# Tommy Flanagan (actor)

Thomas Flanagan (born 3 July 1965) is a Scottish actor. He is best known for his role as Filip "Chibs" Telford in the FX crime drama television series Sons of Anarchy (2008–2014) and its spin-off Mayans M.C. (2019), Cicero in Gladiator (2000), Morrison in Braveheart (1995), Tullk in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017), and Williamson in All About the Benjamins (2002).

## Early and personal life

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 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, stabbed and slashed with a knife, leaving him with the scars.
Flanagan and his wife, Dina, have a daughter. He was previously married to Rachel Flanagan and Jane Ford.

## Career

His first television roles were in Screen One (1992) and Taggart (1993). Flanagan worked in Robert Carlyle'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 24's 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.

## Filmography
### Film

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 1995 | Braveheart | Morrison | |
| 1997 | The Saint | Scarface | |
| 1997 | Face/Off | Leo | |
| 1997 | The Detail | | |
| 1997 | The Game | Solicitor/Taxi driver | |
| 1999 | Plunkett & Macleane | Eddie | |
| 1999 | Ratcatcher | George Gillespie | |
| 2000 | Gladiator | Cicero | |
| 2000 | Sunset Strip | Duncan | |
| 2000 | Hidden | McCracken | Short film |
| 2001 | Strictly Sinatra | Michelangelo | |
| 2001 | Dead Dogs Lie | Michael | |
| 2002 | All About the Benjamins | Williamson | |
| 2003 | Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle | Irish Henchman | |
| 2004 | Trauma | Tommy | |
| 2004 | Alien vs. Predator | Mark Verheiden | |
| 2005 | Sin City | Brian | |
| 2006 | The Last Drop | Pvt. Dennis Baker | |
| 2006 | When a Stranger Calls | The Stranger | |
| 2006 | Smokin' Aces | Lazlo Soot | |
| 2008 | Hero Wanted | Derek | Credited as Thomas Flannigan |
| 2010 | Luster | Les | |
| 2010 | Smokin' Aces 2: Assassins' Ball | Lazlo Soot | |
| 2010 | Swifty & Veg | Swifty | Short film |
| 2011 | Grace and Danger | | |
| 2012 | Officer Down | Father Reddy | |
| 2015 | Winter | Woods Weston | |
| 2016 | Running Wild | Jon Kilpatrick | |
| 2016 | Sand Castle | SGM McGregor | |
| 2017 | Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 | Tullk Ul-Zyn | |
| 2017 | Papillon | Masked Breton | |
| 2017 | The Ballad of Lefty Brown | Tom Harrah | |
| 2018 | Legal Action | Mr. Gates | |
| 2019 | Killers Anonymous | Markus | |
| 2019 | American Fighter | McClellen | |
| 2019 | The Rising Hawk | Tugar | |
| 2019 | The Wave | Aeolus | |
| 2020 | The Intergalactic Adventures of Max Cloud | Brock Donnelly | |
| 2021 | Montford: The Chickasaw Rancher | Holden | |
| 2021 | 40-Love | Petrov | |
| 2022 | Code Name Banshee | Anthony Greene | |
| 2022 | There Are No Saints | Jet Rink | |
| 2022 | Boon | Mr. Fitzgerald | |
| 2024 | Sleeping Dogs | Jimmy Remis | |

### Television

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 1992 | Screen One | | Episode: "Black and Blue" |
| 1993 | Tis the Season to be Jolly | Prisoner | TV film |
| 1993 | Taggart | Tam McLeod | Episode: "Instrument of Justice" |
| 1995 | Jolly: A Life | Man at grotto | TV film |
| 1996 | Rab C. Nesbitt | Sean | Episode: "Lottery" |
| 1996 | A Mug's Game | Paul | |
| 1996 | 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 |
| 2015 | 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 |
| 2019 | Mayans M.C. | Filip "Chibs" Telford | Special guest star (season 2) Episode: "Kukulkan" |
| 2020 | Westworld | Martin Conells / Dolores Abernathy (host) | 3 episodes |
| 2022–23 | Power Book IV: Force | Walter Flynn | Main role (seasons 1–2) |
| 2024 | The Perfect Couple | Broderick Graham | 3 Episodes, Miniseries |