
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.
Filmography

Words of War

The Family Plan

The Hour

Grace and Goliath

Hitman: Agent 47

The Driftless Area

The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Him

The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Them

McCanick

Frozen

Closed Circuit

The Sea

John Carter

The Woman in Black

Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2

The Shore

The Rite

The Debt

The Eclipse

Race to Witch Mountain

Ca$h

Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day

There Will Be Blood

Margot at the Wedding

Hallam Foe

The Nativity Story

The Tiger's Tail

Amazing Grace

Miami Vice

Munich

Mickybo and Me

The Phantom of the Opera

The Mayor of Casterbridge

The Statement

Calendar Girls

Veronica Guerin

Road to Perdition

The Sum of All Fears

A Time to Love

The Lost Son

Titanic Town

Oscar and Lucinda

Jane Eyre

Persuasion

Yellowbacks

December Bride

The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover

Midwinter Break

Is This Thing On?

Saint Patrick: Born in Britain, Made in Ireland

A Bear Remembers

Cottontail

In the Land of Saints and Sinners

Untameable

The Wonder

Belfast

Zack Snyder's Justice League

The Man in the Hat

Frozen II

Lost Lives

First Man

Captain Morten and the Spider Queen

Elizabeth Harvest

National Theatre Collection: Translations

Woman Walks Ahead

Red Sparrow

Justice League

Axis

Silence

Bleed for This

The Hope Rooms

Last Days in the Desert

National Theatre Live: Hamlet

Love is a Sting

Game of Thrones The IMAX Experience

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

Salvation Boulevard

Life During Wartime

Glock

The Tale of Despereaux

Stop-Loss

In Bruges

Lara Croft: Tomb Raider - The Cradle of Life

Thursday the 12th

The Weight of Water

The Sleeper

The Lost Lover

Getting Hurt

The Life of Stuff

Some Mother's Son

Mary Reilly

The Affair

Circle of Friends

The Man Who Cried

Hostages

Who Bombed Birmingham?

Excalibur

Our Boys

The Long March
