Burn Gorman Biography
Burn Hugh Gorman is an American-born English actor and musician. He is known for his roles as Major Edmund Hewlett in the AMC series Turn: Washington’s Spices 2014 to 2017, Owen Harper in the BBC series Torchwood 2006 to 2008, Philip Stryver in The Dark Knight Rises 2012, Clubfoot Karl Tanner in the HBO series Game of Thrones 2013 to 2014, and Herman Gottlieb in Pacific Rim 2013.
How old is Burn Gorman? – Age
He is 49 years old as of September 2023. Burn was born on September 1, 1974, in Los Angeles, California, United States.
Burn Gorman Height
The musician stands at a height of 5 feet 9 inches tall.
Who are Burn Gorman’s parents? – Family
His father was a professor of linguistics at UCLA. According to sources, there is no information about the name and professional details of his mother. Burn is the only brother of three older sisters. At the age of seven, the whole family moved back to England and settles in London thereafter. Gorman later trained at the Manchester School of Theatre at Manchester Metropolitan University.
Is Burn Gorman married? – Wife
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 Cardiff, where Gorman was filming the first series of Torchwood. But they separated and divorced in 2017.
Burn Gorman Career
One of the actors’ earliest television roles was in 1998 as Etheric Foundation cut leader Ben Andrews in Granada TV’s Coronation Street. He played William Guppy in the 2005 BBC One adaptation of Charles Dicken’s Bleak House, before being cast as Owen Harper in the BBC science fiction series Torchwood. He starred in the first two series of the show before his character was killed off in the series 2 finale, “Exit Wounds”.
He played scriptwriter Ray Galton in the BBC Four television play The Curse of Steptoe. He 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. Burn starred as Hindley Earnshaw in the ITV adaptation of Emily Bronte’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, Gorman had roles in Layer Cake, The Best Man Penelope, Fred Claus, Cemetery Junction and The Dark Knight Rises. 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.
Also 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. From 2008 to 2009, Burn 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.
Burn Gorman Net Worth
His net worth is $3 million.
Burn Gorman Movie
2001 – Love is Not Enough
2004 – Layer Cake
2005 – Colour Me Kubrick
2006 – Penelope
2007 – Fred Claus
2008 – The Oxford Murders
2010 – Cemetery Junction
2011 – Up There
2012 – Red Lights
2013 – Pacific Rim
2014 – Low Down
2015 – Crimson Peak
2016 – Impression
2018 – Pacific Rim: Uprising
2020 – Enola Holmes
2022 – Watcher
2023 – Unofficial Operation
2024 – Lift
Burn Gorman TV Shows
2008 – Bonekickers
2009 – Withering Heights
2011 – The Runaway
2011 – The Hour
2013 – Spies of Warsdw
2015 – And Then There Were None
2015 – The Man in the High Castle
2019 – The Expanse
2022 – Halo
2022 – The Offer