Aidan Murphy (born 24 April 1968), better known as Aidan Gillen (/ˈɡɪlən/), is an Irish actor. He is known for his roles as Stuart Alan Jones in Queer as Folk (1999–2000); Tommy Carcetti in The Wire (2004–2008); John Boy in  Love/Hate (2010–2011); Petyr "Littlefinger" Baelish in Game of Thrones (2011–2017), Aberama Gold in Peaky Blinders (2017–2019); as Milo Sunter on Mayor of Kingstown (2021–present); and as Frank Kinsella, in the crime drama Kin (2021–2023). His film roles include CIA operative Bill Wilson in The Dark Knight Rises (2012), Janson in Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials (2015), and John Reid in Bohemian Rhapsody (2018), and several films directed by Jamie Thraves. He has received three Irish Film & Television Awards and has been nominated for a British Academy Television Award, a British Independent Film Award, and a Tony Award. Description above from the Wikipedia article Aidan Murphy, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmography

• 2027Panic Carefully
• 20267 Miles Out — Ronald Westbourne
• 2026Cold War 1994 — F.M.
• 2026Gorky Resort — Vasily Zarubin
• 2026TRAD
• Tall Tales & Murder — Grinner
• Young Sherlock
• 2025Amongst the Wolves — Power
• 2025London Calling — Freddy Darby
• 2025Nostalgie — Drew
• 2025Re-Creation — Hamilton Barnes
• 2025The Physician II — Hunne
• Rock, Paper, Scissors — Steven Shadowwhispers (voice)
• 2023Barber — Valentine Barber
• 2023Dance First — James Joyce
• That Dirty Black Bag — Butler
• Killers of the Cosmos
• Kin — Frank Kinsella
• Mayor of Kingstown — Milo Sunter
• 2021Rose Plays Julie — Peter
• 2021Those Who Wish Me Dead — Jack Blackwell
• 星际杀手
• 2019Confinement — Narrator (voice)
• 2019I didn't... I wasn't... I amn't... — Aidan
• Project Blue Book — Allen Hynek
• 2018Bohemian Rhapsody — John Reid
• 2018Dave Allen at Peace — Dave Allen
• 2018Keepers of the Flame
• 2018Maze Runner: The Death Cure — Janson
• 2018We Ourselves
• 2017Game of Thrones - Conquest & Rebellion: An Animated History of the Seven Kingdoms — Littlefinger (voice)
• 2017King Arthur: Legend of the Sword — William "Goosefat Bill"
• 2017Pickups — Aidan
• 2017The Lovers — Robert
• Urban Myths — Timothy Leary
• 2017When Cary Grant Introduced Timothy Leary to LSD — Timothy Leary
• 2016Further Beyond — Ambrosio O'Higgins
• Quantum Break — Paul Serene
• 2016Sing Street — Robert Lalor
• Charlie — Charles J. Haughey
• 2015Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials — Janson
• 2015Men of Granite — Pelf
• 2015Still — Carver
• 2015Violet — Narrator
• 2015You're Ugly Too — Will
• 2014Ambition — Master
• 2014Calvary — Dr. Frank Harte
• 2013Beneath the Harvest Sky — Clayton Cote
• Mayday — Everett Newcombe
• 2013Mister John — Gerry Devine
• Peaky Blinders — Aberama Gold
• 2013Scrapper — Ray
• 2013Sigur Rós: Valtari Film Experiment — Man (Ekki Múkk)
• 2013The Note — Lars
• 2012Shadow Dancer — Gerry
• 2012The Dark Knight Rises — CIA Op
• 2012The Good Man — Michael
• 2011Blitz — Barry Weiss
• Game of Thrones — Petyr 'Littlefinger' Baelish
• 2011Wake Wood — Patrick
• Identity — DI John Bloom
• Love/Hate — John Boy Power
• Thorne — Phil Hendricks
• 2010Thorne: Scaredycat — Phil Hendricks
• 2010Treacle Jr. — Aiden
• 200912 Rounds — Miles Jackson
• 2009Freefall — Gus
• 2009Runners
• 2008Blackout — Karl
• 2007Walk Away and I Stumble — Paul
• Law & Order: Trial by Jury — Jimmy Colby
• 2005Trouble with Sex — Conor
• Walk Away and I Stumble — Paul
• 2005Willesden Confidential — Steve Fallon
• 2004Photo Finish — Joe Wilde
• 2003Burning The Bed — Stephen
• 2003Shanghai Knights — Lord Nelson Rathbone
• The Last Detective — Steve Fallon
• 2002The Final Curtain — Dave Turner
• The Wire — Tommy Carcetti
• Dice — Glenn Taylor
• 2001Lorna Doone — Carver Doone
• 2001My Kingdom — Puttnam
• 2001The Low Down — Frank
• 2000Buddy Boy — Francis
• Lorna Doone — Carver Doone
• 2000The Darkling — Jeff Obold
• 2000The Second Death — Pool Player
• Queer as Folk — Stuart Jones
• 1997Amazing Grace — Frank
• 1997Gold In The Streets — Paddy
• 1997Mojo — Baby
• 1996Some Mother's Son — Gerard Quigley
• 1995Circle of Friends — Aidan Lynch
• 1993Safe — Gypo
• 1992An Ungentlemanly Act — Marine Wilcox
• In Suspicious Circumstances — James Crozier
• 1991Killing Time — Harry
• 1989A View of Harry Clark — Martin Kemp (as Adrian Murphy)
• Agatha Christie's Poirot — Amyas Crale
• 1988The Courier — Prostitute Boy
• The Play on One — Harry
• 1987The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne — Youth at Liquor Store (as Aiden Murphy)
• ScreenPlay — Gypo
• 1985The Drip
• The Bill — Jeff Barratt
• Black Noise — Hector Livingstone
• Cold War 1995 — F.M.
• Driver — Dickinson
• James and Lucia — James Joyce
• Other Voices — Host — Presenter
• Sunny

Appearances as themselves (4)

• 2024The Story of Microdisney: The Clock Comes Down the Stairs — Self
• 2007Tapping the Wire — Self
• 2007The Wire Odyssey — Self
• 2007The Wire: The Last Word — Self