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

Rivals
Declan O'Hara · (8 episodes)
2024

Fifteen-Love
Glenn Lapthorn · (6 episodes)
2023

Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg
(1 episode)
2022

The Suspect
Joe O'Loughlin · (5 episodes)
2022

Toast of Tinseltown
Barney · (2 episodes)
2022

Leonardo
Leonardo da Vinci · (8 episodes)
2021

Love Is Blind
Russell
2019

The Man Who Killed Hitler and Then the Bigfoot
Calvin Barr
2019

Loving Vincent
Boatman
2017

The Secret Scripture
Jack McNulty
2017

Poldark Revealed
Self / Ross Poldark
2016

And Then There Were None
Philip Lombard · (3 episodes)
2015

Poldark
Ross Poldark · (43 episodes)
2015

The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
Kili
2014

Tyler Perry's If Loving You Is Wrong
Brad · (94 episodes)
2014

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
Kili
2013

The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones
Luke Garroway
2013

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Kili
2012

Hattie
John Schofield
2011

Desperate Romantics
Dante Gabriel Rossetti · (6 episodes)
2009

Being Human
John Mitchell · (22 episodes)
2009

Alarm
Mal
2008

Grendel
Unferth

The Way of the Wind
Andrew
Being Human
John Mitchell · (1 episode)
2009

The Tudors
Bedoli · (1 episode)
2007

The Graham Norton Show
Self - Guest · (1 episode)
2007