Ciarán Hinds
Known for Acting · 140 credits
- Born
- 1953-02-09 (age 73)
- Place of birth
- Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK
- Also known as
- Ciaran Hinds · Ciarin Hinds · Киран Хайндс · Ciaràn Hinds · Кіран Гайндс · کیران هایندز
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.
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Known For
TV Shows (31)
Game of Thrones
2011
as Mance Rayder
Sherlock Holmes
1984
as Jim Browner
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power
2022
as Dark Wizard
Shetland
2013
as Michael Maguire
Rome
2005
as Julius Caesar
Tales from the Crypt
1989
as Jack Lynch
The Oscars
1953
as Self
The Terror
2018
as Sir John Franklin
Prime Suspect
1991
as Edward Parker-Jones
Kin
2021
as Eamon Cunningham
Soldier Soldier
1991
as Clive Hickey
Between the Lines
1992
as Det. Insp. Micky Flynn
The Play on One
1988
as Martin Pitt
Above Suspicion
2009
as James Langton
The English
2022
as Richard M Watts
Jason and the Argonauts
2000
as King Aeson
My Mother and Other Strangers
2016
as Older Francis
The Narrow Road to the Deep North
2025
as Dorrigo Evans 1980s
Testament: The Bible in Animation
1996
as Lucifer (voice)
Treason
2022
as Sir Martin Angelis
Political Animals
2012
as Bud Hammond
East of Eden
as Samuel Hamilton
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
1994
as Jim Browner
The Dry
2022
as Tom Sheridan
Delirium
2014
Ivanhoe
1997
as Brian de Bois-Guilbert
Perfect Scoundrels
1990
as Jack Vosper
Cold Lazarus
1996
as Fyodor
The Mahabharata
1990
as Ashwatthaman
The Mayor of Casterbridge
2003
as Michael Henchard
Ireland's Coast
2024
as Narrator
Movies (109)
Frozen
2013
as Pabbie / Grandpa (voice)
Zack Snyder's Justice League
2021
as Steppenwolf (voice)
Frozen II
2019
as Pabbie (voice)
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
2011
as Aberforth Dumbledore
There Will Be Blood
2007
as Fletcher Hamilton
John Carter
2012
as Tardos Mors
Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance
2011
as Roarke
The Sum of All Fears
2002
as President Nemerov
Justice League
2017
as Steppenwolf (voice)
The Family Plan
2023
as McCaffrey
Silence
2016
as Father Valignano
Hitman: Agent 47
2015
as Litvenko
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider - The Cradle of Life
2003
as Jonathan Reiss
The Woman in Black
2012
as Mr. Daily
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
2011
as Roy Bland
Red Sparrow
2018
as Alexei Zyuganov
First Man
2018
as Robert R. Gilruth
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
1989
as Cory
Road to Perdition
2002
as Finn McGovern
The Phantom of the Opera
2004
as Firmin
In Bruges
2008
as Priest (uncredited)
Miami Vice
2006
as FBI Agent John Fujima
Munich
2005
as Carl
The Three Urns
2026
as Mr O'Connor
Belfast
2021
as Pop
Excalibur
1981
as Lot
Race to Witch Mountain
2009
as Burke
Elizabeth Harvest
2018
as Henry
Closed Circuit
2013
as Devlin
Woman Walks Ahead
2018
as James McLaughlin
Hallam Foe
2007
as Julius Foe
Narnia: The Magician's Nephew
2027
The Tale of Despereaux
2008
as Botticelli (voice)
Midwinter Break
2026
as Gerry
The Wonder
2022
as Father Thaddeus
The Rite
2011
as Father Xavier
Veronica Guerin
2003
as John Traynor
Is This Thing On?
2025
as Jan
Oscar and Lucinda
1997
as Reverend Dennis Hasset
Cry to Heaven
The Lost Lover
1999
as Adam
Margot at the Wedding
2007
as Dick Koosman
The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Them
2014
as Spencer Ludlow
The Nativity Story
2006
as Herod
The Debt
2010
as David Peretz
Mickybo and Me
2005
as Jonjo's Da
Stop-Loss
2008
as Roy King
The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Him
2014
as Spencer Ludlow
Mary Reilly
1996
as Sir Danvers Carew
In the Land of Saints and Sinners
2023
as Vincent O'Shea
Calendar Girls
2003
as Rod Harper
National Theatre Live: Hamlet
2015
as Claudius
Circle of Friends
1995
as Professor Flynn
Amazing Grace
2006
as Lord Tarleton
The Hope Rooms
2016
as Eamonn
The Shore
2011
as Joe
Bleed for This
2016
as Angelo Pazienza
Untameable
2023
as Narrator (voice)
Some Mother's Son
1996
as Danny Boyle
Ceasefire
as Bill Flynn
Persuasion
1995
as Captain Frederick Wentworth
The Driftless Area
2015
as Ned
Salvation Boulevard
2011
as Jim Hunt
Jane Eyre
1997
as Edward Rochester
Last Days in the Desert
2016
as Father
The Isle of Man Tourist Trophy Race
McCanick
2014
as Quinn
The Life of Stuff
1997
as David Arbogast
The Weight of Water
2001
as Louis Wagner
Isle of Man
Words of War
2025
as Dmitry Muratov
The Man in the Hat
2020
as The Man In The Hat
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
2008
as Joe Blomfield
Ca$h
2008
as Barnes
Life During Wartime
2010
as Bill Maplewood
Cottontail
2024
as John
Glock
2009
as Luger
The Man Who Cried
1993
as Abel Mason
Walk the Blue Fields
The Affair
1995
as Edward Leyland
December Bride
1990
as Frank Echlin
The Statement
2003
as Pochon
Axis
2017
as Jim (voice)
A Time to Love
1999
as Peter
Titanic Town
1998
as Aidan McPhelimy
A Bear Remembers
2025
as Voice of the Bear
The Sleeper
2000
as Fergus Moon
Grace and Goliath
2018
as Surgeon
Thursday the 12th
2003
as Marius Bannister
Who Bombed Birmingham?
1990
as Richard McIlkenny
Game of Thrones The IMAX Experience
2015
as Mance Rayder
The Mayor of Casterbridge
2003
as Michael Henchard
The Tiger's Tail
2006
as Father Andy
The Lost Son
1999
as Carlos
Hostages
1992
as Brian Keenan
The Eclipse
2009
as Michael Farr
The Sea
2013
as Max Morden
Lost Lives
2019
as Self (voice)
Getting Hurt
1998
as Charlie Cross
National Theatre Collection: Translations
2018
as Hugh
Saint Patrick: Born in Britain, Made in Ireland
2025
as Narrator
Captain Morten and the Spider Queen
2018
as Captain Stinger (voice)
Patrick: A Slave To Ireland
2025
as Narrator
The Long March
1980
as Michael Canning
The Hour
2020
as Himself
Love is a Sting
2015
as Narrator (voice)
The Path to Vengeance: Making 'Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance'
2012
as Self
Yellowbacks
1990
as Martin Pitt
Our Boys
1981
as Brother
About Ciarán Hinds
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), Silenc… With 140 credits spanning from 1953 to 2027, Ciarán Hinds has appeared in 109 films and 31 TV shows.
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- Frozen (2013) — as Pabbie / Grandpa (voice)
- Zack Snyder's Justice League (2021) — as Steppenwolf (voice)
- Frozen II (2019) — as Pabbie (voice)
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011) — as Aberforth Dumbledore
- There Will Be Blood (2007) — as Fletcher Hamilton
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