My lord, Aidan Gillen only gets hotter as he ages.
Young (Stuart Alan Jones from QUEER AS FOLK (UK):
Maturing (Tommy Carcetti from THE WIRE):
Mid-period (Aberama Gold, badass of badasses in PEAKY BLINDERS:
Now:
I'm glad he has done some audio books, because I could listen to him all day -- but I prefer his "natural" accent. Don't hide that awesome combo of Dublin / London / something else I can't place, dude! Give me a call, Aidan. You can read me some Joyce or Yeats over the phone, and in return I can take you to some underground poker clubs or introduce you to some more musicians or just take you on a tour of the museum I work at and make my coworkers jealous. I'm a simple woman.
I still haven't watched GAME OF THRONES, and I'm not sure I can commit to it (I tapped out after half of season 1 because...yeah) but I HAVE watched as many of his BBC / RTE / microscopic indie films as the Internets can allow. I'm looking forward to seeing him opposite another Jodi crush, Gabriel Byrne, in the new flick about Samuel Beckett.