Tommy Flanagan

Flanagan worked across actor, film actor, stage actor and television actor. This article rests on 2 published texts and 3 scholarly references drawn from named institutional registers. Every statement below returns to a source shown in the evidence panel; where the record is silent or divided, the article says so instead of resolving it.

• Name — Tommy Flanagan • Birthplace — Glasgow, Scotland • Born — 3 July 1965 • Occupation — Actor • Years Active — 1991–present • Children — 1

Flanagan was born in Easterhouse, Glasgow, the second of four children. His sister Sue is a nurse at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Glasgow. He was an altar boy.

His first television roles were in Screen One (1992) and Taggart (1993). Flanagan worked in Robert Carlyle and Alexander Morton'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 24s 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 appeared in the music video for the song "Rotting in Vain" by Korn. Flanagan played McCullough on the Netflix series Wu Assassins which ran for one season, and as Walter Flynn in the Starz series Power Book IV: Force. He was cast as Roderick Dustin in House of the Dragon in 2025.

Flanagan's 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 who stabbed and slashed him with a knife, leaving the scars on each side of his mouth. Flanagan and his wife, Dina, have a daughter. He was previously married to Rachel Flanagan and Jane Ford.

• Year — Title — Role — Notes • 1992 — Screen One — Episode: "Black and Blue" • 1993 — Tis the Season to be Jolly — Prisoner — TV film • Taggart — Tam McLeod — Episode: "Instrument of Justice" • 1995 — Jolly: A Life — Man at grotto — TV film • 1996 — Rab C. Nesbitt — Sean — Episode: "Lottery" • A Mug's Game — Paul • 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 • 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 • Mayans M.C. — Filip "Chibs" Telford — Special guest star (season 2) Episode: "Kukulkan" • 2020 — Westworld — Martin Conells / Dolores Abernathy (host) — 3 episodes • 2022–2023 — Power Book IV: Force — Walter Flynn — Main role • 2024 — The Perfect Couple — Broderick Graham — 3 Episodes, Miniseries • 2025 — MobLand — Moody — 2 episodes • 2026 — House of the Dragon — Roderick Dustin — Main role; 6 episodes

Flanagan worked as actor, film actor, stage actor and television actor. Flanagan was active from 1992. Flanagan worked in English.