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
Julia Roberts was a Baptist, her mother a Roman Catholic, and she was raised Catholic. Her older brother Eric Roberts (b. 1956), from whom she was estranged for several years until 2004, older sister Lisa Roberts Gillan (b. 1965), and niece Emma Roberts, are also actors. She also had a younger half-sister named Nancy Motes (1976–2014). Roberts' parents, one-time actors and playwrights, met while performing in theatrical productions for the armed forces. They later co-founded the Atlanta Actors and Writers Workshop in Atlanta, off Juniper Street in Midtown. They ran a children's acting school in Decatur, Georgia, while they were expecting Julia.