Aidan McArdle
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Aidan McArdle is an Irish
actor.
McArdle was born in Dublin. He studied for an Arts degree at University College Dublin before going on to study at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
in London, England.
As of 2005 his most significant roles have been in television biopics. These roles include Dudley Moore
in the 2004 television movie
Not Only But Always
, Albert Einstein
in the 2005 biography
E=mc², and Igor Stravinsky
in the 2005 production Riot at the Rite.
Work with the Royal Shakespeare Company
includes the title role in Richard III
and the role of Puck
in A Midsummer Night's Dream
. He also appeared in the title role of a stage adaptation of John Irving
's A Prayer for Owen Meany
by Simon Bent at London's Royal National Theatre
in 2002, along with the role of Joseph Surface in Deborah Warner
's 2011 The School for Scandal
at the Barbican Centre
.
He appeared in the BBC Two
show Beautiful People
in 2008. His first foray into the Hollywood film industry as Slannen, an elf who secretly aspires to be a lawyer in the 2004 movie Ella Enchanted
. He appeared as a supporting character, the Jewish Anarchist, Saul Landau in on episode of the 2009 BBC TV series, Casualty 1909.
He is married to ex-Heartbeat actress Aislin McGuckin
, and is a cousin of Steve Coogan
.
Republic of Ireland
Ireland , described as the Republic of Ireland , is a sovereign state in Europe occupying approximately five-sixths of the island of the same name. Its capital is Dublin. Ireland, which had a population of 4.58 million in 2011, is a constitutional republic governed as a parliamentary democracy,...
actor.
McArdle was born in Dublin. He studied for an Arts degree at University College Dublin before going on to study at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art is a drama school located in London, United Kingdom. It is generally regarded as one of the most renowned drama schools in the world, and is one of the oldest drama schools in the United Kingdom, having been founded in 1904.RADA is an affiliate school of the...
in London, England.
As of 2005 his most significant roles have been in television biopics. These roles include Dudley Moore
Dudley Moore
Dudley Stuart John Moore, CBE was an English actor, comedian, composer and musician.Moore first came to prominence as one of the four writer-performers in the ground-breaking comedy revue Beyond the Fringe in the early 1960s, and then became famous as half of the highly popular television...
in the 2004 television movie
Television movie
A television film is a feature film that is a television program produced for and originally distributed by a television network, in contrast to...
Not Only But Always
Not Only But Always
Not Only But Always is a British TV movie, originally screened on the Channel 4 network in the UK on 30 December 2004. Written and directed by playwright Terry Johnson, the film tells the story of the working and personal relationship between the comedians Peter Cook and Dudley Moore, a hugely...
, Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein was a German-born theoretical physicist who developed the theory of general relativity, effecting a revolution in physics. For this achievement, Einstein is often regarded as the father of modern physics and one of the most prolific intellects in human history...
in the 2005 biography
Biography
A biography is a detailed description or account of someone's life. More than a list of basic facts , biography also portrays the subject's experience of those events...
E=mc², and Igor Stravinsky
Igor Stravinsky
Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky ; 6 April 1971) was a Russian, later naturalized French, and then naturalized American composer, pianist, and conductor....
in the 2005 production Riot at the Rite.
Work with the Royal Shakespeare Company
Royal Shakespeare Company
The Royal Shakespeare Company is a major British theatre company, based in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England. The company employs 700 staff and produces around 20 productions a year from its home in Stratford-upon-Avon and plays regularly in London, Newcastle-upon-Tyne and on tour across...
includes the title role in Richard III
Richard III (play)
Richard III is a history play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in approximately 1591. It depicts the Machiavellian rise to power and subsequent short reign of Richard III of England. The play is grouped among the histories in the First Folio and is most often classified...
and the role of Puck
Puck (Shakespeare)
Puck, also known as Robin Goodfellow, is a character in William Shakespeare's play A Midsummer Night's Dream that was based on the ancient figure in English mythology, also called Puck. Puck is a clever and mischievous elf and personifies the trickster or the wise knave...
in A Midsummer Night's Dream
A Midsummer Night's Dream
A Midsummer Night's Dream is a play that was written by William Shakespeare. It is believed to have been written between 1590 and 1596. It portrays the events surrounding the marriage of the Duke of Athens, Theseus, and the Queen of the Amazons, Hippolyta...
. He also appeared in the title role of a stage adaptation of John Irving
John Irving
John Winslow Irving is an American novelist and Academy Award-winning screenwriter.Irving achieved critical and popular acclaim after the international success of The World According to Garp in 1978...
's A Prayer for Owen Meany
A Prayer for Owen Meany
A Prayer for Owen Meany was the seventh published novel by American writer John Irving when it appeared in 1989. It tells the story of John Wheelwright and his best friend Owen Meany growing up together in a small New England town during the 1950-60s...
by Simon Bent at London's Royal National Theatre
Royal National Theatre
The Royal National Theatre in London is one of the United Kingdom's two most prominent publicly funded theatre companies, alongside the Royal Shakespeare Company...
in 2002, along with the role of Joseph Surface in Deborah Warner
Deborah Warner
Deborah Warner CBE is a British director of theatre and opera known for her interpretations of the works of Shakespeare, Bertolt Brecht, Georg Büchner, and Henrik Ibsen, and for her long-term working relationship with the Irish actress Fiona Shaw.-Early years:Warner was born in Oxfordshire,...
's 2011 The School for Scandal
The School for Scandal
The School for Scandal is a play written by Richard Brinsley Sheridan. It was first performed in London at Drury Lane Theatre on May 8, 1777.The prologue, written by David Garrick, commends the play, its subject, and its author to the audience...
at the Barbican Centre
Barbican Centre
The Barbican Centre is the largest performing arts centre in Europe. Located in the City of London, England, the Centre hosts classical and contemporary music concerts, theatre performances, film screenings and art exhibitions. It also houses a library, three restaurants, and a conservatory...
.
He appeared in the BBC Two
BBC Two
BBC Two is the second television channel operated by the British Broadcasting Corporation in the United Kingdom. It covers a wide range of subject matter, but tending towards more 'highbrow' programmes than the more mainstream and popular BBC One. Like the BBC's other domestic TV and radio...
show Beautiful People
Beautiful People (UK TV series)
Beautiful People is a British comedy drama television series based on the memoirs of Barneys creative director Simon Doonan. The series takes place in Reading, Berkshire in 1997, where thirteen-year-old Simon Doonan and his best friend Kylie dream of escaping their dreary suburban surroundings and...
in 2008. His first foray into the Hollywood film industry as Slannen, an elf who secretly aspires to be a lawyer in the 2004 movie Ella Enchanted
Ella Enchanted
Ella Enchanted is a Newbery Honor book written by Gail Carson Levine and published in 1997. The story is a retelling of Cinderella featuring various mythical creatures including fairies, elves, ogres, gnomes, and giants...
. He appeared as a supporting character, the Jewish Anarchist, Saul Landau in on episode of the 2009 BBC TV series, Casualty 1909.
He is married to ex-Heartbeat actress Aislin McGuckin
Aislín McGuckin
Aislín McGuckin is a Northern-Irish actress.McGuckin was born in Newry, County Down, Northern Ireland. Since 2004 Aislin McGuckin is married to Aidan McArdle. She is best known from her role as Dr. Liz Merrick in Heartbeat and being one of the two doctors to survive alive...
, and is a cousin of Steve Coogan
Steve Coogan
Stephen John "Steve" Coogan is a British comedian, actor, writer and producer. Born in Manchester, he began his career as a standup comedian and impressionist, working as a voice artist throughout the 1980s on satirical puppet show Spitting Image. In the early nineties, Coogan began creating...
.
Filmography
| Year | Film | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | Casualty Casualty (TV series) Casualty, stylised as Casual+y, is a British weekly television show broadcast on BBC One, and the longest-running emergency medical drama television series in the world. Created by Jeremy Brock and Paul Unwin, it was first broadcast on 6 September 1986, and transmitted in the UK on BBC One. The... |
James O'Hearne | TV series (1 episode: "Only the Lonely") |
| Any Time Now Any Time Now (TV series) Any Time Now is a 2002 co-produced six-part comedy-drama by RTÉ and BBC Northern Ireland.The show initially aired on BBC One Northern Ireland and RTÉ One in 2002... |
Nedser Fitzgibbon | TV series | |
| 2004 | Judas | John the Baptist | TV movie |
| Ella Enchanted Ella Enchanted Ella Enchanted is a Newbery Honor book written by Gail Carson Levine and published in 1997. The story is a retelling of Cinderella featuring various mythical creatures including fairies, elves, ogres, gnomes, and giants... |
Slannen | ||
| No Angels No Angels The No Angels are an all-female pop trio from Germany, consisting of band members Lucy Diakovska, Sandy Mölling, and Jessica Wahls. Critically acclaimed, the band has won dozen of awards and prizes since their establishment in the early 2000s, including three ECHOs, a World Music Awards, a NRJ... |
Conor Martin | TV series (1 episode: "Episode #1.9") | |
| Not Only But Always Not Only But Always Not Only But Always is a British TV movie, originally screened on the Channel 4 network in the UK on 30 December 2004. Written and directed by playwright Terry Johnson, the film tells the story of the working and personal relationship between the comedians Peter Cook and Dudley Moore, a hugely... |
Dudley Moore | TV movie | |
| 2005 | E=mc2 | Einstein | TV movie |
| Footprints in the Snow | Seamus | TV movie | |
| Nova Nova A nova is a cataclysmic nuclear explosion in a star caused by the accretion of hydrogen on to the surface of a white dwarf star, which ignites and starts nuclear fusion in a runaway manner... |
Albert Einstein | TV documentary (1 episode: "Einstein's Big Ideas") | |
| Riot at the Rite | Igor Stravinsky | TV movie | |
| All About George | Dave | TV series (6 episodes) | |
| Perfect Day Perfect Day (TV film) Perfect Day was a two hour television movie, initially broadcast on Five in December, 2005.Centered around a group of university friends who reunite five years later for the wedding of Tom and Amy , it tells the story of old loves rekindled, marriages falling apart and the problems of career women... |
Pete | TV movie | |
| 2006 | Marple: Sleeping Murder Sleeping Murder Sleeping Murder: Miss Marple's Last Case is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie and first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club in October 1976 and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company later in the same year. The UK edition retailed for £3.50 and the US edition for $7.95... |
Hugh Hornbeam | TV movie |
| Comedy Lab Comedy Lab Comedy Lab is a British television series which showcases pilots of experimental comedy shows. Series have been aired irregularly on Channel 4 and E4 since 1998.... |
Aiden McCabe | TV series (1 episode: "Bad Crowd") | |
| Afterlife Afterlife (TV series) Afterlife is a British television drama series, produced by independent production company Clerkenwell Films for the ITV network... |
Martin | TV series (1 episode: "Lullaby") | |
| Jane Eyre | John Eshton | TV mini-series (3 episodes) | |
| Perfect Day: The Millennium | Pete | TV movie | |
| 2007 | The Afternoon Play The Afternoon Play The Afternoon Play is a series of individual plays which sometimes appear on BBC One during weekday afternoons. The first series began on 27 January 2003, and as of 2008 there have been five series... |
Dr. Max Freeman | TV series (1 episode: "Death Becomes Her") |
| Green | Stuart | TV movie | |
| Heavenly Sword Heavenly Sword Heavenly Sword is a video game developed by Ninja Theory exclusively for the PlayStation 3 console and published by Sony Computer Entertainment Europe... |
Voice | Video Game | |
| 2008 | The Duchess The Duchess (film) The Duchess is a 2008 British drama film based on Amanda Foreman's biography of the 18th-century English aristocrat Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire. It was released in September 2008 in the UK... |
Richard Sheridan | |
| Me and Orson Welles Me and Orson Welles Me and Orson Welles is a 2009 period-drama film directed by Richard Linklater and starring Zac Efron, Christian McKay, and Claire Danes. Based on Robert Kaplow's novel of the same name, the story, set in 1937 New York, tells of a teenager hired to perform in Orson Welles's stage production of... |
Martin Gabel (Cassius) | ||
| Secret Diary of a Call Girl Secret Diary of a Call Girl Secret Diary of a Call Girl is a British television drama broadcast on ITV2 from 2007-2011 based on the blog and books by the pseudonymous "Belle de Jour," starring Billie Piper as Belle, a high-class London call girl. The series was written by Lucy Prebble, who is also known as the author of The... |
Officer Manager Mike | TV series (1 episode: "Episode #2.7") | |
| Beautiful People Beautiful People (UK TV series) Beautiful People is a British comedy drama television series based on the memoirs of Barneys creative director Simon Doonan. The series takes place in Reading, Berkshire in 1997, where thirteen-year-old Simon Doonan and his best friend Kylie dream of escaping their dreary suburban surroundings and... |
Andy Doonan | TV series (12 episodes: 2008-2009) | |
| 2009 | Morris: A Life with Bells On Morris: A Life with Bells On Morris: A Life with Bells On is a 2009 British independent film, a comic spoof documentary about morris dancing.-Development:Morris: A Life with Bells On was written by Charles Thomas Oldham , who also co-produced it with his wife, the film's director Lucy Akhurst... |
Jeremy - The Producer | |
| Casualty 1909 | Saul Landau | TV series (1 episode: "Episode #1.3") | |
| Garrow's Law Garrow's Law Garrow's Law is a British period legal drama about the 18th-century lawyer William Garrow. The series debuted on 1 November 2009 on BBC One and BBC HD. A second series was announced on 7 July 2010 and aired from 14 November 2010... |
Silvester | TV series (3 episodes) | |
| 2011 | Late Bloomers | James | (post-production) |