Richard Dormer is a Northern Irish actor, playwright and screenwriter. He was born in Lisburn, Northern Ireland. After to being accepted to the Royal College of Art Richard accepted 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 is perhaps best known for his performance as Northern Irish Snooker star, Alex Higgins in Hurricane, which he wrote and starred in. The production received praise from critics and even from Higgins himself and saw Richard win The Stage award for best actor in 2003. He is currently the bookie's third favourite to play Higgins in the scheduled film of his life behind Cillian Murphy and Jonathan Rhys Meyers. In 2004 Richard 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 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. Since, Dormer has written a number of plays including The Half and Gentleman's Tea Drinking Society which were produced through Belfast's Ransom theatre company. He has also provided the voices for over twenty BBC Radio 4 plays, documentaries and advertising campaigns. Following a run of film castings playing secondary characters, he was cast as the lead in the 2012 Good Vibrations which tells the story of Northern Ireland personality and punk rock visionary Terri Hooley. The film premièred at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival and was awarded 'best film' at the Galway film awards. 2012 also saw Dormer taking over the role of Lord Beric Dondarrion, known as the "Lightning Lord", the leader of the "Brotherhood Without Banners" for Season 3 of HBO series Game of Thrones. Richard Dormer(1969년생, Portadown, County Armagh, Northern Ireland, UK ) 는 배우로, 대표작으로 토고, SLR, Middletown가 있으며, 그 외에도 왕좌의 게임, 캐주얼티, 데이 오브 더 자칼, 갱스 오브 런던, 시크릿 인베이젼, 삼총사, Soldier Soldier, 캐슬바니아: 녹턴, The Assassin, Blue Lights, 포티튜드: 북극의 도시, Lily's Driftwood Bay 등 다양한 작품에 출연했다. 특히 2026년에는 Apollo Has Fallen에도 참여해서 활동중이다. (오뜨랑에서 실시간으로 번역된 한글 프로필도 확인할 수 있어요) 2025년 The Assassin에서 Damien Hammond 역을 맡았다. 2024년 데이 오브 더 자칼에서 Norman Stoke 역을 맡았다. 2023년 캐슬바니아: 녹턴에서 Abbot Emmanuel (voice) 역을 맡았다.