Irishman Aidan Gillen, 44, has the distinction of being on three landmark television series in his career.

Much more about this remarkably gifted and handsome actor after the jump.

Gillen got things off with a decided bang in 1999, starring as Stuart Jones in the original British series Queer as Folk, the charismatic clubber who ends up falling in love (or does he?) with a young blond kid named Nathan, played by Charlie Hunnam (HOTT Man #34 ), current star of Sons of Anarchy.

Gillen then went on to play Tommy Carcetti, the idealistic yet ultimately corrupt mayor of Baltimore in The Wire, what I consider to be the greatest TV series of all time (by a mile).

As if that weren’t enough, the tousled haired native of Dublin now appears on HBO’s Game of Thrones as Lord Baelish, the wise but sneaky pimp of Westeros.

If his career ended tomorrow – something no one probably wishes for – it will have been a tremendous achievement. Coupled with black Irish good looks, he’s sure as hell plenty HOTT.