The surname change, taking his mother's maiden name, came about because there was already an Aidan Murphy on Equity's books. Everything's borne out of human experience, of course - rejection, humiliation, poverty, whatever. You just want people to see you as an actor and not as a kid. He is best known for portraying Petyr "Littlefinger" Baelish in the HBO series Game of Thrones (2011), CIA operative Bill Wilson in The Dark Knight Rises (2012), Stuart Alan Jones in the Channel 4 series Queer as Folk (1999), John Boy in the RTÉ Television series Love/Hate (2010), and Tommy Carcetti in the HBO series The Wire (2002). I do what I can, but I'll always give it a shot. No: 1 Affair 1 Marriage 2 Children. If it's anything Shawshank Redemption, Seinfeld, or Kevin Bacon game related he's way more interested. 2011. I'd probably have to develop that myself. I call myself James sometimes. I try not to make a habit of it - in fact I made a rule once never to Google myself, which made me happy. But they're missing the point. Is Aidan Gillen Gay ? Which is why you do it -because you are interested in exploring something you never could or would be. If you like having time off, which I do, that's a good career strategy. For me, the good characters are people who get places, are devious, are cunning and tricky and hard to pin down. Van 2002 tot 2004 had Gyllenhaal een relatie met actrice Kirsten Dunst. The first time I played a killer, in the 1997 film 'Mojo,' I went to my local video shop and got out a video of real executions and a history of the Third Reich. Furthermore, it should be noted that Gillen’s brother John Paul Murphy is a playwright, though his other sister Patricia Murphy is a teacher. There's no way the writing staff of 'Game of Thrones' haven't read 'The Art of War.' He uses the surname of Gillen because someone else was already registered as Aidan Murphy in the Actors' Guild. ... Aidan Gillen's siblings: Aidan Gillen's sister is Fionnuala Murphy Aidan Gillen's sister is Trish Murphy Aidan Gillen's brother is John Paul Murphy. Mother is a nurse and his late father was an architect. It's always a good idea to let the audience make up their own minds. To be exact, he played the role of Nick Bottom in Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Project Arts Theatre in Dublin before he made a choice to move out to London, which offered a wider range of opportunities for actors. I hate it when people tell you you're good when you know that you're not. But I've never had any trouble playing unpleasant characters. It seems to me that most characters, in anything, are flawed in some way, just like most people. I myself started out quite young; when you're working, professionally, even if you are in your teens, you just want to be treated the same as everybody else. It might take me an hour to get to feel at ease with somebody. I don't really differentiate between different genres: if there's a good part going, I'll go after it, and it's preferable to me if it's something I haven't done before. Aidan Gillen has a relationship with Camille O'Sullivan.