{"id":35506,"date":"2026-07-13T05:10:59","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T05:10:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lovemoviesnight.com\/?movie_engine_person=aidan-gillen"},"modified":"2026-07-13T05:10:59","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T05:10:59","slug":"aidan-gillen","status":"publish","type":"movie_engine_person","link":"https:\/\/lovemoviesnight.com\/?movie_engine_person=aidan-gillen","title":{"rendered":"Aidan Gillen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aidan Murphy\u00a0(born 1967 or 1968), better known as\u00a0Aidan Gillen\u00a0(\/\u02c8\u0261\u026al\u0259n\/), is an Irish actor. He is known for his roles as Stuart Alan Jones in\u00a0Queer as Folk\u00a0(1999\u20132000);\u00a0Tommy Carcetti\u00a0in\u00a0The Wire (2004\u20132008); John Boy in\u00a0\u00a0Love\/Hate\u00a0(2010\u20132011);\u00a0Petyr &#8220;Littlefinger&#8221; Baelish\u00a0in\u00a0Game of Thrones (2011\u20132017), Aberama Gold in\u00a0Peaky Blinders (2017\u20132019); as Milo Sunter on\u00a0Mayor of Kingstown\u00a0(2021\u2013present); and as Frank Kinsella, in the crime drama\u00a0Kin\u00a0(2021\u20132023). 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