Richard Dormer

Richard Dormer
Richard Dormer in The Gentlemen's Tea-Drinking Society (2009)
Born	(1969-11-11) 11 November 1969 (age 47) Lisburn, County Antrim, Northern Ireland
Nationality	British
Occupation	actor, playwright
Years active	1991–present

Richard Dormer (born 11 November 1969) is an actor, playwright and screenwriter from Northern Ireland. He is best known for his role as Beric Dondarrion in HBO series Game of Thrones.

Dormer was born in Lisburn, Northern Ireland. He was accepted by the Royal College of Art, but chose 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 gained notice following his performance as Northern Irish snooker star Alex Higgins in Hurricane in 2003, which he wrote and starred in. Critics and even Higgins himself praised the production, and Dormer won The Stage award for best actor in 2003. In 2004 Dormer 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 in 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.