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 have been in control of what Ive been doing, of the career Ive put together.
What is the key to life on Earth?
I find still photographs make me quite self-conscious,
Because work takes up a lot of time, you have to choose your moments for really letting rip. I hang out with my friends and my family and I spend time with my kids when I'm not working. They don't see my being an actor as exotic. For them, it's just an everyday thing. Sometimes it's amusing to them and other times, embarrassing.
Becoming a father has made my life a lot more interesting. It's like everything slows down because time goes slower, and you notice that you're actually awake for so many more hours. Your waking hours elongate because you're doing things at a child's pace.
There's a lot of 'Game of Thrones' stuff used in a lot of pastiches. I don't know if I've seen a Lego 'Game of Thrones' yet, but there must be one. And there's an animated thing that's been going on for quite some time, and Littlefinger is a newsreader in it, and it's great.
I like the Edinburgh Film Festival, and I've liked what I've experienced of Glasgow's Film Festival too.
Listen, I have to spend every single day living with me, so I know for a fact; I'm lovely, I'm completely lovely.
For me, now, working and children is it. Theres nothing more to life.
It is exciting to be off to a new land with a new friend.
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.