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Aidan Gillen (born Aidan Murphy on 24 April 1968 ) is an Irish stage and screen actor .
Contents
1 Biography 2 Stage and screen credits
2.1 Filmography 2.2 Television 2.3 Theatre
3 References 4 External links
Biography Gillen was born in the Drumcondra suburb of Dublin , Ireland . He began his acting career as a teenager with Dublin Youth Theatre, at the age of 16 playing Bottom in A Midsummer Night's Dream Project Arts Centre ,[1] before moving to London .
He is perhaps best known in England for his role as Stuart Alan Jones in the ground-breaking British television series,
Queer as Folk , and its sequel,
Queer as Folk 2 . American audiences know him best for his role as
Tommy Carcetti in
HBO's television series
The Wire .
Gillen was nominated for a Tony Award for his highly acclaimed Broadway role in Harold Pinter 's The Caretaker Gate Theatre 's 2007 production of David Mamet 's American Buffalo .
He lives in North London.
Stage and screen credits Filmography The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne The Courier An Ungentlemanly Act Safe A Handful of Stars (1993, TV) as Tony
Belfry Circle of Friends Some Mother's Son Gold in the Streets (1996) as Paddy
Mojo Amazing Grace Buddy Boy Queer as Folk Lorna Doone The Darkling The Low Down (2000) as Frank (Best Newcomer, Edinburgh Film Festival[2] )
The Second Death (2000) as Pool Player 1
Dice My Kingdom (2001) as Puttnam
The Final Curtain Poirot: Five Little Pigs (2003, TV) as Amyas Crale
Burning The Bed Shanghai Knights Photo Finish The Wire Tommy Carcetti
Guns, Money and Homecooking (2005) as Tony
Walk Away and I Stumble (2005, TV) as Paul
Trouble with Sex (2005) as Conor
Blackout (2007) as Karl
12 Rounds Television
Television includes:
[3]
Theatre Juno and the Paycock National Theatre , Lyttelton 1989)
The Long Way Round The Water Engine Hampstead Theatre 1989)
The Wexford Trilogy A Handful of Stars Belfry Bush Theatre 1992)
Marvin’s Room Comedy Theatre 1993)
The Playboy of the Western World Almeida Theatre 1994)
Mojo Royal Court Theatre 1995)
The Tempest Platonov The Caretaker Roundabout Theatre , New York 2003)
Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me New Ambassadors Theatre 2005)
American Buffalo Gate Theatre , Dublin 2007)
Glengarry Glen Ross Apollo Theatre 2007)[4]
References
^ Guardian interview by Mark Lawson, 3 October 2007 [1] ^ Gillen's programme CV, 2007^ Gillen's programme CV, 2007^ Gillen's own CV in the Apollo Theatre programme, 2007; checked against and with additional material from
Theatre Record and its annual Indexes
