About Aidan Turner
Aidan Turner is best known for his portrayal of Ross Poldark in BBC One Series Poldark and KÃli in Peter Jackson’s three-part fantasy film The Hobbit; he was most recently seen playing the role of Declan O’Hara in TV series Rivals.
Aidan Turner recently starred in Les Liaisons Dangereuses at the National Theatre in London. Directed by Marianne Elliot, Turner plays the charismatic and dangerous Vicomte de Valmont.
Aidan starred alongside Jenna Coleman in the West End premiere of Sam Steiner’s hilarious and provocative play Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons directed by Josie Rourke.
In 2018 he won Best West End Stage Debut and What’s on Stage award for Best Actor for his performance in The Lieutenant of Inishmore; he was named GQ Actor of the Year for 2016 and Radio Times’s Most Popular UK Actor in 2015 and 2016.
Aidan Turner’s previous theatre roles
Aidan previous theatre roles include Michael Grandage’s production of The Lieutenant of Inishmore at the Noel Coward Theatre, The Plough and The Stars at the Barbican, Romeo and Juliet and A Cry from Heaven for the Abbey Theatre Dublin, and Cyrano and Titus Andronicus at the Project Arts Centre.
Aidan Turner’s film and tv roles
Aidan TV credits include Rivals, Love is Blind, Paso Doble, The Sandman, The Suspect, Leonardo and FIFTEEN LOVE, Toast of Tinseltown, Being Human and The Clinic.
Aidan’s other films include The Mortal Instruments, The Secret Scripture, Loving Vincent, Look Away, The Man Who Killed Hitler, Then the Bigfoot. Other television roles include: Being Human, The Clinic, Desperate Romantics, Hattie, And Then There Were None.
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