Aidan Gillen

Irish actor Aidan Gillen is best known for portraying Petyr "Littlefinger" Baelish in the HBO series Game of Thrones, Stuart Alan Jones in the Channel 4 series Queer as Folk, John Boy in the RTÉ Television series Love/Hate, CIA in the The Dark Knight Rises and Tommy Carcetti in the HBO series The Wire. He has won two Irish Film & Television Awards and has been nominated for a British Academy Television Award, a British Independent Film Award, and a Tony Award.

     "I HEAT MYSELF UP 
OVER THE FACT THAT 
I AM NEVER GOING 
TO BE AS GOOD AS 
I WANT TO BE.

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."

TO START, I WASN'T REALLY INTERESTED IN ACTING AT ALL, AND I DIDN'T MAKE MUCH IMPACT. THE FIRST PLAY I WAS IN WAS ON FOR FIVE NIGHTS AND I DIDN'T SHOW UP FOR TWO OF THEM AND NOBODY NOTICED. BUT I STAYED BECAUSE THAT'S WHERE MY FRIENDS WERE, AND AFTER A WHILE I FOUND MYSELF WANTING TO INHABIT OTHER PEOPLE'S WORLDS AND LIVES.