A Northern Irish actor, born in 1982. He studied at Methodist College Belfast and also at Teesside University, but he did not finish his studies and opted to move to London to train in acting. Dornan made his film debut in director Sofia Coppola's historical film Marie Antoinette. In 2013, he was chosen to play the role of Christian Grey in the film Fifty Shades of Grey, based on E. L. James' world-famous bestselling novel of the same name, a role he went on to reprise in the second and third installments of the Fifty Shades film franchise.