Tommy Flanagan (actor)

Tommy Flanagan
Flanagan in March 2012
Born	(1965-07-03) 3 July 1965 Glasgow, Scotland, U.K.
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1992–present
Spouse(s)	Dina Livingston Jane Ford (2007-2010) Rachel Schadt (1998-2001)
Children	Aunjanue Elizabeth

Tommy Flanagan (born 3 July 1965) is a Scottish film and television actor from Glasgow, Scotland.

Early life

Born in Easterhouse, Glasgow,^[1][2] Flanagan is the third of five children. His distinctive facial scars (Glasgow smile) are the result of a knife attack outside a nightclub where he had been working as a DJ.^[3]

Personal life

Flanagan and wife Dina Livingston welcomed a baby girl in early 2012, naming her Aunjanue Elizabeth Flanagan. He was previously married to actress/casting director/assistant director Rachel Schadt from 1998-2001; Schadt had co-starred with Flanagan in the Michael Douglas film The Game (1997), in which she played a hotel maid.

Career

His first television roles were in Screen One (1992) and Taggart (1993). Flanagan worked in Robert Carlyle's Raindog Theatre for three years before being cast in Braveheart (1995). He has had roles in Face/Off (1997), The Game (1997), Sunset Strip (2000), Gladiator (2000), All About the Benjamins (2002), Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle (2003), Alien vs. Predator (2004), Sin City (2005), Smokin' Aces (2006), When a Stranger Calls (2006), The Last Drop (2006), Smokin' Aces 2: Assassins' Ball (2010), and the TV mini-series Attila. Flanagan also portrayed arms dealer Gabriel Schecter in the first episode of 24's seventh season and appeared in the episode "Headlock" of Lie to Me, aired in the U.S. on Monday 2 August 2010. He is one of the main cast members of Sons of Anarchy, in which he plays an outlaw biker named Filip "Chibs" Telford.

In October 2010, Flanagan was revealed as the spokesperson for the Scottish soft drink Irn-Bru.

Filmography

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Tommy Flanagan.

• Tommy Flanagan at the Internet Movie Database