Aidan Gillen
Aidan Gillen (born Aidan Murphy in 1968) is an Irish actor. He began his acting career at the age of 16 with Dublin Youth Theatre, playing Bottom in A Midsummer Night's Dream before moving to London. Amongst his theatre credits are a Tony Award nomination for his acclaimed role in Harold Pinter's The Caretaker in 2003 and an Irish Times Theatre Award nomination for a role in Dublin Gate Theatre's production of David Mamet's American Buffalo. In the UK Aidan is also famous for his role as Stuart Alan Jones in the ground-breaking British tv series, Queer as Folk and its sequel, Queer as Folk 2 for which he was nominated for a BAFTA for Best Actor in 2000. Aidan had already earned another Best Actor nomination at the BAFTA 1993 for his role in the BBC movie Safe. He also played the evil Lord Nelson Rathbone in the Hollywood movie Shanghai Knights (2003) opposite Jackie Chan and Owen Wilson. Aidan remains however best known for his role as Tommy Carcetti in HBO's brilliant tv series The Wire.
