He was a Calvin Klein model and he made all those Fifty Shades of dreck movies, so he has Hollywood bona fides as a hottie. But for our purposes, he’ll always be Fersen fucking the Queen in Coppola’s Marie Antoinette! And more recently, Kenneth Branagh‘s dad. Belfast-born Jamie Dornan is a pretty good actor in frock flicks, and I hope he does more of them.
Count Axel Fersen in Marie Antoinette (2006)
Meet cute at the masquerade!
Rrrow…
Joe in Shadows in the Sun (2009)
A “mysterious young loner” who befriends an ailing grandmother, set in the 1960s.
Jan Kubis in Anthropoid (2016)
About a WWII mission to assassinate an SS general. Dornan said of this role: “I feel that Jan Kubis is the closest character to myself that I’ve played.”
Patrick Quinlan in The Siege of Jadotville (2016)
As an Irish commandant leading in the Congo during the early 1960s.
Will Tillman in Robin Hood (2018)
The Robin Hood remake nobody wanted. Sorry!
Liam Ward in Death and Nightingales (2018)
Beardy in the 1880s Irish countryside.
Pa in Belfast (2021)
Who’s your daddy?
What’s your favorite frock flick role of Jamie Dornan’s?
Nothing in that Robin Hood image says 12th century. Was it set in modern times?
Yes and no, apparently. Wikipedia: “It is a quasi-contemporary retelling of the Robin Hood legend, and follows his training by John to steal from the Sheriff of Nottingham.”
IOW, throw a lot of presumed “cool shit” at a movie screen and see if it will bring fanboys to a theater.
(Answer: Hell, NEWP– it couldn’t even make back its production costs.)
Extraordinary how many films and series get made but under-seen (especially during the last few years, of course). I’m still trying to find “Come Away.”
Yum. He was HOT in Death and Nightingales tho not the most likeable character.
He was wonderful in “Belfast.” I didn’t recognize him. I’d seen the contemporary series “The Fall” with him and Gillian Anderson and I hated his acting. When I saw “Belfast,” not recognizing him, I was very impressed.
Is he wearing jeans and a pea-coat in “Robin Hood”???
I’ve only seen Belfast which I loved, and Marie Antoinette, which was so long ago I didn’t even know he was in it! Must go back and rewatch it.
I remember crushing hard on that charming Swedish (?) officer in that scene and I am astounded to learn that was HIM. I get, Marie A., I totally totally get it.
He plays all these serious roles, I was really surprised to watch Barb and Star (not a frock flick, though the costuming is delightful) and find out he does a great job with comedy as well.
Also, his ass belongs in a museum. That is all.
I haven’t seen any of these and barely know his work at all. (Yes, I think I’m the only person on the planet who has never seen Marie Antoinette.) As far as his appearance, I find him intermittently appealing.
He’s also in New Worlds, a TV series set in 1680