Dean O'Gorman
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O'Gorman at Boston Comic-Con in 2013
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| Born |
Dean Lance O'Gorman 1 December 1976 Auckland, New Zealand |
| Occupation | Actor, photographer, artist |
| Years active | 1990–present |
| Spouse(s) | Sarah Wilson (m. 2016) |
| Website | http://deanogorman.com/ |
Dean Lance O'Gorman (born 1 December 1976) is an actor, artist, and photographer from New Zealand. He is known internationally for playing the dwarf Fíli in the Hobbit trilogy and for playing Norse God Anders in fantasy series The Almighty Johnsons.
O'Gorman was born in Auckland, New Zealand, to parents Lance, a landscape painter, and Christine O'Gorman. He has a younger brother, Brett, who is also an actor as well as a comedian. He has Irish and English ancestry; his maternal grandfather was an English paratrooper in WWII.
O'Gorman earned a black belt in karate by the age of ten, and attended Rangitoto College in Auckland. He initially planned to study graphic design. He married his long term girlfriend Sarah Wilson in January 2016.
O'Gorman's most widely seen role is as Fili, one of the dwarves, in The Hobbit trilogy, although he has had substantially bigger parts in a number of other features (including Bonjour Timothy and road movies Snakeskin and Pork Pie). O'Gorman appeared in the first of the Hobbit trilogy An Unexpected Journey in 2012, and reprised the role in 2013's The Desolation of Smaug and 2014's The Battle of the Five Armies.
At 12 years old, O'Gorman was discovered by a casting agent during a school speech competition. After acting in a number of television roles he got a starring role in 1995 teen romance Bonjour Timothy, a performance which earned him a nomination for Best Actor at the Giffoni Film Festival in Italy.
Subsequent roles included co-starring as Mark in ensemble drama When Love Comes and playing opposite Melanie Lynskey in road movie Snakeskin, the latter of which received five awards at the 2001 New Zealand Film and Television Awards.Pork Pie. O'Gorman would hit the road again in 2017, thanks to Pork Pie, a remake of classic New Zealand film Goodbye Pork Pie.
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