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