AIDAN GILLEN — ABERAMA GOLD FROM PEAKY BLINDERS

AIDAN GILLEN — ABERAMA GOLD FROM PEAKY BLINDERS

1. Aidan Gillen was born on 24 April 1968 is an Irish actor.
2. Gillen was born in Drumcondra, Dublin.
3. He was educated at St. Vincent’s C.B.S. in Glasnevin.
4. He began his acting career as a teenager with the Dublin Youth Theatre, playing Nick Bottom in A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Project Arts Centre before moving to London.
5. Gillen played Stuart Alan Jones in the Channel 4 television series Queer as Folk and its sequel, for which he received a British Academy Television Award nomination for Best Actor.
6. He was nominated for a Tony Award for his Broadway role in Harold Pinter’s play The Caretaker and has also been nominated for an Irish Times Theatre Award for his portrayal of Teach in the Dublin Gate Theatre’s 2007 production of David Mamet’s American Buffalo.
7. He is known for his portrayal of Petyr “Littlefinger” Baelish in the HBO series Game of Thrones, Dr. J. Allen Hynek in The History Channel’s Project Blue Book, Tommy Carcetti in the HBO series The Wire, Stuart Alan Jones in the Channel 4 series Queer as Folk, John Boy in the RTÉ series Love/Hate, CIA operative Bill Wilson in The Dark Knight Rises, Queen’s manager John Reid in Bohemian Rhapsody.
8. He played the role of Abrema Gold in BBC one series Peaky blinders.
9. Aberama Gold was a Roman Gypsy hitman-for-hire, a man with a reputation for being a dangerous savage with little regard for the rules. He was hired by Thomas Shelby when Luca Changretta, set on revenge against the entire Shelby family, arrives in England.
10. In 2011, Gillen began playing Petyr “Littlefinger” Baelish on the HBO series Game of Thrones, for which he received his second Irish Film & Television Award nomination.
11. He appeared in seven seasons until his character’s death in the season 7 finale “The Dragon and the Wolf”.
12. He starred as cop killer Barry Weiss in the British crime-thriller Blitz and in the British horror film Wake Wood.
13. He played crime boss John Boy in the acclaimed Irish crime-drama Love/Hate, for which he received his third Irish Film & Television Award nomination and second win.
14. Gillen starred in the BBC five-part thriller Mayday in 2013, and the Irish comedy-drama film Calvary the following year.
15. He shared a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination with the cast of Game of Thrones for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series.
16. He also starred in the short film Ekki Múkk, created for the Valtari Mystery Film Experiment by Icelandic band Sigur Rós. Gillen also starred as Janson in the second film, The Scorch Trials, and the third film, Maze Runner: The Death Cure, in the Maze Runner trilogy.
17. He also hosted seasons 10–13 of Other Voices.
18. Gillen has won three Irish Film & Television Awards[1] and has been nominated for a British Academy Television Award, a British Independent Film Award, and a Tony Award.
19. Gillen married Olivia O’Flanagan in 2001. They have two children.
20. In 2009, when Gillen won an Irish Film and Television Award for his role in The Wire, he dedicated the award to his wife and children, whom Gillen has stated “were a big motivation” for him.
21. Gillen and O’Flanagan separated in 2014.
22. Gillen’s partner is singer Camille O’Sullivan.