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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Personal info
Gender
Male
Birthday
1953-02-09
Place of birth
Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK
Images
Cast
Miami Vice
2006
6.02
Munich
2005
7.14
Hallam Foe
2007
6.70
The Nativity Story
2006
6.94
Veronica Guerin
2003
6.60
The Tiger's Tail
2006
5.71
Road to Perdition
2002
7.34
The Sum of All Fears
2002
6.36
The Lost Son
1999
5.97
There Will Be Blood
2007
8.08
Calendar Girls
2003
6.54
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
2008
6.77
The Phantom of the Opera
2004
7.30
Ca$h
2008
5.74
Race to Witch Mountain
2009
5.80
The Statement
2003
5.60
Margot at the Wedding
2007
5.80
The Hour
2020
0.00
Amazing Grace
2006
6.90
Jane Eyre
1997
7.10
The Family Plan
2023
7.24
The Eclipse
2009
5.96
The Woman in Black
2012
6.14
Persuasion
1995
7.10
Oscar and Lucinda
1997
6.35
The Rite
2011
6.13
The Debt
2010
6.57
Yellowbacks
1990
7.00
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
2011
6.62
John Carter
2012
6.36
Midwinter Break
2026
0.00
Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance
2011
5.01
Mickybo and Me
2005
7.00
Titanic Town
1998
4.67
The Shore
2011
6.00
Grace and Goliath
2018
5.13
Frozen
2013
7.20
Closed Circuit
2013
5.91
The Sea
2013
5.43
McCanick
2014
4.55
Words of War
2025
6.61
The Mayor of Casterbridge
2003
7.30
Our Boys
1981
0.00
Hitman: Agent 47
2015
5.89
December Bride
1990
6.90
A Time to Love
1999
5.00
The Driftless Area
2015
5.15
The Tale of Despereaux
2008
6.13
Last Days in the Desert
2016
5.80
Life During Wartime
2010
5.90
Some Mother's Son
1996
6.70
Bleed for This
2016
6.80
Stop-Loss
2008
6.13
Mary Reilly
1996
5.75
Who Bombed Birmingham?
1990
7.00
In Bruges
2008
7.50
Circle of Friends
1995
6.24
National Theatre Live: Hamlet
2015
7.54
The Weight of Water
2001
5.47
Silence
2016
7.12
The Hope Rooms
2016
0.00
Untameable
2023
0.00
Woman Walks Ahead
2018
6.67
Justice League
2017
6.07
The Affair
1995
3.82
Excalibur
1981
7.00
The Man Who Cried
1993
5.50
The Life of Stuff
1997
0.00
Red Sparrow
2018
6.53
Elizabeth Harvest
2018
6.20
Hostages
1992
5.90
The Long March
1980
0.00
Getting Hurt
1998
2.67
First Man
2018
7.04
Thursday the 12th
2003
0.00
The Lost Lover
1999
2.00
Love is a Sting
2015
0.00
The Sleeper
2000
4.00
Lost Lives
2019
6.00
Frozen II
2019
7.24
Glock
2009
0.00
Axis
2017
5.10
The Man in the Hat
2020
5.97
Salvation Boulevard
2011
5.30
Belfast
2021
7.05
Zack Snyder's Justice League
2021
8.10
Cottontail
2024
6.80
The Wonder
2022
6.61
A Bear Remembers
2025
7.00
Is This Thing On?
2025
7.50
Cry to Heaven
0.00