Burn Gorman

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.

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

Occupation

actor / television actor / stage actor / film actor / musician

University

Manchester Metropolitan University

Motto

Private

• Official sitehttp://www.burngormanonline.com
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/burngorman1/
• Xhttps://x.com/burngorman
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%90%E3%83%BC%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B4%E3%83%BC%E3%83%9E%E3%83%B3

Tags

• California
• actor
• television actor
• stage actor

Last updated

2026-06-02

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.