Aidan Gillen (born Aidan Murphy; 24 April 1968) is an Irish stage and screen actor, best known in the UK for his role as Stuart Jones in the ground-breaking Channel 4 television series Queer as Folk. He is perhaps best known to US audiences for his role in HBO's hit television series The Wire in which he plays Tommy Carcetti, a city councilman of Baltimore.
Gillen was born in the Drumcondra suburb of Dublin, Ireland, and educated at St. Vincent's...
more
Aidan Gillen (born Aidan Murphy; 24 April 1968) is an Irish stage and screen actor, best known in the UK for his role as Stuart Jones in the ground-breaking Channel 4 television series Queer as Folk. He is perhaps best known to US audiences for his role in HBO's hit television series The Wire in which he plays Tommy Carcetti, a city councilman of Baltimore.
Gillen was born in the Drumcondra suburb of Dublin, Ireland, and educated at St. Vincent's C.B.S., Glasnevin. 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 at the Project Arts Centre, before moving to London.
He is perhaps best known in the UK for his role as Stuart Alan Jones in the ground-breaking British television series, Queer as Folk, and its sequel, Queer as Folk 2, for which he was nominated for the British Academy Television Award for Best Actor in 2000. American audiences know him best for his role as Tommy Carcetti in HBO's television...
less
