His film roles include Phillip Stryver in Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight Rises (2012), Hermann Gottlieb in Guillermo del Toro’s Pacific Rim (2013) and its sequel Pacific Rim: Uprising (2018), Commander Hoff in The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, and Father Damien in Tim Burton's Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (2024).

[6] One of Gorman's earliest television roles was in 1998 as Etheric Foundation cult leader Ben Andrews in Granada TV's Coronation Street.

[7] Other BBC television roles include Lark Rise to Candleford, Funland and Bonekickers; he also appeared in Channel 4's political thriller Low Winter Sun.

In 2011, he starred in Sky1's second Martina Cole adaptation, The Runaway and in 2014, portrayed Adam, the lead character's stalker and fellow immortal, in ABC's Forever.

On film, Gorman has had roles in Layer Cake, The Best Man, Penelope, Fred Claus, Cemetery Junction and The Dark Knight Rises.

On radio, Gorman played Elizabethan spy Robert Poley in Michael Butt's The Babington Plot (2008)[9] and Unauthorized History: The Killing (2010)[10] and Mike Walker's The Reckoning: The Death of Christopher Marlowe (2022).