Aidan Quinn

Aidan Quinn

Birthday: 1959-03-08

Place of Birth: Chicago, Illinois, USA

Biography: Aidan Quinn (born March 8, 1959) is an American actor. He made his film debut in Reckless (1984) and has starred in over 80 feature films, including Desperately Seeking Susan (1985), The Mission (1986), Stakeout (1987), All My Sons (1987), Avalon (1990), Benny & Joon (1993), Legends of the Fall (1994), Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994), Michael Collins (1996), Practical Magic (1998), Song for a Raggy Boy (2003), Wild Child (2008) and Unknown (2011). He also played Captain Thomas "Tommy" Gregson on the CBS television series Elementary (2012–19). Quinn has received two Primetime Emmy Award nominations for his performances in the television films An Early Frost (1985) and Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (2007). Highly active in Irish cinema and the United States, Quinn is a four-time Irish Film and Television (IFTA) Award nominee, winning Best Supporting Actor in a Film for the Conor McPherson film The Eclipse (2009).

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Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

Victor Frankenstein is a promising young doctor who, devastated by the death of his mother during ch...

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Michael Collins
Michael Collins

Michael Collins plays a crucial role in the establishment of the Irish Free State in the 1920s, but ...

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Avalon
Avalon

A Polish-Jewish family comes to the U.S. at the beginning of the twentieth century. There, the famil...

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Arthur Miller: Writer
Arthur Miller: Writer

One of the greatest playwrights of the 20th century, Arthur Miller created such celebrated works as ...

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Daughter of the Bride
Daughter of the Bride

Diane and Kate are not only mother and daughter but also best friends. Their lives are turned upside...

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Benny & Joon
Benny & Joon

A mentally ill young woman finds her love in an eccentric man who models himself after Buster Keaton...

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Legends of the Fall
Legends of the Fall

In early 20th-century Montana, Col. William Ludlow lives on a ranch in the wilderness with his sons,...

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Stakeout
Stakeout

Two detectives observe an escaped convict's ex-girlfriend, but complications set in when one of them...

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The Handmaid's Tale
The Handmaid's Tale

In a dystopian, polluted right-wing religious tyranny, a young woman is put in sexual slavery on acc...

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Practical Magic
Practical Magic

Sally and Gillian Owens, born into a magical family, have mostly avoided witchcraft themselves. But ...

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The Mission
The Mission

When a Spanish Jesuit goes into the South American wilderness to build a mission in the hope of conv...

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Desperately Seeking Susan
Desperately Seeking Susan

A bored New Jersey suburban housewife's fascination with a free-spirited woman she has read about in...

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Return to Sender
Return to Sender

While fighting for a woman who sits on death row, a lawyer happens upon new information which brings...

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Music of the Heart
Music of the Heart

After Roberta Guaspari separates from her husband, she receives encouragement from her mother to tak...

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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee

Beginning just after the bloody Sioux victory over General Custer at Little Big Horn, the story is t...

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In Dreams
In Dreams

A suburban housewife learns that she has psychic connections to a serial killer, and can predict thi...

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Wild Child
Wild Child

Sixteen-year-old Poppy has everything her unlimited credit cards can buy, and a spoiled attitude to ...

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The Playboys
The Playboys

A young woman, Tara Maguire (Robin Wright) scandalizes her provincial Irish village in the 1950s by ...

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Looking for Richard
Looking for Richard

Al Pacino's deeply-felt rumination on Shakespeare's significance and relevance to the modern world t...

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Crusoe
Crusoe

Robinson Crusoe is shipwrecked and he finds himself all alone on a tropical island. With a few tools...

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The Last Keepers
The Last Keepers

This romantic fantasy movie is about two people who are the last survivors of an ancient line of god...

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A Shine of Rainbows
A Shine of Rainbows

An orphaned boy named Tomás is adopted by Maire O’Donnell to live on a whimsical Irish isle filled w...

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The Prince and the Pauper
The Prince and the Pauper

An adaptation of the classic, "The Prince and the Pauper" is the retelling of Edward Tudor and young...

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Flipped
Flipped

When Juli meets Bryce in the second grade, she knows it's true love. After spending six years trying...

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Nine Lives
Nine Lives

Captives of the very relationships that define and sustain them, nine women resiliently meet the tra...

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Reckless
Reckless

Teenager Johnny Rourke is reckless. Born on the wrong side of the tracks, he breaks the law and girl...

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Commandments
Commandments

Seth Warner has reached the end of his rope. Ever since his wife died two years earlier, his world h...

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Stolen Summer
Stolen Summer

Pete, an eight-year-old Catholic boy growing up in the suburbs of Chicago in the mid-1970s, attends ...

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The Eclipse
The Eclipse

Michael is a widower who is struggling to adjust to his new role as the sole caretaker of his two ch...

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Unknown
Unknown

A man awakens from a coma, only to discover that someone has taken on his identity and that no one, ...

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Blacklight
Blacklight

Travis Block is a shadowy Government agent who specializes in removing operatives whose covers have ...

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Dark Matter
Dark Matter

Liu Xing a brilliant Chinese student, arrives at University and makes the transition into American l...

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Haunted
Haunted

Professor David Ash exposes false spiritulists and mediums. He is invited to Edbrook to resolve the ...

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The Assignment
The Assignment

Jack Shaw has experienced the terror first-hand. He's a top CIA agent who's tracked international ki...

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32A
32A

This story is set in the "in-between" time of a girl's life, when she is no longer a child and not y...

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Song for a Raggy Boy
Song for a Raggy Boy

William Franklin is a teacher who was born in Ireland and moved to the United States only to repatri...

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At Play in the Fields of the Lord
At Play in the Fields of the Lord

Martin and Hazel Quarrier are small-town fundamentalist missionaries sent to the jungles of South Am...

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Shadow of Fear
Shadow of Fear

When a young man accidentally kills someone, he is plunged into a rich man's world of blackmail, bet...

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Across the Line: The Exodus of Charlie Wright
Across the Line: The Exodus of Charlie Wright

The story centers on Charlie, a Los Angeles billionaire financial whiz who goes into self-imposed ex...

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Handsome Harry
Handsome Harry

An ex-Navy man carrying out the last wish of a dying shipmate renews contact with old friends to bre...

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Sarah's Key
Sarah's Key

On the night of 16 July 1942, ten year old Sarah and her parents are being arrested and transported ...

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The Greening of Whitney Brown
The Greening of Whitney Brown

Whitney, a spoiled pre-teen from Philadelphia, is forced to move to the country when her parents fee...

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Mayday
Mayday

Twelve miles above the Pacific Ocean, an errant missile strikes a state of the art passenger jet. Th...

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An Early Frost
An Early Frost

Successful lawyer Michael Pierson is gay, but he has always hidden this part of his life from his mo...

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Two of Us
Two of Us

In this purely fictional story, Paul McCartney drops by The Dakota to visit John Lennon in 1976. Pau...

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Miracle Run
Miracle Run

Corinne is a single mother of twin 5-year-old boys, Steven and Phillip, who are diagnosed with autis...

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The 5th Quarter
The 5th Quarter

In the wake of a car crash that killed his brother, football player Jon Abbate leads his school's st...

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Cavedweller
Cavedweller

A traumatic event sends a musician back to her hometown in an effort to reunite with the daughters s...

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Allegiance
Allegiance

After being granted a questionable transfer that will keep him stateside as his National Guard unit ...

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The Lemon Sisters
The Lemon Sisters

Three life-long friends work the bars in 1980s Atlantic City performing the songs of the 1960s girl ...

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A Private Matter
A Private Matter

The true story of Romper Room host "Miss Sherri" Finkbine, who, after the devastating effects of tha...

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The Stand Up
The Stand Up

After his girlfriend's tragic death, devastated stand-up comic Zoe Hardwick drops his budding career...

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Festival of Lights
Festival of Lights

After receiving shocking news about her absent father, a rebellious teenage girl embarks on a journe...

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The Stars Fell on Henrietta
The Stars Fell on Henrietta

The setting is early America during the oil boom. An elderly, down on his luck 'oil man', Mr. Cox fi...

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Rushlights
Rushlights

Young lovers Billy and Sarah journey from L.A. to Texas with plans to make a false claim to the valu...

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If I Were You
If I Were You

When a woman tries to outwit her husband's sexy young mistress, the unexpected consequences include ...

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Lies of the Twins
Lies of the Twins

An ex-model is seduced into danger by her psychotherapist boyfriend's wicked identical twin....

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Benedict Arnold: A Question of Honor
Benedict Arnold: A Question of Honor

On the glorious battlefields of the American Revolution, two great generals distinguished themselves...

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Stay
Stay

A woman finds out she's pregnant and returns home when the expected father wants nothing to do with ...

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The Horses of McBride
The Horses of McBride

When Nicki finds two horses stranded deep in the Rocky Mountain snow, she makes it her mission to fi...

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Perfect Witness
Perfect Witness

An innocent man is thrust into a political power struggle in this drama. After witnessing a mob kill...

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The Exonerated
The Exonerated

Six people tell their stories on a single subject - how they got wrongfully convicted to death penal...

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Blink
Blink

Emma is an attractive girl in her 20s who has been blind for 20 years. A new type of eye operation p...

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The Prince of Motor City
The Prince of Motor City

A modern-day adaptation of Shakespeare's Hamlet set in Detroit....

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Evelyn
Evelyn

Desmond Doyle is devastated when his wife abandons their family on the day after Christmas. His unem...

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See You in My Dreams
See You in My Dreams

Joe, an overwrought rancher is striving from his harsh upbringing, trying make a better life for his...

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This Is My Father
This Is My Father

When schoolteacher Kieran Johnson discovers that his father was not a French sailor (as he had been ...

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Irish Chicago
Irish Chicago

The colorful stories of Irish-American immigrants and their descendants who lived the history and ex...

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Forbidden Territory: Stanley's Search for Livingstone
Forbidden Territory: Stanley's Search for Livingstone

British explorer Henry Stanley travels to Africa in 1871 seeking missionary David Livingstone....

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Songcatcher
Songcatcher

After being denied a promotion at the university where she teaches, Doctor Lily Penleric, a brillian...

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Proud
Proud

The true story of the only African-American crew to take a Navy warship into combat in World War II....

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Lumière & Company
Lumière & Company

40 international directors were asked to make a short film using the original Cinematographe invente...

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The Well of Saint Nobody
The Well of Saint Nobody

Famous concert pianist William retires to a rectory in West Cork, Ireland. There, he hires a local w...

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Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genius
Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genius

The story of golf icon and legend, Bobby Jones, who retired from competition at the tender age of 28...

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Jonah Hex
Jonah Hex

Gunslinger Jonah Hex is appointed by President Ulysses Grant to track down terrorist Quentin Turnbul...

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The Lightkeeper
The Lightkeeper

The Lightkeeper is the story of a lighthouse keeper stuck in a cycle of grief and the three people w...

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Butterfly in the Typewriter
Butterfly in the Typewriter

Troubled author John Kennedy Toole's struggle to bring A Confederacy of Dunces to print....

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Change in the Air
Change in the Air

A peaceful community is forever changed when a mysterious young woman moves in. As the quirky locals...

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The Gettysburg Address
The Gettysburg Address

In the midst of the Civil War, President Lincoln went to Gettysburg. "The Gettysburg Address" invest...

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Plainsong
Plainsong

Tom Guthrie, a high school history teacher, is faced with raising two young sons after his wife leav...

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Babenco: Tell Me When I Die
Babenco: Tell Me When I Die

Besieged by cancer and nearing the end, the genius Argentine-Brazilian filmmaker Héctor Babenco (194...

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All My Sons
All My Sons

Two families, related by friendship and love, face up to the consequences of greed and avarice in th...

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From Ararat to Zion
From Ararat to Zion

The mosaic of Christian pilgrimage to the Holy Land has been shaped during two thousand years. The p...

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Spiked
Spiked

Inspired by True Events. When the murder of a migrant worker shakes a southwest border town to its c...

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A Journey to Sundance
A Journey to Sundance

'A JOURNEY TO SUNDANCE' is about the spirit, dreams and struggles of independent filmmakers from all...

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Out of Ireland
Out of Ireland

Over the course of two centuries, seven million men, women and children abandoned their homeland for...

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Ages of the Moon
Ages of the Moon

A movie adaptation of the Sam Shepard play Ages Of The Moon....

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The Body Is Water
The Body Is Water

Set between Houston, Texas, and the weathered coastline of West Cork, Ireland, a grieving man vanish...

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Little Audrey
Little Audrey

Inspired by the real-life story of Audrey Santo, who died at age 23 in 2007 after she was left in a ...

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Muide Éire
Muide Éire

Muide Eire / We are Ireland documents the history of Ireland on screen. From the horse drawn carriag...

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