Teachers at my school, for being such a smartarse.
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Aidan Gillen
Irish actor
Ireland · b. 1968
Arts and letters
About
Born in Dublin, Aidan Gillen, 49, made his name in Queer As Folk in 1999. In 2004, he appeared on Broadway in The Caretaker and was nominated for a Tony. He played Tommy Carcetti in The Wire and plays Petyr Baelish in Game Of Thrones. His films include The Dark Knight Rises, and his latest, King Arthur: Legend Of The Sword, is released next week. He lives in Dublin and has two children with his former wife; his current partner is singer Camille O’Sullivan.
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Pyramid Song, by Radiohead, live.
Foxes making love: it’s a very unsettling sound.
A stuntman. Evel Knievel was an icon.
I won a local art competition aged 10 – the first time I’d won anything.
The floral waistcoat and shocking-pink shirt combo I wore on my 21st.
Last year, driving in California, I found myself on the wrong side of the road. I was 30 seconds away from hitting two cars coming the other way.
Cleaning around the feet of John Malkovich with industrial carpet cleaner while he was trying to learn lines in the foyer of a theatre.
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