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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
February 9, 1953
Place of Birth
Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK
Also Known As
- Ciaran Hinds
- Ciarin Hinds
- Киран Хайндс
- Ciaràn Hinds
- Кіран Гайндс
- کیران هایندز
Ciarán Hinds
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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.
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Gerry
Midwinter Break
2026
7.5
Jan
Is This Thing On?
2025
6.6
Dmitry Muratov
Words of War
2025
7.8
Dorrigo Evans 1980s
The Narrow Road to the Deep North
2025
0.0
Narrator
Saint Patrick: Born in Britain, Made in Ireland
2025
7.0
Voice of the Bear
A Bear Remembers
2025
8.0
Narrator
Ireland's Coast
2024
6.8
John
Cottontail
2024
7.2
McCaffrey
The Family Plan
2023
6.5
Vincent O'Shea
In the Land of Saints and Sinners
2023
Credits
Midwinter Break
as Gerry
2026
0.0
Is This Thing On?
as Jan
2025
7.5
Words of War
as Dmitry Muratov
2025
6.6
The Narrow Road to the Deep North
as Dorrigo Evans 1980s
2025
7.8
Saint Patrick: Born in Britain, Made in Ireland
as Narrator
2025
0.0
A Bear Remembers
as Voice of the Bear
2025
7.0
Ireland's Coast
as Narrator
2024
8.0
Cottontail
as John
2024
6.8
The Family Plan
as McCaffrey
2023
7.2
In the Land of Saints and Sinners
as Vincent O'Shea
2023
6.5
Untameable
as Narrator (voice)
2023
0.0
Treason
as Sir Martin Angelis
2022
6.8
The English
as Richard M Watts
2022
7.2
The Wonder
as Father Thaddeus
2022
6.6
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power
as Dark Wizard
2022
7.3
The Dry
as Tom Sheridan
2022
6.0
Belfast
as Pop
2021
7.0
Kin
as Eamon Cunningham
2021
7.7
Zack Snyder's Justice League
as Steppenwolf (voice)
2021
8.1
The Man in the Hat
as The Man In The Hat
2020
6.0
The Hour
as Himself
2020
0.0
Frozen II
as Pabbie (voice)
2019
7.2
Lost Lives
as Self
2019
6.0
First Man
as Robert R. Gilruth
2018
7.0
Grace and Goliath
as Surgeon
2018
5.1
Captain Morten and the Spider Queen
as Captain Stinger (voice)
2018
4.4
Elizabeth Harvest
as Henry
2018
6.2
National Theatre Collection: Translations
as Hugh
2018
0.0
Woman Walks Ahead
as James McLaughlin
2018
6.7
The Terror
as Sir John Franklin
2018
7.3
Red Sparrow
as Alexei Zyuganov
2018
6.5
Justice League
as Steppenwolf (voice)
2017
6.1
Axis
as Jim (voice)
2017
5.1
Silence
as Father Valignano
2016
7.1
My Mother and Other Strangers
as Older Francis
2016
6.4
Bleed for This
as Angelo Pazienza
2016
6.8
The Hope Rooms
as Eamonn
2016
0.0
Last Days in the Desert
as Father
2016
5.8
National Theatre Live: Hamlet
as Claudius
2015
7.5
Hitman: Agent 47
as Litvenko
2015
5.9
Love is a Sting
as Narrator (voice)
2015
0.0
The Driftless Area
as Ned
2015
5.1
Game of Thrones The IMAX Experience
as Mance Rayder
2015
8.6
The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Him
as Spencer Ludlow
2014
6.7
Delirium
2014
9.7
The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Them
as Spencer Ludlow
2014
6.2
McCanick
as Quinn
2014
4.6
Frozen
as Pabbie / Grandpa (voice)
2013
7.2
Closed Circuit
as Devlin
2013
5.9
The Sea
as Max Morden
2013
5.4
Shetland
as Michael Maguire
2013
7.5
Political Animals
as Bud Hammond
2012
7.1
The Path to Vengeance: Making Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance
as Self
2012
0.0
John Carter
as Tardos Mors
2012
6.4
The Woman in Black
as Mr. Daily
2012
6.1
Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance
as Roarke
2011
5.0
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
as Roy Bland
2011
6.6
Salvation Boulevard
as Jim Hunt
2011
5.3
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
as Aberforth Dumbledore
2011
8.1
Game of Thrones
as Mance Rayder
2011
8.5
The Shore
as Joe
2011
6.0
The Rite
as Father Xavier
2011
6.1
The Debt
as David Peretz
2010
6.6
Life During Wartime
as Bill Maplewood
2010
5.9
🎬
Glock
as Luger
2009
0.0
The Eclipse
as Michael Farr
2009
6.0
Race to Witch Mountain
as Burke
2009
5.8
Above Suspicion
as DCS James Langton
2009
6.8
The Tale of Despereaux
as Botticelli (voice)
2008
6.1
Ca$h
as Barnes
2008
5.7
Stop-Loss
as Roy King
2008
6.1
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
as Joe Blomfield
2008
6.8
In Bruges
as Priest (uncredited)
2008
7.5
There Will Be Blood
as Fletcher Hamilton
2007
8.1
Margot at the Wedding
as Dick Koosman
2007
5.8
Hallam Foe
as Julius Foe
2007
6.7
The Nativity Story
as Herod
2006
6.9
The Tiger's Tail
as Father Andy
2006
5.7
Amazing Grace
as Lord Tarleton
2006
6.9
Miami Vice
as FBI Agent John Fujima
2006
6.0
Munich
as Carl
2005
7.1
Rome
as Julius Caesar
2005
8.2
Mickybo and Me
as Jonjo's Da
2005
7.0
The Phantom of the Opera
as Firmin
2004
7.3
The Mayor of Casterbridge
as Michael Henchard
2003
7.3
The Statement
as Pochon
2003
5.6
Calendar Girls
as Rod Harper
2003
6.5
The Mayor of Casterbridge
as Michael Henchard
2003
7.0
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider - The Cradle of Life
as Jonathan Reiss
2003
5.8
Veronica Guerin
as John Traynor
2003
6.6
Thursday the 12th
as Marius Bannister
2003
0.0
Road to Perdition
as Finn McGovern
2002
7.3
The Sum of All Fears
as President Nemerov
2002
6.4
The Weight of Water
as Louis Wagner
2001
5.5
The Sleeper
as Fergus Moon
2000
4.0
Jason and the Argonauts
as King Aeson
2000
6.3
The Lost Lover
as Adam
1999
2.0
A Time to Love
as Peter
1999
5.0
The Lost Son
as Carlos
1999
6.0
Titanic Town
as Aidan McPhelimy
1998
4.7
🎬
Getting Hurt
as Charlie Cross
1998
2.7
Oscar and Lucinda
as Reverend Dennis Hasset
1997
6.3
The Life of Stuff
as David Arbogast
1997
0.0
Jane Eyre
as Edward Rochester
1997
7.1
Ivanhoe
as Brian de Bois-Guilbert
1997
6.9
Testament: The Bible in Animation
as Lucifer (voice)
1996
6.4
Some Mother's Son
as Danny Boyle
1996
6.7
Cold Lazarus
as Fyodor
1996
6.8
Mary Reilly
as Sir Danvers Carew
1996
5.8
The Affair
as Edward Leyland
1995
3.8
Persuasion
as Captain Frederick Wentworth
1995
7.1
Circle of Friends
as Professor Flynn
1995
6.2
The Man Who Cried
as Abel Mason
1993
5.5
Hostages
as Brian Keenan
1992
5.9
Between the Lines
as Det. Insp. Micky Flynn
1992
5.2
Soldier Soldier
as Clive Hickey
1991
6.6
Prime Suspect
as Edward Parker-Jones
1991
7.7
Yellowbacks
as Martin Pitt
1990
7.0
December Bride
as Frank Echlin
1990
6.9
Who Bombed Birmingham?
as Richard McIlkenny
1990
7.0
🎬
Perfect Scoundrels
as Jack Vosper
1990
6.0
The Mahabharata
as Ashwatthaman
1990
6.0
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
as Cory
1989
7.3
Tales from the Crypt
as Jack Lynch
1989
8.0
The Play on One
as Martin Pitt
1988
6.0
Sherlock Holmes
as Jim Browner
1984
8.1
Excalibur
as Lot
1981
7.0
Our Boys
as Brother
1981
0.0
The Long March
as Michael Canning
1980
0.0
The Oscars
as Self
1953
7.0
🎬
East of Eden
as Samuel Hamilton
N/A
0.0
Cry to Heaven
N/A
0.0