Patrick Bergin Patrick Bergin Patrick Connolly Bergin (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). Bergin was born in Dublin, and had a working class upbringing in its Drimnagh district. Bergin learned social responsibility from his father, Paddy Bergin, a Labour Party politician, who had once studied to be a priest with the Holy Ghost Fathers in Blackrock, Ireland. Patrick is one of four sons and one daughter (Pearse, Emmet, Patrick, Alan and
The Sleeping Tiger Frank survives, but Glenda dies instantly. Due to his alleged ties with the US Communist Party, the blacklisted Joseph Losey moved to London and began work on "The Sleeping Tiger", his first British feature film. Despite being in England, he faced more problems. The British director Victor Hanbury, who had not directed a film since "Hotel Reserve" in 1944, allowed Losey to use Hanbury's name as an alias. The American stars, Alexis Smith and Alexander Knox, were fearful of how appearing in Losey's film would affect their Hollywood careers. "The Sleeping Tiger" was the beginning of Losey's partnership with Dirk