Ciarán Hinds

Acting

Born Feb 09, 1953

From Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK

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.

Ciarán Hinds

Known For

Frozen II

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2

Frozen

Zack Snyder's Justice League

The Family Plan

There Will Be Blood

Justice League

John Carter

First Man

Silence

Filmography — Acting

Frozen II

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2

Frozen

Zack Snyder's Justice League

The Family Plan

There Will Be Blood

Justice League

John Carter

First Man

Silence

Red Sparrow

Excalibur

In Bruges

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

Hitman: Agent 47

Lara Croft: Tomb Raider - The Cradle of Life

Road to Perdition

Is This Thing On?

Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance

Munich

The Phantom of the Opera

The Sum of All Fears

Midwinter Break

Persuasion

Miami Vice

The Woman in Black

The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover

Race to Witch Mountain

The Rite

Hallam Foe

In the Land of Saints and Sinners

Elizabeth Harvest

The Tale of Despereaux

Belfast

The Wonder

Calendar Girls

The Debt

The Nativity Story

Bleed for This

Stop-Loss

Amazing Grace

Woman Walks Ahead

Last Days in the Desert

The Statement

Game of Thrones The IMAX Experience

Veronica Guerin

Closed Circuit

Mary Reilly

Words of War

The Weight of Water

Circle of Friends

Cottontail

The Tiger's Tail

Cry to Heaven

McCanick

National Theatre Live: Hamlet

Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day

The Three Urns

Ca$h

The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Them

Margot at the Wedding

Axis

The Affair

Some Mother's Son

Life During Wartime

Oscar and Lucinda

Jane Eyre