Aidan Gillen
Highest Rated: 95% Rose Plays Julie (2019)
Lowest Rated: 31% 12 Rounds (2009)
Birthday: Apr 24, 1968
Birthplace: Dublin, Ireland
A human chameleon with a deft touch at playing charismatic heels, Aidan Gillen became an intrinsic player to some of the most groundbreaking television shows of the 1990s and 2000s, including such prestige fare as the U.K.'s "Queer as Folk" (Channel 4, 1999-2000) and HBO's "The Wire" (2002-08) and "Game of Thrones" (2011- ). In the early 1990s, the Irish-born Gillen established a footprint in the U.K. theater scene and a run of well-regarded independent films like "Circle of Friends" (1995), "Some Mother's Son" (1996), "Mojo" (1997) and "Buddy Boy" (1999). In 1999, he landed one of the leads on the daring British series "Queer as Folk," one of the first humanizing looks at gay culture in television history. In 2003, Gillen's Broadway debut in Harold Pinter's "The Caretaker" earned him a Tony nomination, setting him up for a memorable splash on U.S. television as Mayor Tommy Carcetti on HBO's magnum opus urban drama "The Wire." Gillen carved a niche playing textured, scene-stealing villains in projects such as "Lorna Doone" (BBC, 2000), "The Final Curtain" (2002), "Shanghai Knights" (2003), "Blackout" (2008), "Freefall" (BBC, 2009) and "Blitz" (2011), capped deftly by his return home to play a mob boss in the Irish drama "Love/Hate" (RTE, 2010-11) and the Machiavellian counselor Littlefinger on "Game of Thrones." That international hit widened his profile even further, allowing him strong supporting roles in films like "The Maze Runner: Scorch Trials" (2015), gang drama "Still" (2014) and Guy Ritchie's "King Arthur: Legend of the Sword" (2017).
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Filmography
Movies
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No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Amongst the Wolves | Unknown (Character) | - | 2024 |
42% | No Score Yet | Dance First | James Joyce (Character) | $24.7K | 2023 |
80% |
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Barber | Val Barber (Character) | - | 2023 |
62% |
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Those Who Wish Me Dead | Jack (Character) | $7.3M | 2021 |
95% |
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Rose Plays Julie | Peter (Character) | - | 2019 |
60% |
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Bohemian Rhapsody | John Reid (Character) | $216.3M | 2018 |
42% |
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Maze Runner: The Death Cure | Janson (Character) | $57.4M | 2018 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | We Ourselves | Unknown (Character) | - | 2018 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Dave Allen at Peace | Unknown (Character) | - | 2018 |
82% |
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The Lovers | Robert (Character) | $2.2M | 2017 |
31% |
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King Arthur: Legend of the Sword | Bill (Character) | $39.1M | 2017 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | When Cary Grant Introduced Timothy Leary to LSD | Unknown (Character) | - | 2017 |
95% |
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Sing Street | Robert (Character) | $3.2M | 2016 |
83% |
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You're Ugly Too | Will (Character) | - | 2015 |
48% |
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Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials | Janson (Character) | $81.7M | 2015 |
57% |
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Still | Carver (Character) | - | 2015 |
89% |
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Calvary | Frank Harte (Character) | $3.6M | 2014 |
85% |
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Mister John | Gerry Devine (Character) | - | 2013 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Scrapper | Ray (Character) | - | 2013 |
62% |
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Beneath the Harvest Sky | Clayton (Character) | $28.1K | 2013 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Good Man | Michael (Character) | - | 2012 |
85% |
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Shadow Dancer | Gerry (Character) | $99.1K | 2012 |
48% |
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Blitz | Weiss (Character) | - | 2011 |
81% |
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Wake Wood | Patrick (Character) | - | 2011 |
84% |
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Treacle Jr. | Aidan (Character) | - | 2010 |
No Score Yet |
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Freefall | Gus (Character) | - | 2009 |
31% |
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12 Rounds | Miles Jackson (Character) | $12.2M | 2009 |
No Score Yet |
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Blackout | Karl (Character) | - | 2007 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Trouble With Sex | Conor (Character) | - | 2005 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Walk Away and I Stumble | Unknown (Character) | - | 2005 |
66% |
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Shanghai Knights | Lord Nelson Rathbone (Character) | $60.5M | 2003 |
No Score Yet |
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Poirot: Five Little Pigs | Amyas Crale (Character) | - | 2003 |
No Score Yet |
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The Final Curtain | Dave Turner (Character) | - | 2002 |
38% |
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My Kingdom | Puttnam (Character) | $2.6K | 2001 |
No Score Yet |
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Lorna Doone | Carver Doone (Character) | - | 2000 |
59% |
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The Low Down | Frank (Character) | $32.4K | 2000 |
No Score Yet |
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The Darkling | Jeff Obold (Character) | - | 2000 |
63% |
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Buddy Boy | Francis (Character) | $10.3K | 1999 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Mojo | Baby (Character) | - | 1997 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Gold in the Streets | Paddy (Character) | - | 1997 |
71% |
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Some Mother's Son | Gerard Quigley (Character) | $608.0K | 1996 |
78% |
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Circle of Friends | Aidan Lynch (Character) | $21.7M | 1995 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Safe | Gypo (Character) | - | 1993 |
No Score Yet |
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An Ungentlemanly Act | Marine Wilcox (Character) | - | 1992 |
TV
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89% | 85% | Game of Thrones | Petyr Baelish (Character) | 2011-2017 2019 2024 |
53% | 89% | Mayor of Kingstown | Milo Sunter (Character) | 2023-2024 |
94% | 92% | Kin | Unknown (Character) | 2021 2023 |
80% | 79% | That Dirty Black Bag | Butler (Character) | 2022 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Killers of the Cosmos | Narrator | 2021 |
67% | 92% | Project Blue Book | Dr. J. Allen Hynek (Character) | 2019-2020 |
93% | 93% | Peaky Blinders | Aidan Gillen (Character) | 2017 2019 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Urban Myths | Timothy Leary (Character) | 2017 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Love/Hate | John Boy Power (Character) | 2011-2014 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Mayday | Unknown (Character) | 2013 |
94% | 96% | The Wire | Thomas "Tommy" Carcetti (Character) | 2004 2006 2008 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Law & Order: Trial by Jury | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2005 |
100% | 83% | Queer as Folk | Unknown (Character) | 1999-2000 |
68% | 78% | Doctor Who | Hippias (Character) | 1972 |