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Personal Info

Gender

Male

Birthday

1968-04-24 (56 years old)

Place of Birth

Dublin, Ireland

Aidan Gillen

Biography:

Aidan Murphy (born 1967 or 1968), better known as Aidan Gillen (/ˈɡɪlən/), is an Irish actor. He is known for his roles as Stuart Alan Jones in Queer as Folk (1999–2000); Tommy Carcetti in The Wire (2004–2008); John Boy in  Love/Hate (2010–2011); Petyr "Littlefinger" Baelish in Game of Thrones (2011–2017), Aberama Gold in Peaky Blinders (2017–2019); as Milo Sunter on Mayor of Kingstown (2021–present); and as Frank Kinsella, in the crime drama Kin (2021–2023). His film roles include CIA operative Bill Wilson in The Dark Knight Rises (2012), Janson in Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials (2015), and John Reid in Bohemian Rhapsody (2018), and several films directed by Jamie Thraves.

He has received three Irish Film & Television Awards and has been nominated for a British Academy Television Award, a British Independent Film Award, and a Tony Award.

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Known For

Acting

2026

Pojedynek as Vasily Zarubin

2025

2024

2023

Barber as Valentine Barber
Dance First as James Joyce

2022

2021

2019

Confinement as Narrator (voice)
Project Blue Book as Allen Hynek

2018

2017

2016

Further Beyond as Ambrosio O'Higgins
Sing Street as Robert Lawlor
Quantum Break as Paul Serene

2015

Still as Carver
Violet as Narrator
Charlie as Charles J. Haughey

2014

Calvary as Dr. Frank Harte
Ambition as Master

2013

The Note as Lars
Mister John as Gerry Devine
Beneath the Harvest Sky as Clayton Cote
Scrapper as Ray
Mayday as Everett Newcombe
Peaky Blinders as Aberama Gold

2012

2011

Blitz as Barry Weiss
Wake Wood as Patrick
Game of Thrones as Petyr 'Littlefinger' Baelish

2010

Thorne: Scaredycat as Phil Hendricks
Treacle Jr. as Aiden
Identity as DI John Bloom
Love/Hate as John Boy Power
Thorne as Phil Hendricks

2009

12 Rounds as Miles Jackson
Freefall as Gus

2008

Blackout as Karl

2007

2005

2004

Photo Finish as Joe Wilde

2003

Shanghai Knights as Lord Nelson Rathbone
Burning The Bed as Stephen
The Last Detective as Steve Fallon

2002

The Final Curtain as Dave Turner
The Wire as Tommy Carcetti

2001

My Kingdom as Puttnam
The Low Down as Frank
Lorna Doone as Carver Doone
Dice as Glenn Taylor

2000

The Darkling as Jeff Obold
Buddy Boy as Francis
The Second Death as Pool Player
Lorna Doone as Carver Doone

1999

Queer as Folk as Stuart Alan Jones

1997

Amazing Grace as Frank
Mojo as Baby

1996

Some Mother's Son as Gerard Quigley

1995

Circle of Friends as Aidan Lynch

1993

Safe as Gypo

1992

An Ungentlemanly Act as Marine Wilcox

1991

Killing Time as Harry

1989

A View of Harry Clark as Martin Kemp (as Adrian Murphy)

1988

The Courier as Prostitute Boy

1987

The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne as Youth at Liquor Store (as Aiden Murphy)

1985

1984

The Bill as Jeff Barratt

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