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
While You Were Sleeping (film) with the entire Callaghan family watching, he proposes to her. In the last scenes of the film, they kiss at the end of their wedding, then leave on a CTA train for their honeymoon. She narrates that he fulfilled her dream of going to Florence, Italy, and explains that, when Peter asked when she fell in love with Jack, she replied, "it was while you were sleeping." Julia Roberts was offered the role of Lucy Moderatz but turned it down. "While You Were Sleeping" received positive reviews. The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reported an 80% fresh approval rating based