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.

Filmography

• The Assassin — Damien Hammond
• The Day of the Jackal — Norman Stoke
• Blue Lights — Gerry Cliff
• Castlevania: Nocturne — Abbot Emmanuel (voice), Abbot Emmanuel (voice)
• Secret Invasion — Agent Prescod
• The Watch — Captain Sam Vimes
• COBRA — Fraser Walker
• Gangs of London — Cornelius Quinn
• 2019Togo — Dr. Curtis Welch
• Rellik — DCI Gabriel Markham
• 201511 Minutes — Richard Martin
• Fortitude — Dan Anderssen
• 2015Hyena — Nick Taylor
• 2015We're Doomed! The Dad's Army Story — David Croft
• 2014'71 — Eamon
• Lily's Driftwood Bay — Lily's Dad (voice)
• 2014Shooting for Socrates — Arthur
• The Musketeers — Christophe
• 2013Dark Touch — Henry
• 2013SLR — Mr. Verma
• 2013Wodehouse In Exile — Werner Plack
• 2012Bloody Friday — Narrator
• 2012Good Vibrations — Terri Hooley
• 2012Jump — Johnny
• 2012The Rule of Thumb
• 2011Brendan Smyth: Betrayal of Trust — Chris Moore
• Game of Thrones — Beric Dondarrion
• The Beauty of Books — Narrator
• Those Were the Days — Self - Narrator (voice), Creator
• 2009Best: His Mother's Son — Ad Director
• 2009Five Minutes of Heaven — Michael
• 2009Ghost Machine — Taggert
• 2009Pumpgirl — Hammy
• 2009Scapegoat — Narrator (Voice)
• 2007Middletown — Ned
• 2007My Boy Jack — Corporal John O'Leary
• 2005Mrs. Henderson Presents — Comic
• 2005The Mighty Celt — Ronan
• 2003Holy Cross — Seamus
• 2002Puckoon — Arthur Faddington
• 2000The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Love's Sweet Song — Young Civilian
• 1997A Further Gesture — Joe
• Safe And Sound — Doctor Norris
• Soldier Soldier — Cpl David Lutchens
• He-Play — David
• Casualty — Rick Tomlinson

Appearances as themselves (1)

• 2015The Irish Rock Story: A Tale of Two Cities — Himself - Narrator