Aidan Turner (born 19 June 1983)[1][2] is an Irish actor. He played the roles of Kíli in the three-part fantasy film The Hobbit[3][4] and Ross Poldark in the 2015–2019 BBC adaptation of The Poldark Novels by Winston Graham. Notable television roles include those of Dante Gabriel Rossetti in Desperate Romantics,[5] Ruairí McGowan in The Clinic,[6] and John Mitchell in the supernatural drama series Being Human.[7][8]