Aidan Quinn
87 movies · 17 TV shows
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Mar 8, 1959 (age 67)
- Place of birth
- Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Also known as
- 에이단 퀸 · Айдан Куинн · آیدان کوئین
Biography
Aidan Quinn (born March 8, 1959) is an American actor. He made his film debut in Reckless (1984) and has starred in over 80 feature films, including Desperately Seeking Susan (1985), The Mission (1986), Stakeout (1987), All My Sons (1987), Avalon (1990), Benny & Joon (1993), Legends of the Fall (1994), Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994), Michael Collins (1996), Practical Magic (1998), Song for a Raggy Boy (2003), Wild Child (2008) and Unknown (2011). He also played Captain Thomas "Tommy" Gregson on the CBS television series Elementary (2012–19).
Quinn has received two Primetime Emmy Award nominations for his performances in the television films An Early Frost (1985) and Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (2007). Highly active in Irish cinema and the United States, Quinn is a four-time Irish Film and Television (IFTA) Award nominee, winning Best Supporting Actor in a Film for the Conor McPherson film The Eclipse (2009).
Known for
Aidan Quinn: movies and TV shows
Acting (104)
- Upcoming
- Upcoming Butterfly in the Typewriter
as Barnet Rosset
- Upcoming
- Upcoming The Body Is Water
as John Umley
- Upcoming Little Audrey
as Bishop Ryan
- Upcoming Hal
as Professor Tigues
- 2026 The Lightkeeper
as Father MacGabbhan
- 2025 The Gettysburg Address
as Theodore Parker (voice)
- 2025
- 2024
- 2023 Daughter of the Bride
as Bruce
- 2022 Blacklight
as Gabriel Robinson
- 2021
- 2021 Spiked
as John Wilson
- 2018 Change in the Air
as Moody Burkhart
- 2013 Stay
as Dermot
- 2013 Rushlights
as Cameron Brogden
- 2013 If I Were You
as Derek
- 2013 The Last Keepers
as John
- 2012 Allegiance
as Lieutenant Colonel Owens
- 2012 The Horses of McBride
as Matt Davidson
- 2012 Festival of Lights
as Adem
- 2012
- 2012 The Stand Up
as Sandy
- 2011 The Greening of Whitney Brown
as Henry Brown
- 2011
- 2011 Unknown
as Martin B.
- 2010 Across the Line: The Exodus of Charlie Wright
as Charlie Wright
- 2010
- 2010 Sarah's Key
as William Rainsferd
- 2010 Flipped
as Richard Baker
- 2010 Jonah Hex
as Ulysses S. Grant
- 2010 The 5th Quarter
as Steven Abbate
- 2009
- 2009 A Shine of Rainbows
as Alec
- 2009 From Ararat to Zion
as Narrator
- 2009 Handsome Harry
as Prof. Porter
- 2009 The Eclipse
as Nicholas Holden
- 2008 Wild Child
as Gerry Moore
- 2008 The Prince of Motor City
as Charlie Hamilton
- 2008 Dark Matter
as Jacob Reiser
- 2008
- 2007 32A
as Frank Brennan
- 2007 Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
as Henry Dawes
- 2006 The Exonerated
as Kerry Max Cook
- 2006
- 2005 Mayday
as John Berry
- 2005 Nine Lives
as Henry
- 2005
- 2005
- 2004 Return to Sender
as Frank Nitzche
- 2004 Shadow of Fear
as Detective Scofield
- 2004 Miracle Run
as Douglas Thomas
- 2004 Proud
as Commodore Alfred Lind
- 2004 See You in My Dreams
as Joe F. Brown
- 2004 Cavedweller
as Clint Windsor
- 2004 Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genius
as Harry Vardon
- 2004 Plainsong
as Tom Guthrie
- 2003 Song for a Raggy Boy
as William Franklin
- 2003 Benedict Arnold: A Question of Honor
as Gen. Benedict Arnold
- 2002 Evelyn
as Nick Barron
- 2002 Stolen Summer
as Joe O'Malley
- 2001
- 2001 Songcatcher
as Tom Bledsoe
- 2000 The Prince and the Pauper
as Miles Hendon
- 2000 Two of Us
as Paul McCartney
- 1999 Music of the Heart
as Brian
- 1999
- 1999
- 1999 This Is My Father
as Kieran O'Day
- 1999 In Dreams
as Paul Cooper
- 1998 Practical Magic
as Gary Hallet
- 1997 Forbidden Territory: Stanley's Search for Livingstone
as Henry Morton Stanley
- 1997 The Assignment
as Annibal Ramirez / Carlos
- 1997 Commandments
as Seth Warner
- 1997 The Irish in America
as Narrator
- 1996 Michael Collins
as Harry Roland
- 1996 Looking for Richard
as Richmond
- 1995 Lumière & Company
as (segment "John Boorman")
- 1995 Haunted
as Professor David Ash
- 1995 The Stars Fell on Henrietta
as Don Day
- 1995 Out of Ireland
as Maurice Woulfe (voice)
- 1994 Legends of the Fall
as Alfred Ludlow
- 1994 Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
as Cap. Robert Walton
- 1994
- 1993 Blink
as Detective John Hallstrom
- 1993 Benny & Joon
as Benjamin 'Benny' Pearl
- 1992 A Private Matter
as Bob Finkbine
- 1992 The Playboys
as Tom Casey
- 1991 At Play in the Fields of the Lord
as Martin Quarrier
- 1991 Lies of the Twins
as James McEwan / Jonathan McEwan
- 1990 Avalon
as Jules Kaye
- 1990 The Handmaid's Tale
as Nick
- 1989 The Lemon Sisters
as Frankie McGuinness
- 1989 Perfect Witness
as Samuel De Valera Paxton
- 1989 Crusoe
as Crusoe
- 1987 Stakeout
as Richard "Stick" Montgomery
- 1987 All My Sons
as Chris Keller
- 1986 The Mission
as Felipe Mendoza
- 1985 An Early Frost
as Michael Pierson
- 1985 Desperately Seeking Susan
as Dez
- 1984 Reckless
as Johnny Rourke
- 1982
- 1951
Behind the camera (3)
- Upcoming Ages of the Moon
Director, Producer
- 2012
- 1999 This Is My Father
Executive Producer
Talk shows and appearances (9)
- 2023
- 2020
- 2017
- 2011
- 2009
- 1997 The View
3 episodes
- 1993 Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1 episode
- 1988 LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1 episode
- 1962 The Late Late Show
1 episode