Known For
Acting
Born
Feb 09, 1953
Place of Birth
Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK
Credits
140 titles
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
Filmography
Narnia: The Magician's Nephew
The Three Urns
Mr O'Connor
Midwinter Break
Gerry
Is This Thing On?
Jan
Words of War
Dmitry Muratov
The Narrow Road to the Deep North
Dorrigo Evans 1980s
Saint Patrick: Born in Britain, Made in Ireland
Narrator
Patrick: A Slave To Ireland
Narrator
A Bear Remembers
Voice of the Bear
Three Keenings
Executive Producer
Ireland's Coast
Narrator
Cottontail
John
The Family Plan
McCaffrey
In the Land of Saints and Sinners
Vincent O'Shea
Untameable
Narrator (voice)
Treason
Sir Martin Angelis
The English
Richard M Watts
The Wonder
Father Thaddeus
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power
Dark Wizard
The Dry
Tom Sheridan
Belfast
Pop
Kin
Eamon Cunningham
Zack Snyder's Justice League
Steppenwolf (voice)
The Man in the Hat
The Man In The Hat
The Hour
Himself
Frozen II
Pabbie (voice)
Lost Lives
Self (voice)
First Man
Robert R. Gilruth
Grace and Goliath
Surgeon
Captain Morten and the Spider Queen
Captain Stinger (voice)
Elizabeth Harvest
Henry
National Theatre Collection: Translations
Hugh
Woman Walks Ahead
James McLaughlin
The Terror
Sir John Franklin
Red Sparrow
Alexei Zyuganov
Justice League
Steppenwolf (voice)
Axis
Jim (voice)
Silence
Father Valignano
My Mother and Other Strangers
Older Francis
Bleed for This
Angelo Pazienza
The Hope Rooms
Eamonn
Last Days in the Desert
Father
National Theatre Live: Hamlet
Claudius
Hitman: Agent 47
Litvenko
Love is a Sting
Narrator (voice)
The Driftless Area
Ned
Game of Thrones The IMAX Experience
Mance Rayder
The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Him
Spencer Ludlow
Delirium
The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Them
Spencer Ludlow