Aidan Gillen

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Aidan Gillen (born Aidan Murphy on 24 April 1968) is an Irish stage and screen actor.

Biography

Gillen was born in the Drumcondra suburb of Dublin, Ireland. He began his acting career as a teenager with Dublin Youth Theatre, at the age of 16 playing Bottom in "A Midsummer Night's Dream" at the Project Arts Centre, [Guardian interview by Mark Lawson, 3 October 2007 [http://arts.guardian.co.uk/theatre/drama/story/0,,2182469,00.html] ] before moving to London.

He is perhaps best known in the UK for his role as Stuart Alan Jones in the ground-breaking British television series, "Queer as Folk", and its sequel, "Queer as Folk 2", for which he was nominated for the British Academy Television Award for Best Actor in 2000. American audiences know him best for his role as Tommy Carcetti in HBO's television series "The Wire".

Gillen was nominated for a Tony Award for his highly acclaimed Broadway role in Harold Pinter's "The Caretaker" in 2003. He 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", and in its London West End production.

He lives in North London.

tage and screen credits

Filmography

*"The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne" (1987, credited as Aidan Murphy)
*"The Courier" (1988)
*"An Ungentlemanly Act" (1992, TV) as Marine Wilcox
*"Safe" (1993, TV) as Gypo
*"A Handful of Stars" (1993, TV) as Tony
*"Belfry" (1993, TV) as Dominic
*"Circle of Friends" (1995) as Aidan
*"Some Mother's Son" (1996) as Gerard Quigley
*"Gold in the Streets" (1996) as Paddy
*"Mojo" (1997) as Baby
*"Amazing Grace" (1998) as Young Man
*"Buddy Boy" (1999) as Francis
*"Queer as Folk" (1999-2000, TV) as Stuart Alan Jones
*"Lorna Doone" (2000, TV) as Carver Doone
*"The Darkling" (2000, TV) as Jeff Obold
*"The Low Down" (2000) as Frank (Best Newcomer, Edinburgh Film Festival [Gillen's programme CV, 2007] )
*"The Second Death" (2000) as Pool Player 1
*"Dice" (2001, TV miniseries) as Glenn Taylor
*"My Kingdom" (2001) as Puttnam
*"The Final Curtain" (2002) as Dave Turner
*"Poirot: Five Little Pigs" (2003, TV) as Amyas Crale
*"Burning The Bed" (2003) as Stephen
*"Shanghai Knights" (2003) as Lord Nelson Rathbone
*"Photo Finish" (2003)
*"The Wire" (2004-2008, TV series) as Tommy Carcetti
*"Guns, Money and Homecooking" (2005) as Tony
*"Walk Away and I Stumble" (2005, TV) as Paul
*"Trouble with Sex" (2005) as Conor
*"Blackout" (2007) as Karl
*"12 Rounds" (2009) as Miles

Television

Television includes: [Gillen's programme CV, 2007]
*"Killing Time"
*"An Ungentlemanly Act"
*"Safe" (BAFTA Best Actor nomination)
*"The Wexford Trilogy: A Handful of Stars" and "Belfry"
*"Queer As Folk"
*"Dice"
*"Five Little Pigs"
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*Three seasons of "The Wire"

Theatre

*"Juno and the Paycock", Soldier (National Theatre, Lyttelton 1989)
*"The Long Way Round", Albin (National Theatre: Cottesloe 1989)
*"The Water Engine", Bernie (Hampstead Theatre 1989)
*"The Wexford Trilogy": Tony in "A Handful of Stars" and Dominic in "Belfry" (Bush Theatre 1992)
*"Marvin’s Room", Hank (Hampstead Theatre and Comedy Theatre 1993)
*"The Playboy of the Western World", Christopher Mahon (Almeida Theatre 1994)
*"Mojo", Skinny (Royal Court Theatre 1995)
*"The Tempest", Ariel (Almeida Theatre 2000)
*"Platonov", Platonov (Almeida Theatre 2001)
*"The Caretaker", Mick (Roundabout Theatre, New York 2003)
*"Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me", Edward (New Ambassadors Theatre 2005)
*"American Buffalo", Teach (Gate Theatre, Dublin 2007)
*"Glengarry Glen Ross", Richard Roma (Apollo Theatre 2007) [Gillen's own CV in the Apollo Theatre programme, 2007; checked against and with additional material from
Theatre Record and its annual Indexes]

References

External links

*imdb name|id=0318821|name=Aidan Gillen
*http://arts.guardian.co.uk/theatre/drama/story/0,,2182469,00.html#TheWireHBO Guardian profile
*http://www.officiallondontheatre.co.uk/news/interviews/view/item72237/ Society of London Theatre: The Big Interview, 10 October 2007