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Jamie Dornan

(1982) Actor United Kingdom

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Jamie Dornan is an actor from the United Kingdom, best known for To the Valley Born.

Quick Facts About Jamie Dornan

Born: May 1, 1982
Nationality: United Kingdom
Profession: Actor
Notable works: To the Valley Born
Spouse: Amelia Warner

About Jamie Dornan

James Peter Maxwell Dornan is an actor, model, and musician from Northern Ireland. His accolades include two Irish Film and Television Awards, in addition to nominations for a BAFTA Television Award and a Golden Globe Award. He has been ranked as one of the "25 Biggest Male Models of All Time" by Vogue, as well as named one of Ireland's greatest film actors by The Irish Times.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Awards & Honors

People's Choice Awards Irish Film & Television Awards Broadcasting Press Guild Award

Quotes by Jamie Dornan

I’d like to do a job where I don’t have to tie women to beds.

Bed

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Nobody sane wants just to be famous.

Famous

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I'd always really wanted to act; but the modelling contracts came more easily.

Act

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Mass appreciation doesn't always equate to something good.

Always

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Essentially I feel like all of that pressure when you're making the first of a franchise of [movies based on] books that…

Attention

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I love fatherhood.

Fatherhood

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My wife is a brilliant, hugely understanding person.

Brilliant

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I want to keep an element of myself in every character I play. And maybe that's connected to finding something that you…

Character

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I dont like myself without a beard.

Beard

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A doctor once told me I have abnormal levels of adrenaline in my system.

Abnormal

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There are so many ways to make a living that don't involve hiding in bushes opposite houses of 18-year-old girls with a…

Bushes

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I'm probably the worst person for 'Men's Health' to interview.

Health

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I feel pretty secure about who I am.

About

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I was a skinny guy growing up, and I still feel like that same skinny kid.

Feel

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I think my lesson is to back yourself once you've been given a job. Far too often, I've been given a job…

Back

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I very much feel like I'm part of the makeup of 'Once Upon a Time.'

Feel

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I'm still not aware that I'm good looking.

Aware

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I've never felt massively satisfied from standing there while someone takes my photograph. It's never given me a thrill.

Adventure

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Love from the fans is flattering. That's what makes the show. They are so essential to everything involved with 'Once Upon a…

Essential

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People attach too much to the idea of being a model, that you can only be a certain way to have done…

Actor

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When I think of sex symbols, I think of posters my two sisters had on their bedroom walls.

Bedroom

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I read a lot about serial killers.

About

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It's a strange environment, being hounded. The paparazzi are cretins.

Being

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To play any character, you have to have a total understanding of why they do what they do.

Any

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It's a tiny industry. Actors all know each other to a point where you always know someone who knows the other person…

Actors

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