Biography
Burn Gorman is an actor. He was born Burn Hugh Gorman on 1 September 1974 in Hollywood, California, to English parents, and moved with his family to England at the age of seven. He trained at the Manchester School of Theatre at Manchester Metropolitan University.
Gorman is known for his television roles as Owen Harper in the BBC series Torchwood (2006–2008), Karl Tanner in the HBO series Game of Thrones (2013–14), and Adolphus Murtry in the Prime Video series The Expanse (2019). His film roles include Phillip Stryver in The Dark Knight Rises (2012), Dr Hermann Gottlieb in Pacific Rim (2013) and its sequel Pacific Rim: Uprising (2018), Commander Hoff in The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes (2023), and Father Damien in Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (2024).
