Aidan Quinn

Highest Rated: 91% The Playboys (1992)

Lowest Rated: 9% Festival of Lights (2012)

Birthday: Mar 8, 1959

Birthplace: Rockford, Illinois, USA

Born in Chicago to Irish parents, Quinn spent much of his youth in Ireland, where he first became interested in acting. At age 19 he returned to Chicago and became involved in several local theater groups. His onstage debut came in a production of The Man in 60, after which he appeared in many plays, including Hamlet in Chicago's Wisdom Bridge Theater. Quinn then moved to New York, where he first appeared off-Broadway in Sam Shepard's Fool For Love. Following several other acclaimed performances, he landed his first big-screen role, as a low-class biker in Reckless (1984), which costarred Daryl Hannah. His second film, the highly-successful comedy Desperately Seeking Susan (1985), made him familiar to an international audience; he gained further exposure in the role of an AIDS victim in the TV movie An Early Frost (1985), for which he received an Emmy. Since then, he has appeared steadily in high-quality feature films, usually in challenging supporting roles.

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Highest Rated Movies

Filmography

MOVIES

RATING	TITLE	CREDIT	BOX OFFICE	YEAR
No Score Yet	Change in the Air	Actor	—	2017
24%	Stay	Dermot	—	2014
22%	Rushlights	Cameron Brogden	—	2013
No Score Yet	The Last Keepers	John Carver	—	2013
29%	Allegiance	Colonel Owens	—	2012
No Score Yet	Christmas Rescue (The Horses Of Mcbride)	Matt Davidson	—	2012
9%	Festival of Lights	Adem	—	2012
No Score Yet	The Stand Up	Sandy	—	2012
9%	If I Were You	Actor	$9.7k	2012
13%	The Greening Of Whitney Brown	Henry Brown	—	2011
72%	Sarah's Key	William Rainsferd	$7.7M	2011
50%	The 5th Quarter	Steven Abbate	$0.4M	2011
56%	Unknown	Martin B.	$63.7M	2011
54%	Flipped	Richard Baker	$1.8M	2010
12%	Jonah Hex	President Grant	$10.6M	2010
44%	A Shine of Rainbows	Alec	—	2010
81%	Handsome Harry	Professor Porter	—	2010
75%	The Eclipse	Nicholas Holden	—	2010
No Score Yet	Across the Line: The Exodus of Charlie Wright	Charlie Wright	—	2010
No Score Yet	Prince and the Pauper	Actor	—	2009
40%	Wild Child	Gerry	—	2008
40%	Dark Matter	Reiser	—	2008
No Score Yet	32A	Frank Brennan	—	2007
No Score Yet	Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee	Sen. Henry Dawes	—	2007
No Score Yet	If I Were You	Derek	—	2006
75%	Nine Lives	Henry	$0.2M	2005
No Score Yet	Mayday	John Berry	—	2005
No Score Yet	Empire Falls	David Roby	—	2005
No Score Yet	Convicted	Frank Nitzche	—	2005
No Score Yet	The Exonerated	Kerry Max Cook	—	2005
No Score Yet	Convicted	Actor	—	2005
No Score Yet	Proud	Commodore Alfred Lind	—	2004
No Score Yet	Miracle Run	Doug Thomas	—	2004
No Score Yet	Shadow of Fear	Det. Scofield	—	2004
26%	Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genius	Harry Vardon	$2.6M	2004
No Score Yet	See You In My Dreams	Joe	—	2004
No Score Yet	Cavedweller	Clint	—	2004
No Score Yet	Plainsong	Tom Guthrie	—	2004
No Score Yet	Benedict Arnold: A Question of Honor	Benedict Arnold	—	2003
67%	Song for a Raggy Boy	William Franklin	—	2003
64%	Evelyn	Nick Barron	$1.4M	2002
36%	Stolen Summer	Joe O'Malley	$0.2M	2002
74%	Songcatcher	Tom	$1.7M	2001
No Score Yet	The Prince and the Pauper	Miles	—	2001
No Score Yet	Two of Us	Paul McCartney	—	2000
63%	Music of the Heart	Brian	—	1999
75%	This Is My Father	Executive Producer Kieran O'Dea	—	1999
25%	In Dreams	Paul Cooper	—	1999
20%	Practical Magic	Gary	—	1998
No Score Yet	Forbidden Territory: Search for Livingstone	Stanley	—	1997
60%	The Assignment	Lt. Cmdr. Annibal Ramirez/Carlos	—	1997
24%	Commandments	Seth Warner	—	1997
No Score Yet	The Irish in America, Vol. II	Narrator	—	1997
No Score Yet	The Irish in America, Vol. I	Narrator	—	1997
81%	Looking for Richard	Richmond	—	1996
76%	Michael Collins	Harry Boland	—	1996
No Score Yet	Pacino - An Actor's Vision	Actor	—	1996
80%	Haunted	David Ash	—	1995
44%	The Stars Fell on Henrietta	Don Day	—	1995
No Score Yet	The Irish in America	Actor	—	1995
56%	Legends of the Fall	Alfred Ludlow	—	1994
39%	Mary Shelley's Frankenstein	Capt. Walton	—	1994
65%	Blink	Det. John Hallstrom	—	1994
No Score Yet	Out of Ireland	Actor	—	1994
76%	Benny & Joon	Benny Pearl	—	1993
No Score Yet	A Private Matter	Bob	—	1992
91%	The Playboys	Tom Casey	—	1992
No Score Yet	Lies of the Twins	Jonathan/James	—	1991
50%	At Play in the Fields of the Lord	Martin Quarrier	—	1991
83%	Avalon	Jules Kaye	—	1990
31%	The Handmaid's Tale	Nick	—	1990
No Score Yet	Perfect Witness	Sam Paxton	—	1989
14%	The Lemon Sisters	Frankie McGuinness	—	1989
67%	Crusoe	Crusoe	—	1988
87%	Stakeout	'Stick' Montgomery	—	1987
65%	The Mission	Felipe	—	1986
No Score Yet	American Playhouse	Chris	—	1986
No Score Yet	An Early Frost	Michael Pierson	—	1985
85%	Desperately Seeking Susan	Dez	$27.4M	1985
No Score Yet	Reckless	Johnny Rourke	—	1984

TV

RATING	TITLE	CREDIT	YEAR
96%	Elementary 2012	Producer Director Tobias "Toby" Gregson Tommy Gregson	2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012
83%	Prime Suspect 2011-2012	Lt. Kevin Sweeney	2012 2011
75%	Weeds 2005-2012	Foster Klein	2011
100%	White Collar 2009-2014	Actor	2010
No Score Yet	Law & Order: Special Victims Unit 1999	Ben Nicholson	2007
No Score Yet	Ken Burns' Baseball 1994-2010	Voice	1994
No Score Yet	American Playhouse 1982-1996	Chris	1987
No Score Yet	Elementary	Tobias "Toby" Gregson Tommy Gregson

Quotes from Aidan Quinn's Characters

Johnny Rourke:	"Are you with me or not?"
Johnny Rourke:	Are you with me or not?

Alfred Ludlow:

I followed all of the rules, man's and God's. And you, you followed none of them. And they all loved you more. Samuel, Father, and my... even my own wife.

Gary Hallet:	Did you or your sister kill James Angelov?
Sally Owens:	Yeah, a couple of times.

Gary Hallet:	What was that, Sally? That was him, wasn't it? Is he gone or what?
Sally Owens:	Yes, you killed his spirit, but I know I took his life. I'll tell you all need to know. I'll tell you how I did it, where I buried him, what I did it with. I'll tell you how...
Gary Hallet:	Whoa, whoa, whoa, hold on just a goddamn second, all right? One step at a time. I took on oath to uphold the law. I came here to bring in the bad guy because generally that's what I do. You asked me how many times I read your letter. I must've read it about a thousand times. I know now, it was your letter anything else that brought me here. It was you. And I'm all mixed-up about that.

Gary Hallet:

Strange town. Never spent this much on shampoo before, in my life.

Sam:	I'm Sam.
Benny Pearl:	So I hear. I'm Benny.
Sam:	With an 'n'?
Benny Pearl:	Yea two of 'em. This is Joon.
Juniper "Joon" Pearl:	One. You're out of your tree.
Sam:	It's not my tree
Sam:	It's not my tree.

Sam:	How sick is she?
Benny Pearl:	She's plenty sick. Now listen to me, I've been doin' some thinkin'...
Sam:	Because, you know, it seems to me that, I mean, except for being a little mentally ill, she's pretty normal.

Gary Hallet:

Strange town. Never spent this much on shampoo before, in my life.

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