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Burn Gorman (born 1 September 1974) is an American-born British actor and musician. Burn is most known for his roles as Owen Harper in Torchwood and as William Guppy in Bleak House. He was born in Hollywood California where his father worked as a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles. At the age of seven he moved to London England. He has a wife, Sarah, and two children: a son named Max who was born during the filming of the Torchwood episode "Ghost Machine" and a daughter named Nell born the 25th January 2009.

He appears in the first two seasons of the BAFTA Cymru winning science-fiction/crime drama Torchwood as Owen Harper, and in 2007 filmed Sex, The City and Me for the BBC and "Ordeal by Innocence", an episode of Marple for ITV. Recently, he has worked with cult Spanish director Álex de la Iglesia on The Oxford Murders, a crime thriller based on Guillermo Martinez`s book of the same name alongside Elijah Wood and John Hurt. He also appeared in the film Fred Claus with Vince Vaughn and Kevin Spacey. Gorman`s other film credits include Layer Cake (directed by Matthew Vaughn), Penelope (with Christina Ricci and Reese Witherspoon), The Best Man, Colour Me Kubrick, Love is Not Enough, and the short films The Bully Boys and Runners. As a musician, Gorman has played in clubs and on stages all over the world, appearing alongside Neneh Cherry, Rodney P and Groove Armada amongst others, and has worked on videos and visuals with The Streets. He was also BBC 1Xtra Human Beatbox Champion. Gorman trained at the Manchester Metropolitan School of Theatre, whose alumni include Victoria Wood, Steve Coogan and Julie Walters.

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