Gorman is also an accomplished beatboxer, having participated in the 2003 International Human Beatbox Convention (where he won the title of Radio 1Xtra's Human Beatbox Champion).[6]
Career
One of Gorman's earliest television roles was in 1998 as Etheric Foundation cult leader Ben Andrews in Granada TV's Coronation Street. He played William Guppy in the 2005 BBC One adaptation of Charles Dickens' Bleak House, before being cast as Owen Harper in the BBC science fiction series Torchwood. Gorman starred in the first two series of the show before his character was killed off in the series 2 finale, "Exit Wounds".[7]
Gorman played Jed on the soap opera EastEnders in March 2007. He starred as Hindley Earnshaw in the ITV adaptation of Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights. In 2011, he starred in Sky1's second Martina Cole adaptation, The Runaway and in 2014, portrayed Adam, the lead character's stalker and fellow immortal, in ABC's Forever. He played Karl Tanner in seasons 3 and 4 of HBO's Game of Thrones,[8] Major Hewlett in the AMC miniseries Turn and Nicholas Farlow on the BBC miniseries Jamestown.
On radio, Gorman played Elizabethan spy Robert Poley in Michael Butt's The Babington Plot (2008)[9] and Unauthorized History: The Killing (2010)[10] and Mike Walker's The Reckoning: The Death of Christopher Marlowe (2022).[11]
From 2008 to 2009, Gorman played Bill Sikes in the West End revival of the musical Oliver! for which he was nominated for Best Supporting Actor in a Musical in the 2010 Whatsonstage Theatre Awards.[14]
Personal life
Gorman married schoolteacher Sarah Beard on 17 July 2004. They have three children, two girls and a boy.[15] Their first child, Max, was born in Cardiff, where Gorman was filming the first series of Torchwood. They later separated and divorced in 2017.
^Herman, Sarah: "Burn Gorman, Where's Your Head At?"., Torchwood Magazine (August 2008): page 60. (wayback 20120313031654). Here, Burn states that the name on his birth certificate is "Burn Hugh Winchester Gorman".
^"Chicago TARDIS 2015: Burn Gorman During a talk at the Doctor Who convention Chicago TARDIS, which took place from 27 to 29 November 2015, Gorman was prompted to point out inaccuracies in his Wikipedia article. He allowed the moderator's reading of his name as "Burn Hugh Gorman", but clarified, "For a while [...] I would get some questions saying 'So, your name's Burn Hugh Winchester Gorman?' and I don't know where that started! It may be with Wikipedia, or something, but for some reason somebody had edited and put my name as 'Burn Hugh Winchester Gorman', and that is not either true or relevant in any way. So that is a lie." (timecode 9:00-9:35).
