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Ciarán Hinds

Born 1953-02-09
📍 Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK

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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Filmography 131

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