Aidan Quinn
Gender: Male
Born: 8th March 1959 (currently 52 years old)
Nationality: United States of America, Republic of Ireland
TV programs: Canterbury's Law, The Book of Daniel, Prime Suspect
Movies: Avalon, Benny & Joon, Desperately Seeking Susan, Stolen Summer, The Exonerated, The Handmaid's Tale, The Mission, The Assignment, Music of the Heart, Dark Matter, The Stars Fell on Henrietta, At Play in the Fields of the Lord, Michael Collins, A Private Matter, Evelyn, Stakeout, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, In Dreams, Haunted, Legends of the Fall, Reckless, Blink, Song For a Raggy Boy, Practical Magic, Nine Lives, Bobby Jones: A Stroke of Genius, An Early Frost, Miracle Run, Wild Child, Two of Us, Crusoe, Forbidden Territory: Stanley's Search for Livingstone, Cavedweller, Commandments, The Playboys, Benedict Arnold: A Question of Honor, This Is My Father, The Lemon Sisters, Handsome Harry, Flipped, The Eclipse, Looking for Richard, Songcatcher, A Shine of Rainbows, The Assignment, Shadow of Fear, 32A, Return to Sender, If I Were You, Perfect Witness, The 5th Quarter, Sarah's Key, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Jonah Hex, Across the Line: The Exodus of Charlie Wright, Unknown, Proud, Festival of Lights, The Stand Up, Out of Ireland: Story of Emigration into America, The Big Valley, The Last Keepers, Connemara Days, Recalled, The Greening of Whitney Brown
Aidan Quinn (born March 8, 1959) is an Irish-American actor.
Quinn was born in Chicago, Illinois to Irish parents. He was brought up as a Roman Catholic and raised in Chicago and Rockford, Illinois, as well as in Dublin and Birr, County Offaly in Ireland. His mother, Teresa, was a homemaker, and his father, Michael Quinn, was a professor of literature. He has three brothers and a sister. His older brother, Declan Quinn, is a noted cinematographer. Though a roofer by trade, Quinn got his start in the Chicago theater at age 19. He trained at the Piven Theatre Workshop.
His first significant film role was in Reckless, followed by a breakthrough role in Desperately Seeking Susan as the character "Dez" (the love interest of the character played by Rosanna Arquette). Quinn next starred in the controversial TV movie An Early Frost, about a young lawyer dying of AIDS (it was broadcast on NBC on November 11, 1985) and co-starred such luminaries as Gena Rowlands, Ben Gazzara and Sylvia Sidney. He received his first Emmy Award nomination for the role which allowed him to gain recognition in Hollywood.
In 1988 Quinn lost the role of Jesus Christ when Paramount Pictures dropped the
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