Ciarán Hinds
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Ciarán Hinds

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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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Films Featuring Ciarán Hinds

Miami Vice

20066.0

Munich

20057.1

Hallam Foe

20076.7

The Nativity Story

20067.0

Veronica Guerin

20036.7

The Tiger's Tail

20065.6

Road to Perdition

20027.4

The Sum of All Fears

20026.4

The Lost Son

19996.0

There Will Be Blood

20078.1

The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover

19897.3

Calendar Girls

20036.5

Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day

20086.8

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2

20118.1

The Phantom of the Opera

20047.3

Ca$h

20085.7

Race to Witch Mountain

20095.8

The Statement

20035.7

Margot at the Wedding

20075.8

The Hour

2020

Amazing Grace

20066.9

Jane Eyre

19977.1

The Family Plan

20237.2

The Eclipse

20096.0

The Woman in Black

20126.1

Persuasion

19957.2

Oscar and Lucinda

19976.4

The Rite

20116.1

The Debt

20106.6

Yellowbacks

19908.0

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

20116.6

John Carter

20126.4

Midwinter Break

20266.8

Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance

20115.0

Mickybo and Me

20057.1

Titanic Town

19985.3

The Shore

20116.0

Grace and Goliath

20185.7

Frozen

20137.2

Closed Circuit

20135.9

The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Them

20146.2

The Sea

20135.4

McCanick

20144.5

Words of War

20256.7

The Mayor of Casterbridge

20037.3

Our Boys

19817.0

Hitman: Agent 47

20155.9

December Bride

19907.4

A Time to Love

19996.5

The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Him

20146.7

The Driftless Area

20155.1

The Tale of Despereaux

20086.2

In the Land of Saints and Sinners

20236.4

Last Days in the Desert

20165.7

Life During Wartime

20105.9

Some Mother's Son

19966.8

Bleed for This

20166.8

Stop-Loss

20086.1

Mary Reilly

19965.8

The Path to Vengeance: Making 'Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance'

2012

Who Bombed Birmingham?

19908.5

Game of Thrones The IMAX Experience

20158.6

Lara Croft: Tomb Raider - The Cradle of Life

20035.8

In Bruges

20087.5

Circle of Friends

19956.3

National Theatre Live: Hamlet

20157.5

The Weight of Water

20015.5

Silence

20167.1

The Hope Rooms

2016

Untameable

2023

Woman Walks Ahead

20186.8

Justice League

20176.1

The Affair

19954.0

Excalibur

19817.0

The Man Who Cried

19936.3

The Life of Stuff

199710.0

Red Sparrow

20186.5

Elizabeth Harvest

20186.2

Hostages

19926.1

The Long March

19807.0

Getting Hurt

Getting Hurt

19984.5

Captain Morten and the Spider Queen

20184.4

First Man

20187.0

Thursday the 12th

20039.0

The Lost Lover

19993.7

Love is a Sting

2015

The Sleeper

20006.5

Lost Lives

20196.0

Frozen II

20197.2

Glock

Glock

2009

Axis

20175.1

National Theatre Collection: Translations

2018

The Man in the Hat

20206.2

Salvation Boulevard

20115.3

Belfast

20217.0

Zack Snyder's Justice League

20218.1

Cottontail

20246.3

The Wonder

20226.6

A Bear Remembers

20257.0

Saint Patrick: Born in Britain, Made in Ireland

2025

Is This Thing On?

20256.6

Cry to Heaven

The Three Urns

2026

Walk the Blue Fields

Walk the Blue Fields

Narnia: The Magician's Nephew

2027

Ceasefire

Ceasefire

Isle of Man

Isle of Man

Patrick: A Slave To Ireland

2025