Aidan Turner

Aidan Turner is currently single after he ended his year old relationship in 2016 with artist Nettie Wakefield. As per the reports, both of them attributed the split to their hectic schedules.

He was earlier dating actress Sarah Greene, but called off this relationship of five years in 2015 despite rumors of the two being secretly engaged.

Aidan Turner was born on 19, June 1983, in Dublin, Ireland. His father is an electrician. He is an alumnus of St Mac Dara's Community College and Firhouse Community College.

He assisted his father as an apprentice electrician before enrolling into Gaiety School of Acting, Dublin, and graduated with a degree in 2004.

He is a trained dancer in Latin American and Ballroom dancing and was into competitive dancing early on in his life.

In his initial days as an actor, he played various roles in stage plays such as Barbican Theatre’s ‘The Plough and the Stars’, Abbey Theatre’s ‘A Cry from Heaven’ and Focus Theatre’s ‘Suddenly Last Summer’, all in 2005.

Aidan Turner’s role in ‘The Clinic’ during 2008-2009 and his appearance in 2008’s mainstream movie ‘Alarm’ helped him clinch the lead role of Dante Gabriel Rossetti in ‘Desperate Romantics’ on BBC.

His next successful television venture was the portrayal of John Mitchell, the lead role in ‘Being Human’. He was with the show from 2009 through 2011 across its three-season run. It was around this time, that Turner landed a role a ‘Hattie’, BBC’s top rated movie for television.

In 2011, Aidan signed to portray the role of Kili in the movie adaptation of JRR Tolkien’s ‘The Hobbit’ directed by the accomplished director Peter Jackson. The first movie in the trilogy ‘The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey’ released in 2012 and garnered huge success.

In 2013, Turner appeared in the second movie of the Hobbit trilogy ‘The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug’ and Cassandra Clare’s acclaimed movie ‘The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones’. The final chapter in the Hobbit series ‘The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies’ released to huge success in 2014.

In 2015, Turner followed up the success of ‘The Hobbit’ trilogy with his next venture ‘The Secret Scripture’ playing Jack McNulty and ‘Look Away’ playing Russell. The same year, he also appeared in the television mini-series ‘And Then There Were None’ and his biggest success until date ‘Poldark’. ‘Poldark’ was a huge hit in the UK, Europe and Australia to warrant a second and a third series, which premiered in 2016 and 2017 respectively.

Before landing the lead role in ‘The Clinic’, Turner appeared in a number of stage plays such as ‘Yokohama Delegation’ and ‘Titus Andronicus’ in 2005, ‘The Crock of Gold’ and ‘Drive-by’ in 2006, ‘La Marea’ and ‘Cyrano’ in 2007. His last venture on stage as of date remains Abbey Theatre’s ‘Romeo and Juliet’ in 2008, where he essayed the role of Paris.

In 2017, he lent his voice to the character of a boatman in the movie ‘Loving Vincent’.

He is currently filming for the fourth series of ‘Poldark’, scheduled to premier during early 2018.