Aidan Gillen
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Biography
Aidan Murphy (born 24 April 1968), better known as Aidan Gillen, is an Irish actor. He is the recipient of three Irish Film & Television Awards and has been nominated for a British Academy Television Award, a British Independent Film Award, and a Tony Award.
On television, he played Stuart Alan Jones in the Channel 4 series Queer as Folk (1999–2000), Tommy Carcetti in the HBO series The Wire (2004–2008), John Boy in the RTÉ series Love/Hate (2010–2011), Petyr "Littlefinger" Baelish in the HBO series Game of Thrones (2011–2017), and Dr. J. Allen Hynek in The History Channel's Project Blue Book (2019–2020). Gillen also featured as Aberama Gold in the BBC TV drama series “Peaky Blinders” 2017-2019. In 2021, he appeared in the crime dramas Mayor of Kingstown and Kin.
His film roles include Miles Jackson in 12 Rounds (2009), CIA operative Bill Wilson in The Dark Knight Rises (2012), Janson in Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials (2015) and Maze Runner: The Death Cure (2018), Robert in The Lovers (2017), Queen's manager John Reid in Bohemian Rhapsody (2018), and Jack Blackwell in Those Who Wish Me Dead (2021). He also provided the voice and motion capture for Paul Serene in the 2016 video game Quantum Break.
Known For
Law & Order: Trial by Jury
Agatha Christie's Poirot
That Dirty Black Bag
Game of Thrones: The Last Watch
The Dark Knight Rises
The Wire
Game of Thrones
Mayor of Kingstown
Peaky Blinders
The Wire Odyssey
Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials
Maze Runner: The Death Cure
An Ungentlemanly Act
Sing Street
Tapping the Wire
King Arthur: Legend of the Sword
Bohemian Rhapsody
Those Who Wish Me Dead
Thorne
Shanghai Knights
Calvary
Game of Thrones - Conquest & Rebellion: An Animated History of the Seven Kingdoms
Kin
Love/Hate
Queer as Folk
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