
Ciarán Hinds
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

Frozen

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2

The Family Plan

Frozen II

Persuasion

Zack Snyder's Justice League

Justice League

The Statement

There Will Be Blood

Is This Thing On?

John Carter

The Phantom of the Opera

Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance

Red Sparrow

Road to Perdition

In Bruges

Silence

First Man

Munich

Elizabeth Harvest

Hallam Foe

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

Race to Witch Mountain

Hitman: Agent 47

Miami Vice

The Sum of All Fears

Lara Croft: Tomb Raider - The Cradle of Life

The Eclipse

The Sea

The Wonder

Excalibur

The Rite

The Woman in Black

Veronica Guerin

In the Land of Saints and Sinners

The Affair

Who Bombed Birmingham?

Jane Eyre

Lost Lives

Midwinter Break

Bleed for This

Hostages

The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover

Words of War

The Hour

The Weight of Water

Cottontail

The Tale of Despereaux

Titanic Town

The Nativity Story

Circle of Friends

McCanick

The Man Who Cried

Saint Patrick: Born in Britain, Made in Ireland

The Debt

Woman Walks Ahead

Calendar Girls

Belfast

The Shore

The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Him

The Tiger's Tail

Game of Thrones The IMAX Experience

National Theatre Collection: Translations

Last Days in the Desert

Closed Circuit

Stop-Loss

A Bear Remembers

Our Boys

The Lost Son

Mary Reilly

Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day

Cry to Heaven

Oscar and Lucinda

Life During Wartime

Margot at the Wedding

Mickybo and Me

The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Them

A Time to Love

The Long March

Ca$h

Love is a Sting

Amazing Grace

The Lost Lover

Untameable

Salvation Boulevard

The Man in the Hat

The Hope Rooms

The Driftless Area

December Bride

Some Mother's Son

The Life of Stuff

Axis

National Theatre Live: Hamlet

Thursday the 12th

Yellowbacks

Grace and Goliath

The Path to Vengeance: Making Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance

Captain Morten and the Spider Queen

The Mayor of Casterbridge
