Aidan Quinn

08 Mar 1959 (65 years old) in Chicago, Illinois, USA

Aidan Quinn is an Irish-American actor. He made his film debut in 1984 in Reckless. His films include Desperately Seeking Susan, The Mission, Stakeout, Benny and Joon, Legends of the Fall, Frankenstein, and Michael Collins. He played the role of Captain Thomas "Tommy" Gregson in the CBS television series Elementary (2012–2019). Quinn has received two Primetime Emmy Award nominations for his work in An Early Frost (1985) and Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (2007).

Known For

Credits

  • 2025 · The Gettysburg Address as Theodore Parker (voice)
  • 2024 · Rematch as Roger Laver
  • 2023 · Food Fight as Daniel
  • 2023 · Daughter of the Bride as Bruce
  • 2022 · Blacklight as Gabriel Robinson
  • 2021 · The American Guest as Theodore Roosevelt
  • 2021 · Spiked as John Wilson
  • 2020 · Babenco: Tell Me When I Die as Self (archive footage)
  • 2018 · Change in the Air as Moody Burkhart
  • 2017 · Arthur Miller: Writer as Self (archive footage)
  • 2013 · Stay as Dermot
  • 2013 · Rushlights as Cameron Brogden
  • 2013 · If I Were You as Derek
  • 2013 · The Last Keepers as John
  • 2012 · Allegiance as Lieutenant Colonel Owens
  • 2012 · The Horses of McBride as Matt Davidson
  • 2012 · Festival of Lights as Adem
  • 2012 · Elementary as Thomas Gregson
  • 2012 · The Stand Up as Sandy
  • 2011 · The Greening of Whitney Brown as Henry Brown
  • 2011 · Prime Suspect as Kevin Sweeney
  • 2011 · Unknown as Martin B.
  • 2010 · Across the Line: The Exodus of Charlie Wright as Charlie Wright
  • 2010 · Sarah's Key as William Rainsferd
  • 2010 · Flipped as Richard Baker
  • 2010 · Jonah Hex as Ulysses S. Grant
  • 2010 · The 5th Quarter as Steven Abbate
  • 2009 · White Collar as Professor George Oswald
  • 2009 · A Shine of Rainbows as Alec
  • 2009 · From Ararat to Zion as Narrator
  • 2009 · Handsome Harry as Prof. Porter
  • 2009 · The Eclipse as Nicholas Holden
  • 2009 · Irish Chicago as Self - Host
  • 2008 · Wild Child as Gerry Moore
  • 2008 · The Prince of Motor City as Charlie Hamilton
  • 2008 · Dark Matter as Jacob Reiser
  • 2008 · Canterbury's Law as Matt Furey
  • 2007 · 32A as Frank Brennan
  • 2007 · Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee as Henry Dawes
  • 2006 · The Exonerated as Kerry Max Cook
  • 2006 · The Book of Daniel as Daniel Webster
  • 2005 · Mayday as John Berry
  • 2005 · Nine Lives as Henry
  • 2005 · Weeds as CEO
  • 2005 · Empire Falls as David Roby
  • 2004 · Return to Sender as Frank Nitzche
  • 2004 · Shadow of Fear as Detective Scofield
  • 2004 · Miracle Run as Douglas Thomas
  • 2004 · Proud as Commodore Alfred Lind
  • 2004 · See You in My Dreams as Joe F. Brown
  • 2004 · Cavedweller as Clint Windsor
  • 2004 · Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genius as Harry Vardon
  • 2004 · Plainsong as Tom Guthrie
  • 2003 · Song for a Raggy Boy as William Franklin
  • 2003 · Benedict Arnold: A Question of Honor as Gen. Benedict Arnold
  • 2002 · Evelyn as Nick Barron
  • 2002 · Stolen Summer as Joe O'Malley
  • 2001 · Night Visions as Jeremy Bell
  • 2001 · Songcatcher as Tom Bledsoe
  • 2000 · The Prince and the Pauper as Miles Hendon
  • 2000 · Two of Us as Paul McCartney
  • 1999 · Music of the Heart as Brian
  • 1999 · Third Watch as John Miller
  • 1999 · Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as Ben Nicholson
  • 1999 · Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as Burton Lowe
  • 1999 · This Is My Father as Kieran O'Day
  • 1999 · In Dreams as Paul Cooper
  • 1998 · Practical Magic as Gary Hallet
  • 1997 · Forbidden Territory: Stanley's Search for Livingstone as Henry Morton Stanley
  • 1997 · The Assignment as Annibal Ramirez / Carlos
  • 1997 · The View as Self
  • 1997 · Commandments as Seth Warner
  • 1996 · Michael Collins as Harry Roland
  • 1996 · Looking for Richard as Richmond
  • 1995 · Lumière and Company as (segment "John Boorman")
  • 1995 · Haunted as Prof. David Ash
  • 1995 · The Stars Fell on Henrietta as Don Day
  • 1994 · Legends of the Fall as Alfred Ludlow
  • 1994 · Mary Shelley's Frankenstein as Cap. Robert Walton
  • 1994 · Baseball as Various (voice)
  • 1994 · Out of Ireland: The Story of Irish Emigration to America as Maurice Woulfe (voice)
  • 1993 · Blink as Detective John Hallstrom
  • 1993 · Benny & Joon as Benjamin 'Benny' Pearl
  • 1992 · A Private Matter as Bob Finkbine
  • 1992 · The Playboys as Tom Casey
  • 1991 · At Play in the Fields of the Lord as Martin Quarrier
  • 1991 · Lies of the Twins as James McEwan / Jonathan McEwan
  • 1990 · Avalon as Jules Kaye
  • 1990 · The Handmaid's Tale as Nick
  • 1989 · The Lemon Sisters as Frankie McGuinness
  • 1989 · Perfect Witness as Sam Paxton
  • 1988 · LIVE with Kelly and Mark as
  • 1988 · Crusoe as Crusoe
  • 1987 · Stakeout as Richard "Stick" Montgomery
  • 1987 · All My Sons as Chris Keller
  • 1986 · The Mission as Felipe Mendoza
  • 1985 · An Early Frost as Michael Pierson
  • 1985 · Desperately Seeking Susan as Dez
  • 1984 · Reckless as Johnny Rourke
  • 1951 · Hallmark Hall of Fame as Tom Guthrie
  • 2024 · The Well of Saint Nobody as
  • 2024 · Cry from the Sea as Father MacGabbhan
  • 2024 · Butterfly in the Typewriter as Barnet Rosset