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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ciarán Hinds, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
FBI Agent John Fujima
Miami Vice
Carl
Munich
Julius Foe
Hallam Foe
Herod
The Nativity Story
John Traynor
Veronica Guerin
Father Andy
The Tiger's Tail
Finn McGovern
Road to Perdition
President Nemerov
The Sum of All Fears
Carlos
The Lost Son
Fletcher Hamilton
There Will Be Blood
Cory
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
Rod Harper
Calendar Girls
Joe Blomfield
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
Aberforth Dumbledore
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
Firmin
The Phantom of the Opera
Barnes
Ca$h
Burke
Race to Witch Mountain
Pochon
The Statement
Dick Koosman
Margot at the Wedding
Himself
The Hour
Lord Tarleton
Amazing Grace
Edward Rochester
Jane Eyre
McCaffrey
The Family Plan
Michael Farr
The Eclipse
Mr. Daily
The Woman in Black
Captain Frederick Wentworth
Persuasion
Reverend Dennis Hasset
Oscar and Lucinda
Father Xavier
The Rite
David Peretz
The Debt
Martin Pitt
Yellowbacks
Roy Bland
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Tardos Mors
John Carter
Gerry
Midwinter Break
Roarke
Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance
Jonjo's Da
Mickybo and Me
Aidan McPhelimy
Titanic Town
Joe
The Shore
Surgeon
Grace and Goliath
Pabbie / Grandpa (voice)
Frozen
Devlin
Closed Circuit
Spencer Ludlow
The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Them
Max Morden
The Sea
Quinn
McCanick
Dmitry Muratov
Words of War
Michael Henchard
The Mayor of Casterbridge
Brother
Our Boys
Litvenko
Hitman: Agent 47
Frank Echlin
December Bride
Peter
Il tempo dell'amore
Spencer Ludlow
The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Him
Ned
The Driftless Area
Botticelli (voice)
The Tale of Despereaux
Vincent O'Shea
In the Land of Saints and Sinners
Father
Last Days in the Desert
Bill Maplewood
Life During Wartime
Danny Boyle
Some Mother's Son
Angelo Pazienza
Bleed for This
Roy King
Stop-Loss
Sir Danvers Carew
Mary Reilly
Self
The Path to Vengeance: Making Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance
Richard McIlkenny
Who Bombed Birmingham?
Mance Rayder
Game of Thrones The IMAX Experience
Jonathan Reiss
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider - The Cradle of Life
Priest (uncredited)
In Bruges
Professor Flynn
Circle of Friends
Claudius
National Theatre Live: Hamlet
Louis Wagner
The Weight of Water
Father Valignano
Silence
Eamonn
The Hope Rooms
Narrator (voice)
Untameable
James McLaughlin
Woman Walks Ahead
Steppenwolf (voice)
Justice League
Edward Leyland
The Affair
Lot
Excalibur
Abel Mason
The Man Who Cried
David Arbogast
The Life of Stuff
Alexei Zyuganov
Red Sparrow
Henry
Elizabeth Harvest
Brian Keenan
Hostages
Michael Canning
The Long March
Charlie Cross
Getting Hurt
Captain Stinger (voice)
Captain Morten and the Spider Queen
Robert R. Gilruth
First Man
Marius Bannister
Thursday the 12th
Adam
L'amante perduto
Narrator (voice)
Love is a Sting
Fergus Moon
The Sleeper
Self
Lost Lives
Pabbie (voice)
Frozen II
Luger
Glock
Jim (voice)
Axis
Hugh
National Theatre Collection: Translations
The Man In The Hat
The Man in the Hat
Jim Hunt
Salvation Boulevard
Pop
Belfast
Steppenwolf (voice)
Zack Snyder's Justice League
John
Cottontail
Father Thaddeus
The Wonder
Voice of the Bear
A Bear Remembers
Narrator
Saint Patrick: Born in Britain, Made in Ireland
Jan
Is This Thing On?
Cry to Heaven
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
102
Gender
Male
Birthday
1953-02-09
Place of Birth
Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK
Also Known As
Ciaran Hinds