Jamie Dornan | |
General Information | |
Gender: | Male |
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Nicknames: | Jamie |
Birthday: | May 1, 1982 |
Age: | 40 |
Hometown: | Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK |
Birthplace: | Holywood, County Down, Northern Ireland |
Other Information | |
Height: | 5'10¾" |
Occupation(s): | Actor Model Musician |
Education: | Methodist College Belfast |
Talents: | Acting Modeling |
Family & Friends | |
Family: | Liesa (sister) Jessica (sister) Lorna (mother) Jim Dornan (father) Greer Garson (first cousin [twice removed]) Dulcie Dornan (daughter) Elva (daughter) |
Friends: | Hadley Freeman Andrew Garfield Eddie Redmayne |
Relationships: | Keira Knightley (ex-girlfriend) Amelia Warner (wife) |
Series Information | |
Character: | Sheriff Graham Humbert / The Huntsman |
First appearance: | Pilot |
Last appearance: | Welcome to Storybrooke |
James Dornan is an actor, model, and musician from Northern Ireland.
Initially beginning his career as a model in 2001, he appeared in campaigns for Hugo Boss, Dior Homme, and Calvin Klein. Dubbed "the Golden Torso" by The New York Times, he was ranked one of the "25 Biggest Male Models of All Time" by Vogue in 2015. In addition, he performed in folk band Sons of Jim until 2008.
He began acting in 2006, and earned international recognition for playing Sheriff Graham Humbert in the series Once Upon a Time (2011–2013) and serial killer Paul Spector in the crime drama series The Fall (2013–2016). He won the Irish Film and Television Award for Best Actor in Television and was nominated for a British Academy Television Award for Best Actor for the latter. In film, he has portrayed Axel von Fersen in Sofia Coppola's Marie Antoinette (2006), Christian Grey in the Fifty Shades franchise (2015–2018), and Jan Kubiš in Anthropoid (2016).
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Early life[]
Dornan was born in Holywood, County Down, Northern Ireland, and grew up in the suburbs of Belfast. He has two older sisters: Liesa, who works for Disney in London, and Jessica, a fashion designer based in Falmouth, England. His father, Professor Jim Dornan, is an obstetrician and gynaecologist who had also considered becoming an actor. Dornan was 16 when his mother, Lorna, died from pancreatic cancer. Dornan is a first cousin, twice removed, of actress Greer Garson. His grandparents on both sides of his family were Methodist lay preachers.
He attended and boarded at Methodist College Belfast, where he played rugby and participated in the drama department. He later attended Teesside University but dropped out and moved to London to train as an actor.
Filmography[]
Year | Title | Type | Role |
2006 | Marie Antoinette | Count Axel Fersen | |
2008 | Beyond the Rave | Video | Ed |
2009 | Shadows in the Sun | Joe | |
2009 | X Returns | Short | X |
2009 | Nice to Meet You | Short | The Young Man |
2011 - 2013 | Once Upon a Time | TV Series | Sheriff Graham Humbert / The Huntsman |
2013 - 2016 | The Fall | TV Series | Paul Spector |
2014 | Flying Home | Colin | |
2014 | New Worlds | TV Mini-Series | Abe Goffe |
2015 | Fifty Shades of Grey | Christian Grey | |
2016 | Anthropoid | Jan Kubis | |
2016 | The Siege of Jadotville | Pat Quinlan | |
2016 | The 9th Life of Louis Drax | Dr. Allan Pascal | |
2016 | Children in Need: Fantastic Beasts Special | TV Movie | |
2017 | Fifty Shades Darker | Christian Grey | |
2018 | Fifty Shades Freed | Christian Grey | |
2018 | Untogether | Nick | |
2018 | A Private War | Paul Conroy | |
2018 | Robin Hood (completed) | Will Scarlet | |
2018 | My Dinner with Hervé (post-production) | TV Movie | Danny Tate |
Death and Nightingales (filming) | TV Mini-Series | Liam Ward | |
2019 | Synchronic | Dennis | |
2019 | Endings, Beginnings | Jack | |
2020 | Trolls World Tour (completed) | Chaz (voice) | |
2020 | Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar (post-production) | Edgar | |
Wild Mountain Thyme (post-production) | Anthony | ||
Dr. Death (pre-production) | TV Series | Dr. Christopher Duntsch | |
Carmen (pre-production) | Aidan |
Discography[]
Year | Single |
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2005 | "Fairytale" |
2006 | "My Burning Sun" |
2018 | "Maybe I'm Amazed" (from the Fifty Shades Freed Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) |
Awards and nominations[]
Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Reference(s) |
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British Academy Television Awards | ||||
2014 | Best Actor | The Fall | Nominated | |
British Independent Film Awards | ||||
2016 | Best Supporting Actor | Anthropoid | Nominated | |
Broadcasting Press Guild Awards | ||||
2014 | Breakthrough Award | The Fall | Won | |
2015 | Best Actor (long-list) | Nominated | ||
Czech Lion Awards | ||||
2016 | Best Supporting Actor | Anthropoid | Nominated | |
C21 International Drama Awards | ||||
2015 | Best Male Performance | The Fall | Nominated | |
Golden Raspberry Awards | ||||
2016 | Worst Actor | Fifty Shades of Grey | Won | |
Worst Screen Combo (with Dakota Johnson) | Won | |||
2018 | Worst Actor | Fifty Shades Darker | Nominated | |
Worst Screen Combo (with "Any Combination of Two Characters, Two Sex Toys, or Two Sexual Positions") |
Nominated | |||
Irish Film and Television Awards | ||||
2014 | Best Lead Actor – Television | The Fall | Won | |
Rising Star | Won | |||
2015 | Best Actor in a Lead Role – Drama | Nominated | ||
2017 | Best Actor | The Siege of Jadotville | Nominated | |
National Television Awards | ||||
2016 | Drama Performance | The Fall | Nominated | |
2017 | Nominated | |||
People's Choice Awards | ||||
2018 | The Drama Movie Star of 2018 | Fifty Shades Freed | Won |
Trivia[]
- Was a Calvin Klein model.
- Was the face of the 2007 campaign for men's cologne Dior Homme
- Played a serious level of rugby in his native Northern Ireland
- Is a huge Manchester United fan and is a season ticket holder
- Resides in Notting Hill, London, England. Also owns and spends time at his cottage in The Cotswolds
- Prefers to keep a beard and not shave at all. He had to be clean shaven for the role of Christian Grey in Fifty Shades of Grey (2015)
- Suffers from asthma
- Was a member of folk band Sons of Jim from 2006 until 2008, when the group disbanded
- Once shared an apartment with Eddie Redmayne
- Has stated that in his free time that he enjoys golfing and reading
- Had a 2-minute cameo in Burnt (2015) that didn't make it to the final cut, it was part of Sienna Miller's character's backstory. The scene was disapproved by the audience in test screenings and was removed from the movie
- He performed in an Irish folk band called the Sons of Jim, but they broke up in 2008. He then had a modeling contract with Select Model Management and a career as a model.
- He had film roles in Marie Antoinette and Shadows in the Sun.
- He had a supporting role alongside Gillian Anderson on the British-Irish crime series The Fall.
- He married actress Amelia Warner in 2013 and together they have three children, including eldest daughters Dulcie and Elva.