Most Recent Role: Matt Furey on Canterbury's Law
Gender: Male
Birthplace: Rockford, Illinois, USA
Birthday: 3-8-1959
Birth Name: Aidan Quinn
Gender: Male
Birthplace: Rockford, Illinois, USA
Birthday: 3-8-1959
Birth Name: Aidan Quinn
Most Recent Appearance
Sick as Your Secrets
Friday 18 April 2008 on FOX
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Aidan starred in the movie Michael Collins (1996) and which was nominated for two Academy Awards and two Golden Globes.
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Aidan appeared in the movie Crusoe (1989)
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Aidan was seriously considered for the lead role of Jake Brigance in A Time to Kill but the role went to Matthew McConaughey instead.
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Aiden was on the short list to play Jesus in The Last Temptation of Christ but the part eventually went to Willem Dafoe.
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Aidan grew up both in the US and Ireland.
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Aidan Quinn: I was on this remote island a thousand miles off the coast of Kenya. The island didn't have electricity, but some people had generators, and I went to someone's house and there was a video of Desperately Seeking Susan playing. I think it was the only frigging television on the whole island. That was very bizarre.
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Aidan Quinn: I'm not a city kind of guy. I'm happiest when I'm tromping through the woods. That's why I don't live in Los Angeles. Being physically away from Hollywood probably loses me a few jobs, but the best ones seek me out.
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Aidan Quinn: I'm not a city kind of guy. I'm happiest when I'm tromping through the woods. That's why I don't live in Los Angeles. Being physically away from Hollywood probably loses me a few jobs, but the best ones seek me out.
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Aidan Quinn: There was one moment in high school where I thought, "Maybe I'll take an acting class." And I walked in and saw all the quote unquote theatre people and I went, "Oh God," and walked out. But later, when I was 19, I actually took an acting class and I was very much smitten with it.
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Aidan Quinn: Well, when I first got sent the script to The Assignment, I thought, 'Why don't they offer this to Andy Garcia?' And it turned out they did. I said, 'Oh, OK.' I had a little bit of question of 'How the hell am I gonna be believable?' Or 'Will it be that much of a question in the audience's mind that I'm supposed to be Venezuelan?' So we went with the brown contacts for Carlos and darkened my skin, worked with a good dialogue coach. And then when I heard Andy Garcia was playing an Irish cop in Sidney Lumet's movie [Night Falls on Manhattan], I stopped worrying about it. But that's one of the great things about being an actor. We get to play dress up. And that's what this movie was for me. Wigs, beards, mustaches, dialogues. Intrigue. It was a tremendous amount of hard work, but fun work for me."
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Other Appearances
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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
Senator Henry Dawes |
Canterbury's Law
Matt Furey |
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Mayday
John Berry |
Project Greenlight
Himself (Season 1) |
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The Book of Daniel
Daniel Webster |
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Third Watch
John Miller |
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American Playhouse
All My Sons Chris Keller |
Hallmark Hall Of Fame
Plainsong Tom Guthrie |
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History Alive
Irish in America Narrator |
Late Night With David Letterman
Show #1371 Guest |
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Late Show with David Letterman
Show #0102 Guest |
Late Show with David Letterman
Show #0306 Guest |
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