Aidan Quinn
Actor
Filmography (All Films)
- Desperately Seeking Susan (1985)
- Dir. Susan Seidelman
Feat. Rosanna Arquette, Madonna, Aidan Quinn…
- Rosanna Arquette and Madonna shine in this spunky and spirited New York comedy/murder mystery – up there with the best of John Hughes' popular…
- Stakeout (1987)
- Dir. John Badham
Feat. Richard Dreyfuss, Emilio Estevez, Madeleine Stowe…
- Cops Richard Dreyfuss and Emilio Estevez run into some well–scripted comic entanglements on surveillance detail.
- Avalon (1990)
- Dir. Barry Levinson
Feat. Armin Mueller-Stahl, Aidan Quinn
- The director's semi–autobiography is a gorgeously lensed account of a Polish immigrant family facing the trials and tribulations of growing up…
- At Play in the Fields of the Lord (1991)
- Dir. Hector Babenco
Feat. Tom Berenger, John Lithgow, Daryl Hannah…
- Tom Berenger, John Lithgow, Darryl Hannah, Aidan Quinn, Kathy Bates and Tom Waits endured the two–year location shoot of Peter Matthiessen's…
- Benny and Joon (1992)
- Dir. Jeremiah Chechik
Feat. Johnny Depp, Mary Stuart Masterson, Aidan Quinn
- Another quirky outing in American suburbia with Depp a Chaplin–esque loner who befriends Masterson, the 'mental' sister of an…
- Playboys, The (1992)
- Dir. Gillies MacKinnon
Feat. Robin Wright, Aidan Quinn, Albert Finney
- Robin Wright and travelling player Aidan Quinn attempt to consummate their passions in the face of religion, geography and Albert Finney's drunkard…
- Legends of the Fall (1994)
- Dir. Edward Zwick
Feat. Brad Pitt, Aidan Quinn, Henry Thomas…
- American folk melodrama spans the decade around World War I in which the three sons of righteous patriarch Anthony Hopkins become divided over the…
- Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994)
- Dir. Kenneth Branagh
Feat. Robert De Niro, Kenneth Branagh, Helena Bonham Carter…
- Branagh swamps the gothic classic with theatricality and allows himself far too much screen time, impressing on us that his ego that is the real…
- Blink (1994)
- Dir. Michael Apted
Feat. Madeleine Stowe, Aidan Quinn, James Remar
- A blind woman (Madeleine Stowe) becomes a sole yet unreliable murder witness after successful eye surgery gives her troubling side–effects.…
- Stars Fell On Henrietta (1995)
- Dir. James Keach
Feat. Robert Duvall, Aidan Quinn, Frances Fisher…
- Robert Duvall is a vagrant claiming to be a former oil man who persuades a down–on–their–luck couple that their fields contain oil…
- Haunted (1995)
- Dir. Lewis Gilbert
Feat. Aidan Quinn, Kate Beckinsale, John Gielgud
- Sceptical investigator Aidan Quinn becomes steadily embroiled in the paranormal and the ambiguous inhabitants of a British country mansion.…
- Looking for Richard (1996)
- Dir. Al Pacino
Feat. Alec Baldwin, Kevin Spacey, Winona Ryder…
- Al Pacino's pet project, and his directing debut, explores the American actor's paradoxical obsessions with Shakespeare, debunking some of the…
- Assignment, The (1998)
- Dir. Christian Duguay
Feat. Aidan Quinn, Donald Sutherland, Ben Kingsley
- International espionage flick that revels in the skillful, old–fashioned flourishes of an elaborate terrorist caper. Tourist Aidan Quinn gets…
- This Is My Father (1998)
- Dir. Paul Quinn
Feat. James Caan, Aidan Quinn, Stephen Rea…
- The discovery of an old family photo triggers a trip to Ireland and into the past for Irish–American James Caan and his nephew. Inevitably…
- Two of Us (2000)
- Dir. Michael Lindsay-Hogg
Feat. Aidan Quinn, Jared Harris
- TV–movie centred around the intriguing prospect of a mid–70s meeting in New York between John Lennon (Quinn) and Paul McCartney (Harris).…
- Songcatcher (2000)
- Dir. Maggie Greenwald
Feat. Janet McTeer, Aidan Quinn, Taj Mahal
- In the dappled, secluded backwoods of 1900s Appalachia, music scholar Janet McTeer makes the exciting discovery of a set of unknown Scots–Irish…
- Prince and the Pauper, The (2000)
- Dir. Giles Foster
Feat. Aidan Quinn, Alan Bates
- Admirable, entertaining adaptation of Mark Twain's classic story of lookalikes who get caught up in imperial intrigue when a young Prince and a…
- Stolen Summer (2002)
- Dir. Pete Jones
Feat. Aidan Quinn, Bonnie Hunt, Kevin Pollak…
- The resultant product of a film–making competition in which a novice screenwriter won a chance to direct his own script, this is a respectable…
- Evelyn (2002)
- Dir. Bruce Beresford
Feat. Pierce Brosnan, Julianne Margulies, Stephen Rea…
- A labour–of–love for Irishman Pierce Brosnan as actor and producer, this is a heartfelt family drama about a working class father who…
- Song for a Raggy Boy (2003)
- Dir. Aisling Walsh
Feat. Aidan Quinn, Iain Glen
- Vivid, if overly simplistic account of abuses at an Irish Boys Reformatory in the late 1930s. Quinn plays an idealistic teacher who blows the whistle…
- Unexpected Journey, The (Miracle Run) (2004)
- Dir. Gregg Champion
Feat. Mary-Louise Parker, Aidan Quinn, Zac Efron
- Tele–movie with Mary–Louise Parker as a determined solo mother raising two autistic boys. Warm–hearted and soft–headed in…
- Empire Falls (TV Mini-series) (2005)
- Dir. Fred Schepisi
Feat. Ed Harris, Paul Newman, Philip Seymour Hoffman…
- Conventional and well–handled drama series set in the once–booming factory town of Empire Falls, Maine, and mostly getting down in among…
- Nine Lives (2005)
- Dir. Rodrigo Garcia
Feat. Robin Wright, Holly Hunter, Sissy Spacek…
- Soulful ensemble drama delving into the lives of nine women, portrayed by nine top–notch actresses gifted a single vignette each to portray the…
- Exonerated, The (2005)
- Dir. Bob Balaban
Feat. Brian Dennehy, Danny Glover, Delroy Lindo…
- Jarring prison drama focusing on six death row inmates that are exonerated just before their executions due to new evidence becoming available.…
- Dark Matter (2007)
- Dir. Shi-Zheng Chen
Feat. Meryl Streep, Aidan Quinn, Liu Ye
- Inspired by real events, this dramatisation of a brilliant Chinese science student's psychological downfall at an Iowan university is a mostly…
- Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (2007)
- Dir. Yves Simoneau
Feat. Aidan Quinn, Adam Beach, Anna Paquin…
- Distinguished HBO western based on the 1970 book of the same name by Dee Brown.
A historical drama set in the 1860's and 1870's, the plot…
- Wild Child (2008)
- Dir. Nick Moore
Feat. Emma Roberts, Aidan Quinn, Natasha Richardson…
- Fluffy teen comedy focused on a pampered American highschooler shipped off to an English boarding school after maxing out daddy's credit card one too…
- Shine of Rainbows, A (2009)
- Dir. Vic Sarin
Feat. Aidan Quinn, Connie Nielsen, John Bell…
- Genial family drama about a young boy living on an isolated island with his adoptive parents and his friendship with an abandoned seal.
A…
- Eclipse, The (2009)
- Dir. Conor McPherson
Feat. Ciaran Hinds, Iben Hjejle, Aidan Quinn
- Ciaran Hinds mourns the death of his soulmate while chauffeuring literary stars around his overcast hometown in this hushed Irish drama with a…
- Jonah Hex (2010)
- Dir. Jimmy Hayward
Feat. Josh Brolin, John Malkovich, Megan Fox…
- Josh Brolin revives DC Comics' anti–hero gunslinger in this acidic western, centred on the titular character's rage–fueled quest to…