Aidan Gillen
Acting • Born 1968-04-24
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Aidan Murphy, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
109 credits
Further Beyond
Movie • 2016
Ambrosio O'Higgins
The Darkling
Movie • 2000
Jeff Obold
Shanghai Knights
Movie • 2003
Lord Nelson Rathbone
I didn't... I wasn't... I amn't...
Movie • 2019
Aidan
Barber
Movie • 2023
Valentine Barber
Amazing Grace
Movie • 1997
Frank
Blackout
Movie • 2008
Karl
12 Rounds
Movie • 2009
Miles Jackson
Killing Time
Movie • 1991
Harry
The Note
Movie • 2013
Lars
My Kingdom
Movie • 2001
Puttnam
Thorne: Scaredycat
Movie • 2010
Phil Hendricks
The Courier
Movie • 1988
Prostitute Boy
Shadow Dancer
Movie • 2012
Gerry
Blitz
Movie • 2011
Barry Weiss
Some Mother's Son
Movie • 1996
Gerard Quigley
Wake Wood
Movie • 2011
Patrick
Treacle Jr.
Movie • 2010
Aiden
Mojo
Movie • 1997
Baby
Buddy Boy
Movie • 2000
Francis
Trouble with Sex
Movie • 2005
Conor
The Low Down
Movie • 2001
Frank
Calvary
Movie • 2014
Dr. Frank Harte
Freefall
Movie • 2009
Gus
Mister John
Movie • 2013
Gerry Devine
Dance First
Movie • 2023
James Joyce
Beneath the Harvest Sky
Movie • 2013
Clayton Cote
The Wire: The Last Word
Movie • 2007
Self
The Wire Odyssey
Movie • 2007
Self
Scrapper
Movie • 2013
Ray
Men of Granite
Movie • 2015
Pelf
The Dark Knight Rises
Movie • 2012
CIA Op
Safe
Movie • 1993
Gypo
London Calling
Movie • 2025
Freddy Darby
Ambition
Movie • 2014
Master
Still
Movie • 2015
Carver
Ekki múkk
Movie • 2012
Man
Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials
Movie • 2015
Janson
You're Ugly Too
Movie • 2015
Will
Lorna Doone
Movie • 2001
Carver Doone
The Story of Microdisney: The Clock Comes Down the Stairs
Movie • 2024
Self
Circle of Friends
Movie • 1995
Aidan Lynch
Pojedynek
Movie • 2026
Vasily Zarubin
Re-Creation
Movie • 2025
Hamilton Barnes
King Arthur: Legend of the Sword
Movie • 2017
William "Goosefat Bill"
Amongst the Wolves
Movie • 2025
Power
Sing Street
Movie • 2016
Robert Lawlor
Confinement
Movie • 2019
Narrator (voice)
Walk Away and I Stumble
Movie • 2007
Paul
The Second Death
Movie • 2000
Pool Player
Maze Runner: The Death Cure
Movie • 2018
Janson
The Lovers
Movie • 2017
Robert
An Ungentlemanly Act
Movie • 1992
Marine Wilcox
Burning The Bed
Movie • 2003
Stephen
The Final Curtain
Movie • 2002
Dave Turner
Gold In The Streets
Movie • 1997
Paddy
Game of Thrones - Conquest & Rebellion: An Animated History of the Seven Kingdoms
Movie • 2017
Littlefinger (voice)
James and Lucia
Movie
James Joyce
Dave Allen at Peace
Movie • 2018
Dave Allen
Bohemian Rhapsody
Movie • 2018
John Reid
We Ourselves
Movie • 2018
The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne
Movie • 1987
Youth at Liquor Store (as Aiden Murphy)
Rose Plays Julie
Movie • 2021
Peter
Those Who Wish Me Dead
Movie • 2021
Jack Blackwell
Keepers of the Flame
Movie • 2018
The Good Man
Movie • 2012
Michael
Sigur Rós: Valtari Film Experiment
Movie • 2013
Man (Ekki Múkk)
When Cary Grant Introduced Timothy Leary to LSD
Movie • 2017
Timothy Leary
Violet
Movie • 2015
Narrator
Pickups
Movie • 2017
Aidan
Tapping the Wire
Movie • 2007
Self
A View of Harry Clark
Movie • 1989
Martin Kemp (as Adrian Murphy)
Photo Finish
Movie • 2004
Joe Wilde
The Physician II
Movie • 2025
Hunne
Panic Carefully
Movie • 2027
The Drip
Movie • 1985
TRAD
Movie • 2025
Willesden Confidential
Movie • 2005
Steve Fallon
Nostalgie
Movie • 2025
Drew
Driver
Movie
Dickinson
Pojedynek - Gorky Resort
Movie
Zarubin
Game of Thrones
TV • 2011
Petyr 'Littlefinger' Baelish
The Wire
TV • 2002
Tommy Carcetti
Queer as Folk
TV • 1999
Stuart Alan Jones
Identity
TV • 2010
DI John Bloom
Love/Hate
TV • 2010
John Boy Power
星际杀手
TV • 2021
Mayday
TV • 2013
Everett Newcombe
Killers of the Cosmos
TV • 2021
In Suspicious Circumstances
TV • 1991
James Crozier
The Last Detective
TV • 2003
Steve Fallon
Agatha Christie's Poirot
TV • 1989
Amyas Crale
Dice
TV • 2001
Glenn Taylor
Law & Order: Trial by Jury
TV • 2005
Jimmy Colby
The Bill
TV • 1984
Jeff Barratt
Mayor of Kingstown
TV • 2021
Milo Sunter
Quantum Break
TV • 2016
Paul Serene
Charlie
TV • 2015
Charles J. Haughey
Peaky Blinders
TV • 2013
Aberama Gold
Urban Myths
TV • 2017
Timothy Leary
Lorna Doone
TV • 2000
Carver Doone
That Dirty Black Bag
TV • 2022
Butler
Project Blue Book
TV • 2019
Allen Hynek
The Play on One
TV • 1988
Harry
Rock, Paper, Scissors
TV • 2023
Steven Shadowwhispers (voice)
Thorne
TV • 2010
Phil Hendricks
Kin
TV • 2021
Frank Kinsella
Tall Tales & Murder
TV
Other Voices
TV
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