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Burn Hugh Winchester Gorman (born 1 September 1974) is an English actor and musician. He is known for his roles as

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'' (2006–2008), Phillip Stryver in ''

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'' (2012), Karl Tanner in the HBO series '' Game of Thrones'' (2013–2014), Hermann Gottlieb in '' Pacific Rim'' (2013) and its sequel '' Pacific Rim: Uprising'' (2018) and Major Edmund Hewlett in the

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series '' Turn: Washington's Spies'' (2014). Gorman portrayed 'The Marshal' in the first season of the Amazon drama ''

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''.

Early life

Burn Hugh Winchester GormanHerman, Sarah: , ''Torchwood Magazine'' (August 2008): page 60. (wayback 20120313031654). Here, Burn states that the name on his birth certificate is "Burn Hugh Winchester Gorman". was born on 1 September 1974 in

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, the son of English parents. His father was a professor of linguistics at

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. He has three older sisters. He has reportedly claimed to be the nephew of Bartley Gorman, considered " King of the Gypsies". At the age of 7, he moved with his family back to England, where they settled in

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. He later trained at the Manchester School of Theatre at

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Career

One of Gorman's earliest television roles was in 1998 as Etheric Foundation cult leader Ben Andrews in Granada TV's '' Coronation Street''. He played William Guppy in the 2005

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adaptation of

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'', and then appeared as

in the first two seasons of the

...
science fiction series ''

''. Other BBC television roles include ''

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'', '' Funland'' and ''

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''; he also appeared in

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's political thriller '' Low Winter Sun''. Gorman played scriptwriter

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in the BBC Four television play ''

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''. He has also appeared in television series such as ''

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'', ''

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'', '' 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 Brontë's ''

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''. In 2011, he starred in Sky1's second

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adaptation, '' The Runaway'' and in 2014, portrayed Adam, the lead character's stalker and fellow immortal, in ABC's '' Forever''. He played Karl Tanner in seasons 3 and 4 of HBO's '' Game of Thrones'', Major Hewlett in the AMC miniseries '' Turn'' and Nicholas Farlow on the BBC miniseries '' Jamestown''. On film, Gorman has had roles in ''

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'', '' The Best Man'', ''

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'', ''

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'', ''Cemetery Junction'' and ''

''. He also appeared as Dr. Hermann Gottlieb in the film '' Pacific Rim'' and its sequel '' Pacific Rim: Uprising''. On radio, Gorman played Elizabethan spy Robert Poley in Michael Butt's ''The Babington Plot'' (2008) and ''Unauthorized History: The Killing'' (2010) and Mike Walker's ''The Reckoning: The Death of Christopher Marlowe'' (2022). Gorman's stage credits include ''Ladybird'' (

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), ''Flush'' (

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), and ''Gong Donkeys'' ( Bush Theatre), prompting Michael Billington of ''

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'' 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

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, Young Vic,

, Oxford Stage Company,

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and

. Outside London, he has worked with Nottingham Playhouse, the

Theatre Royal, Plymouth Theatre Royal, Plymouth, is a theatre venue in Plymouth, Devon. It consists of a 1,300-seat main auditorium, The Lyric, which regularly hosts large-scale musicals, opera and ballet; a 200-seat studio, The Drum; and a 50-seat studio, The Lab. O ...

and the Royal Exchange and

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s, where he was nominated for a ''

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'' 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.

Personal life

Gorman married schoolteacher Sarah Beard on 17 July 2004. They have three children, two girls and a boy. Their first child, Max, was born in

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, where Gorman was filming the first series of ''

''. They separated and divorced in 2017.

Filmography

Film

Television

Video games

Radio

References

External links

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