Burn Gorman

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Burn Gorman (2015)

Burn Hugh Winchester Gorman (born September 1, 1974 in Hollywood , California , United States ) is a British actor , best known for his roles as Dr. Owen Harper in Torchwood , William Guppy in the Charles Dickens film adaptation of Bleak House , Major Edmund Hewlett in Turn: Washington's Spies, and for his roles in blockbusters such as Pacific Rim and The Dark Knight Rises .

Life

Burn Gorman was born in Hollywood to British parents ; his father Thomas P. Gorman was visiting professor for linguistics at the University of California, Los Angeles at the time . When Gorman was seven, the family moved to London , partly because of his eldest two sisters' upcoming high school entry. There he lived in a commune without a television set and in rather “colorful circumstances” until he was 16. In an interview, Gorman mentions drug addicts who urinated in his room. Gorman has no memories of childhood in Los Angeles.

Gorman has three older sisters. Since his parents often changed their place of residence, the children were born in different places. One or more sisters were born in Mombasa ; however, his middle sister, Rebecca, was born in Guildford .

Today Gorman lives with his wife Sarah, who is a teacher by profession, and their three children and the dog Daisy. Their first child, a son, was born on June 8, 2006 while filming the Torchwood episode Ghost Machine at Cardiffer Heath Hospital and their daughter was born on January 25, 2009 in London . The third child, another daughter, followed in September 2014.

Prior to his acting career, Gorman had been in the luxury hotel business since high school. So he polished shoes in noble hotels and took care of room service. Unlike many actors who started out young, Gorman first came into contact with acting around the age of 20. When he had to go back to college for some additional qualifications in the hotel business, he moved to live with his parents, who had since moved from London to the vicinity of Stratford-upon-Avon , the birthplace of Shakespeare and the residence of the Royal Shakespeare Company . His acquaintance with him was the starting point for his enthusiasm for acting. Since no one in his family had worked in the industry before, this came as a certain surprise to Gorman and those around him.

Gorman is particularly inclined to historical films and the so-called period drama (comparable to costume films ). One of the origins of his interest, especially in classical literature, lies in his childhood, when he was brought up with television instead of television. In that regard, he describes his early role as William Guppy in Bleak House as a dream for him. Gorman also calls himself a fan of history.

music

Gorman describes music primarily as a hobby compared to acting, which is his "first love" ("Music's just a hobby. Acting's my first love.") . Although Gorman actually sang in one episode as singer Tim Timothy on the BBC series Funland and also as Bill Sikes in Cameron Mackintosh's West End revival of the musical Oliver! appeared (which he left prematurely after ten months for private reasons), he is not convinced of his singing talent. The song performed by Sikes, My Name , required Gorman's luck rather a spoken chant so that he could "grumble through". Nevertheless, Gorman was nominated for this role at the WhatsOnStage Awards 2010 for "Best Supporting Actor in a Musical", but lost to Rowan Atkinson , who played Fagin in the same musical.

Beatboxing is Gorman's primary musical activity. He was part of the beatbox group Drool Skool , consisting of him as BB Burn (a nickname his friends came up with for him; on the one hand he comes from Beatbox Burn, on the other hand from Burn Baby Burn), A-Plus ( Alex Tew ; also known as later founder of the Million Dollar Homepage), Shlomo (Simon Shlomo Kahn; currently a very successful, innovative beatboxer who lives in the Southbank Center) and DukeBox. Alone, he achieved the title of BBC 1Xtra Human Beatbox Champion in 2003 . Currently, Gorman is no longer publicly active as a beatboxer.

Gorman is not only a musician himself, he is also a passionate fan of music. According to his own statements, he owns a chaotic collection of over four thousand records and CDs, ranging from Funkadelic to Neil Young , The Specials , Richard Hawley , Rufus Wainwright and many others. When he was responsible for the Oliver! When asked what his last CD he had bought, he answered with enthusiasm with Elbow's The Seldom Seen Kid .

play

Gorman attended the Manchester Metropolitan University , more precisely the Manchester Metropolitan School of Theater , where he obtained a bachelor's degree in Theater Arts (Acting) in 1997 (comparable to the German course in Applied Theater Studies ). The university lists him as a notable alumni in the arts. Gorman describes himself as a character actor .

While Gorman is known for a few larger roles, many shorter appearances stand out as supporting characters. Gorman himself commented that he wasn't too interested in the size of his role, but rather in working with interesting and creative personalities. These include Christopher Nolan ( The Dark Knight Rises ) and, above all, Guillermo del Toro ( Pacific Rim and Crimson Peak ).

Gorman gained fame primarily through his roles in the BBC adaptation of Charles Dickens ' Bleak House (2005), in which he played the role of William Guppy and as a medical doctor Dr. Owen Harper in the first two seasons of the Torchwood series (2006-2008). While he undoubtedly got his big break through Bleak House , it was precisely his role there that led to his casting as Dr. Owen Harper was. That role, in turn, gave him an even wider fan base and notoriety. Other series characters he embodied include Tim Timothy in BBC's Funland (2005) and Hindley Earnshaw in the two-part ITV adaptation of Emily Brontë's Storm Heights (2009). While the latter received a lot of criticism overall, Gorman received praise for his portrayal. He had guest appearances in Coronation Street (1998, his first TV role) and EastEnders (2007), two of the most popular English soaps.

Gorman was seen early in the cinema as crook Gazza in Layer Cake alongside Daniel Craig , in Penelope with Peter Dinklage , and in The Oxford Murders as Yuri Podorov, student and roommate of Martin, played by Elijah Wood . Michael Gambon , who also appeared in Layer Cake , is one of Gorman's role models along with Tommy Lee Jones .

In addition to series and films, Gorman also played repeatedly in theater productions, especially in his earlier career. Plays he has been involved in include Ladybird , Flush , The Green Man, and Gong Donkeys , among others . For his achievements in the latter, Michael Billington , well-known theater critic for the Guardian , named him in 2004 as one of the best young actors in Britain. He was also the narrator in Simon Armitage's Southbank Center production of Peter and the Wolf , which was a mix of animated film, live orchestra and real narrator (Gorman) and was performed primarily for children at the end of December 2009.

In the spring of 2011 Gorman played a recurring role in the six-part television adaptation of Martina Cole's novel Runaway . The series ran on Sky 1 and was partly filmed in South Africa until 2010. He was also seen in the summer of 2011 in the first season of the BBC series The Hour , in which he plays the suspiciously appearing Tom Kish .

Gorman's film Up There (formerly Laid Off ), in which he played the leading role, was long unreleased . Filmed in Glasgow from June 2010, the film is Zam Salim's expanded adaptation of his award-winning short Laid Off from 2006, which received over half a million clicks on YouTube . With a lot of black humor, he describes the story of the recently deceased Martin, who has to cope with the frustrations and boredom of afterlife. After the BBC acquired the rights to the film in 2010, the film was shown internationally for the first time at the Mannheim-Heidelberg International Film Festival in November 2011 after lengthy post-shooting. The film was very popular and was finally released in the UK a year later, in November 2012 . Since then, the indie film has been available online for download and booking for international cinemas. Up There won the British Academy Scotland Award 2012 (Scottish BAFTAs) in the “Best Feature Film” category.

In addition to this relative indie production, Gorman can also be seen increasingly in blockbusters. So he had a supporting role in Rowan Atkinson's Johnny English sequel Johnny English - All the more! as a slater . Atkinson and Gorman were already out of the musical Oliver! known in which Atkinson played Fagin alongside Gorman's Bill Sikes . In The Dark Knight Rises (2012), Gorman played Phillip Stryver , assistant to John Daggett, played by Ben Mendelsohn . 2013 Gorman appeared again in several film and television roles; he played, among others, in addition to Doctor Who -Star David Tennant in the BBC Four production Spies of Warsaw with, and in the third and fourth season of HBO - fantasy series Game of Thrones , in which he Karl , a member of the Night Watch, embodied. After all, he was in the cinema as Dr. Hermann Gottlieb can be seen in the film Pacific Rim .

In the AMC series Turn: Washington's Spies (formerly TURN ), which takes place in the American Revolutionary War , he embodies alongside leading actor Jamie Bell the loyalist Major Edmund Hewlett. While the series is based on real events around the Culper Ring , America's first spy ring , Gorman's character is not only modeled on the real-life Major Richard Hewlett, but also has elements of other historical soldiers on the loyalist side. His different first name Edmund points to the spacious fictionality of his character.

Gorman received another central role in the US television series Forever , in which he tried himself as an antagonist from 2014 to 2015.

Filmography

Gorman at Sheffield Film & Comic Con

Feature films

TV Shows

Video games

Web links

Commons : Burn Gorman  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Herman, Sarah: Burn Gorman, Where's Your Head At? ( Memento of March 13, 2012 on the Internet Archive ), Torchwood Magazine (August 2008): page 60
  2. ↑ Chicago TARDIS 2015: Burn Gorman At a panel of the American Doctor Who Convention Chicago TARDIS , which took place from November 27 to 29, 2015, Gorman, contrary to the interview quoted above, pointed out that his name was not “Burn Hugh Winchester Gorman " be. To what extent this only refers to the "Winchester" or even to both middle names remains unclear. Gorman explained, "For a while I got some questions like, 'So your name is Burn Winchester Gorman?' and I don't know where that comes from! It may [come from] Wikipedia or the like, but for some reason someone edited [these page (s)] and listed my name as 'Burn Hugh Winchester Gorman' and this is neither true nor relevant in any way. So this is a lie. ”(See minutes 9: 00-9: 35;“ For a while […] I would get some questions saying 'So, your name is Burn Hugh Winchester Gorman' and I don't know where that started! It may be with wikipedia, or something, but for some reason somebody had edited and put my name as 'Burn Hugh Winchester Gorman' and that is not either true or relevant in any way. So that is a lie. ")
  3. ↑ a b c Fritz, Steve: Talking with Torchwood's Burn Gorman  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , NEWSarama.com (2008)@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / forum.newsarama.com  
  4. ↑ Spelling unclear, as oral source (radio interview)
  5. ↑ BBC Radio 2 Interview (April 10, 2009)
  6. ↑ Burn Gorman on Instagram , (June 8, 2018)
  7. ↑ Game of Thrones' Burn Gorman | Watch News Videos Online. In: Global News. Retrieved March 21, 2016 .
  8. ↑ a b Oliver! Interview program  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Transcribed in the BurnGormanOnline forum@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.burngormanonline.com  
  9. ↑ a b c Eramo, Steve: Major Impact: Interview with Turn’s Burn Gorman , themortonreport.com (May 1, 2014)
  10. ↑ Burn Gorman facts , Radio Times (May 2007)
  11. ↑ BurnGormanOnline news  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.burngormanonline.com  
  12. ↑ Oliver! Cast Burn Gorman ( Memento of the original from January 19, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , London Theater Breaks @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / usefulwiki.com
  13. ↑ 2010 Results , WhatsOnStage.com
  14. ↑ BurnGormanOnline Biography ( Memento of the original from March 14, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.burngormanonline.com
  15. ↑ Humanbeatbox Myspace Account
  16. ^ Southbank Center homepage
  17. ↑ Manchester Metropolitan University Homepage ( Memento of the original dated August 15, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.mmu.ac.uk
  18. ↑ Dan Chruscinski: An Exclusive Q & A With 'Torchwood' Star Burn Gorman , starpulse.com
  19. ^ "Burn Gorman proves that he is one of the best young actors in Britain."; Billington, Michael: Gong Donkeys , In: The Guardian . November 8, 2004.
  20. ↑ Peter and the Wolf at the Southbank Center ( Memento of the original from December 15, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , BurnGormanOnline @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.burngormanonline.com
  21. ↑ Burn in Upcoming Martina Cole Drama “Runaway”  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , BurnGormanOnline@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.burngormanonline.com  
  22. ↑ Allan Hunter: Zam Salim plans Laid Off feature shoot in Scotland , ScreenDaily (May 18, 2010)
  23. ↑ Internationales Filmfestival Mannheim-Heidelberg ( Memento of the original from November 22, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.iffmh.de
  24. ^ Up There , official homepage of the film
  25. ↑ Nellie Andreeva: TCA: AMC Picks Up 'Halt & Catch Fire' & 'Turn' To Series . In: Deadline.com . July 26, 2013. Retrieved July 28, 2013.
  26. ↑ Rachel Smith: Major Hewlett . In: spycurious.wordpress.com . April 27, 2015. Accessed July 23, 2015.
  27. ↑ JL Bell: AMC's Turn: The Real Major Hewlett and the Setauket Church . In: denofgeek.us . June 8, 2015. Accessed July 23, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Gorman, Burn
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gorman, Burn Hugh Winchester (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British musician and actor
DATE OF BIRTH September 1, 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH Hollywood , California , United States