Jamie Dornan

**James "Jamie" Dornan** (born 1 May 1982) is a Northern Irish actor, model, and musician. He played Axel von Fersen in Sofia Coppola's movie _Marie Antoinette_, Sheriff Graham Humbert in the ABC series _Once Upon a Time_ and serial killer Paul Spector in the BBC Two crime drama series _The Fall_. He played the titular character, Christian Grey, in the movie _Fifty Shades of Grey_ (2015).

## Early life

Dornan was born in Holywood, County Down, Northern Ireland. He grew up in the suburbs of Belfast, and has two older sisters. His father, Professor Jim Dornan, is an obstetrician who had also considered becoming an actor. Jamie Dornan is a first cousin, twice removed, of actress Greer Garson. His grandparents on both sides of his family were Methodist lay preachers. Dornan was 16 when his mother, Lorna, died.

## Career

He was a member of folk band called Sons of Jim, until it disbanded in 2008. His modeling career has included cover and feature shoots for publications such as Abercrombie & Fitch, Aquascutum, Hugo Boss, Armani, Dior Homme and Calvin Klein (with both Kate Moss and Eva Mendes), and he was labelled "The Golden Torso" by _The New York Times_.

His first acting role in a film was Count Axel Fersen in the Sofia Coppola film _Marie Antoinette_ (2006). After that, he appeared films and TV series such as _Beyond the Rave_, _Shadows in the Sun_, _Fifty Shades of Grey_; _Once Upon a Time_ and _The Fall_.

In 2014, he was ranked #3 in People Magazine's Sexiest Man Alive list.

He married English actress and singer Amelia Warner in Somerset on 27 April 2013. They have one daughter together Dulcie (b. November 2013)

### Movies

|Year|Title|Role|class="unsortable"|Notes|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|2006|_Marie Antoinette_|Axel von Fersen|||
|2008|_Beyond the Rave_|Ed|||
|2009|_Nice to Meet You_|The Young Man|Short movie||
|2009|_Shadows in the Sun_|Joe|||
|2009|_X Returns_|X|Short movie||
|2010|_The Black Widow_||Short movie||
|2014|_Flying Home_|Colin|||
|2015|_Fifty Shades of Grey_|Christian Grey|It grossed $570 million worldwide.||
|2015|_The 9th Life of Louis Drax_|Dr. Allan Pascal|_Completed_||
|2016|_Anthropoid_|Jan Kubiš|_Post-production_||

### Television

|Year|Title|Role|class="unsortable"|Notes|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|2011–2013|_Once Upon a Time_|The Huntsman/Sheriff Graham Humbert|9 episodes||
|2013–present|_The Fall_|Paul Spector|11 episodes||
|2014|_New Worlds_|Abe Goffe|4 episodes||

## Discography

|Year|Single|
| --- | --- |
|2005|"Fairytale"|
|2006|"My Burning Sun"|

## Awards and nominations

|Year|Award|Category|Result|Work|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|2014|Broadcasting Press Guild Awards|||_The Fall_|
|2014|Irish Film and Television Awards|Best Lead Actor - Television||_The Fall_|
|2014|Irish Film and Television Awards|Rising star|||
|2014|British Academy Television Award|Best Actor||_The Fall_|

## Infobox (person)

- **name**: Jamie Dornan
- **image**: Jamie Dornan at Berlinale by sebaso 2015.jpg
- **caption**: Dornan at the premiere of the movie Fifty Shades of Grey at the Berlin International Film Festival on 11 February 2015
- **birth name**: James Dornan
- **birth place**: Holywood, County Down, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
- **nationality**: United Kingdom, British
- **occupation**: Actor, model, musician
- **years active**: 2006–present
- **children**: 2