My Take
Burn Gorman is one of those actors who makes every scene feel slightly more dangerous just by showing up, and I mean that as the highest compliment. Born in Hollywood but shaped by British training at Manchester Metropolitan University, he's carved out this brilliant niche as the guy you cast when you need someone genuinely unsettling — whether that's the tragic, tortured Owen Harper on Torchwood, the brutish Karl Tanner on Game of Thrones, or the menacing Adolphus Murtry on The Expanse. He has a gift for playing characters who are morally compromised but never boring, and there's a theatrical intensity to his work that clearly comes from his stage background. Pacific Rim gave him a rare chance to be delightfully eccentric rather than threatening, and he ran with it. Gorman is the kind of character actor who elevates every production he joins, and honestly deserves far more mainstream recognition than he gets.
Overview
Burn Hugh Gorman (born 1 September 1974) is an English actor. He 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), Major Edmund Hewlett in the AMC series Turn: Washington's Spies (2014–2017), 'The Marshal' in the Prime Video series The Man in the High Castle (2015), and Adolphus Murtry in Prime Video series The Expanse (2…
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Burn Gorman
- Name (Japanese)
- バーン・ゴーマン
- Reading
- ばーん・ごーまん
- Born
- September 1, 1974 (age 51)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Virgo / Tiger
- Origin
- Hollywood, California, United States
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- actor / television actor / stage actor / film actor / musician
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Private
- University
- Manchester Metropolitan University
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.