Ciarán Hinds
Acting
- Born:
- 1953-02-09
- Place of birth:
- Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK
Biography
Ciarán Hinds (/ˈkɪərən/ KEER-ən; born 9 February 1953) is an Irish actor from Belfast, Northern Ireland. Hinds is known for a range of screen and stage roles. He has starred in feature films including The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (1989), Persuasion (1995), Oscar and Lucinda (1997), Road to Perdition (2002), The Sum of All Fears (2002), Munich (2005), Amazing Grace (2007), There Will Be Blood (2007), Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (2008), Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 (2011), Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011), Silence (2016), First Man (2018) and Belfast (2021), the last of which earned him Oscar and BAFTA nominations for Best Supporting Actor. Known for his distinctively deep voice, Hinds is also known for his voice role as Grand Pabbie, the Troll King, in the animated films Frozen (2013) and Frozen II (2019). He played General Zakharow in Red Sparrow (2018). He also portrayed Steppenwolf in Zack Snyder's Justice League (2017) and its 2021 director's cut. His television roles include Julius Caesar in the series Rome, DCI James Langton in Above Suspicion, Mance Rayder in Game of Thrones, and Captain Sir John Franklin in The Terror. In addition, Hinds appeared in season 3 of Shetland (2016), produced by ITV. As a stage actor, Hinds has spent periods with the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Royal National Theatre, and six seasons with Glasgow Citizens' Theatre. Hinds has continued to work on stage throughout his career. In 2020, he was ranked 31st on The Irish Times list of Ireland's greatest film actors. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ciarán Hinds, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Filmography
Narnia: The Magician's Nephew
East of Eden
The Three Urns
Midwinter Break
Is This Thing On?
Words of War
The Narrow Road to the Deep North
Saint Patrick: Born in Britain, Made in Ireland
Patrick: A Slave To Ireland
A Bear Remembers
Ireland's Coast
Cottontail
The Family Plan
In the Land of Saints and Sinners
Untameable
Treason
The English
The Wonder
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power
The Dry
Belfast
Kin
Zack Snyder's Justice League
The Man in the Hat
The Hour
Frozen II
Lost Lives
First Man
Grace and Goliath
Captain Morten and the Spider Queen
Elizabeth Harvest
National Theatre Collection: Translations
Woman Walks Ahead
The Terror
Red Sparrow
Justice League
Axis
Silence
My Mother and Other Strangers
Bleed for This
The Hope Rooms
Last Days in the Desert
National Theatre Live: Hamlet
Hitman: Agent 47
Love is a Sting
The Driftless Area
Game of Thrones The IMAX Experience
The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Him
Delirium
The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Them
McCanick
Frozen
Closed Circuit
The Sea
Shetland
Political Animals
The Path to Vengeance: Making 'Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance'
John Carter
The Woman in Black
Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Salvation Boulevard
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
Game of Thrones
The Shore
The Rite
The Debt
Life During Wartime
Glock
The Eclipse
Race to Witch Mountain
Above Suspicion
The Tale of Despereaux
Ca$h
Stop-Loss
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
In Bruges
There Will Be Blood
Margot at the Wedding
Hallam Foe
Amazing Grace
The Nativity Story
The Tiger's Tail
Miami Vice
Munich
Rome
Mickybo and Me
The Phantom of the Opera
The Mayor of Casterbridge
The Mayor of Casterbridge
The Statement
Calendar Girls
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider - The Cradle of Life
Veronica Guerin
Thursday the 12th
Road to Perdition
The Sum of All Fears
The Weight of Water
The Sleeper
Jason and the Argonauts
The Lost Lover
A Time to Love
The Lost Son
Titanic Town
Getting Hurt
Oscar and Lucinda
The Life of Stuff
Jane Eyre
Ivanhoe
Testament: The Bible in Animation
Some Mother's Son
Cold Lazarus
Mary Reilly
The Affair
Persuasion
Circle of Friends
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
The Man Who Cried
Hostages
Between the Lines
Soldier Soldier
Prime Suspect
Yellowbacks
December Bride
Who Bombed Birmingham?
Perfect Scoundrels
The Mahabharata
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
Tales from the Crypt
The Play on One
Sherlock Holmes
Excalibur
Our Boys
The Long March
The Oscars
Cry to Heaven
Walk the Blue Fields
Ceasefire
Isle of Man
This Old Love of Mine
The Ministry of Time
Lenni