Place of Birth: Dublin, Ireland
Aidan Gillen
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.
Movie | Cast | Year |
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Further Beyond | Ambrosio O'Higgins | 2016 |
The Darkling | Jeff Obold | 2000 |
Shanghai Knights | Lord Nelson Rathbone | 2003 |
I didn't... I wasn't... I amn't... | Aidan | 2019 |
Barber | Valentine Barber | 2023 |
Amazing Grace | Frank | 1997 |
Blackout | Karl | 2008 |
12 Rounds | Miles Jackson | 2009 |
Killing Time | Harry | 1991 |
The Note | Lars | 2013 |
My Kingdom | Puttnam | 2001 |
Thorne: Scaredycat | Phil Hendricks | 2010 |
The Courier | Prostitute Boy | 1988 |
Shadow Dancer | Gerry | 2012 |
Blitz | Barry Weiss | 2011 |
Some Mother's Son | Gerard Quigley | 1996 |
Wake Wood | Patrick | 2011 |
Treacle Jr. | Aiden | 2010 |
Mojo | Baby | 1997 |
Buddy Boy | Francis | 2000 |
Trouble with Sex | Conor | 2005 |
The Low Down | Frank | 2001 |
Calvary | Dr. Frank Harte | 2014 |
Freefall | Gus | 2009 |
Mister John | Gerry Devine | 2013 |
Dance First | James Joyce | 2023 |
Beneath the Harvest Sky | Clayton Cote | 2013 |
The Wire: The Last Word | Self | 2007 |
The Wire Odyssey | Self | 2007 |
Scrapper | Ray | 2013 |
Men of Granite | Pelf | 2015 |
The Dark Knight Rises | CIA Op | 2012 |
Safe | Gypo | 1993 |
London Calling | Freddy Darby | 2025 |
Ambition | Master | 2014 |
Still | Carver | 2015 |
Ekki múkk | Man | 2012 |
Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials | Janson | 2015 |
You're Ugly Too | Will | 2015 |
Lorna Doone | Carver Doone | 2001 |
The Story of Microdisney: The Clock Comes Down the Stairs | Self | 2024 |
Circle of Friends | Aidan Lynch | 1995 |
Pojedynek | Vasily Zarubin | 1970 |
Re-Creation | 1970 | |
King Arthur: Legend of the Sword | William "Goosefat Bill" | 2017 |
Amongst the Wolves | Power | 2024 |
Sing Street | Robert Lawlor | 2016 |
Confinement | Narrator (voice) | 2019 |
Walk Away and I Stumble | Paul | 2007 |
The Second Death | Pool Player | 2000 |
I Didn't...I Wasn't...I Amn't | Aidan | 2018 |
Maze Runner: The Death Cure | Janson | 2018 |
The Lovers | Robert | 2017 |
An Ungentlemanly Act | Marine Wilcox | 1992 |
Burning The Bed | Stephen | 2003 |
The Final Curtain | Dave Turner | 2002 |
Gold In The Streets | Paddy | 1997 |
Game of Thrones - Conquest & Rebellion: An Animated History of the Seven Kingdoms | Littlefinger (voice) | 2017 |
James and Lucia | James Joyce | 1970 |
Dave Allen at Peace | Dave Allen | 2018 |
Bohemian Rhapsody | John Reid | 2018 |
We Ourselves | 2018 | |
The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne | Youth at Liquor Store (as Aiden Murphy) | 1987 |
Rose Plays Julie | Peter | 2021 |
Those Who Wish Me Dead | Jack Blackwell | 2021 |
Keepers of the Flame | 2018 | |
The Good Man | Michael | 2012 |
Sigur Rós: Valtari Film Experiment | Man (Ekki Múkk) | 2013 |
When Cary Grant Introduced Timothy Leary to LSD | Timothy Leary | 2017 |
Violet | Narrator | 2015 |
Pickups | Aidan | 2017 |
Tapping the Wire | Self | 2007 |
A View of Harry Clark | Martin Kemp (as Adrian Murphy) | 1989 |
Photo Finish | Joe Wilde | 2004 |
The Physician II | Hunne | 2025 | Series | Cast | Year |
Game of Thrones | Petyr 'Littlefinger' Baelish | 2011 |
The Wire | Tommy Carcetti | 2002 |
Queer as Folk | Stuart Alan Jones | 1999 |
Identity | DI John Bloom | 2010 |
Love/Hate | John Boy Power | 2010 |
星际杀手 | 2021 | |
Mayday | Everett Newcombe | 2013 |
Killers of the Cosmos | 2021 | |
The Bill | Jeff Barratt | 1984 |
In Suspicious Circumstances | James Crozier | 1991 |
Law & Order: Trial by Jury | Jimmy Colby | 2005 |
The Last Detective | Steve Fallon | 2003 |
Dice | Glenn Taylor | 2001 |
Agatha Christie's Poirot | Amyas Crale | 1989 |
Mayor of Kingstown | Milo Sunter | 2021 |
Quantum Break | Paul Serene | 2016 |
Charlie | Charles J. Haughey | 2015 |
Peaky Blinders | Aberama Gold | 2013 |
Urban Myths | Timothy Leary | 2017 |
Lorna Doone | Carver Doone | 2000 |
That Dirty Black Bag | Butler | 2022 |
Project Blue Book | Dr. Allen Hynek | 2019 |
The Play on One | Harry | 1988 |
Rock, Paper, Scissors | Steven Shadowwhispers (voice) | 2024 |
Thorne | Phil Hendricks | 2010 |
Kin | Frank Kinsella | 2021 |