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Aidan Gillen

Aidan Gillen


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  • The Low Down
  • The Low Down review by from London
    Rated - 2.0 stars Too many questions left answered 5 January 2006
    ...ept for the development of a rather unconvincing romance between the male lead (Aidan Gillen) and an estate agent (Kate Ashfield) he meets by chance. None of the characters...   Read customer review
  • Shanghai Knights
  • Shanghai Knights review by from Middlesex
    Rated - 2.0 stars Good for killing time...but that's all 4 August 2004
    ...de’ role in so many of his movies, but it is still has a thin amount of appeal. Aidan Gillen steals the show, with a hilarious performance as an incompetent police chief! ...   Read customer review
  • Treacle Jr.
  • Treacle Jr. review by pamela86 from
    Rated - 5.0 stars Spread the Treacle Jr. love! 28 September 2011
    ...stic example of great British film making. The acting is first class, with both Aidan Gillen and Tom Fisher on top form. And the writing is quirky and inspired. The directo...   Read customer review

Aidan Gillen - filmography


  • Shadow Dancer (2012)
    Starring: Clive Owen,  Aidan Gillen,  Gillian Anderson
    Director: James Marsh
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    During an aborted bomb attempt in London, Collette falls into the hands of an MI5 officer, Mac, who offers her a deal: turn informant or go to prison. Fearing for her son's welfare, she returns to Belfast where betraying family and beliefs she becomes a reluctant mole for British intelligence. As ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 No ratings yet. Be the first.
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  • Blitz on DVD (2011)
    Starring: Jason Statham,  Luke Evans,  David Morrissey
    Director: Elliott Lester
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
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    Jason Statham (The Expendables) heads up full-on London cop thriller Blitz as the tough uncompromising and utterly un-PC Detective Brant, teamed with an unlikely partner in Sgt Porter Nash (Paddy Considine - The Bourne Ultimatum). Together they investigate a series of vigilante cop murders. With ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 8,839 members
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  • Wake Wood on DVD (2011)
    Starring: Eva Birthistle,  Ella Connolly,  Amelia Crowley
    Director: David Keating
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
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    Still grieving the death of their only child, Alice, a young couple relocate to the remote town of Wake Wood where they stumble on a group of villagers practising Pagan rituals. They soon learn that this ritual has the power to bring back the dead, and would allow them three days with their beloved ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 56% from 2,744 members
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  • Blitz - Blu-ray (2011)
    Starring: Jason Statham,  Luke Evans,  David Morrissey
    Director: Elliott Lester
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
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    Tough guys Jason Statham (THE TRANSPORTER) and Paddy Considine (DEAD MAN'S SHOES) team up for this action-packed, London-based thriller. Statham and Considine star as detectives on the trail of a cop-killing serial murderer.
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 3,367 members
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  • Identity (2 discs) on DVD (2010)
    Starring: Keeley Hawes,  Aidan Gillen,  Julian Lewis Jones
    Director: Andy Hay,  Brendan Maher
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Identity, a new six-part drama starring Keeley Hawes (Ashes to Ashes; Mutual Friends) and Aidan Gillen (The Wire; Queer As Folk), follows an elite police unit formed to combat the explosion of identity theft. From murderers who take over victims' lives and criminals who create personas to escape ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 64% from 371 members
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  • Thorne - Sleepyhead (2010)
    Starring: Natascha McElhone,  Eddie Marsan,  David Morrissey
    Director: Stephen Hopkins
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Thorne: Sleepyhead is a nail-biting thriller following DI Tom Thorne’s investigation into a mysterious serial killer. His first three victims ended up dead. His fourth was not so fortunate. Alison Willetts is unlucky to be alive. She has survived a stroke, deliberately induced by skilful ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 75% from 22 members
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  • Treacle Jr. on DVD (2010)
    Starring: Aidan Gillen,  Tom Fisher,  Riann Steele
    Director: Jamie Thraves
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Tom is forty. He walks out one day, rather abruptly, on his wife and baby boy and his seemingly happy life. He finds himself living on the streets of London. One night alone in a park he is mistaken for a gay man and is set upon by a gang of violent thugs. In A? the next day Tom meets Aidan, the ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 442 members
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  • 12 Rounds - Blu-ray (2009)
    Starring: Brian White,  Aidan Gillen,  Steve Harris
    Director: Renny Harlin
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Finnish director Renny Harlin (CLIFFHANGER, DIE HARD 2) brings first-time screenwriter Daniel Kunka's story to life in this fast-paced action film. When New Orleans police officer Danny Fisher (WWE wrestler John Cena) apprehends Miles Jackson (Aidan Gillen, THE WIRE), a villainous Irishman being ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 1,383 member
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  • 12 Rounds on DVD (2009)
    Starring: John Cena,  Ashley Scott,  Brian J. White
    Director: Renny Harlin
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Finnish director Renny Harlin (CLIFFHANGER, DIE HARD 2) brings first-time screenwriter Daniel Kunka's story to life in this fast-paced action film. When New Orleans police officer Danny Fisher (WWE wrestler John Cena) apprehends Miles Jackson (Aidan Gillen, THE WIRE), a villainous Irishman being ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 6,254 members
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  • Freefall on DVD (2008)
    Starring: Aidan Gillen,  Rosamund Pike,  Dominic Cooper
    Director: Dominic Savage
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    How far would you go to get what you want? A powerful and moving drama, Freefall follows the lives of three men with everything on the line. Gus (Aiden Gillen) is the high flying city exec who packages and sells bundles of mortgages for extortionate profit. Dave (Dominic Cooper) is the mortgage ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 138 members
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  • Blackout on DVD (2007)
    Starring: Amber Tamblyn,  Aidan Gillen,  Armie Hammer
    Director: Rigoberto Castaneda
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    The clock ticks on three strangers trapped in an elevator who all have a desperate, urgent need to escape their confines. Claudia (Amber Tamblyn) is in a hurry to return to the hospital bedside of her dying grand-mother. Tommy is a young punk on his way to elope with his girlfriend. Karl (Aiden ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 47% from 3,006 members
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  • Lorna Doone on DVD (2006)
    Starring: Richard Coyle,  Amelia Warner,  Aidan Gillen
    Director: Mike Barker
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    In yet another film adaptation of R.D. Blackmore's swashbuckling romance, this excellent and lavish BBC production of 'Lorna Doone' brings the classic tale of revenge and family warfare to life with a sterling cast. Filmed in Wales, the epic family saga begins in 1675, during a turbulent time in ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 58% from 2,307 members
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  • Shanghai Knights on DVD (2003)
    Starring: Jackie Chan,  Owen Wilson,  Fann Wong
    Director: David Dobkin
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    In this entertaining sequel to SHANGHAI NOON, Chon Wang (Jackie Chan) and Roy O'Bannon (Owen Wilson) are reunited on an adventure that leads them from their home in the USA to England. Upon hearing of his father's murder in China at the hands of the English Lord Rathbone (Aidan Gillen), Wang leaves ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 10,505 members
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  • Dice (2 discs) on DVD (2001)
    Starring: Aidan Gillen,  Martin Cummings,  Gina McKee
    Director: Rachel Talalay
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Dice tells the story of charismatic psychology teacher, Glenn Taylor (Aidan Gillen - The Vice, Queer as Folk), who manipulates people by teaching them how to live by the throw of a dice. When the small community is shattered by the death of student Sally Quine, Detective Patrick Styvesant (Martin ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 45% from 23 members
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  • The Low Down on DVD (2000)
    Starring: Aidan Gillen,  Kate Ashfield,  Dean Lennox Kelly
    Director: Jamie Thraves
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Writer-director Jamie Thraves's feature-film debut follows the day-to-day life of Frank (Aidan Gillen of QUEER AS FOLK), a single London artist in his late twenties who works as a prop maker along with his quirky friends, Mike (Dean Lennox Kelly) and John (Tobias Menzies). Aware that he needs to ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 50% from 381 members
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  • Queer As Folk (4 discs) on DVD (1999)
    Starring: Aidan Gillen,  Craig Kelly,  Charlie Hunnam
    Director: Charles McDougall,  Sarah Harding
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Here's where it all started. Stuart (Aidan Gillen) has everything--he's rich, handsome, and always at the center of attention. Although he's quite arrogant, he also seems to be quite perfect. His best mate Vince (Craig Kelly) is funny, good-looking, and endearing, but unlike Stuart he has no ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 74% from 5,106 members
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  • Some Mother's Son (1996)
    Starring: Helen Mirren,  Fionnula Flanagan,  Aidan Gillen
    Director: Terry George
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Based on the true story of the 1981 hunger strike in a British prison, in which IRA prisoner Bobby Sands led a protest against the treatment of IRA prisoners as criminals rather than as prisoners of war. The film focuses on the mothers of two of the strikers, and their struggle to save the lives of ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 76% from 51 members
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Aidan Gillen facts

5 most recent films

Shadow Dancer - 3 stars
Blitz - 3.5 stars
Wake Wood - 3.0 stars
Blitz - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
Identity - 3.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

The Wire - Season 3 - 4.5 stars
Some Mother's Son - 4.0 stars
Queer As Folk - 4.0 stars
Thorne - Sleepyhead And Scaredy Cat - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
Thorne - Sleepyhead And Scaredy Cat - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Shadow Dancer - 3 stars
Dice - 2.5 stars
Gold In The Streets - 2.5 stars
Thorne - Sleepyhead - 4.0 stars
Blackout - 2.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

David Morrissey - 10 times - show films
Eddie Marsan - 7 times - show films
Natascha McElhone - 7 times - show films
Leo Gregory - 6 times - show films
Dominic West - 6 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Stephen Hopkins - 7 times - show films
Ed Bianchi - 6 times - show films
Benjamin Ross - 6 times - show films
Steve Shill - 6 times - show films
Ernest Dic - 6 times - show films