
Cast
Ciarán Hinds
Acting
Cast
Ciarán Hinds
Known for
Acting
Born
1953-02-09
From
Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK
Also known as Ciaran Hinds, Ciarin Hinds, Киран Хайндс
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.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
as Aberforth Dumbledore

Frozen
as Pabbie / Grandpa (voice)

The Family Plan
as McCaffrey

Zack Snyder's Justice League
as Steppenwolf (voice)

Frozen II
as Pabbie (voice)

Justice League
as Steppenwolf (voice)

John Carter
as Tardos Mors

Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance
as Roarke

There Will Be Blood
as Fletcher Hamilton

Silence
as Father Valignano

Red Sparrow
as Alexei Zyuganov

Munich
as Carl

In Bruges
as Priest (uncredited)

The Phantom of the Opera
as Firmin

First Man
as Robert R. Gilruth

Hallam Foe
as Julius Foe

Hitman: Agent 47
as Litvenko

Miami Vice
as FBI Agent John Fujima

The Sum of All Fears
as President Nemerov

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
as Roy Bland

Excalibur
as Lot

Road to Perdition
as Finn McGovern

Lara Croft: Tomb Raider - The Cradle of Life
as Jonathan Reiss

Race to Witch Mountain
as Burke

The Rite
as Father Xavier

Words of War
as Dmitry Muratov

Belfast
as Pop

Narnia: The Magician's Nephew

The Woman in Black
as Mr. Daily

The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
as Cory

The Wonder
as Father Thaddeus

Is This Thing On?
as Jan

Persuasion
as Captain Frederick Wentworth

Jane Eyre
as Edward Rochester

In the Land of Saints and Sinners
as Vincent O'Shea

Calendar Girls
as Rod Harper

Salvation Boulevard
as Jim Hunt

Stop-Loss
as Roy King

Amazing Grace
as Lord Tarleton

The Debt
as David Peretz

Game of Thrones The IMAX Experience
as Mance Rayder

The Tale of Despereaux
as Botticelli (voice)

Veronica Guerin
as John Traynor

Bleed for This
as Angelo Pazienza

Closed Circuit
as Devlin

Midwinter Break
as Gerry

Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
as Joe Blomfield

Mary Reilly
as Sir Danvers Carew

Woman Walks Ahead
as James McLaughlin

Elizabeth Harvest
as Henry

Oscar and Lucinda
as Reverend Dennis Hasset

Last Days in the Desert
as Father

The Weight of Water
as Louis Wagner

Ca$h
as Barnes

The Nativity Story
as Herod

The Statement
as Pochon

The Three Urns
as Mr O'Connor

Glock
as Luger

The Sea
as Max Morden

Cry to Heaven

The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Them
as Spencer Ludlow

Axis
as Jim (voice)

The Life of Stuff
as David Arbogast

Margot at the Wedding
as Dick Koosman

Some Mother's Son
as Danny Boyle

The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Him
as Spencer Ludlow

Cottontail
as John

McCanick
as Quinn

The Driftless Area
as Ned

National Theatre Live: Hamlet
as Claudius

Lost Lives
as Self (voice)

Ceasefire
as Bill Flynn

The Affair
as Edward Leyland

The Lost Son
as Carlos

Circle of Friends
as Professor Flynn

Who Bombed Birmingham?
as Richard McIlkenny

Life During Wartime
as Bill Maplewood

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

Yellowbacks
as Martin Pitt

Captain Morten and the Spider Queen
as Captain Stinger (voice)

The Shore
as Joe

Hostages
as Brian Keenan

Mickybo and Me
as Jonjo's Da

The Eclipse
as Michael Farr

Titanic Town
as Aidan McPhelimy

The Hour
as Himself

National Theatre Collection: Translations
as Hugh

Walk the Blue Fields

The Man in the Hat
as The Man In The Hat

The Sleeper
as Fergus Moon

The Tiger's Tail
as Father Andy

December Bride
as Frank Echlin

Thursday the 12th
as Marius Bannister

The Hope Rooms
as Eamonn

Grace and Goliath
as Surgeon

Isle of Man

The Lost Lover
as Adam

A Time to Love
as Peter

The Man Who Cried
as Abel Mason

The Long March
as Michael Canning

The Mayor of Casterbridge
as Michael Henchard

Getting Hurt
as Charlie Cross

Saint Patrick: Born in Britain, Made in Ireland
as Narrator

Our Boys
as Brother

Untameable
as Narrator (voice)

A Bear Remembers
as Voice of the Bear

Love is a Sting
as Narrator (voice)

Patrick: A Slave To Ireland
as Narrator