Aidan Gillen
Aidan Gillen
Aidan Gillenis an Irish actor. He is best known for portraying Petyr "Littlefinger" Baelish in the HBO series Game of Thrones, Tommy Carcetti in the HBO series The Wire, CIA operative Bill Wilson in The Dark Knight Rises, Stuart Alan Jones in the Channel 4 series Queer as Folk, and John Boy in the RTÉ Television series Love/Hate...
NationalityIrish
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth24 April 1968
CityDublin, Ireland
CountryIreland
I can read people, and if the other person doesn't want to say anything, I'm fine with that. People say things when it's time to say them.
Listen, I have to spend every single day living with me, so I know for a fact; I'm lovely, I'm completely lovely.
I'd quite like to do a musical. I'd probably have to develop that myself.
I suppose there are actors who are worried about their public image. But I've never had any trouble playing unpleasant characters. It is only a part. Which is why you do it -because you are interested in exploring something you never could or would be.
I try to keep my integrity. I don't want to be in 'Hello!' or on 'Celebrity Big Brother.'
I do consider how I spend my time off carefully because I've got two kids.
I didn't want to go to college or work in an office or have a nine-to-five job. I knew that quite clearly before I left school.
When I was a teenager, the actors I was really into were Mickey Rourke and Sean Penn. I saw 'Rumble Fish' on my 16th birthday, and around the same time, it was 'Falcon and the Snowman' and 'Bad Boys' from Sean Penn.
There was a year between school and getting going as an actor when I basically just watched films. Video shops were the new thing, and there was a good one round the corner and me and my brother just watched everything, from the horror to the European art-house.
It seems to me that most characters, in anything, are flawed in some way, just like most people. You look for the good in the flawed people and vice versa, and then try and make them appealing in some way.
I've made a point of trying not to play the same part, and of moving between theatre and film and TV. The idea is that by the time you come back, you have been away for a year and people have forgotten you. If you like having time off, which I do, that's a good career strategy.
It's always a good idea to let the audience make up their own minds.
I hate it when people tell you you're good when you know that you're not.
Every couple of years - no, that's every couple of weeks - I think I'm going to give up acting.