Ciarán Hinds

Acting · Born 1953-02-09 in Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK

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…

Filmography

• Munich as Carl
• The Nativity Story as Herod
• Road to Perdition as Finn McGovern
• There Will Be Blood as Fletcher Hamilton
• The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover as Cory
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 as Aberforth Dumbledore
• The Phantom of the Opera as Firmin
• The Family Plan as McCaffrey
• Frozen as Pabbie / Grandpa (voice)
• In Bruges as Priest (uncredited)

TV

• Rome as Julius Caesar
• Tales from the Crypt as Jack Lynch
• Sherlock Holmes as Jim Browner
• Game of Thrones as Mance Rayder
• Prime Suspect as Edward Parker-Jones
• Between the Lines as Det. Insp. Micky Flynn
• Above Suspicion as DCS James Langton
• Jason and the Argonauts as King Aeson
• Perfect Scoundrels as Jack Vosper
• Political Animals as Bud Hammond