He played the role of Stuart in Queer As Folk and has won multiple Irish Film & Television Awards. In 2011, he began playing Petyr Baelish in Game of Thrones.
He acted in a production of A Midsummer's Night Dream when he was a teenager.
He had a brief role in The Dark Knight Rises.
He married Olivia O'Flanagan in 2001. They have two children, Betty and Joe.
He was in the TV drama, The Wire, with Dominic West.
