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Aidan Gillen

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  • Writer
  • Producer
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Versatile everyman Aidan Gillen plays the mysterious, scheming Petyr 'Littlefinger' Baelish on "Game of Thrones." What are some other interesting roles he's played over the years?
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Aidan Gillen is an Irish actor. He is best known for portraying Petyr "Littlefinger" Baelish in the HBO series Game of Thrones (2011), CIA operative Bill Wilson in The Dark Knight Rises (2012), Stuart Alan Jones in the Channel 4 series Queer as Folk (1999), John Boy in the RTÉ Television series Love/Hate (2010), and Tommy Carcetti in the HBO series The Wire (2002).

In 2011, Gillen began playing Petyr "Littlefinger" Baelish on the HBO series Game of Thrones (2011), for which he received his second Irish Film & Television Award nomination.

In 2015 he starred in Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials (2015) the second film in the Maze Runner trilogy.

He also appeared in the fourth season of Peaky Blinders as Aberama Gold,and reprises his role in the fifth season too.
BornApril 24, 1968
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BornApril 24, 1968
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  • Nominated for 1 BAFTA Award
    • 7 wins & 15 nominations total

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Aidan Gillen in Peaky Blinders (2013)
Paola Dionisotti, Aidan Gillen, and Rupert Vansittart in Game of Thrones (2011)
Aidan Gillen in Project Blue Book (2019)
Aidan Gillen, Michael Malarkey, and Sebastian Greaves in Project Blue Book (2019)
Aidan Gillen, Michael Malarkey, and Stephanie Bennett in Project Blue Book (2019)
Aidan Gillen in Project Blue Book (2019)
Aidan Gillen in Project Blue Book (2019)
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Aidan Gillen in Project Blue Book (2019)
Aidan Gillen, Brooke Smith, and Michael Malarkey in Project Blue Book (2019)
Aidan Gillen in No Small Parts (2014)
Aidan Gillen and Louise Lombard in Gold in the Streets (1997)

Known for

Game of Thrones (2011)
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  • Petyr 'Littlefinger' Baelish
Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials (2015)
Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials
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  • 2015
Morgan Freeman, Gary Oldman, Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Matthew Modine, Anne Hathaway, Marion Cotillard, and Joseph Gordon-Levitt in The Dark Knight Rises (2012)
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  • CIA Op
  • 2012
Giancarlo Esposito, Thomas Brodie-Sangster, Dexter Darden, Dylan O'Brien, Ki Hong Lee, and Rosa Salazar in Maze Runner: The Death Cure (2018)
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  • The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
    • Alec Leamas (rumored)
    • In Development
    • TV Mini Series
    • 2023
  • Dance First
    • James Joyce
    • Post-production
  • Jeremy Renner in Mayor of Kingstown (2021)
    Mayor of Kingstown
    • Milo Sunter
    • TV Series
    • 2021–2023
  • Kin (2021)
    Kin
    • Frank Kinsella
    • TV Series
    • 2021–2023
  • Aidan Gillen in Barber (2023)
    Barber
    • Val Barber
    • 2023
  • Rory O'Malley and Lauren Ash in Chicago Party Aunt (2021)
    Chicago Party Aunt
    • (voice)
    • TV Series
    • 2022
  • Dominic Cooper and Douglas Booth in That Dirty Black Bag (2022)
    That Dirty Black Bag
    • Butler
    • TV Series
    • 2022
  • Angelina Jolie, Aidan Gillen, Nicholas Hoult, Jon Bernthal, Medina Senghore, and Finn Little in Those Who Wish Me Dead (2021)
    Those Who Wish Me Dead
    • Jack
    • 2021
  • Aidan Gillen and Michael Malarkey in Project Blue Book (2019)
    Project Blue Book
    • Dr. J. Allen Hynek
    • TV Series
    • 2019–2020
  • Ann Skelly in Rose Plays Julie (2019)
    Rose Plays Julie
    • Peter
    • 2019
  • Cillian Murphy, Paul Anderson, Sophie Rundle, Natasha O'Keeffe, Harry Kirton, and Finn Cole in Peaky Blinders (2013)
    Peaky Blinders
    • Aberama Gold
    • TV Series
    • 2017–2019
  • I didn't... I wasn't... I amn't (2018)
    I didn't... I wasn't... I amn't
    • Aidan
    • Short
    • 2018
  • Rami Malek in Bohemian Rhapsody (2018)
    Bohemian Rhapsody
    • John Reid
    • 2018
  • We Ourselves (2018)
    We Ourselves
    • Killian
    • 2018
  • Aidan Gillen in Dave Allen at Peace (2018)
    Dave Allen at Peace
    • Dave Allen
    • TV Movie
    • 2018
  • Giancarlo Esposito, Thomas Brodie-Sangster, Dexter Darden, Dylan O'Brien, Ki Hong Lee, and Rosa Salazar in Maze Runner: The Death Cure (2018)
    Maze Runner: The Death Cure
    • Janson
    • 2018
  • Game of Thrones Conquest & Rebellion: An Animated History of the Seven Kingdoms (2017)
    Game of Thrones Conquest & Rebellion: An Animated History of the Seven Kingdoms
    • Petyr 'Littlefinger' Baelish (voice)
    • Video
    • 2017

Writer

  • Pickups (2017)
    Pickups
    • Writer
    • 2017

Producer

  • Pickups (2017)
    Pickups
    • executive producer
    • 2017
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Personal details

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  • Alternative names
    • Aiden Gillen
  • Height
    • 5′ 9″ (1.75 m)
  • Born
    • April 24, 1968
    • Dublin, Ireland
  • Spouse
    • Olivia O'FlanaganJuly 7, 2001 - 2014 (separated, 2 children)
  • Children
      Berry
  • Relatives
      Fionnuala Murphy(Sibling)
  • Other works
    He acted in John Millington Synge's play, "The Playboy of the Western World," at the Almeida Theatre in London, England with Aisling O'Sullivan, Des McAleer, Gina Moxley, directed by Lynne Parker.
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  • Trivia
    He uses the surname of Gillen because someone else was already registered as Aidan Murphy in the Actors' Guild. Gillen is his mother's surname.
  • Quotes
    On his role as Tommy Carcetti in HBO's The Wire (2002): We follow Carcetti's journey as a minor player in city politics to a major contender in a mayoral election. He was a young guy who was considered an upstart, who saw an opportunity to do something, maybe effect some change. We see him open up and develop a conscience. I hope he's not just coming across as smarm. I'd say he's flawed, but driven.
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