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- Height1.80 m
- Aidan Turner was born in Dublin, Ireland in 1983. After graduating from the Gaiety School of Acting in 2004, Aidan appeared in a number of stage productions, many with Ireland's national theatre, The Abbey. Such productions included The Plough & The Stars, Romeo & Juliet and A Cry from Heaven. In 2008, Turner made the transition to movies and television with a lead role in the film Alarm and a co-starring role in the popular Irish TV drama The Clinic. In 2009, Turner moved to the UK to take on a starring role in BBC's acclaimed Being Human. Aidan played the spellbinding "Mitchell" for 3 seasons during which time he also starred in BBC's Desperate Romantics and BBC's top rated TV movie Hattie. In 2011, famed director Peter Jackson cast Turner in the role of Kili in JRR Tolkien's The Hobbit. The highly successful movie trilogy filmed for approximately two years in New Zealand during which time Aidan also starred in Cassandra Clare's The Mortal Instruments.
In 2014 Turner was cast as Poldark in the BBC remake. Aidan was the only actor considered for this charismatic hero. Poldark premiered to excellent rating in the UK in March 2015 and also in the USA in June 2015. The BBC series also aired across Europe and Australia and returned for a second series, aired during 2016.
In 2015 Aidan took on a small role in The Secret Scripture so he could work with one of his favorite directors, Jim Sheridan. He also voiced a role in the first painted animation movie, Loving Vincent, co-starred in the dark comedy, Look Away and starred in the BBC mini series, And Then There Were None.
A third series of the hugely popular Poldark aired in the spring and summer of 2017.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Anonymous 123 - Aidan began filming Series three of Poldark in September 2016, beginning with location work with other cast members in Cornwall. The cast was filming at the same time as the second series was being shown on BBC1.
Filming for the third series continued until March 2017, with indoor shooting taking place at Bottleyard studios in Bristol, and aired later the same year.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Dancebluecat - Aidan Turner was on the jury at the Odessa International Film Festival 2017 in July 2017. He played the young Calvin Barr in a film entitled 'The Man who shot Hitler and then the Bigfoot' which was filmed in August 2017. He returned to the role of Ross Poldark when filming commenced September 2017 for the fourth series of Poldark with shooting taking place on location in Cornwall as well as in the studios at Bottleyard in Bristol. Filming for Poldark 4 is set to continue until early 2018- IMDb Mini Biography By: Anonymous
- SpouseCaitlin Fitzgerald(August 2020 - present) (1 child)
- ParentsPat TurnerEileen Turner
- RelativesColin Turner(Sibling)
- Gender / Gender identityMale
- Curly hair
- Was voted Sexiest Man in the World by UK Glamour magazine in 2016.
- Winner of Two awards - Best Actor and Star of the Year in the Inaugural Gossie awards in February 2016.
- Has a history for playing supernatural beings. In Being Human (2008), he played a vampire who is best friends with a werewolf. And then in The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones (2013), he plays a werewolf who protects the world from demons.
- Winner of GQ UK TV Actor of the Year 2016 (awarded September 2016 at the Tate Modern, London).
- Aidan Turner started filming the 4th series of Poldark in September 2017 with filming due to finish in early 2018.
- I was really into films when I was younger but I feel like a bit of a phony sometimes - I started acting because I didn't know what else to do. I filled in all these university application forms and honestly didn't want to do any of the courses. I spontaneously signed up to a part-time acting class at the same time. Then I did a full-time course, then went to drama school. When I started there I realized it's what I wanted to do. Being around committed people was very inspiring.
- [on what films he likes] Spielberg as a kid but when I got a bit older there were loads more - the Danny Boyle movies, the Irish guys Jim Sheridan and Neil Jordan. My dad had a small part in Michael Collins, driving a vintage car.
- Will McGregor, one of the directors on Poldark, sends me things, and he said, "You have to know this is happening - your hair has its own Twitter account." That's outrageous. If I was an avid social media person, it would freak me out quite a bit.
- In 'The Hobbit,' there were British, Irish, Australian and New Zealand actors, and Peter Jackson was adamant that we would all sound like we were from Britain somewhere.
- I tend to not read... well, that's my party line anyway, that I don't read press. But it's hard because anywhere you go, you walk into a newsagent or a supermarket and you see that scything shot, with my top off. So that's weird. But nothing else has changed. There's a bit of activity with work, there's more scripts coming in and for the first time ever I feel like I'm in a real position of choice. I live in Dublin, where I don't get hassled, which is really nice. It changes slightly in London, but in Dublin I slip under the radar.
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