Aidan Gillen is an Irish actor.
He is best known for portraying Stuart Alan Jones in the Channel 4 series Queer as Folk,
John Boy in the crime drama Love/Hate, Petyr "Littlefinger" Baelish in the HBO series Game
of Thrones, and Tommy Carcetti in the HBO drama The Wire.
He is the current host of Other Voices.
He has been nominated for the British Academy Television Award, the British Independent
Film Award and a Tony Award, and has won two Irish Film & Television Awards.
Early years Gillen was born in Drumcondra, Dublin, and
educated at St. Vincent's C.B.S. in Glasnevin.
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.
Career Gillen played Stuart Alan Jones in the groundbreaking
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 nominated for a Tony Award for his highly acclaimed Broadway role in Harold Pinter's
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 portrayed 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 in Television.
In 2008, he was named an "Irish cult hero" by the Sunday Tribune.
He appeared in the 2009 film 12 Rounds, and in July of that year, he appeared in the one-off
BBC2 drama Freefall.
He co-starred as Phil Hendrick in the British drama Thorne.
In 2011, Gillen began playing Petyr "Littlefinger" Baelish on the award-winning HBO series Game
of Thrones, for which he received his second Irish Film & Television Award nomination.
He starred with as cop killer Barry Weiss in the British crime-thriller Blitz, and in
the British horror film Wake Wood.
He played crime boss John Boy in the acclaimed Irish crime-drama Love/Hate, for which he
received his third Irish Film & Television Award nomination and second win.
In 2012, Gillen played a CIA agent in the opening of The Dark Knight Rises and starred
in the British spy-drama Shadow Dancer.
He was announced as the new host of the music show Other Voices.
He is set to star in the comedy-drama Calvary and the BBC five-part thriller Mayday.
He shared a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination with the cast of Game of Thrones for Outstanding
Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series.
He also starred in the short film Ekki Múkk, created for the Valtari Mystery Film Experiment
by Icelandic band Sigur Rós.
Personal life In 2001, Gillen married his girlfriend, Olivia
O'Flanagan.
The couple live in Ireland with their daughter Berry and son Joe.
In 2009, when Gillen won an Irish Film and Television Award for his role in The Wire,
he dedicated the award to his wife and children.
His sister, Fionnuala Murphy, is an actress, while his brother, John Paul Murphy, is a
playwright, and another sister, Patricia Murphy, is a teacher.
Filmography Film
Television Stage
Audiobooks and narration 1994 Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha by Roddy Doyle.
ISBN 1860219004, ASIN B0051H6FW4, Reviews from Amazon
1995 Felicia's Journey by William Trevor.
ASIN B000PYA4MA, ASIN B002X7UY36 1995 The Barrytown Trilogy: The Commitments
by Roddy Doyle.
ISBN 1860219152, ISBN 1860219799, ASIN B002SQCXX6 1998 Irish Short Stories, ed.Colm Toibin.
ISBN 0140863664 2010 The Poetry Of Ireland.
ASIN B003GQ6S2O, available online 2013 The Last Tycoon by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
Gillen as Munroe Stahr.
BBC Radio 4 Saturday Drama D/L ISBN 9781471356612, ASIN: B00D52FL90, Audio Download
Awards and nominations References
External links Aidan Gillen at the Internet Movie Database
http:www.guardian.co.uk201205/aidan-gillen-shadow-dancer-interview%7C The
Guardian profile.
2012 http:www.guardian.co.uk200914/aidan-gillen-freefall-television%7C
The Guardian profile.
2009 http:www.guardian.co.uk200703/theatre2#TheWireHBO%7CThe%7C
The Guardian profile.
2007