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However, he says that “as an actor, earning an Emmy nomination and wide I didn’t know exactly what my next thing acclaim by starring in a live broadcast of a was going to be. I was really just looking stage classic, how do you follow it? for whatever would kind of pique my By starring in a live broadcast of interest.” AIDAN GILLEN another stage classic. Dixon’s familiarity with “Rent” began That’s the path Brandon Victor Dixon when he was a Columbia University is following, at least. Singled out by many sophomore. “I didn’t understand the show critics and viewers for his Judas Iscariot the first time I saw it,” he allows, “but I performance in last Easter’s “Jesus Christ had an audition for it a few weeks later, so In playing 1950s astrophysicist J. Allen Hynek in History’s UFO I bought the album and started to listen Superstar Live in Concert,” the “Power” drama “Project Blue Book,” Aidan Gillen realized that he shared alum now is in the ensemble cast of to the music, and it all really came to life “Rent.” Fox televises the late Jonathan for me. I fell in love with the message of at least one belief with his character – that, yes, there’s probably Larson’s Tony- and Pulitzer Prize-winning the show and the feeling of the show. something out there. work Sunday, Jan. 27. “It’s also the only show I’ve ever gone “My line would probably be along the same as Hynek’s or Carl Translating themes of the Puccini opera to an open call for,” adds Dixon. “By the Sagan’s,” the 50-year-old Irish actor says, “that the distances are “La Boheme” to New York’s East Village time it started, the line circled the block so vast the chances of a similar kind of life form or even anything during the AIDS crisis, the production in its entirety and started to circle the vaguely similar to our own, whose technology is going to evolve in – featuring the iconic song “Seasons of next block over. I went out for it seven Full name: Aidan Gillen (born Aidan Murphy) any way similar to our own within even a small number of light Love” – focuses on several people who times and never got cast.” However, Birth date: April 24, 1968 lean on one another while pursuing their Dixon ultimately ended up filling in “for years, it makes it almost impossible that we’re going to encounter respective goals. Dixon plays Tom Collins, about three months” in an Off-Broadway each other. But it’ll probably happen, though. It’ll happen at some Birthplace: Dublin a computer scientist who is struggling staging. point, maybe not with us. We may not be here anymore.” Famiy ties: Has a son and daughter with wife Olivia personally and professionally; also in the Despite his increased fame, Dixon – In the Tuesday series, Gillen (“Game of Thrones”) stars as TV credits include: “Queer as Folk,” “Dice,” “Poirot,” cast are Kiersey Clemons (“Flatliners’), who’s also in the forthcoming Amazon “Law & Order: Trial by Jury,” “The Last Detective,” “The Vanessa Hudgens (”High School anthology “Modern Love” – maintains Hynek, a brilliant college professor recruited by the U.S. Air Force Musical“), Jordan Fisher, Brennin Hunt his life “hasn’t changed at all. I was out to lead a clandestine operation researching thousands of cases of Wire,” “Identity,” “Mayday,” “Love/Hate,” “Quantum and the single-named Tinashe (a recent in L.A. recently and when I got back, all UFO encounters in the 1950s and ‘60s. That operation, dubbed Break,” “Urban Myths,” “Game of Thrones,” “Peaky ”Dancing With the Stars“ contestant), my friends were like, ‘You gettin’ all the Project Blue Book, ended in 1969 with about 700 cases still Blinders” Mario and Valentina. offers? You workin’ constantly now?’ I’m unsolved. Movie credits include: “Circle of Friends” (1995), A Tony Award winner as a producer still shaking my behind out on the street. Brandon Victor Dixon and Valentina “Buddy Boy” (1999), “The Low Down” (2000), “Shanghai (for the 2014 Broadway revival of The only thing that has changed is that Gillen admits he had his own UFO encounter as a 13-year-old, star in “Rent” Sunday on Fox. “Hedwig and the Angry Inch”), Dixon is I’m doing it in nicer clothes for more lights in the sky that moved like no conventional aircraft he or Knights” (2003), “Trouble With Sex” (2005), “Shadow developing other projects for theater and people.” his friends knew of. 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However, he says that “as an actor, earning an Emmy nomination and wide I didn’t know exactly what my next thing acclaim by starring in a live broadcast of a was going to be. I was really just looking stage classic, how do you follow it? for whatever would kind of pique my By starring in a live broadcast of interest.” AIDAN GILLEN another stage classic. Dixon’s familiarity with “Rent” began That’s the path Brandon Victor Dixon when he was a Columbia University is following, at least. Singled out by many sophomore. “I didn’t understand the show Cannon & Beck critics and viewers for his Judas Iscariot the first time I saw it,” he allows, “but I performance in last Easter’s “Jesus Christ had an audition for it a few weeks later, so In playing 1950s astrophysicist J. 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