Aidan Turner

Aidan Turner (born 19 June 1983) is an Irish actor. He played the roles of Ross Poldark in the 2015–2019 BBC adaptation of The Poldark Novels by Winston Graham, Dante Gabriel Rossetti in Desperate Romantics, Ruairí McGowan in The Clinic, and John Mitchell in the supernatural drama series Being Human. He played Kíli in The Hobbit film series.

Known For

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey Not in library

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

2012

The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies

The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies

2014

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug Not in library

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

2013

The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones Not in library

The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones

2013

Loving Vincent Not in library

Loving Vincent

2017

The Tudors Not in library

The Tudors

2007

And Then There Were None Not in library

And Then There Were None

2015

The Man Who Killed Hitler and Then the Bigfoot Not in library

The Man Who Killed Hitler and Then the Bigfoot

2019

The Diplomat Not in library

The Diplomat

2023

Poldark Not in library

Poldark

2015

Acting

2026 National Theatre Live: Les Liaisons Dangereuses as Vicomte de Valmont
2024 Rivals as Declan O'Hara (8 episodes)
2023 Fifteen-Love as Glenn Lapthorn (6 episodes)
2023 The Diplomat as Callum Ellis (3 episodes)
2022 Toast of Tinseltown as Barney (2 episodes)
2022 The Suspect as Joe O'Loughlin (5 episodes)
2022 Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg
2021 Leonardo as Leonardo da Vinci (8 episodes)
2019 Love Is Blind as Russell
2019 The Man Who Killed Hitler and Then the Bigfoot as Calvin Barr
2017 Loving Vincent as Boatman
2017 The Secret Scripture as Jack McNulty
2016 Poldark Revealed as Self / Ross Poldark
2015 Poldark as Ross Poldark (43 episodes)
2015 And Then There Were None as Philip Lombard (3 episodes)
2014 Tyler Perry's If Loving You Is Wrong as Brad (94 episodes)
2013 The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug as Kili
2013 The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones as Luke Garroway
2012 The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey as Kili
2011 Hattie as John Schofield
2009 Being Human as John Mitchell (22 episodes)
2009 Desperate Romantics as Dante Gabriel Rossetti (6 episodes)
2008 Alarm as Mal
2007 The Tudors as Bedoli (1 episode)
2007 The Graham Norton Show as Self - Guest (1 episode)
Grendel as Unferth
The Way of the Wind as Andrew