Aidan Quinn Born: Mar 08, 1959 in Chicago, Illinois Occupation: Actor, Active: '90s-2000s Major Genres: Drama, Thriller Career Highlights: An Early Frost, Avalon, Desperately Seeking Susan First Major Screen Credit: Reckless (1984)
| Filmography | | BLINK 1994 | | MISSION, THE 1986 | | DESPERATELY SEEKING SUSAN 1985 | | AVALON 1990 | | HANDMAID'S TALE, THE 1990 | | LEMON SISTERS, THE 1989 | | PERFECT WITNESS 1989 | | ALL MY SONS 1986 | | AT PLAY IN THE FIELDS OF THE LORD 1991 | | PLAYBOYS, THE 1992 | | CRUSOE 1988 | | BENNY AND JOON 1993 | | LOOKING FOR RICHARD 1996 | | PRIVATE MATTER, A 1992 | | MICHAEL COLLINS 1996 | | MARY SHELLEY'S FRANKENSTEIN 1994 | | LEGENDS OF THE FALL 1994 | | STARS FELL ON HENRIETTA, THE 1995 | | HAUNTED 1995 | | ASSIGNMENT, THE 1997 | | PRACTICAL MAGIC 1998 | | IN DREAMS 1998 | | THIS IS MY FATHER 1998 | | COMMANDMENTS 1997 | | LIES OF THE TWINS 1991 | | SONGCATCHER 1999 | | EVELYN 2002 | | BENEDICT ARNOLD: A QUESTION OF HONOR 2003 | | SHADOW OF FEAR 2005 | | CAVEDWELLER 2005 | | CONVICTED 2005 | | EARLY FROST, AN 1985 | | DARK MATTER 2007 | | ADVENTURE COLLECTION, THE 2008 | | CANTERBURY'S LAW: THE COMPLETE SERIES 2009 | | ECLIPSE, THE 2010 |
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A leading actor of the stage and screen, Aidan Quinn specializes in portraying sensitive, intelligent characters. Easily recognizable thanks to his platitude-inspiring baby blues and classically handsome features, Quinn has long enjoyed a reputation as the thinking woman's fantasy fodder.
Born in Chicago on March 8, 1959, to Irish immigrants, Quinn and his four siblings were raised in both the U.S. and their parents' native country. The family spent so much time in Ireland that Quinn had part of his high school education there, and he moved to Dublin in his late teens. While in Dublin, he tried to break into the local theatre scene; when that proved to be less than fruitful, Quinn returned to Chicago. There, he worked as a roofer and joined local acting companies. He acted in a number of productions and made his New York debut in an off-Broadway production of Sam Shepard's {-Fool for Love}.
Quinn broke into film playing an angry young man who gets involved with faux good girl Daryl Hannah in James Foley's Reckless (1984). The film went largely ignored by both critics and audiences, and it wasn't until he starred in Susan Seidelman's Desperately Seeking Susan the following year that Quinn began to attract notice. The recognition he earned for that film was nicely complemented during the same year by his acclaimed, Emmy-nominated portrayal of a gay lawyer with AIDS in An Early Frost, the first TV movie to deal directly with the subject of the virus.
Quinn subsequently carved a niche for himself with strong portrayals in a series of disparate films throughout the '80s and '90s. He did some of his more memorable work in Barry Levinson's Avalon (1990), a family drama that saw him give a convincing portrayal of a Jewish father; The Playboys (1992), which cast him as an amorous Irish musician; Benny and Joon (1993), in which he played the long-suffering brother of a mentally unstable young woman (Mary Stuart Masterson); Legends of the Fall (1994), in which he portrayed wild man Brad Pitt's responsible older brother; and Neil Jordan's Michael Collins (1996), in which Quinn got to play against type as an ambitious IRA terrorist.
In 1998, Quinn collaborated with brothers Paul and Declan, starring in and executive producing This Is My Father, a heartfelt drama set in Ireland. Featuring a script and direction by Paul, cinematography by Declan, and a touching, tender performance by Aidan as a shy, stumbling dirt farmer, the film earned moderately strong reviews, particularly from critics who felt that Quinn was finally acting in a film worth his mettle. The actor followed This is My Father with a return to mainstream Hollywood fare, starring as Annette Bening's husband in the thriller In Dreams and as an old high school friend of Meryl Streep's in Wes Craven's Music of the Heart, both released in 1999. In addition to his stable film career, Quinn has enjoyed a stable marriage to Elizabeth Bracco (sister of Lorraine Bracco) since 1987. They have one daughter. ~ Rebecca Flint Marx, All Movie Guide.
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