20 Facts About Aidan Gillen

Aidan Gillen provided the voice and motion capture for Paul Serene in the 2016 video game Quantum Break.

Aidan Gillen was born in the Drumcondra area of Dublin on 24 April 1968, the youngest of six children born to Patricia and Denis Murphy.

Aidan Gillen began his acting career as a teenager, joining the National Youth Theatre at the age of fourteen and playing Nick Bottom in a production of A Midsummer Night's Dream at the Project Arts Centre when he was sixteen.

The name Aidan Gillen Murphy was already registered so he began using his mother's maiden name as a stage name.

Aidan Gillen moved to London in 1987 when he was nineteen.

Aidan Gillen played Stuart Alan Jones in the Channel 4 television series Queer as Folk and its sequel, for which he received a British Academy Television Award nomination for Best Actor.

Aidan Gillen was nominated for a Tony Award for his Broadway role in Harold Pinter's play The Caretaker and has been nominated for an Irish Times Theatre Award for his portrayal of Teach in the Dublin Gate Theatre's 2007 production of David Mamet's American Buffalo.

Aidan Gillen appeared in the 2009 film 12 Rounds, and in July of that year, he appeared in the one-off BBC2 drama Freefall.

Aidan Gillen co-starred as Phil Hendrick in the British drama Thorne.

Aidan Gillen appeared in seven seasons, until his character's death in the season 7 finale "The Dragon and the Wolf".

Aidan Gillen starred as cop killer Barry Weiss in the British crime-thriller Blitz and in the British horror film Wake Wood.

Aidan Gillen said he enjoyed playing the role, but preferred low-budget lead roles to blockbuster bit-parts.

Aidan Gillen starred in the BBC five-part thriller Mayday in 2013, and the Irish comedy-drama film Calvary the following year.

Aidan Gillen shared a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination with the cast of Game of Thrones for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series.

Aidan Gillen starred in the short film Ekki Mukk, created for the Valtari Mystery Film Experiment by Icelandic band Sigur Ros, as well as Janson in the second film, The Scorch Trials, and third film, Maze Runner: The Death Cure, in the Maze Runner trilogy.

Aidan Gillen played Queen's manager John Reid in the biopic Bohemian Rhapsody, which was released on 2 November 2018.

Aidan Gillen starred as Aidan in the short film titled I Didn't.

Aidan Gillen starred in The History Channel's two-season series Project Blue Book from 2019 to 2020.

Aidan Gillen is joined by his partner Air Force Capt.

Aidan Gillen has been in a relationship with singer Camille O'Sullivan since 2017.