Ciarán Hinds
Acting • Born 1953-02-09
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.
Filmography
134 credits
Miami Vice
Movie • 2006
FBI Agent John Fujima
Munich
Movie • 2005
Carl
Hallam Foe
Movie • 2007
Julius Foe
The Nativity Story
Movie • 2006
Herod
Veronica Guerin
Movie • 2003
John Traynor
The Tiger's Tail
Movie • 2006
Father Andy
Road to Perdition
Movie • 2002
Finn McGovern
The Sum of All Fears
Movie • 2002
President Nemerov
The Lost Son
Movie • 1999
Carlos
There Will Be Blood
Movie • 2007
Fletcher Hamilton
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
Movie • 1989
Cory
Calendar Girls
Movie • 2003
Rod Harper
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
Movie • 2008
Joe Blomfield
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
Movie • 2011
Aberforth Dumbledore
The Phantom of the Opera
Movie • 2004
Firmin
Ca$h
Movie • 2008
Barnes
Race to Witch Mountain
Movie • 2009
Burke
The Statement
Movie • 2003
Pochon
Margot at the Wedding
Movie • 2007
Dick Koosman
The Hour
Movie • 2020
Himself
Amazing Grace
Movie • 2006
Lord Tarleton
Jane Eyre
Movie • 1997
Edward Rochester
The Family Plan
Movie • 2023
McCaffrey
The Eclipse
Movie • 2009
Michael Farr
The Woman in Black
Movie • 2012
Mr. Daily
Persuasion
Movie • 1995
Captain Frederick Wentworth
Oscar and Lucinda
Movie • 1997
Reverend Dennis Hasset
The Rite
Movie • 2011
Father Xavier
The Debt
Movie • 2010
David Peretz
Yellowbacks
Movie • 1990
Martin Pitt
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Movie • 2011
Roy Bland
John Carter
Movie • 2012
Tardos Mors
Midwinter Break
Movie • 2026
Gerry
Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance
Movie • 2011
Roarke
Mickybo and Me
Movie • 2005
Jonjo's Da
Titanic Town
Movie • 1998
Aidan McPhelimy
The Shore
Movie • 2011
Joe
Grace and Goliath
Movie • 2018
Surgeon
Frozen
Movie • 2013
Pabbie / Grandpa (voice)
Closed Circuit
Movie • 2013
Devlin
The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Them
Movie • 2014
Spencer Ludlow
The Sea
Movie • 2013
Max Morden
McCanick
Movie • 2014
Quinn
Words of War
Movie • 2025
Dmitry Muratov
The Mayor of Casterbridge
Movie • 2003
Michael Henchard
Our Boys
Movie • 1981
Brother
Hitman: Agent 47
Movie • 2015
Litvenko
December Bride
Movie • 1990
Frank Echlin
A Time to Love
Movie • 1999
Peter
The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Him
Movie • 2014
Spencer Ludlow
The Driftless Area
Movie • 2015
Ned
The Tale of Despereaux
Movie • 2008
Botticelli (voice)
In the Land of Saints and Sinners
Movie • 2023
Vincent O'Shea
Last Days in the Desert
Movie • 2016
Father
Life During Wartime
Movie • 2010
Bill Maplewood
Some Mother's Son
Movie • 1996
Danny Boyle
Bleed for This
Movie • 2016
Angelo Pazienza
Stop-Loss
Movie • 2008
Roy King
Mary Reilly
Movie • 1996
Sir Danvers Carew
The Path to Vengeance: Making Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance
Movie • 2012
Self
Who Bombed Birmingham?
Movie • 1990
Richard McIlkenny
Game of Thrones The IMAX Experience
Movie • 2015
Mance Rayder
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider - The Cradle of Life
Movie • 2003
Jonathan Reiss
In Bruges
Movie • 2008
Priest (uncredited)
Circle of Friends
Movie • 1995
Professor Flynn
National Theatre Live: Hamlet
Movie • 2015
Claudius
The Weight of Water
Movie • 2001
Louis Wagner
Silence
Movie • 2016
Father Valignano
The Hope Rooms
Movie • 2016
Eamonn
Untameable
Movie • 2023
Narrator (voice)
Woman Walks Ahead
Movie • 2018
James McLaughlin
Justice League
Movie • 2017
Steppenwolf (voice)
The Affair
Movie • 1995
Edward Leyland
Excalibur
Movie • 1981
Lot
The Man Who Cried
Movie • 1993
Abel Mason
The Life of Stuff
Movie • 1997
David Arbogast
Red Sparrow
Movie • 2018
Alexei Zyuganov
Elizabeth Harvest
Movie • 2018
Henry
Hostages
Movie • 1992
Brian Keenan
The Long March
Movie • 1980
Michael Canning
Getting Hurt
Movie • 1998
Charlie Cross
Captain Morten and the Spider Queen
Movie • 2018
Captain Stinger (voice)
First Man
Movie • 2018
Robert R. Gilruth
Thursday the 12th
Movie • 2003
Marius Bannister
The Lost Lover
Movie • 1999
Adam
Love is a Sting
Movie • 2015
Narrator (voice)
The Sleeper
Movie • 2000
Fergus Moon
Lost Lives
Movie • 2019
Self
Frozen II
Movie • 2019
Pabbie (voice)
Glock
Movie • 2009
Luger
Axis
Movie • 2017
Jim (voice)
National Theatre Collection: Translations
Movie • 2018
Hugh
The Man in the Hat
Movie • 2020
The Man In The Hat
Salvation Boulevard
Movie • 2011
Jim Hunt
Belfast
Movie • 2021
Pop
Zack Snyder's Justice League
Movie • 2021
Steppenwolf (voice)
Cottontail
Movie • 2024
John
The Wonder
Movie • 2022
Father Thaddeus
A Bear Remembers
Movie • 2025
Voice of the Bear
Saint Patrick: Born in Britain, Made in Ireland
Movie • 2025
Narrator
Is This Thing On?
Movie • 2025
Jan
Cry to Heaven
Movie
The Three Urns
Movie • 2026
Mr O'Connor
Walk the Blue Fields
Movie
Rome
TV • 2005
Julius Caesar
Tales from the Crypt
TV • 1989
Jack Lynch
Prime Suspect
TV • 1991
Edward Parker-Jones
Between the Lines
TV • 1992
Det. Insp. Micky Flynn
Sherlock Holmes
TV • 1984
Jim Browner
Above Suspicion
TV • 2009
DCS James Langton
Jason and the Argonauts
TV • 2000
King Aeson
Perfect Scoundrels
TV • 1990
Jack Vosper
Political Animals
TV • 2012
Bud Hammond
Ivanhoe
TV • 1997
Brian de Bois-Guilbert
Game of Thrones
TV • 2011
Mance Rayder
My Mother and Other Strangers
TV • 2016
Older Francis
The Oscars
TV • 1953
Self
The Dry
TV • 2022
Tom Sheridan
The Terror
TV • 2018
Sir John Franklin
The Narrow Road to the Deep North
TV • 2025
Dorrigo Evans 1980s
The Mayor of Casterbridge
TV • 2003
Michael Henchard
Delirium
TV • 2014
Treason
TV • 2022
Sir Martin Angelis
Shetland
TV • 2013
Michael Maguire
The English
TV • 2022
Richard M Watts
Soldier Soldier
TV • 1991
Clive Hickey
Testament: The Bible in Animation
TV • 1996
Lucifer (voice)
The Play on One
TV • 1988
Martin Pitt
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power
TV • 2022
Dark Wizard
Kin
TV • 2021
Eamon Cunningham
Ireland's Coast
TV • 2024
Narrator
East of Eden
TV
Samuel Hamilton
The Mahabharata
TV • 1990
Ashwatthaman
Cold Lazarus
TV • 1996
Fyodor