Aidan GillenFilmography

Born:: Dublin, Ireland
Occupation:: Actor
Biography:: The embodiment of the line "when Irish eyes are smiling, they're up to something bad," Aidan Gillen oozed ruthless charisma and wicked sex appeal in his role as the sexually prolific Stuart Alan Jones in the 1999 British TV series Queer As Folk. Bringing wry humor and understatement to a...Read More

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12 Rounds

Actors: John Cena, Steve Harris, Ashley Scott, Aidan Gillen, Brian J. White

Synopsis: WWE star John Cena headlines his sophomore action picture as a police officer whose wife is kidnapped in New Orleans. Daniel Kunka provides the script, with Deep Blue Sea's Renny Harlin handling the directing duties for the 20-million-dollar Fox Atomic/WWE Films production. ~ Jeremy Wheeler, All Read More

3/27/09
The Wake Wood

Actors: Aidan Gillen, Eva Birthistle, Timothy Spall

2009
Freefall

2009
The Wire: Season 05

Actors: Dominic West, Clarke Peters

Synopsis: For the fifth and final season of this groundbreaking urban drama, series creator David Simon returns to his old stomping grounds at the Baltimore Sun, where he worked for many years as a crime reporter, to examine the media's role in modern society. This fictionalized version of what was once a Read More

2008
Blackout

Actors: Amber Tamblyn, Aidan Gillen, Armie Hammer Jr.

Synopsis: KM 31 director Rigoberto Castaneda takes the helm for this independent thriller concerning three people who become trapped in a hospital elevator for twenty-four hours. Her grandmother mere moments away from death, a young woman (Amber Tamblyn) races the ailing woman to the nearest hospital. Read More

2007
The Wire: Season 04

Actors: Dominic West, Clarke Peters, Sonja Sohn

Synopsis: David Simon's masterful social commentary went back to school, quite literally, in the fourth season, which focuses on Baltimore's crumbling education system. A relevant link to its first three seasons is supplied by Roland "Prez" Pryzbylewski (Jim True-Frost), who left the police department to Read More

2006
The Wire: Season 03

Actors: Dominic West, Wood Harris, Sonja Sohn, Lance Reddick

Synopsis: Season three of The Wire continues the series' even-handed dissection of the Baltimore "drug wars," as seen through the eyes of both the police investigators and the drug lords. With charismatic hoodlum Stringer Bell (Idris Elba) emerging as the unofficial leader of the Barksdale drug empire, and Read More

2004
Shanghai Knights

Actors: Jackie Chan, Owen Wilson, Aaron Johnson, Tom Fisher, Aidan Gillen

Synopsis: East and West team up to take on bad guys in the British Empire in this sequel to the action comedy hit Shanghai Noon. Chon Wang (Jackie Chan), once an Imperial Guard in China, is now the Sheriff of Carson City, NV, while his onetime cohort, former train robber Roy O'Bannon (Owen Wilson), scrapes Read More

2/7/03
Burning the Bed

Actors: Aidan Gillen, Gina McKee

2003
The Final Curtain

Actors: Peter O'Toole, Adrian Lester, Aidan Gillen, Julia Sawalha, Ralph Brown

Synopsis: Patrick Harkins makes his directorial debut with the satirical dark comedy The Final Curtain, written by screenwriter John Hodge (Trainspotting, Shallow Grave). Serious author Jonathan Stitch (Adrian Lester) accepts a job writing a biography of unscrupulous U.K. game show host J.J. Curtis (Peter O'Toole Read More

2003
My Kingdom

Actors: Richard Harris, Lynn Redgrave, Tom Bell, Aidan Gillen

Synopsis: William Shakespeare's King Lear is transposed into a modern-dress British crime drama in this tense tale of family ties and the lust for power. Sandeman (Richard Harris) is the elderly leader of a Liverpool crime syndicate who is fiercely loyal to his wife Mandy (Lynn Redgrave) and his daughters Read More

12/6/02
Lorna Doone

Actors: Martin Clunes, Richard Coyle, Amelia Warner

Synopsis: Filmed in London and Wales, this two-part adaptation of the oft-dramatized R.D. Blackmore novel Lorna Doone was praised for its realism, though one or two nitpickers pointed out that the costumes were not all "in period" for 17th century Scotland. This time around, Amelia Warner starred as the Read More

2001
Buddy Boy

Actors: Aidan Gillen, Emmanuelle Seigner, Susan Tyrrell, Mark Boone, Jr., Harry Groener

Synopsis: In this bizarre drama that would seem to have "cult item" written all over it, Francis (Aidan Gillen) is a severely introverted young man with a speech impediment who shares a shabby apartment with his bedridden mother, Sal (Susan Tyrrell). Francis has developed certain voyeuristic tendencies Read More

3/24/00
Queer as Folk: Series 02

Actors: Aidan Gillen, Charlie Hunnam, Craig Kelly

2000
The Low Down

Actors: Aidan Gillen, Kate Ashfield

Synopsis: Music video director Jamie Thraves made his feature debut with this cinema verite look at a group of bohemian Londoners straddling the line between apathy and ambition. Aidan Gillen (of the popular British TV series Queer As Folk) plays Frank, a prop artist who spends his free time Read More

2000
The Darkling

Actors: F. Murray Abraham, Aidan Gillen

Synopsis: A poor man learns that obtaining wealth through evil means can command a terrible price in this made-for-TV horror story. Jeff Obold (Aiden Gillen) is a struggling auto mechanic whose personal life is a good bit more rewarding than his career; he has a lovely wife, Marla (Nina Siemaszko), and a Read More

2000
Queer as Folk: Series 01

Actors: Aidan Gillen, Charlie Hunnam, Craig Kelly

1999
Gold in the Streets

Actors: Jared Harris, Ian Hart, James Belushi, Louise Lombard, Karl Geary, Andrea Irvine, Aidan Gillen

Synopsis: An illegal immigrant who imagined America to be the land of opportunity finds that good fortune does not come as easily as he thought in this drama. Liam (Karl Geary) is a man from Ireland who has grown tired of the poverty and limited opportunities of his homeland, so he smuggles himself into the Read More

1997
Mojo

Actors: Ian Hart, Ewen Bremner, Aidan Gillen, Martin Gwynn Jones, Hans Matheson

Synopsis: Jez Butterworth directed this adaptation of his own play about the 1958 rock scene in London's Soho. Silver Johnny (Hans Matheson) performs at the Atlantic Club where he catches the eye of big-shot Sam Ross (Harold Pinter). Ross invites Johnny and Johnny's manager Ezra (Ricky Tomlinson) for a Read More

1997
Some Mother's Son

Actors: Helen Mirren, Fionnula Flanagan, Aidan Gillen, David Patrick O'Hara, John Lynch

Synopsis: A 1981 hunger strike in a Belfast prison is the historical inspiration for the drama Some Mother's Son, which attempts to focus on the personal dimensions of the event through its portrayal of the families of the striking prisoners. Directed by Terry George, co-author of In the Name of the Father Read More

1996
Circle of Friends

Actors: Chris O'Donnell, Minnie Driver, Geraldine O'Rawe, Saffron Burrows, Alan Cumming

Synopsis: Set in 1957, this romantic coming-of-age story follows three childhood friends from a small town in Ireland as they head to Dublin to attend Trinity College. Nan (Saffron Burrows), a year older than her friends and already in her second year at Trinity, is ambitious, romantic, and just a bit Read More

1995
Safe

Actors: Aidan Gillen, Kate Hardie, Robert Carlyle, George Costigan, Andrew Tiernan

Synopsis: Safe is exactly what these London homeless youths and anyone associating with them isn't. This bleak, prize-winning drama explores the lives of Gypo and Kaz (Aidan Gillen and Katd Hardie), two twenty-ish outcastes, who raise cash by pretending to be a prostitute and her pimp, mugging anyone Read More

1993