Aidan Gillen

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, a British Independent Film Award, and a Tony Award.

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Known For

Game of Thrones

Petyr 'Littlefinger' Baelish

London Calling

Freddy Darby

Peaky Blinders

Aberama Gold

Mayor of Kingstown

Milo Sunter

Agatha Christie's Poirot

Amyas Crale

The Wire

Tommy Carcetti

The Dark Knight Rises

CIA Op

Bohemian Rhapsody

John Reid

Filmography

Year	Movie	Role
2026	Pojedynek	Vasily Zarubin
2025	London Calling	Freddy Darby
2025	Re-Creation	Hamilton Barnes
2025	Amongst the Wolves	Power
2025	The Physician II	Hunne
2025	TRAD
2024	The Story of Microdisney: The Clock Comes Down the Stairs	Self
2023	Barber	Valentine Barber
2023	Dance First	James Joyce
2021	Rose Plays Julie	Peter
2021	Those Who Wish Me Dead	Jack Blackwell
2019	I didn't... I wasn't... I amn't...	Aidan
2019	Confinement	Narrator (voice)
2018	Maze Runner: The Death Cure	Janson
2018	Dave Allen at Peace	Dave Allen
2018	Bohemian Rhapsody	John Reid
2018	We Ourselves
2018	Keepers of the Flame
2017	King Arthur: Legend of the Sword	William "Goosefat Bill"
2017	The Lovers	Robert
2017	Game of Thrones - Conquest & Rebellion: An Animated History of the Seven Kingdoms	Littlefinger (voice)
2017	When Cary Grant Introduced Timothy Leary to LSD	Timothy Leary
2017	Pickups	Aidan
2016	Further Beyond	Ambrosio O'Higgins
2016	Sing Street	Robert Lawlor
2015	Men of Granite	Pelf
2015	Still	Carver
2015	Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials	Janson
2015	You're Ugly Too	Will
2015	Violet	Narrator
2014	Calvary	Dr. Frank Harte
2014	Ambition	Master
2013	The Note	Lars
2013	Mister John	Gerry Devine
2013	Beneath the Harvest Sky	Clayton Cote
2013	Scrapper	Ray
2013	Sigur Rós: Valtari Film Experiment	Man (Ekki Múkk)
2012	Shadow Dancer	Gerry
2012	The Dark Knight Rises	CIA Op
2012	Ekki múkk	Man
2012	The Good Man	Michael
2011	Blitz	Barry Weiss
2011	Wake Wood	Patrick
2010	Thorne: Scaredycat	Phil Hendricks
2010	Treacle Jr.	Aiden
2009	12 Rounds	Miles Jackson
2009	Freefall	Gus
2008	Blackout	Karl
2007	The Wire: The Last Word	Self
2007	The Wire Odyssey	Self
2007	Walk Away and I Stumble	Paul
2007	Tapping the Wire	Self
2005	Trouble with Sex	Conor
2005	Willesden Confidential	Steve Fallon
2004	Photo Finish	Joe Wilde
2003	Shanghai Knights	Lord Nelson Rathbone
2003	Burning The Bed	Stephen
2002	The Final Curtain	Dave Turner
2001	My Kingdom	Puttnam
2001	The Low Down	Frank
2001	Lorna Doone	Carver Doone
2000	The Darkling	Jeff Obold
2000	Buddy Boy	Francis
2000	The Second Death	Pool Player
1997	Amazing Grace	Frank
1997	Mojo	Baby
1997	Gold In The Streets	Paddy
1996	Some Mother's Son	Gerard Quigley
1995	Circle of Friends	Aidan Lynch
1993	Safe	Gypo
1992	An Ungentlemanly Act	Marine Wilcox
1991	Killing Time	Harry
1989	A View of Harry Clark	Martin Kemp (as Adrian Murphy)
1988	The Courier	Prostitute Boy
1987	The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne	Youth at Liquor Store (as Aiden Murphy)
1985	The Drip
	James and Lucia	James Joyce
	Panic Carefully
	Nostalgie	Drew

Year	TV Show	Role
2023	Rock, Paper, Scissors	Steven Shadowwhispers (voice)
2022	That Dirty Black Bag	Butler
2021	星际杀手
2021	Killers of the Cosmos
2021	Mayor of Kingstown	Milo Sunter
2021	Kin	Frank Kinsella
2019	Project Blue Book	Allen Hynek
2017	Urban Myths	Timothy Leary
2016	Quantum Break	Paul Serene
2015	Charlie	Charles J. Haughey
2013	Mayday	Everett Newcombe
2013	Peaky Blinders	Aberama Gold
2011	Game of Thrones	Petyr 'Littlefinger' Baelish
2010	Identity	DI John Bloom
2010	Love/Hate	John Boy Power
2010	Thorne	Phil Hendricks
2005	Law & Order: Trial by Jury	Jimmy Colby
2003	The Last Detective	Steve Fallon
2002	The Wire	Tommy Carcetti
2001	Dice	Glenn Taylor
2000	Lorna Doone	Carver Doone
1999	Queer as Folk	Stuart Alan Jones
1991	In Suspicious Circumstances	James Crozier
1989	Agatha Christie's Poirot	Amyas Crale
1988	The Play on One	Harry
1984	The Bill	Jeff Barratt
	Tall Tales & Murder
	Other Voices	Host — Presenter
	Witness Protection