Aidan Quinn

Aidan Quinn

Aidan Quinn is an Irish-American actor. He made his film debut in 1984 in Reckless. His films include Desperately Seeking Susan, The Mission, Stakeout, Benny and Joon, Legends of the Fall, Frankenstein, and Michael Collins. Quinn was born in Chicago, Illinois, to Irish parents. He was brought up as a Roman Catholic and raised in Chicago and Rockford, Illinois, as well as in Dublin and Birr, County Offaly, in Ireland. His mother, Teresa, was a homemaker, and also worked as a bookkeeper and in the travel business, and his father, Michael Quinn, was a professor of literature. He has three brothers and a sister. His older brother, Declan Quinn, is a noted cinematographer while his younger sister Marian is an actress, director and writer. Though a roofer by trade, Quinn got his start in the Chicago theater at age 19. He trained at the Piven Theatre Workshop. Quinn is married to the actress Elizabeth Bracco, sister of actress Lorraine Bracco. They have two daughters: Ava (b. 1989) and Mia (b. 1998), who appeared as a ghost in the supernatural love story film The Eclipse.

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Movies starring Aidan Quinn (85)

The Lightkeeper (2026)

Father Macgabbhan

The Gettysburg Address (2025)

Theodore Parker (Voice)

Blacklight (2022)

Gabriel Robinson

Spiked (2021)

John Wilson

Arthur Miller: Writer (2017)

Self (Archive Footage)

Rushlights (2013)

Cameron Brogden

Allegiance (2012)

Lieutenant Colonel Owens

Sarah's Key (2010)

William Rainsferd

Flipped (2010)

Richard Baker

Jonah Hex (2010)

Ulysses S. Grant

The Eclipse (2009)

Nicholas Holden

Dark Matter (2008)

Jacob Reiser

32A (2007)

Frank Brennan

The Exonerated (2006)

Kerry Max Cook

Mayday (2005)

John Berry

Shadow of Fear (2004)

Detective Scofield

Miracle Run (2004)

Douglas Thomas

Proud (2004)

Commodore Alfred Lind

Cavedweller (2004)

Clint Windsor

Plainsong (2004)

Tom Guthrie

Evelyn (2002)

Nick Barron

Two of Us (2000)

Paul Mccartney

In Dreams (1999)

Paul Cooper

The Assignment (1997)

Annibal Ramirez / Carlos

Lumière & Company (1995)

(Segment "John Boorman")

Haunted (1995)

Professor David Ash

Out of Ireland (1995)

Maurice Woulfe (Voice)

Blink (1993)

Detective John Hallstrom

Benny & Joon (1993)

Benjamin 'Benny' Pearl

Lies of the Twins (1991)

James Mcewan / Jonathan Mcewan

Avalon (1990)

Jules Kaye

The Lemon Sisters (1989)

Frankie Mcguinness

Perfect Witness (1989)

Samuel De Valera Paxton

Stakeout (1987)

Richard "Stick" Montgomery

All My Sons (1987)

Chris Keller

The Mission (1986)

Felipe Mendoza

An Early Frost (1985)

Michael Pierson

Reckless (1984)

Johnny Rourke

Movies Made by Aidan Quinn (1)

This Is My Father (1999)

Executive Producer

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Same first name: Aidan

Same surname: Quinn