Aidan Bristow is a British actor who is best known for his distinct roles in the popular series American Horror Story, along with the hit drama series 9-1-1 and Hollywood.

AIDAN BRISTOW BIOGRAPHY: AGE, EARLY LIFE, FAMILY, EDUCATION

Aidan Bristow was born on June 6, 1986 (Adian Bristow age: 37) in Preston, England. He was raised in Perth, Australia, before eventually relocating with his family to the United States.

Bristow went to the College of William and Mary in order to study finance. When he initially arrived in Los Angeles, California, he found work interning for the finance department of Revelations Entertainment. Additionally, he trained at Aquila/Moron studio while pursuing student film projects to begin his acting career.

AIDAN BRISTOW BIOGRAPHY: CAREER

In an exclusive interview with uInterview, Bristow spoke in detail about how he got bit by the acting bug.

“Yeah, so I initially studied finance and accounting in college,” Bristow proclaimed. “So, that was really my background, and I actually did a brief stint on Wall Street working in New York before coming out to LA. I was born in England, and I lived in England and then Australia for a few years before making it out to the U.S. Just in the bubbles that I was in, a life in a creative field wasn’t really, exactly an option, you know? So, it’s kind of hard to even describe now. I’m not sure what hit, but I basically turned down a Wall Street job that would’ve been really, really great to just, on a whim, move to Los Angeles and try this thing in movies. At first, I didn’t know that it was going to be acting for sure. Like I just knew that I’d always loved film. I was young enough to have all this energy that I could do something with and I just decided I was going to go for the Hail Mary as opposed to the safe thing just because I had time on my side at the time and I could.”

“I initially came out here,” he said. “I worked for Morgan Freeman‘s production company doing budgets, and I worked briefly for a little hedge fund that was managing money to invest in films. And so I was doing a little bit of everything, but, I guess, what really gave me the bug was just an acting teacher, this guy Larry Moss. He’s a very famous acting coach. He coaches everyone from Leonardo DiCaprio to Cate Blanchett, you know, a lot of great people. And I just went to a class that he was teaching for four days, and I guess what really gave me the bug was, it was my first introduction to some of the great plays, great American plays over the last 50 years and there was just these really great themes and those things that I felt put a microscope on a lot of stuff that we don’t talk about as a society. And I found that, oh, through art we can create a commentary and create a social commentary on things that could hopefully lead to a discussion for people that might, it might lead to them being a better father or being a better husband or being a better boyfriend, you know? Things like that just by taking a closer analysis on some of those relationships and creating introspection. So, that was really what the bug was for me.”

Moving on to his recent film The Believer, Bristow discussed how he prepared to get into the mindset of his actor before shooting.

“Yeah, we had the advantage of a lot of rehearsal time,” Bristow recalled. “So, Shan [Serafin]’s a dear friend of mine. I had worked with him. He cast me in his very first feature film that he directed about ten, 11 years ago. And so I had a bit of a shorthand with him from that experience, and then he ended up directing me in four plays after that film. And so we were very familiar working together,” Bristow confessed. “And Sophie [Kargman] is a friend from acting class who I had worked with in class a bunch and we wanted to work together on something. And so, that coupled with the fact that we rehearsed for about four months every single week prior to filming, it made it a lot easier because, like you said, as you’re going from scene to scene what’s happening for my character psychologically, it’s constantly shifting back and forth with whether he can believe what he’s seeing, if he can’t believe. And so through rehearsal and through my shorthand, I could go page by page with Sophie and Shan and just kind of detailing exactly what he’s confused about at each moment, what he’s questioning as the character. And so all that stuff really helped the performance.”

When asked if he had a favorite scene in the film, this is what Bristow had to say:

“There’s some really cool action sequences for sure, but honestly, some of my favorite stuff was just like sitting at a table and talking and kind of those scenes, just because the actors we had were so great,” Bristow stated. “Like Sophie’s infinitely talented, and so just getting to play with her on a lot of those one on one scenes were great. And then my scenes with Lindsey [Ginter] and Susan [Wilder]. Both of those guys are just such prose and have worked with some really talented people and are extremely talented in their own right. And so just getting to just bounce off of them creatively was really such a joy.”

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