Handsome Jamie Dornan had to prove for a long time that he was not just a model, but also an actor. And although he had advertising contracts with the most famous fashion houses, the real popularity came to Dornan after the role of a millionaire in the trilogy "Fifty Shades of Gray".
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Jamie Dornan is not just a cute handsome man who can only walk on the catwalk and pose for the camera. Yes, he does not have a classical acting education. But there is ambition and character. Everything that helped Dornan to become a real movie star.
Jamie Dornan was born in 1982 in Northern Ireland. The family lived in Belfast, Dornan has two older sisters. Jamie's father is an obstetrician, his mother was a housewife, after a long illness she died. This circumstance influenced the teenager so much that after being observed by a psychologist, Dornan begins to change his life. He graduated from college in Belfast when he realized that he was attracted to the world of show business and he had good acting skills. To begin with, he and his friends organize a music group and enter the university. But he did not have time to learn there, he was noticed by a modeling agency and Dornan moved to London.
Model success awaits Dornan in London. He literally breaks into the world of fashion and in four years goes from photo shoots for mass-market clothes to models of Armani and Calvin Klein. Famous actresses become his filming partners, but this still does not help the guy get into the cinema.
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This was before meeting Keira Knightley. Knightley was already known and recommended her partner to her friend, director Sofia Coppola, for filming the costume drama Marie Antoinette. The role was small, but it opened the way for the guy to the cinema. After that, he began to appear in small roles ("Once Upon a Time", "Crash"), every year there were one or two films in which Jamie was involved. And soon he gets to the casting of the tape based on the novel by E. L. James Fifty Shades of Gray. Dornan is not afraid of open love scenes, while he is in excellent physical shape (the New York Times newspaper awarded the model with the title of "Golden Torso" for a reason). And Dornan gets the fateful role of millionaire Christian Gray.
After the release of the film, criticism poured into the actor, but only facts speak about the success of the picture - at the box office it grossed half a billion dollars. The next two parts were equally successful. The first part of the trilogy was released in 2015, and from that time on, the actor was constantly invited to appear. But, by the way, not at all in the role of a hero-lover, although Jamie Dornan's personal life has always been stormy. In addition to the affair with Keira Knightley, he was credited with relations with partners in advertising filming - Kate Moss and Sienna Miller.
In 2012, Dornan met actress Amelia Warner, the ex-wife of Colin Farrell (the marriage was very short-lived). The couple got married, and did not postpone the birth of children. The first daughter Dalsy was born in 2013, the second - Elva - three years later.
