Aidan Quinn was born on March 8,1959 and is an American actor who made his film debut in Reckless.
23 Facts About Aidan Quinn
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Aidan Quinn played Captain Thomas "Tommy" Gregson in the CBS television series Elementary.
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Aidan Quinn was born in Chicago, Illinois, to Irish Catholic parents.
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Aidan Quinn was raised in Chicago and Rockford, Illinois, as well as in Dublin and Birr, County Offaly, Ireland.
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Aidan Quinn's mother, Teresa, was a homemaker, but worked as a bookkeeper and in the travel business, and his father, Michael Quinn, was a professor of English literature at Rock Valley College.
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When he was nineteen and working as a roofer, Aidan Quinn realized he wanted to become an actor.
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Aidan Quinn's older brother, Declan Quinn, is a cinematographer, and his younger sister, Marian, is an actress, director and writer.
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Aidan Quinn next starred in the controversial television film An Early Frost, about a young gay lawyer dying of AIDS.
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Aidan Quinn received his first Emmy Award nomination for the role.
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Aidan Quinn made a short, well received contribution as Robert De Niro's brother in The Mission.
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Aidan Quinn played escaped convict Richard "Stick" Montgomery in the action comedy Stakeout opposite Richard Dreyfuss and Emilio Estevez.
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In 1983, Aidan Quinn lost the role of Jesus Christ when Paramount Pictures dropped the distribution rights to the Martin Scorsese movie The Last Temptation of Christ.
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Aidan Quinn starred in Michael Collins, Song for a Raggy Boy, This Is My Father, and Evelyn.
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Aidan Quinn had a cameo appearance as the captain of a doomed Arctic vessel in the Francis Ford Coppola-produced adaptation of Frankenstein.
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In 2000, Aidan Quinn portrayed Paul McCartney in the VH1 television drama Two of Us.
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Aidan Quinn played Kerry Max Cook in the 2005 movie The Exonerated, a true story about people on death row who had been freed.
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Aidan Quinn played the main character on the NBC drama The Book of Daniel in 2006.
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In 2007, Aidan Quinn received his second Emmy nomination for the television movie Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee.
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Aidan Quinn starred as Dermot opposite Taylor Schilling in the Canadian-Irish drama film Stay.
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In 1987, Aidan Quinn married his Stakeout co-star Elizabeth Bracco.
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In 2010, Aidan Quinn attended a premiere benefit screening of A Shine of Rainbows for the International Children's Media Center and The American Ireland Fund.
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Aidan Quinn spoke at the 2003 "Night of Too Many Stars" gala benefiting The Autism Coalition.
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Aidan Quinn was an honorary board member of the National Alliance for Autism Research, which merged with Autism Speaks.