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Personal Info

Gender

Male

Birthday

1965-07-03 (59 years old)

Place of Birth

Glasgow, Scotland, UK

Tommy Flanagan

Biography:

Tommy Flanagan (born 3 July 1965) is a Scottish film actor. His distinctive facial scars are a result of a mugging.

Flanagan was born in Glasgow, Scotland, the 3rd of five children. Flanagan first television roles were in Screen One, 1992 and Taggart in 1993. Flanagan worked in Carlyle's Raindog Theatre for three years before being cast in Braveheart (1995). He has had roles in Face/Off, The Game, Sunset Strip, Gladiator, Alien vs. Predator, Sin City, Smokin' Aces, Smokin' Aces 2: Assassins' Ball, When a Stranger Calls, All About the Benjamins, The Last Drop and the mini-series Attila.

He is a regular cast member on Sons of Anarchy, in which he plays outlaw biker Filip "Chibs" Telford.

Known For

Acting

2025

MobLand as Moody

2024

Sleeping Dogs as Jimmy Remis
The Perfect Couple as Broderick Graham

2022

Code Name Banshee as Anthony Greene
Boon as Mr. Fitzgerald
Power Book IV: Force as Walter Flynn

2021

40-Love as Petrov

2020

Max Cloud as Brock Donnelly
American Fighter as McClellen

2019

The Rising Hawk as Tuhar Vovk
The Wave as Aeolus
Wu Assassins as Alec McCullough

2018

Adolescence as Shepard
Legal Action as Mr. Gates
Mayans M.C. as Filip 'Chibs' Telford

2017

Sand Castle as Sergeant McGregor
Papillon as Masked Breton
Running Wild as Jon Kilpatrick

2016

48 Hours to Live as Kipling
Westworld as Martin Connells

2015

Winter as Woods Weston

2014

Gotham as Tom the Knife

2013

Officer Down as Father Reddy
Peaky Blinders as Arthur Senior

2011

Revenge as Malcolm Black

2010

Luster as Les

2008

Hero Wanted as Derek
Sons of Anarchy as Filip "Chibs" Telford

2006

The Last Drop as Dennis Baker
Smokin' Aces as Lazlo Soot

2005

Sin City as Brian

2004

AVP: Alien vs. Predator as Mark Verheiden
Trauma as Tommy

2003

2002

Ultimate Fights from the Movies as Cicero (Gladiator) (archive footage)

2001

Dead Dogs Lie as Michael
Strictly Sinatra as Michaelangelo
Attila as Bleda
Attila as Bleda

2000

Gladiator as Cicero
Sunset Strip as Duncan
Rebus as Thomas Telford

1999

1997

The Saint as Scarface
The Game as Solicitor / Taxi Driver
Face/Off as Leo

1996

A Mug's Game as Paul

1995

Braveheart as Morrison
Jolly: A Life as Man at Grotto

1993

The Hawk as Harry (as Sean Flanagan)

1992

Black and Blue as Brett-Smith Family Heavy (uncredited)

1974