Early life

Born in Easterhouse, Glasgow, as a child he served as an altar boy.

Flanagan is the third of five children. His distinctive facial scars are the result of a knife attack outside a nightclub where he had been working as a DJ.

Personal life

Flanagan and wife Dina Livingston welcomed a baby girl in early 2012. He was previously married to actress/casting director/assistant director Rachel Schadt from 1998-2001; Schadt had co-starred with Flanagan in the David Fincher film The Game (1997), in which she played a hotel maid. He was also married to Jane Ford from 2007-2010.

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), and the TV mini-series Attila.

He portrayed arms dealer Gabriel Schecter 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.

Filmography

Film and Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1992	Screen One		TV series, Episode: "Black and Blue"
1993	Tis the Season to be Jolly	Prisoner	TV movie
	Taggart	Tam McLeod	TV series Episode: "Instrument of Justice"
1995	Jolly: A Life	Man at grotto	TV movie
	Braveheart	Morrison
1996	Rab C. Nesbitt	Sean	TV series, Episode: "Lottery"
	A Mug's Game	Paul	TV series
	Bad Boys	Harry	TV series, Episode: "The Bonny Bonny Banks"
1997	The Saint	Scarface
	Face/Off	Leo
	The Detail
	The Game	Solicitor/Taxi driver
1999	Plunkett & Macleane	Eddie
	Ratcatcher	Da
2000	Gladiator	Cicero
	Rebus	Thomas Telford	TV series, Episode: "The Hanging Garden"
	Sunset Strip	Duncan
	Hidden	McCracken	Short film
2001	Attila	Bleda	TV miniseries
	Strictly Sinatra	Michelangelo
	Dead Dogs Lie	Michael
2002	All About the Benjamins	Williamson
2003	Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle	Irish Henchman
2004	Trauma	Tommy
	Alien vs. Predator	Mark Verheiden
2005	Sin City	Brian
2006	The Last Drop	Pvt. Dennis Baker
	When a Stranger Calls	The Stranger
	Smokin' Aces	Lazlo Soot
2008	Hero Wanted	Derek	credited as Thomas Flannigan
2008-2014	Sons of Anarchy	Filip "Chibs" Telford	TV series, 90 episodes
2009	24	Gabriel Schector	TV series, Episode: "Day 7: 8:00 a.m.-9:00 a.m."
2010	Luster	Les
	Smokin' Aces 2: Assassins' Ball	Lazlo Soot
	Swifty & Veg	Swifty	Short film
	Lie to Me	Ron Marshall	TV series, Episode: "Headlock"
2011	Detroit 1-8-7	Albert Stram	TV series, 2 episodes
	Grace and Danger		pre-production
2012	Law & Order: Special Victims Unit	Murphy	TV series, Episode: "Home Invasions"
	Officer Down	Father Reddy
2013	Peaky Blinders	Arthur Shelby Snr	TV series, Episode: "Episode 5"
2015	Revenge	Malcolm Black	TV series, 3 episodes
	Gotham	Tom "The Knife"	TV series, 1 episode "Rise of the Villains: The Son of Gotham"
	Winter	Woods Weston
2016	Running Wild	Jon Kilpatrick	Filming
	Sand Castle	SG Major McGregor	Filming
2017	Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2		Filming

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