Aidan Gillen

Aidan Gillen is one of those actors who sneaks up on you — you think you're watching a character, then you realize you've been completely played by the man behind it. Born in Dublin and trained on stage, he built a reputation long before the mainstream caught on, but The Wire is where I first really locked in: his Tommy Carcetti was ambitious, calculating, and just charming enough to make you forget he was selling everyone out. Then Game of Thrones handed him Littlefinger and he ran with it for years, that soft Dublin lilt somehow making every backstab feel like a genteel suggestion. Three Irish Film and Television Awards, a Tony nomination — the industry knows what he's worth even if he never quite got the Hollywood superstar moment he arguably deserved. A seriously underrated career.

Name (English)

Aidan Gillen

Name (Japanese)

エイダン・ギレン

Reading

えいだん・ぎれん

Born

April 24, 1968 (age 58)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Taurus / Monkey

Origin

Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland

Occupation

stage actor / film actor / television actor / actor

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aidan%20Gillen
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A8%E3%82%A4%E3%83%80%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AE%E3%83%AC%E3%83%B3
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q358032

Tags

• County Dublin
• stage actor
• film actor
• television actor

Last updated

2026-06-02

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.