Aidan Gillen Bio | Wiki
Aidan Gillen is an Irish actor. He is the recipient of three Irish Film & Television Awards. Aiden 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 and Tommy Carcetti in the HBO series The Wire among others. On Films, Aiden played Miles Jackson in 12 Rounds, CIA operative Bill Wilson in The Dark Knight Rises, and Janson in Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials among others.
Aidan Gillen Age
Aiden was born on April 24, 1968, in Drumcondra, Dublin, Ireland. He is 54 years old.
Aidan Gillen Height
He is a man of average stature and stands at a height of 5 ft 9 in (Approx. 1.75 m).
Aidan Gillen Family
He was born in the Drumcondra area of Dublin, to his parents Patricia and Denis Murphy. Aiden is the youngest of six children including John Paul Murphy, Fionnuala Murphy, and Patricia Murphy. His mother is a nurse and his late father was an architect.
His sister Fionnuala is an actress and his brother John is a playwright and Patricia is a teacher. He uses the surname of Gillen because someone else was already registered as Aidan Murphy in the Actors’ Guild. Gillen is Aiden’s mother’s surname.
Aidan Gillen Wife
Aiden married Olivia O’Flanagan in 2001. The two met when they were teenagers. They have two children: Berry (b. March 1997) and Joe (b. October 2000). Aiden and Olivia separated in 2015. Aiden lives in his native Dublin. He has been in a relationship with singer Camille O’Sullivan since 2017.
Aidan Gillen Education
He was educated at St. Vincent’s C.B.S. in Dublin’s Glasnevin neighborhood. Aiden began his acting career as a teenager, joining the National Youth Theatre at the age of fourteen and playing Nick Bottom in a production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Project Arts Centre when he was sixteen. He moved to London in 1987 when he was nineteen.
Aidan Gillen Movies and Tv Shows
2011–2013 Other Voices
2013 Mayday
2015 Charlie
2017 Urban Myths
2017–2019 Peaky Blinders
2018 Dave Allen at Peace
2019–2020 Project Blue Book
2021 Kin
2021–2022 Mayor of Kingstown
2022 That Dirty Black Bag
2015 You’re Ugly Too
2015 Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials
2016 Sing Street
2017 The Lovers
2017 King Arthur: Legend of the Sword
2018 Maze Runner: The Death Cure
2018 Bohemian Rhapsody
2019 I Didn’t…I Wasn’t…I Amn’t
2019 Rose Plays Julie
2021 Those Who Wish Me Dead
Aidan Gillen Peaky Blinders
Aiden portrayed Aberama Gold in Peaky Blinders, a British period crime drama television series created by Steven Knight. Set in Birmingham, England, it follows the exploits of the Peaky Blinders crime gang in the direct aftermath of the First World War. The fictional gang is loosely based on a real urban youth gang of the same name that was active in the city from the 1880s to the 1910s.
Aidan Gillen Game Of Thrones | Littlefinger
In 2011, Aiden began playing Petyr “Littlefinger” Baelish on the HBO series Game of Thrones, for which he received his second Irish Film & Television Award nomination. He appeared in seven seasons until his character’s death in the season 7 finale “The Dragon and the Wolf”. Aiden shared a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination with the cast of Game of Thrones for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series.
Aidan Gillen Bohemian Rhapsody
He played Queen’s manager John Reid in the biopic Bohemian Rhapsody, which was released on 2 November 2018. Bohemian Rhapsody is a 2018 biographical musical drama film directed by Bryan Singer from a screenplay by Anthony McCarten and produced by Graham King and Queen manager Jim Beach.
It focuses on the life of Freddie Mercury, the lead singer of the British rock band Queen, from the formation of the band in 1970 to their 1985 Live Aid performance at the original Wembley Stadium.
Aidan Gillen That Dirty Black Bag
In 2022, Aiden portrayed Butler in That Dirty Black Bag, a Spaghetti Western television series created by Mauro Aragoni, Silvia Ebreul, and Marcello Izzo for AMC+. It features an ensemble cast led by Dominic Cooper, Travis Fimmel, and Aidan Gillen. The eight-part series was filmed in Italy, Spain, and Morocco, and it premiered on March 10, 2022.
Aidan Gillen Net Worth
He earns his wealth from his career, therefore, he has amassed a fortune over the years. Aiden’s estimated net worth is $8 million.
Who Is Aidan Gillen
He is a 54-year-old Irish actor. He is the recipient of three Irish Film & Television Awards. Aiden has been nominated for a British Academy Television Award, a British Independent Film Award, and a Tony Award.