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Burn Hugh Winchester Gorman (born 1 September 1974) is an English actor and musician. He is known for his roles as
Owen Harper
Dr Owen James Harper is a fictional character played by Burn Gorman, and a regular in the BBC television series ''Torchwood'', a spin-off from the long-running series ''Doctor Who''. The character last appeared onscreen in the Series 2 finale, ...
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series ''
Torchwood
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'' (2006–2008), Phillip Stryver in ''
The Dark Knight Rises
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'' (2012), Karl Tanner in the
HBO
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series ''
Game of Thrones
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'' (2013–2014), Hermann Gottlieb in ''
Pacific Rim
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'' (2013) and its sequel ''
Pacific Rim: Uprising'' (2018) and
Major Edmund Hewlett in the
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series ''
Turn: Washington's Spies'' (2014). Gorman portrayed 'The Marshal' in the first season of the Amazon drama ''
The Man in the High Castle
''The Man in the High Castle'' (1962), by Philip K. Dick, is an alternative history novel wherein the Axis Powers won World War II. The story occurs in 1962, fifteen years after the end of the war in 1947, and depicts the political intrigues b ...
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Early life
Burn Hugh Winchester Gorman
[Herman, Sarah: , ''Torchwood Magazine'' (August 2008): page 60. (wayback 20120313031654). Here, Burn states that the name on his birth certificate is "Burn Hugh Winchester Gorman".] was born on 1 September 1974 in
Los Angeles
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,
California
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, the son of English parents. His father was a professor of linguistics at
UCLA
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. He has three older sisters. He has reportedly claimed to be the nephew of
Bartley Gorman
Bartley Gorman V (1 March 1944 – 18 January 2002) was a bare-knuckle boxer. A Welsh Irish Traveller, Gorman called himself "the King of the Gypsies". Between 1972 and 1992, he reigned supreme in the world of illegal gypsy boxing. During these ...
, considered "
King of the Gypsies
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".
At the age of 7, he moved with his family back to England, where they settled in
London
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. He later trained at the
Manchester School of Theatre
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at
Manchester Metropolitan University
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.
Career
One of Gorman's earliest television roles was in 1998 as Etheric Foundation cult leader Ben Andrews in Granada TV's ''
Coronation Street
''Coronation Street'' is an English soap opera created by Granada Television and shown on ITV since 9 December 1960. The programme centres around a cobbled, terraced street in Weatherfield, a fictional town based on inner-city Salford.
Origi ...
''. He played William Guppy in the 2005
BBC One
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adaptation of
Charles Dickens
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' ''
Bleak House
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'', and then appeared as
Owen Harper
Dr Owen James Harper is a fictional character played by Burn Gorman, and a regular in the BBC television series ''Torchwood'', a spin-off from the long-running series ''Doctor Who''. The character last appeared onscreen in the Series 2 finale, ...
in the first two seasons of the
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science fiction series ''