Ciarán Hinds
Acting
Born: February 9, 1953 (age 73) · Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK
Highest Rated
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
Game of Thrones
2011
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
2011
Frozen
2013
Justice League
2017
Zack Snyder's Justice League
2021
Frozen II
2019
There Will Be Blood
2007
Red Sparrow
2018
John Carter
2012
In Bruges
2008
First Man
2018
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider - The Cradle of Life
2003
Photos (9)
Movies (98)
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
Aberforth Dumbledore
Frozen II
Pabbie (voice)
Frozen
Pabbie / Grandpa (voice)
Zack Snyder's Justice League
Steppenwolf (voice)
There Will Be Blood
Fletcher Hamilton
Justice League
Steppenwolf (voice)
The Family Plan
McCaffrey
John Carter
Tardos Mors
Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance
Roarke
Red Sparrow
Alexei Zyuganov
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Roy Bland
In Bruges
Priest (uncredited)
First Man
Robert R. Gilruth
The Phantom of the Opera
Firmin
The Sum of All Fears
President Nemerov
Munich
Carl
Silence
Father Valignano
Road to Perdition
Finn McGovern
Hitman: Agent 47
Litvenko
Race to Witch Mountain
Burke
Miami Vice
FBI Agent John Fujima
Excalibur
Lot
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider - The Cradle of Life
Jonathan Reiss
In the Land of Saints and Sinners
Vincent O'Shea
The Woman in Black
Mr. Daily
The Rite
Father Xavier
Midwinter Break
Gerry
The Tale of Despereaux
Botticelli (voice)
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
Cory
Hallam Foe
Julius Foe
The Debt
David Peretz
The Wonder
Father Thaddeus
Elizabeth Harvest
Henry
Belfast
Pop
Bleed for This
Angelo Pazienza
Veronica Guerin
John Traynor
Is This Thing On?
Jan
Calendar Girls
Rod Harper
Persuasion
Captain Frederick Wentworth
Closed Circuit
Devlin
Stop-Loss
Roy King
Last Days in the Desert
Father
Margot at the Wedding
Dick Koosman
Words of War
Dmitry Muratov
The Nativity Story
Herod
Amazing Grace
Lord Tarleton
Mary Reilly
Sir Danvers Carew
Woman Walks Ahead
James McLaughlin
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
Joe Blomfield
Jane Eyre
Edward Rochester
The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Them
Spencer Ludlow
Ca$h
Barnes
Circle of Friends
Professor Flynn
Mickybo and Me
Jonjo's Da
The Driftless Area
Ned
McCanick
Quinn
The Weight of Water
Louis Wagner
The Three Urns
Mr O'Connor
Game of Thrones The IMAX Experience
Mance Rayder
The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Him
Spencer Ludlow
The Statement
Pochon
National Theatre Live: Hamlet
Claudius
Oscar and Lucinda
Reverend Dennis Hasset
Some Mother's Son
Danny Boyle
Life During Wartime
Bill Maplewood
The Affair
Edward Leyland
Salvation Boulevard
Jim Hunt
Cottontail
John
The Lost Son
Carlos
Captain Morten and the Spider Queen
Captain Stinger (voice)
The Shore
Joe
The Tiger's Tail
Father Andy
Thursday the 12th
Marius Bannister
The Eclipse
Michael Farr
The Lost Lover
Adam
The Life of Stuff
David Arbogast
The Sea
Max Morden
The Man in the Hat
The Man In The Hat
Who Bombed Birmingham?
Richard McIlkenny
December Bride
Frank Echlin
Saint Patrick: Born in Britain, Made in Ireland
Narrator
The Hope Rooms
Eamonn
The Long March
Michael Canning
Grace and Goliath
Surgeon
Axis
Jim (voice)
The Man Who Cried
Abel Mason
The Sleeper
Fergus Moon
A Bear Remembers
Voice of the Bear
A Time to Love
Peter
Our Boys
Brother
Titanic Town
Aidan McPhelimy
The Mayor of Casterbridge
Michael Henchard
National Theatre Collection: Translations
Hugh
Hostages
Brian Keenan
Love is a Sting
Narrator (voice)
Untameable
Narrator (voice)
Yellowbacks
Martin Pitt
Patrick: A Slave To Ireland
Narrator
TV Shows (29)
Jason and the Argonauts
King Aeson · 2 eps
Game of Thrones
Mance Rayder · 5 eps
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power
Dark Wizard · 5 eps
Shetland
Michael Maguire · 3 eps
Sherlock Holmes
Jim Browner · 1 eps
Tales from the Crypt
Jack Lynch · 1 eps
Rome
Julius Caesar · 22 eps
The Terror
Sir John Franklin · 10 eps
Prime Suspect
Edward Parker-Jones · 2 eps
Soldier Soldier
Clive Hickey · 1 eps
Kin
Eamon Cunningham · 8 eps
Between the Lines
Det. Insp. Micky Flynn · 1 eps
The English
Richard M Watts · 1 eps
The Play on One
Martin Pitt · 1 eps
Political Animals
Bud Hammond · 6 eps
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
Jim Browner · 1 eps
Above Suspicion
James Langton · 11 eps
Treason
Sir Martin Angelis · 5 eps
The Dry
Tom Sheridan · 24 eps
The Narrow Road to the Deep North
Dorrigo Evans 1980s · 5 eps
Ivanhoe
Brian de Bois-Guilbert · 6 eps
Testament: The Bible in Animation
Lucifer (voice) · 1 eps
Cold Lazarus
Fyodor · 4 eps
Delirium
1 eps
Perfect Scoundrels
Jack Vosper · 1 eps
The Mayor of Casterbridge
Michael Henchard · 2 eps
My Mother and Other Strangers
Older Francis · 5 eps
The Mahabharata
Ashwatthaman · 1 eps
Ireland's Coast
Narrator · 3 eps
