
Birthday:
06-19-1983
(41 years)
Birthplace:
Clondalkin, South Dublin, Ireland
Biography
Aidan Turner (born 19 June 1983) is an Irish actor. He played the roles of Ross Poldark in the 2015–2019 BBC adaptation of The Poldark Novels by Winston Graham, Dante Gabriel Rossetti in Desperate Romantics, Ruairí McGowan in The Clinic, and John Mitchell in the supernatural drama series Being Human. He played Kíli in The Hobbit film series.
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The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
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event2012 star_border 7.4
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Bilbo Baggins, a hobbit enjoying his quiet life, is swept into an epic quest by Gandalf the Grey and thirteen dwarves who seek to reclaim their mountain home from Smaug, the dragon.
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
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event2013 star_border 7.6
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The Dwarves, Bilbo and Gandalf have successfully escaped the Misty Mountains, and Bilbo has gained the One Ring. They all continue their journey to get their gold back from the Dragon, Smaug.
Alarm
Act like Mal
event2008 star_border 4.5
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A grieving woman leaves Dublin to the Irish countryside for a fresh start. Soon her new life is disturbed by a vendetta and her own suspicion towards her new neighbors and her old friends
The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones
Act like Luke Garroway
event2013 star_border 6.4
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In New York City, Clary Fray, a seemingly ordinary teenager, learns that she is descended from a line of Shadowhunters — half-angel warriors who protect humanity from evil forces. After her mother disappears, Clary joins forces with a group of Shadowhunters and enters Downworld, an alternate realm filled with demons, vampires, and a host of other creatures. Clary and her companions must find and protect an ancient cup that holds the key to her mother's future.
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
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event2014 star_border 7.3
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Immediately after the events of The Desolation of Smaug, Bilbo and the dwarves try to defend Erebor's mountain of treasure from others who claim it: the men of the ruined Laketown and the elves of Mirkwood. Meanwhile an army of Orcs led by Azog the Defiler is marching on Erebor, fueled by the rise of the dark lord Sauron. Dwarves, elves and men must unite, and the hope for Middle-Earth falls into Bilbo's hands.
Hattie
Act like John Schofield
event2011 star_border 6.1
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Reveals how the home life of the larger-than-life Carry On actress Hattie Jacque was blown apart by a secret sexual liaison with her handsome young driver while she was married to Dad's Army star John Le Mesurier.
Loving Vincent
Act like Boatman
event2017 star_border 8
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A young man arrives at the last hometown of painter Vincent van Gogh to deliver the troubled artist's final letter and ends up investigating his final days there.
Love Is Blind
Act like Russell
event2019 star_border 5.3
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A funny and irresistible story of a young girl who literally cannot see or hear her mother, even though she is living with her under the same roof. With the help of an eccentric psychiatrist, and a local, accidental hero, our heroine has to grow up, but falls in love and eventually takes hold of her future - despite not being able to see what's right in front of her.
Grendel
Act like Unferth
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The tale of the legendary monster at the heart of the Beowulf epic poem who steps forth to tell his side of the riveting story.
The Secret Scripture
Act like Jack McNulty
event2017 star_border 7.3
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The hidden memoir of an elderly woman confined to a mental hospital reveals the history of her passionate yet tortured life, and of the religious and political upheavals in Ireland during the 1920s and 30s.
The Man Who Killed Hitler and Then the Bigfoot
Act like Calvin Barr
event2019 star_border 5.4
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Decades after serving in WWII and assassinating Adolf Hitler, a legendary American war veteran must now hunt down the fabled Bigfoot.
Poldark Revealed
Act like Self / Ross Poldark
event2016 star_border 8.3
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A behind the scenes look at the tv series "Poldark".
The Way of the Wind
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A dramatization of several episodes in the life of Christ.
The Tudors
Act like Bedoli (1 ep.)
event2007 star_border 7.8
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The Tudors is a history-based drama series following the young, vibrant King Henry VIII, a competitive and lustful monarch who navigates the intrigues of the English court and the human heart with equal vigor and justifiable suspicion.
Rivals
Act like Declan O'Hara (8 ep.)
event2024 star_border 7.2
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It is 1986 and Britain is booming. "Rivals" dives headfirst into the cutthroat world of TV where hair-dos are big and ambitions are even bigger. Deals are brokered in boardrooms, as well as bedrooms. Nobody can be sure who will come out on top. With every man and woman out only for themselves, can true love really blossom?
Being Human
Act like John Mitchell (22 ep.)
event2009 star_border 7
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Deciding to turn over a new leaf, a group of friends who also happen to be vampires and werewolves move into a house together, only to find that it is haunted by ghosts of people who have been killed under mysterious circumstances. As they deal with the challenges of being supernatural creatures, their desire to be human bonds them.
Desperate Romantics
Act like Dante Gabriel Rossetti (6 ep.)
event2009 star_border 7.5
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Six-part drama series set in and among the alleys, galleries and flesh-houses of 19th-century industrial London, following the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, a vagabond group of English painters, poets and critics.
Poldark
Act like Ross Poldark (43 ep.)
event2015 star_border 7.8
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Britain is in the grip of a chilling recession... falling wages, rising prices, civil unrest - only the bankers are smiling. It's 1783 and Ross Poldark returns from the American War of Independence to his beloved Cornwall to find his world in ruins: his father dead, the family mine long since closed, his house wrecked and his sweetheart pledged to marry his cousin. But Ross finds that hope and love can be found when you are least expecting it in the wild but beautiful Cornish landscape.
Tyler Perry's If Loving You Is Wrong
Act like Brad (94 ep.)
event2014 star_border 7.6
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Follow the relationships of a group of husbands and wives that live and love on the same street. While the neighbors come from very different backgrounds, their lives are similar – raising children, dealing with exes, worrying about money and keeping romance in their relationships. But just below the surface — secrets, lies and deception threaten to destroy what they have built.
And Then There Were None
Act like Philip Lombard (3 ep.)
event2015 star_border 7.5
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Ten strangers, drawn away from their normal lives to an isolated rock off the Devon coast. But as the mismatched group waits for the arrival of the hosts -- the improbably named Mr. and Mrs. U.N. Owen -- the weather sours and they find themselves cut off from civilization. Very soon, the guests, each struggling with their conscience, will start to die -- one by one, according to the rules of the nursery rhyme 'Ten Little Soldier Boys' -- a rhyme that hangs in every room of the house and ends with the most terrifying words of all: '... and then there were none.
Toast of Tinseltown
Act like Barney (2 ep.)
event2022 star_border 7.4
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Tortured thespian Steven Toast relocates to the ultimate actor's playground - Hollywood. Surely this time he will get the adulation he so richly deserves.
The Suspect
Act like Joe O'Loughlin (5 ep.)
event2022 star_border 6.7
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Doctor Joseph O'Loughlin a man who appears to have the perfect life and a successful career as a clinical psychologist.
But nothing can be taken for granted, even the most flawless existence is only a loose thread away from unravelling.
The Graham Norton Show
Act like Self - Guest (1 ep.)
event2007 star_border 7.2
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Each week celebrity guests join Irish comedian Graham Norton to discuss what's being going on around the world that week. The guests poke fun and share their opinions on the main news stories. Graham is often joined by a band or artist to play the show out.
Leonardo
Act like Leonardo da Vinci (8 ep.)
event2021 star_border 7.4
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A fresh look at the life and legacy of the iconic artist Leonardo da Vinci, positing that he was a gay outsider who used his work as a way of hiding his true self. Each episode will examine one of da Vinci’s artworks for hidden clues about a tortured artist struggling for perfection.
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg
(1 ep.)
event2022 star_border 2.7
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The big names behind the big stories. Laura Kuenssberg talks to those making the news, inside and outside politics.
Fifteen-Love
Act like Glenn Lapthorn (6 ep.)
event2023 star_border 5.5
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A former tennis prodigy makes an explosive allegation against her former coach. After the allegation, everyone is forced to reconsider what they thought they knew about their past success.
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