewlett in the AMC series Turn: Washington's Spies (2014). Since 2015, Gorman has portrayed The Marshal in the Amazon drama The Man in the High Castle.

Early life

Gorman was born in Hollywood, California, to English parents. His father was a professor of linguistics at the University of California, Los Angeles in Westwood, Los Angeles. At the age of seven, Gorman moved to London with his family. He has three older sisters. Gorman trained at Manchester Metropolitan University's School of Theatre.

Career

Acting

Gorman played William Guppy in the 2005 BBC One adaptation of Charles Dickens' Bleak House, and then appeared as Owen Harper in the first two seasons of the BBC science fiction series Torchwood. Other television roles include Funland and Bonekickers, amongst other projects for the BBC, and he also appeared in Channel 4's political thriller Low Winter Sun. He played scriptwriter Ray Galton in the BBC Four television play The Curse of Steptoe. He has also appeared in television series such as Dalziel and Pascoe, Casualty, Merseybeat, and The Inspector Lynley Mysteries.

Gorman played Jed on the soap opera EastEnders in March 2007. He starred as Hindley Earnshaw in the ITV adaptation of Emily Bront's Wuthering Heights. In 2011, he starred in Sky1's second Martina Cole adaptation, The Runaway, and in 2014, portrayed Adam, the lead character's stalker and fellow immortal, in ABC's Forever.

On film, he has had roles in Layer Cake, The Best Man, Penelope, Fred Claus, and Cemetery Junction.

Gorman's stage credits include Ladybird (Royal Court), Flush (Soho Theatre), and Gong Donkeys (Bush Theatre), prompting Michael Billington of The Guardian to write that "Gorman proves that he is one of the best young actors in Britain". He has performed in readings, workshops, and development initiatives with the National Theatre Studio, Young Vic, Royal Court, Oxford Stage Company, Paines Plough, and Soho Theatre. Outside London, he has worked with Nottingham Playhouse, the Theatre Royal, Plymouth, and the Royal Exchange and Contact Theatres, where he was nominated for a Manchester Evening News Best Newcomer Award.

From 2008 to 2009, Gorman played Bill Sikes in the West End revival of the musical Oliver!, for which he was nominated for Best Supporting Actor in a Musical in the 2010 Whatsonstage Theatre Awards.

Music

Gorman has played in clubs and on stages all over the world, appearing alongside Neneh Cherry, Rodney P, and Groove Armada. He has worked on music videos and visuals with The Streets. Under the stage name of B.B. Burn, he was part of the human beatbox outfit Drool Skool, alongside Shlomo, DukeBox, and A-Plus (Alex Tew, known as the founder of The Million Dollar Homepage and Calm). Gorman was crowned the BBC 1Xtra Human Beatbox Champion in 2003.

Personal life

Gorman has been married to Sarah Beard, a schoolteacher, since 17 July 2004, they separated/divorced in 2018. Beard gave birth to their first child, son Max Hugh Gorman, in Cardiff in 2006, whilst the first series of Torchwood was in production. The couple's second child, daughter Nell Gorman, was born on 25 January 2009. A second daughter,Rosa Gorman the couple's third child,followed in September 2014.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2001	Love is Not Enough	Al Weisberger
2002	A Good Thief	DC Fairchild	Television film
2004	Layer Cake	Gazza
2005	Colour Me Kubrick	Willie
2005	The Best Man	Bus Driver
2006	Penelope	Larry
2007	Sex, the City and Me	Lawrence	Television film
2007	Fred Claus	Elf
2008	The Oxford Murders	Yuri Podorov
2008	The Curse of Steptoe	Ray Galton	Television film
2010	Cemetery Junction	PC Renwick
2011	Up There	Martin
2011	Johnny English Reborn	Agent Slater
2012	Red Lights	Benedict Cohen
2012	The Dark Knight Rises	Phillip Stryver
2013	The Other Man	Simon	Short film
2013	All Is by My Side	Michael Jeffery
2013	Pacific Rim	Dr. Hermann Gottlieb
2014	Low Down	Wiggenhern
2014	Walking with the Enemy	Colonel Skorzeny
2014	Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day	Mr. Brand
2015	Crimson Peak	Mr. Holly
2016	In a Valley of Violence	Priest
2016	Imperium	Morgan
2018	Pacific Rim: Uprising	Dr. Hermann Gottlieb	Post-production

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1998	Coronation Street	Ben Andrews	3 episodes
2000	Casualty	Geoff Simpson	Episode: "Not Waving But Drowning"
2001	Merseybeat	Sean Finnigan	Episode: "Coming of Age"
2005	The Inspector Lynley Mysteries	Billy Verger	Episode: "In Divine Proportion"
2005	Funland	Tim Timothy	3 episodes
2005	Bleak House	William Guppy	11 episodes
2006	Low Winter Sun	Det. Con. Kenny Morton	2 episodes
2006	Dalziel and Pascoe	Jerry Hart	2 episodes
2006-08	Torchwood	Owen Harper	26 episodes
2007	Agatha Christie's Marple	Jacko Argyle	Episode: "Ordeal by Innocence"
2007	EastEnders	Jed	Episode: "3166"
2008	Bonekickers	Banks	Episode: "The Lines of War"
2009	Wuthering Heights	Hindley Earnshaw	2 episodes
2011	The Runaway	Richard Gates	5 episodes
2011	The Hour	Thomas Kish	4 episodes
2011	Lark Rise to Candleford	Reverend Marley	Episode: "4.3"
2013	Spies of Warsaw	Jourdain	4 episodes
2013	Revenge	Mr. Trask	4 episodes
2013	It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia	Scientist	Episode: "Flowers for Charlie"
2013-14	Game of Thrones	Karl Tanner	4 episodes
2014-15	Forever	Adam / Lewis Farber	5 episodes
2014-17	Turn: Washington's Spies	Major Edmund Hewlett	25 episodes
2015	And Then There Were None	Detective Sergeant William Blore	3 episodes
2015	The Man in the High Castle	The Marshal	2 episodes
2016	Stan Lee's Lucky Man	Coroner	3 episodes
2017	Jamestown	Nicholas Farlow	8 episodes

Video games

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2009	Risen	Various voices	English version
2011	Star Wars: The Old Republic	Additional voices