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









