Tommy Flanagan (actor)

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Template:Infobox actor Tommy Flanagan (born July 3, 1965) is a Scottish actor who has had roles in numerous movies.

Flanagan was born in Glasgow, Scotland, the middle of five children. At the age of six, his father abandoned his mother. He grew up in a very rough area and admits to getting into some trouble, but that his mother Betty always kept him in line. In his early years Flanagan worked as a painter, decorator and disc jockey. He received a distinctive scars similar in shape to a Glasgow smile on his face after a mugging that almost left him dead. Afterwards Flanagan saw no way of returning to his old life and, at the urging of his friends and wife, took up acting.

Flanagan worked in the Rain Dog theatre for three years before Mel Gibson gave him his first big break in Braveheart (1995). He has subsequently had roles in such major films as Face/Off, Gladiator, and Sin City. He is featured in the movie Smokin' Aces and also appeared in the movies When a Stranger Calls & The Last Drop. Perhaps one of Flanagan's biggest roles was when he starred opposite "Gerard Butler" and "Simmone Jade Mackinnon" in the USA Networks epic mini-series "Attila".