aidan gillen
“I suppose there are actors who are worried about their public image. But I've never had any trouble playing unpleasant characters. It is only a part. Which is why you do it, because you are interested in exploring something you never could or would be.”
ALSO KNOWN FOR
Bohemian Rhapsody (2018)
Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials (2015)
Queer As Folk (1999)
Project Blue Book (2019)
Aidan Gillen Murphy is an Irish actor born on the 24th of April 1968 in Drumcondra, Dublin, Ireland. Gillen was the youngest of six children born to Patricia (née Gillen) and Denis Murphy. He was educated at St. Vincent's C.B.S. in Dublin's Glasnevin neighbourhood and then he began his acting career as a teenager with the Dublin Youth Theatre, playing Nick Bottom in A Midsummer Night's Dream at the Project Arts Centre before moving to London, England.
Gillen rose to stardom in 1999 play the lead role of Stuart Alan Jones in the Channel 4 television series Queer as Folk and its sequel, for which he received a British Academy Television Award nomination for Best Actor. He was also nominated for a Tony Award for his Broadway role in Harold Pinter's play The Caretaker and has also been nominated for an Irish Times Theatre Award for his portrayal of Teach in the Dublin Gate Theatre's 2007 production of David Mamet's American Buffalo. In 2004, having been spotted by producers in The Caretaker, Gillen was cast as Tommy Carcetti in the acclaimed HBO series The Wire, for which he received an Irish Film & Television Award for Best Actor in a Lead Role.
Gillen is most well-known for his role as the scheming Petyr "Littlefinger" Baelish on the HBO fantasy series Game of Thrones (2011), for which he received his second Irish Film & Television Award nomination. He appeared in the first seven seasons, until his character's death in the season seven finale episode. Other film and television credits include Wake Wood (2009), Blitz (2011), The Dark Knight Rises (2012), Shadow Dancer (2012), Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials (2015) and it’s follow-up film Maze Runner: The Death Cure (2018) and Bohemian Rhapsody (2018). In 2019, Gillen’s next series after leaving Game of Thrones was The History Channel's Project Blue Book, which ran for two seasons. Following this, he had a role in the American crime thriller Mayor of Kingstown (2021), opposite Jeremy Renner and Dianne Wiest.
THOSE WHO WISH ME DEAD
PROJECT BLUE BOOK
KING ARTHUR: LEGEND OF THE SWORD
MAZE RUNNER: THE SCORCH TRIALS
THE DARK KNIGHT RISES
THE WIRE
SHANGHAI KNIGHTS
QUEER AS FOLK
SOME MOTHER'S SON
FILMOGRAPHY
2022 That Dirty Black Bag (TV Series)
Butler (2 episodes)
2021-2022 Mayor of Kingstown (TV Series)
Milo Sunter (10 episodes)
2021 Kin (TV Series)
Frank Kinsella (8 episodes)
2021 Those Who Wish Me Dead
Jack
2019-2020 Project Blue Book (TV Series)
Dr. J. Allen Hynek (20 episodes)
2019 Rose Plays Julie
Peter
2017-2019 Peaky Blinders (TV Series)
Aberama Gold (10 episodes)
2018 Bohemian Rhapsody
John Reid
2018 We Ourselves
Killian
2018 Dave Allen at Peace (TV Movie)
Dave Allen
2018 Maze Runner: The Death Cure
Janson
2011-2017 Game of Thrones (TV Series)
Petyr Baelish (41 episodes)
2017 King Arthur: Legend of the Sword
Bill
2017 The Lovers
Robert
2017 Pickups
Aidan
2017 Urban Myths (TV Series)
Timothy Leary (1 episode)
2016 The Corridor (Short)
Mister
2016 The Complete Walk: Measure for Measure (Short)
Duke
2016 Quantum Break (TV Series)
Paul Serene (4 episodes)
2016 Quantum Break (Video Game)
Paul Serene (voice)
2016 Sing Street
Robert
2015 Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials
Janson
2015 Violet (Short)
Narrator (voice)
2015 You're Ugly Too
Will
2015 Charlie (TV Mini-Series)
Charles J Haughey
2014 Still
Tom Carver
2014 Calvary
Dr. Frank Harte
2010-2013 Love/Hate (TV Series)
John Boy Power (11 episodes)
2013 The Good Man
Michael
2013 Beneath the Harvest Sky
Clayton
2013 The Note (Short)
Lars
2013 Mister John
Gerry Devine
2013 Scrapper
Ray
2013 Mayday (TV Mini-Series)
Everett Newcombe
2012 The Dark Knight Rises
CIA Op
2012 Shadow Dancer
Gerry
2011 Blitz
Weiss
2010 Thorne: Sleepyhead (TV Mini-Series)
Phil Hendricks
2010 Treacle Jr.
Aidan
2010 Identity (TV Mini-Series)
DI John Bloom
2009 Wake Wood
Patrick
2009 Freefall (TV Movie)
Gus
2009 12 Rounds
Miles Jackson
2008 Blackout
Karl
2004-2008 The Wire (TV Series)
Thomas 'Tommy' Carcetti (35 episodes)
2005 Walk Away and I Stumble (TV Movie)
Paul
2005 The Last Detective (TV Series)
Steve Fallon (1 episode)
2005 Trouble with Sex
Conor
2005 Law & Order: Trial by Jury (TV Series)
Jimmy Colby (1 episode)
2003 Photo Finish
Joe Wilde
2003 Poirot (TV Series)
Amyas Crale (1 episode)
2003 Burning the Bed (Short)
Stephen
2003 Shanghai Knights
Rathbone
2002 The Final Curtain
Dave Turner
2002 First Communion Day (TV Movie)
Seamus
2001 Dice (TV Mini-Series)
Glenn Taylor
2001 My Kingdom
Puttnam
2000 Lorna Doone (TV Movie)
Carver Doone
2000 The Darkling (TV Movie)
Jeff Obold
2000 The Low Down
Frank
1999-2000 Queer as Folk (TV Series)
Stuart Jones (10 episodes)
1999 Buddy Boy
Francis
1997 Mojo
Baby
1997 Gold in the Streets
Paddy
1996 Some Mother's Son
Gerard Quigley
1995 Circle of Friends
Aidan
1994 In Suspicious Circumstances (TV Series)
James Crozier (1 episode)
1993 A Handful of Stars (TV Movie)
Tony
1993 Belfry (TV Movie)
Dominic
1993 The Bill (TV Series)
Jeff Barratt (1 episode)
1992 An Ungentlemanly Act (TV Movie)
Marine Wilcox
