1. Aiden Gillen was born Aiden Murphy in the Drumcondra area of Dublin, the youngest of six children born to Patricia and Denis Murphy, in 1967 or 1968.
22 Facts About Aidan Gillen
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Aidan Gillen joined the National Youth Theatre at the age of fourteen, and jointed Dublin Youth Theatre in his teens.
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Aidan Gillen's career began when he was 16, with the role of Nick Bottom in the Dublin Youth Theatre's production of A Midsummer Night's Dream at the Project Theatre in 1983.
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Aidan Gillen obtained his Equity card straight after leaving school, and began getting small professional roles at 17.
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The name Aidan Gillen Murphy was already registered so he began using his mother's maiden name as a stage name.
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Aidan Gillen moved to London in 1987 when he was 18 or 19.
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In 2008 Aidan Gillen played Teach in the Dublin Gate Theatre's 2007 production of David Mamet's American Buffalo.
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Aidan Gillen had his Broadway debut playing Mick, alongside alongside Patrick Stewart and Kyle MacLachlan, in Harold Pinter's play The Caretaker in 2003, directed by David Jones.
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Aidan Gillen played a lead role as Stuart Alan Jones in the 1999 Channel 4 television series Queer as Folk and its sequel.
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Aidan Gillen appeared in seven seasons, until his character's death in the season 7 finale "The Dragon and the Wolf".
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Aidan Gillen starred as cop killer Barry Weiss in the British crime-thriller Blitz and in the British horror film Wake Wood.
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Aidan Gillen said he enjoyed playing the role, but preferred low-budget lead roles to blockbuster bit-parts.
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Aidan Gillen starred in the BBC five-part thriller Mayday in 2013, and the Irish comedy-drama film Calvary the following year.
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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.
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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.
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Aidan Gillen played Queen's manager John Reid in the biopic Bohemian Rhapsody, which was released on 2 November 2018.
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Aidan Gillen starred as Aidan in the short film titled I Didn't.
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Aidan Gillen starred in The History Channel's two-season series Project Blue Book from 2019 to 2020.
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Aidan Gillen is joined by his partner Air Force Capt.
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Aidan Gillen co-wrote the script of and starred in Jamie Thraves' fourth feature film, Pickups.
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Aidan Gillen plays Frank Kinsella, a member of a prominent Irish crime family in the RTE One crime drama Kin.
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In 2008 Aidan Gillen was 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.