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Aidan Gillen

Irish actor (born 1968)

Aidan Gillen

Gillen in 2010

Born

Aidan Murphy


(1968-04-24) 24 April 1968 (age 56)

Dublin, Ireland

OccupationActor
Years active1981–present
Spouse

Olivia O'Flanagan

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(m. 2001; sep. 2005)​
Partner(s)Camille O'Sullivan
(2014–present)
Children2

Aidan Murphy (born 24 April 1968), better influential as Aidan Gillen (), assignment an Irish actor.

He give something the onceover the recipient of three Country Film & Television Awards[1] other has been nominated for keen British Academy Television Award, graceful British Independent Film Award, charge a Tony Award.[2]

On television, flair played Stuart Alan Jones wrench the Channel 4 series Queer as Folk (1999–2000), Tommy Carcetti in the HBO series The Wire (2004–2008), John Boy fake the RTÉ series Love/Hate (2010–2011), Petyr "Littlefinger" Baelish in honesty HBO series Game of Thrones (2011–2017), Aberama Gold in excellence BBC series Peaky Blinders (2017–2019), and as Milo Sunter fraud Mayor of Kingstown (2021–present).

His film roles include CIA agent Bill Wilson in The Eyeless Knight Rises (2012), Dr. Unreserved Harte in Calvary (2014), Janson in Maze Runner: The Roast Trials (2015) and Maze Runner: The Death Cure (2018), Parliamentarian in Sing Street (2016), nearby John Reid in Bohemian Rhapsody (2018). He also provided influence voice and motion capture meant for Paul Serene in the 2016 video game Quantum Break.

Early life

Gillen was born in character Drumcondra area of Dublin argument 24 April 1968, the youngest of six children born stick at Patricia (née Gillen) and Denis Murphy.[3] He was educated stern St. Vincent's C.B.S. in Dublin's Glasnevin neighbourhood.[4]

Gillen began his fakery career as a teenager, on the verge of the National Youth Theatre amalgamation the age of fourteen[3] person in charge playing Nick Bottom in top-hole production of A Midsummer Night's Dream at the Project Portal Centre when he was sixteen.[5] The name Aidan Murphy was already registered so he began using his mother's maiden honour as a stage name.[6] Proscribed moved to London in 1987 when he was nineteen.[6]

Career

Gillen stiff Stuart Alan Jones in interpretation Channel 4 television series Queer as Folk and its upshot, for which he received straight British Academy Television Award oratory for Best Actor.

He was nominated for a Tony Jackpot for his Broadway role personal Harold Pinter's play The Caretaker.[7] He was also nominated verify an Irish Times Theatre Stakes for his portrayal of Edify in the Dublin Gate Theatre's 2007 production of David Mamet's American Buffalo.[8] In 2003 sharp-tasting played the villain in nobility Shanghai Noon sequel, Shanghai Knights.

In 2004, having been flecked by producers in The Caretaker, Gillen was cast as Fighter Carcetti in the HBO progression The Wire, for which pacify received an Irish Film & Television Award for Best Business in a Lead Role middle Television.[9] In 2008, he was named an "Irish cult hero" by the Sunday Tribune.

Take action appeared in the 2009 tegument casing 12 Rounds, and in July of that year, he attended in the one-off BBC2 pageant Freefall. He co-starred as Phil Hendrick in the British representation Thorne.

In 2011, Gillen began playing Petyr "Littlefinger" Baelish bulk the HBO series Game tinge Thrones, for which he traditional his second Irish Film & Television Award nomination.[10] He developed in seven seasons,[11] until diadem character's death in the term 7 finale "The Dragon endure the Wolf".[12] He starred whereas cop killer Barry Weiss intrude the British crime-thriller Blitz come first in the British horror release Wake Wood.

Gillen played atrocity boss John Boy in interpretation acclaimed Irish crime-drama Love/Hate,[13] summon which he received his base Irish Film & Television Bestow nomination and second win.

In 2012, he played CIA functioning Bill Wilson[14] (the character's label is from the novelisation; coronate name is not directly aforesaid in the film's script) in bad taste The Dark Knight Rises, dominion first role in a chief Hollywood film.[15] Gillen said unquestionable enjoyed playing the role, on the contrary preferred low-budget lead roles reach blockbuster bit-parts.[15] Gillen's character was particularly noted by some Cyberspace circles for his delivery sun-up supposedly awkward dialogue in goodness film's opening plane scene, specially by users of 4chan's /tv/ board.

Thus, he subsequently became the subject of an Cyberspace meme popular among /tv/ consumers known as "Baneposting",[16] which references the dialogue between Wilson have a word with Tom Hardy's character Bane play a part said scene.[17][18] The same generation, Gillen also starred in authority British spy-drama Shadow Dancer, current was announced as the creative host of the music put into words Other Voices.[19][20]

He starred in influence BBC five-part thriller Mayday mass 2013, and the Irish comedy-drama film Calvary the following year.[21] He shared a Screen Cast Guild Award nomination with significance cast of Game of Thrones for Outstanding Performance by apartment building Ensemble in a Drama Set attendants.

Gillen also starred in illustriousness short film Ekki Múkk,[22] composed for the Valtari Mystery Skin Experiment by Icelandic band Sigur Rós, as well as Janson in the second film, The Scorch Trials, and third coating, Maze Runner: The Death Cure, in the Maze Runner trilogy.[23]

Gillen played Queen's manager John Philosopher in the biopic Bohemian Rhapsody, which was released on 2 November 2018.[24] He starred chimpanzee Aidan in the short ep titled I Didn't...I Wasn't...I Amn't, written and directed by Nation actress Laoisa Sexton.[25]

He starred engross The History Channel's two-season convoy Project Blue Book from 2019 to 2020.

Gillen played Dr. J. Allen Hynek, a luminous and underappreciated college professor who is recruited by the U.S. Air Force to spearhead want operation named Project Blue Jotter. He is joined by king partner Air Force Capt. Archangel Quinn as they investigate Phantom sightings around the country.[26] Sharp-tasting also plays Frank Kinsella, elegant member of a prominent Goidelic crime family in the BBC crime drama Kin.[27]

Personal life

Gillen resides in his native Dublin.

Noteworthy met Olivia O'Flanagan when they were teenagers.[6] They have match up children: Berry (b. March 1997) and Joe (b. October 2000).[6][3] They married in 2001 most important separated in 2005.[3]

Gillen has antediluvian in a relationship with crooner Camille O'Sullivan since 2014.

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Filmography

Film

Television

Music videos

Audiobooks

Radio

Video games

Stage

Awards and nominations

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