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 Graham Norton Show
2018
The Tudors
2007
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
2014
The Diplomat
2025
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg
2023
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
2012
Rivals
2024
Poldark
2015
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
2013
Tyler Perry's If Loving You Is Wrong
2014
Being Human
2009
The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones
2013

FILMOGRAPHY

All
Movies
TV
Acting
29
2026
National Theatre Live: Les Liaisons Dangereuses
as Vicomte de Valmont
2026
Rivals: The Official Podcast
as Self
2025
The Diplomat
as Callum Ellis
2024
Rivals
as Declan O'Hara
2023
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg
2023
Fifteen-Love
as Glenn Lapthorn
2022
Toast of Tinseltown
as Barney
2022
The Suspect
as Joe O'Loughlin
2021
Leonardo
as Leonardo da Vinci
2019
Love Is Blind
as Russell
2019
The Man Who Killed Hitler and Then the Bigfoot
as Calvin Barr
2018
The Graham Norton Show
as Self - Guest
2017
Loving Vincent
as Boatman
2017
The Secret Scripture
as Jack McNulty
2016
Poldark Revealed
as Self / Ross Poldark
2015
Poldark
as Ross Poldark
2015
And Then There Were None
as Philip Lombard
2014
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
as Kili
2014
Tyler Perry's If Loving You Is Wrong
as Brad
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
2009
Desperate Romantics
as Dante Gabriel Rossetti
2008
Alarm
as Mal
2007
The Tudors
as Bedoli
Grendel
as Unferth
The Way of the Wind
as Andrew