
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

The Last of the Game of Thrones Hot Takes

Mayor of Kingstown

Peaky Blinders

Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials

The Wire Odyssey

Maze Runner: The Death Cure

Sing Street

An Ungentlemanly Act

Tapping the Wire

Bohemian Rhapsody

King Arthur: Legend of the Sword

Those Who Wish Me Dead

Thorne

Calvary

Shanghai Knights

Kin

Game of Thrones - Conquest & Rebellion: An Animated History of the Seven Kingdoms

Love/Hate

Queer as Folk
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