Jamie Dornan, actor

Desert Island Discs

BBC

Society & Culture, Music Commentary, Music, Personal Journals

4.4 • 13.7K Ratings

🗓️ 25 February 2024

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Jamie Dornan is an actor who first came to the attention of television audiences in 2013 when he played serial killer Paul Spector in the BBC series the Fall. Two years later he starred alongside Dakota Johnson in the film Fifty Shades of Grey and went on to play the same part in the rest of the trilogy. In 2022 he was the lead in the BBC drama the Tourist which was watched by millions of viewers and recently returned for its second season.

Jamie was born in Holywood in County Down. At 10 he played Widow Twankey in the school pantomime - a defining moment for him when he experienced the thrill of playing to a live audience.

After dropping out of university Jamie became a model and worked on big campaigns for some leading fashion brands before landing his first acting part in Sofia Coppola’s Marie Antoinette in 2006. His role in the Fall was his big break and the Fifty Shades films catapulted him to movie star status.

In 2021 he played Pa in the film Belfast which was written and directed by Kenneth Branagh about his own childhood, growing up at the beginning of the Troubles.

Jamie is married to the musician and composer Amelia Warner and they have three children.

DISC ONE: Caravan - Van Morrison DISC TWO: Violin Concerto No. 1: II. Composed by Philip Glass and performed by Adele Anthony (violin) and Ulster Orchestra, conducted by Takuo Yuasa DISC THREE: Hoppípolla - Sigur Rós DISC FOUR: Bridge over Troubled Water - Simon & Garfunkel DISC FIVE: Metarie - Brendan Benson DISC SIX: Forever – The Beach Boys DISC SEVEN: Something - The Beatles DISC EIGHT: The Whole of the Moon – The Waterboys

BOOK CHOICE: Where The Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak LUXURY ITEM: A golf club and balls CASTAWAY'S FAVOURITE: Forever – The Beach Boys Presenter Lauren Laverne Producer Paula McGinley

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0:00.0	If you could have a conversation with your younger self, what would you tell them?
0:06.0	Anonymity is our most valuable gift.
0:09.0	I'm Kristi Young, and in Young again, I'll be asking my guests what honest advice they would give their past self.
0:16.0	Believe it when they say that loving yourself is the answer.
0:20.0	Among those joining me will be Jamie Oliver, Jeda Pinkett Smith and Mel B.
0:24.1	I knew that I had a voice and I knew that I wanted to say certain things and represent certain things.
0:30.0	Young again, with me, Kirstie Young. Listen on BBC Sounds.
0:35.0	BBC Sounds.
0:37.0	BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts.
0:40.0	Hello I'm Lauren Laverne and this is the Desert Island Discs podcast.
0:44.0	Every week I ask my guest to choose the eight tracks, book and luxury they'd want to take with them
0:49.0	if they were cast away to a desert island.
0:52.0	And, for rights reasons reasons the music is shorter than the
0:55.2	original broadcast I hope you enjoy listening The My cast away this week is the actor Jamie Dornan. He was born in Hollywood, the Belfast one,
1:26.7	but his career has taken him to the more famous one, first as an internationally successful model
1:31.6	and then as one of the most in-demand actors of his generation.
1:35.1	The model turned actor tag was, he says, a difficult one to shake at first, but he did it,
1:40.4	with famously good humour and critically acclaimed performances like his breakthrough role as the
1:45.3	disturbingly charming serial killer in the BBC drama The Fall. Since then he's earned rave reviews
1:51.5	playing Kenneth Branner's father in the film Belfast.
1:54.9	Along the way he fronted the billion dollar franchise that was the 50 Shades of Grey series
1:59.6	and starred in the hit television series The Tourist which attracted millions of viewers
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