Tommy Flanagan (actor)

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Tommy Flanagan (actor) - Wikipedia

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Tommy Flanagan
Flanagan at the 2012 San Diego Comic-Con
Born	(1965-07-03) 3 July 1965 (age 59) Easterhouse, Glasgow, Scotland
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1991–present
Spouses	Rachel Flanagan (m. 1998; div. 2001) Jane Ford (m. 2007; div. 2010) Dina Flanagan (m. 2010)
Children	1

Thomas Flanagan (born 3 July 1965) is a Scottish actor. He is best known for his role as Filip "Chibs" Telford in the FX crime drama television series Sons of Anarchy (2008–2014) and its spin-off Mayans M.C. (2019), Cicero in Gladiator (2000), Morrison in Braveheart (1995), Tullk in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017), and Williamson in All About the Benjamins (2002).

Life

Flanagan was born in Easterhouse, Glasgow, the second of four children. His sister Sue is a nurse at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Glasgow.^[1] He was an altar boy.^[2]^[3] His facial scars are the result of a knife attack outside a nightclub where he had been working as a DJ. After leaving the club, he was attacked by a gang, stabbed and slashed with a knife, leaving him with the scars.^[4]

Flanagan and his wife, Dina, have a daughter.^[5] He was previously married to Rachel Flanagan and Jane Ford.

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), Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017) and the TV mini-series Attila.

He portrayed arms dealer Gabriel Schector 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 was one of the main cast members of Sons of Anarchy, in which he plays an outlaw biker named Filip "Chibs" Telford.^[6] In October 2010, Flanagan was revealed as the spokesperson for the Scottish soft drink Irn-Bru. In July 2016, he appeared in the music video for the song "Rotting in Vain" by Korn.

In July 2018, it was announced that Flanagan was cast in one of the main roles, Alec McCullough, on the Netflix series Wu Assassins.^[7]

In 2022, he was cast as Walter Flynn for the Starz series Power Book IV: Force.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1995	Braveheart	Morrison
1997	The Saint	Scarface
1997	Face/Off	Leo
1997	The Detail
1997	The Game	Solicitor/Taxi driver
1999	Plunkett & Macleane	Eddie
1999	Ratcatcher	George Gillespie
2000	Gladiator	Cicero
2000	Sunset Strip	Duncan
2000	Hidden	McCracken	Short film
2001	Strictly Sinatra	Michelangelo
2001	Dead Dogs Lie	Michael
2002	All About the Benjamins	Williamson
2003	Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle	Irish Henchman
2004	Trauma	Tommy
2004	Alien vs. Predator	Mark Verheiden
2005	Sin City	Brian
2006	The Last Drop	Pvt. Dennis Baker
2006	When a Stranger Calls	The Stranger
2006	Smokin' Aces	Lazlo Soot
2008	Hero Wanted	Derek	Credited as Thomas Flannigan
2010	Luster	Les
2010	Smokin' Aces 2: Assassins' Ball	Lazlo Soot
2010	Swifty & Veg	Swifty	Short film
2011	Grace and Danger
2012	Officer Down	Father Reddy
2015	Winter	Woods Weston
2016	Running Wild	Jon Kilpatrick
2016	Sand Castle	SGM McGregor
2017	Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2	Tullk Ul-Zyn
2017	Papillon	Masked Breton
2017	The Ballad of Lefty Brown	Tom Harrah
2018	Legal Action	Mr. Gates
2019	Killers Anonymous	Markus
2019	American Fighter	McClellen
2019	The Rising Hawk	Tugar
2019	The Wave	Aeolus
2020	The Intergalactic Adventures of Max Cloud	Brock Donnelly
2021	Montford: The Chickasaw Rancher	Holden
2021	40-Love	Petrov
2022	Code Name Banshee	Anthony Greene
2022	There Are No Saints	Jet Rink
2022	Boon	Mr. Fitzgerald
2024	Sleeping Dogs	Jimmy Remis

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1992	Screen One		Episode: "Black and Blue"
1993	Tis the Season to be Jolly	Prisoner	TV film
1993	Taggart	Tam McLeod	Episode: "Instrument of Justice"
1995	Jolly: A Life	Man at grotto	TV film
1996	Rab C. Nesbitt	Sean	Episode: "Lottery"
1996	A Mug's Game	Paul
1996	Bad Boys	Harry	Episode: "The Bonny Bonny Banks"
2000	Rebus	Thomas Telford	Episode: "The Hanging Garden"
2001	Attila	Bleda	TV miniseries
2008–2014	Sons of Anarchy	Filip "Chibs" Telford	90 episodes
2009	24	Gabriel Schector	Episode: "Day 7: 8:00 a.m.-9:00 a.m."
2010	Lie to Me	Ron Marshall	Episode: "Headlock"
2011	Detroit 1-8-7	Albert Stram	2 episodes
2012	Law & Order: Special Victims Unit	Murphy	Episode: "Home Invasions"
2013	Peaky Blinders	Arthur Shelby Sr.	Episode: 'Episode 5'
2015	Revenge	Malcolm Black	3 episodes
2015	Gotham	Tom "The Knife"	1 episode "Rise of the Villains: The Son of Gotham"
2016	Motive	Jack Stoker	4 episodes
2019	Wu Assassins	Alec McCullough	Main role
2019	Mayans M.C.	Filip "Chibs" Telford	Special guest star (season 2) Episode: "Kukulkan"
2020	Westworld	Martin Conells / Dolores Abernathy (host)	3 episodes
2022–23	Power Book IV: Force	Walter Flynn	Main role (seasons 1–2)
2024	The Perfect Couple	Broderick Graham	3 Episodes, Miniseries^[8]

References

^ Kay, Adam (2020). "Kevin Bridges". Dear NHS 100 Stories to say Thank You. ISBN 978-1-3987-0118-2.
^ "Tommy Flanagan interview". The Lab Magazine. 21 March 2012. Archived from the original on 13 June 2016.
^ Booth, Samantha (21 March 2010). "Scots actor Tommy Flanagan rocks on in Hollywood as biker gang drama takes off". Sunday Mail. Glasgow, Scotland.
^ Fretts, Bruce (November 2014). "Sons of Anarchy's Tommy Flanagan on Those Facial Scars, This Final Season, and Chibs". Vulture. New York. Retrieved 14 February 2015.
^ "Sons of Anarchy star Tommy Flanagan enjoying life in Malibu". Retrieved 29 April 2016.
^ Kelley, Quinn. "Tommy Flanagan talks 'Sons of Anarchy,' motorcycles before Maryland Live Casino appearance". The Baltimore Sun. Retrieved 26 March 2017.
^ Petski, Denise (20 July 2018). "'Wu Assassins': Katheryn Winnick, Lewis Tan, Tommy Flanagan & Tzi Ma Join Netflix Martial Arts Drama". Deadline. Retrieved 3 September 2018.
^ Grobar, Matt (23 March 2023). "Nicole Kidman, Liev Schreiber, Meghann Fahy, Dakota Fanning, Eve Hewson & Jack Reynor In Talks For Susanne Bier-Helmed Netflix Limited Series The Perfect Couple". Deadline. Retrieved 4 October 2024.

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