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 ORiordan 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 bookies 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 McGuinnesss 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 ShakespearesMuch Ado About Nothing Noël Cowards play Private Lives and in a production of Samuel Becketts Waiting for Godot Since Dormer has written a number of plays including The Half and Gentlemans Tea Drinking Society which were produced through Belfasts 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
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