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Aidan Gillen

Aidan Gillen

4 films · 377 frames · top-billed in 1 · 20142021

Born 24 April 1968 · Dublin, Ireland

Aidan Murphy, better known as Aidan Gillen (/ˈɡɪlən/), is an Irish actor. He is known for his roles as Stuart Alan Jones in Queer as Folk (1999–2000); Tommy Carcetti in The Wire (2004–2008); John Boy in  Love/Hate (2010–2011); Petyr "Littlefinger" Baelish in Game of Thrones (2011–2017), Aberama Gold in Peaky Blinders (2017–2019); as Milo Sunter on Mayor of Kingstown (2021–present); and as Frank Kinsella, in the crime drama Kin (2021–2023).

How their films are shot

Measured across 377 frames from the 4 films we hold. This is the look of the work Aidan takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.

Across the 4 films we hold, 54% of their frames are day, 52% natural — the look of the work Aidan takes.

Time of day

Day54%
Night40%

Lighting

Natural52%
Low key43%

Shot size

Medium46%
Closeup27%
Wide16%
Establishing6%

Camera angle

Eye level83%
Low angle9%
High angle5%

Mood

Neutral40%
Tense28%
Lonely12%
Ominous10%

Films in the library

Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.

A reference database for filmmakers

FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 377 frames from Aidan Gillen's 4 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.