Aidan Gillen
Aidan Gillen was born in Dublin, Leinster, Ireland on April 24th, 1968 and is the Movie Actor. At the age of 55, Aidan Gillen biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, movies, TV shows, and networth are available.
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Career
In the Channel 4 television series Queer as Folk and its sequel, Gillen played Stuart Alan Jones, for whom he was nominated for Best Actor by the British Academy Television Award. He was nominated for a Tony Award for his Broadway appearance in Harold Pinter's book The Caretaker, and for his portrayal of Teach in David Mamet's American Buffalo's 2007 revival, he was also nominated for an Irish Times Theatre Award.
Gillen was cast as Tommy Carcetti in HBO's The Wire in 2004, for which he received an Irish Film & Television Award for Best Actor in a Lead Role in Television. According to the Sunday Tribune, he was named an "Irish cult hero" in 2008. He appeared in the 2009 film 12 Rounds, and in July of that year, he appeared in BBC2's one-off BBC2 drama Freefall. In the British drama Thorne, Phil Hendrick co-starred.
Gillen began playing Petyr "Littlefinger" Baelish on HBO's Game of Thrones in 2011, earning him his second Irish Film & Television Award nomination. He appeared in seven seasons before his character was killed in the season 7 finale "The Dragon and the Wolf." In the British crime-thriller Blitz and the British horror film Wake Wood, he appeared as cop killer Barry Weiss. In the acclaimed Irish crime drama Love/Hate, he received his third Irish Film & Television Award nomination and second win.
Bill Wilson, the character's name is from the novelization, but his name is not explicitly stated in the film's script), in his first appearance in a major Hollywood film in 2012, he played CIA operative Bill Wilson (the actor's name is not revealed explicitly in the film's script). Gillen said he loved playing the part but preferred low-budget lead roles to blockbuster bit-parts. Some internet forums lauded Gillen's performance for a supposedly uncomfortable dialogue in the film's first plane scene, particularly by viewers of 4chan's /tv/ board. He then became the subject of a web meme called "Baneposting" by Wilson and Tom Hardy's character Bane in the film. Gillen appeared in the British spy drama Shadow Dancer as a host and was announced as the new host of Other Voices in the same year.
In 2013, he appeared in the BBC five-part thriller Mayday, as well as the Irish comedy-drama film Calvary the following year. He nominated Game of Thrones for Outstanding Achievement by an Ensemble in a Drama Series for a Screen Actor Guild Award. In the Maze Runner trilogy, Gillen appeared in the short film Ekki Mck created for the Valtari Mystery Film Experiment by Icelandic band Sigur Rós, as well as Janson in the second film, The Scorch Trials, and third film Maze Runner: The Death Cure.
In the biopic Bohemian Rhapsody, which was released on 2 November 2018, Gillen played Queen's manager John Reid. In the short film "I Didn't...I Amn't..." written and directed by Irish actress Laoisa Sexton, he starred as Aidan.
From 2019 to 2020, he appeared in The History Channel's two-season series Project Blue Book. Dr. J. Allen Hynek, a brilliant and undervalued college professor who has been recruited by the US Air Force to lead an operation named Project Blue Book, was portrayed by Gillen. He is accompanied by his colleague, Air Force Capt. Michael Quinn is the head of a national UFO investigation into sightings around the country.