Aidan Gillen is an Irish actor. He is best known for portraying Petyr "Littlefinger" Baelish in the HBO series _"Game of Thrones" the second film in the Maze Runner trilogy.
Brown haired Irish actor who got his big break in the controversial, highly acclaimed TV series "Queer as Folk" .
Moved back to Ireland in 2009 with his wife and two kids, daughter Berry and son Joe. Now lives in Kerry, Ireland. [2011].
Mother is a nurse and his late father was an architect.
Brother of actress Fionnuala Murphy. His brother, John Paul Murphy, is a playwright, and his other sister, Patricia Murphy, is a teacher.
He uses the surname of Gillen because someone else was already registered as Aidan Murphy in the Actors Guild. Gillen is his mothers surname.
Was nominated for Broadways 2004 Tony Award as Best Actor (Featured Role - Play) for a revival of Harold Pinter s "The Caretaker."
Educated at St. Vincents C.B.S., Glasnevin.
Echoing his earlier work 14 years previous in John Michael McDonaghs short film "Second Death", Aiden Gillen repeats his exaggerated and threatening karate-moves in a similar bar scene toward Brendan Gleeson in Calvary - also by John Michael McDonagh.
The surname change, taking his mothers maiden name, came about because there was already an Aidan Murphy on Equitys books.
Appears in "Agatha Christies Poirot" as the husband of Rachael Stirling. He stars in "Game of Thrones" where he plays an ally to Diana Rigg , the mother of Rachael Stirling.
In drama you can either pretend everything is OK, or you can show the,world as it really is in the hope that it gets better.
It seems to me that most characters, in anything, are flawed in some,way, just like most people. You look for the good in the flawed people,and vice versa, and then try and make them appealing in some way.
There was a year between school and getting going as an actor when I,basically just watched films. Video shops were the new thing, and there,was a good one round the corner and me and my brother just watched,everything, from the horror to the European art-house.
I find still photographs make me quite self-conscious.
I have Googled myself, yeah, I think everybody has. I try not to make a,habit of it - in fact I made a rule once never to Google myself, which,made me happy.
I heat myself up over the fact that I am never going to be as good as I,want to be.
