Aidan Turner

Born: 1983-06-19, Clondalkin, South Dublin, Ireland

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.

Filmography

• The Tudors (2007)
• The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (2014)
• Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg (2022)
• Rivals (2024)
• The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012)
• The Diplomat (2023)
• The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (2013)
• Poldark (2015)
• Being Human (2009)
• And Then There Were None (2015)
• Tyler Perry's If Loving You Is Wrong (2014)
• The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones (2013)
• Leonardo (2021)
• Loving Vincent (2017)
• Toast of Tinseltown (2022)
• Fifteen-Love (2023)
• Desperate Romantics (2009)
• The Man Who Killed Hitler and Then the Bigfoot (2019)
• The Secret Scripture (2017)
• National Theatre Live: Les Liaisons Dangereuses (2026)