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James "Jamie" Dornan (born 1 May 1982) is a Northern Irish actor, model and musician, perhaps best known for playing Sheriff Graham in the ABC series Once Upon a Time.
Dornan was born in Holywood, County Down, Northern Ireland. He has one older and one younger sister. His father, Prof. James Dornan, is an obstetrician, who often lectures at QUB. He was a teenager when his mother died. He attended and boarded at Methodist College, where he excelled on the rugby pitch as well as in the drama department. While at MCB, he met David Alexander, who would become his songwriting partner in 2002, when they founded their two-piece Irish folk outfit, Sons of Jim. Dornan has been quoted as saying that if he ever entered the music business again, he would do it very differently. The boys were young, naive, and under-prepared.[citation needed] Their record label, Doorstep Records, was named after a sandwich shop in Belfast.[citation needed]
Dornan attended the University of Teesside, but dropped out and moved to London upon being approached by the Select Model Management agency.[citation needed]