Patrick Bergin was born 4 February 1951 is an Irish actor perhaps best known for his leading role opposite Julia Roberts in Sleeping with the Enemy (1991) and for playing the villainous Aidan Maguire in the BBC soap EastEnders (2017–2018). Patrick Bergin grew up with a working class upbringing in the Drimnagh district of Dublin, Ireland. Bergin learned social responsibility from his father Paddy Bergin, a Labour Partypolitician who had once studied to be a priest with the Holy Ghost Fathers in Blackrock, Ireland. He is one of four sons and one daughter (Pearse, Emmet, Patrick, Alan and Siobhan Bergin). Bergin left Dublin for London in 1973; and by the time he was 17 he was in London running a theatre group.Bergin worked on building sites and at a library. He studied at night and completed a degree in education from North London Polytechnic. Bergin worked as an English teacher for several years before forming his own theatrical company because no one else would have him.

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