Aidan Gillen

Acting · Born 1968-04-24 in Dublin, Ireland

Biography

Aidan Murphy (born 1967 or 1968), better known as Aidan Gillen (/ˈɡɪlən/), is an Irish actor. He is known for his roles as Stuart Alan Jones in Queer as Folk (1999–2000); Tommy Carcetti in The Wire (2004–2008); John Boy in Love/Hate (2010–2011); Petyr "Littlefinger" Baelish in Game of Thrones (2011–2017), Aberama Gold in Peaky Blinders (2017–2019); as Milo Sunter on Mayor of Kingstown (2021–present); and as Frank Kinsella, in the crime drama Kin (2021–2023). His film roles include CIA operative Bill Wilson in The Dark Knight Rises (2012), Janson in Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials (2015), and John Reid in Bohemian Rhapsody (2018), and several films directed by Jamie Thraves. He has received three Irish Film & Television Awards and has been nominated for a British Academy Television Award,…

Filmography

• Calvary as Dr. Frank Harte
• The Dark Knight Rises as CIA Op
• Sing Street as Robert Lawlor
• Maze Runner: The Death Cure as Janson
• Bohemian Rhapsody as John Reid
• Further Beyond as Ambrosio O'Higgins
• The Darkling as Jeff Obold
• Shanghai Knights as Lord Nelson Rathbone
• Barber as Valentine Barber
• Blackout as Karl

TV

• Game of Thrones as Petyr 'Littlefinger' Baelish
• The Wire as Tommy Carcetti
• Queer as Folk as Stuart Alan Jones
• Agatha Christie's Poirot as Amyas Crale
• Mayor of Kingstown as Milo Sunter
• Peaky Blinders as Aberama Gold
• Project Blue Book as Allen Hynek
• Identity as DI John Bloom
• Love/Hate as John Boy Power
• Mayday as Everett Newcombe