Tommy Flanagan (actor)
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Flanagan at the 2012 San Diego Comic-Con International
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| Born |
3 July 1965 Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1992–present |
| Spouse(s) | Dina (2010–present) |
| Children | 1 |
Tommy Flanagan (born 3 July 1965) is a Scottish film and television actor. He is best known for his role of Filip "Chibs" Telford in the FX drama Sons of Anarchy.
Born in Easterhouse, Glasgow, as a child he served as an altar boy.
Flanagan is the third of five children. His distinctive facial scars are the result of a knife attack outside a nightclub where he had been working as a DJ.
Flanagan and wife, Dina, had a baby girl in early 2012.
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.
He 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 was 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. In July 2016, he starred in the music video for the song "Rotting in Vain" by Korn.
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