Aidan Turner
Department: Acting
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.
Known For
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
2012
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
2013
Alarm
2008
The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones
2013
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
2014
Hattie
2011
Loving Vincent
2017
Love Is Blind
2019
Grendel
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The Secret Scripture
2017
The Man Who Killed Hitler and Then the Bigfoot
2019
Poldark Revealed
2016
The Way of the Wind
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National Theatre Live: Les Liaisons Dangereuses
2026
The Tudors
2007
Rivals
2024
Being Human
2009
Desperate Romantics
2009
Poldark
2015
Tyler Perry's If Loving You Is Wrong
2014
And Then There Were None
2015
Toast of Tinseltown
2022
The Suspect
2022
The Graham Norton Show
2007
Leonardo
2021
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg
2022
Fifteen-Love
2023
The Diplomat
2023