<Tr> <Th> Occupation </Th> <Td> Actor </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Years active </Th> <Td> 2005--present </Td> </Tr> <P> Aidan Turner (born 19 June 1983) is an Irish actor . He is best known for his roles as Kíli in the three - part fantasy film The Hobbit and Ross Poldark in the 2015 BBC adaptation of The Poldark Novels by Winston Graham . Notable television roles include those of Dante Gabriel Rossetti in Desperate Romantics, Ruairí McGowan in The Clinic, and John Mitchell in the supernatural drama series Being Human . </P> <P> Turner was born at home in Clondalkin, a suburb town of Dublin, Ireland . The family moved later to Walkinstown . Turner attended secondary school at St Mac Dara's Community College in Templeogue before leaving to join his older brother at Firhouse Community College . Turner has stated: "I probably wasn't a great student . I had a car when I was 17, so I used to just run out of school when I could, jump in the car and go play pool in Tallaght . I don't know how I knew, but I convinced myself that my (final exam) results were never going to matter to me ." </P>

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