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Aidan Quinn

Aidan Quinn

Birthday: 1959-03-08 | Place of Birth: Chicago, Illinois, USA

Aidan Quinn is an Irish-American actor. He made his film debut in 1984 in Reckless. His films include Desperately Seeking Susan, The Mission, Stakeout, Benny and Joon, Legends of the Fall, Frankenstein, and Michael Collins. Quinn was born in Chicago, Illinois, to Irish parents. He was brought up as a Roman Catholic and raised in Chicago and Rockford, Illinois, as well as in Dublin and Birr, County Offaly, in Ireland. His mother, Teresa, was a homemaker, and also worked as a bookkeeper and in the travel business, and his father, Michael Quinn, was a professor of literature. He has three brothers and a sister. His older brother, Declan Quinn, is a noted cinematographer while his younger sister Marian is an actress, director and writer. Though a roofer by trade, Quinn got his start in the Chicago theater at age 19. He trained at the Piven Theatre Workshop. Quinn is married to the actress Elizabeth Bracco, sister of actress Lorraine Bracco. They have two daughters: Ava (b. 1989) and Mia (b. 1998), who appeared as a ghost in the supernatural love story film The Eclipse. Description above from the Wikipedia article Aidan Quinn, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2022
Blacklight

as    Gabriel Robinson

2021
Spiked

as    John Wilson

2021
The American Guest

as    Theodore Roosevelt

2018
Change in the Air

as    Moody Burkhart

2015
The Gettysburg Address

as    Theodore Parker (voice)

2013
Rushlights

as    Cameron Brogden

2013
If I Were You

as    Derek

2013
Stay

as    Dermot

2013
The Last Keepers

as    John

2012
Allegiance

as    Lieutenant Colonel Owens

2012
The Horses of McBride

as    Matt Davidson

2012
The Stand Up

as    Sandy

2012
Elementary

as    Thomas Gregson

2011
The Greening of Whitney Brown

as    Henry Brown

2011
Prime Suspect

as    Kevin Sweeney

2011
Unknown

as    Martin B.

2011
Sarah's Key

as    William Rainsferd

2010
A Shine of Rainbows

as    Alec

2010
2010
The Eclipse

as    Nicholas Holden

2010
Flipped

as    Richard Baker

2010
The 5th Quarter

as    Steven Abbate

2009
From Ararat to Zion

as    Narrator

2009
Handsome Harry

as    Prof. Porter

2008
Wild Child

as    Gerry Moore

2008
Dark Matter

as    Jacob Reiser

2008
Canterbury's Law

as    Matt Furey

2007
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee

as    Henry Dawes

2006
The Book of Daniel

as    Daniel Webster

2005
Empire Falls

as    David Roby