Tommy Flanagan(I)
- Actor
- Producer
Tommy Flanagan was born and raised in Glasgow, Scotland where he made his stage debut at the Raindog Theatre Company and appeared in such productions as One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and MacBeth.
Flanagan soon landed the role of Scottish rebel 'Morrison' in the Mel Gibson epic Braveheart (1995) and went on to work with an array of top directors in films such as Phillip Noyce's The Saint (1997), John Woo's Face/Off (1997), and David Fincher's The Game (1997).
Tommy Flanagan stars alongside Russell Crowe in Sleeping Dogs (2023) which reunites the actors following their work together on Ridley Scott's Oscar-winning classic, Gladiator. Flanagan is perhaps best known for his role as Filip 'Chibs' Telford in FX's Emmy-nominated biker gang drama Sons of Anarchy (2008 - 2014), which ran for seven seasons. Flanagan stars opposite Joseph Sikora in Starz's Power Book IV: Force (2022) - a spin-off of the premium cabler's hugely popular crime drama Power, which has been picked up for a second season. He has appeared on HBO's Westworld (2020) opposite Evan Rachel Wood and Vincent Cassel and has also been seen on series like Peaky Blinders (2013) and Netflix's Wu Assassins (2019), among others.
Recent film credits for Flanagan include the James Gunn-directed Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017); the action-thriller Boon (2022) opposite Neil McDonough; the crime actioner Killers Anonymous (2019) opposite Gary Oldman and Jessica Alba; A24's acclaimed Western The Ballad of Lefty Brown (2017) opposite Bill Pullman, Jim Caviezel and Peter Fonda; Bleecker Street's Papillon (2017) remake, which reunited him with Sons of Anarchy's Charlie Hunnam; Netflix's Iraq War pic Sand Castle (2017) opposite Henry Cavill and Nicholas Hoult; and Heidi Greensmith's indie drama Winter (2015) opposite Tom Payne.
Flanagan soon landed the role of Scottish rebel 'Morrison' in the Mel Gibson epic Braveheart (1995) and went on to work with an array of top directors in films such as Phillip Noyce's The Saint (1997), John Woo's Face/Off (1997), and David Fincher's The Game (1997).
Tommy Flanagan stars alongside Russell Crowe in Sleeping Dogs (2023) which reunites the actors following their work together on Ridley Scott's Oscar-winning classic, Gladiator. Flanagan is perhaps best known for his role as Filip 'Chibs' Telford in FX's Emmy-nominated biker gang drama Sons of Anarchy (2008 - 2014), which ran for seven seasons. Flanagan stars opposite Joseph Sikora in Starz's Power Book IV: Force (2022) - a spin-off of the premium cabler's hugely popular crime drama Power, which has been picked up for a second season. He has appeared on HBO's Westworld (2020) opposite Evan Rachel Wood and Vincent Cassel and has also been seen on series like Peaky Blinders (2013) and Netflix's Wu Assassins (2019), among others.
Recent film credits for Flanagan include the James Gunn-directed Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017); the action-thriller Boon (2022) opposite Neil McDonough; the crime actioner Killers Anonymous (2019) opposite Gary Oldman and Jessica Alba; A24's acclaimed Western The Ballad of Lefty Brown (2017) opposite Bill Pullman, Jim Caviezel and Peter Fonda; Bleecker Street's Papillon (2017) remake, which reunited him with Sons of Anarchy's Charlie Hunnam; Netflix's Iraq War pic Sand Castle (2017) opposite Henry Cavill and Nicholas Hoult; and Heidi Greensmith's indie drama Winter (2015) opposite Tom Payne.
