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.
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Movies (39)
Is This Thing On?
as Jan
2025
Words of War
as Dmitry Muratov
2025
Saint Patrick: Born in Britain, Made in Ireland
as Narrator
2025
A Bear Remembers
as Voice of the Bear
2025
Cottontail
as John
2024
The Family Plan
as McCaffrey
2023
In the Land of Saints and Sinners
as Vincent O'Shea
2023
Untameable
as Narrator (voice)
2023
The Wonder
as Father Thaddeus
2022
Belfast
as Pop
2021
Zack Snyder's Justice League
as Steppenwolf (voice)
2021
The Man in the Hat
as The Man In The Hat
2020
The Hour
as Himself
2020
Frozen II
as Pabbie (voice)
2019
Lost Lives
as Self
2019
First Man
as Robert R. Gilruth
2018
Grace and Goliath
as Surgeon
2018
Captain Morten and the Spider Queen
as Captain Stinger (voice)
2018
Elizabeth Harvest
as Henry
2018
National Theatre Collection: Translations
as Hugh
2018
Woman Walks Ahead
as James McLaughlin
2018
Red Sparrow
as Alexei Zyuganov
2018
Justice League
as Steppenwolf (voice)
2017
Axis
as Jim (voice)
2017
Silence
as Father Valignano
2016
Bleed for This
as Angelo Pazienza
2016
The Hope Rooms
as Eamonn
2016
Last Days in the Desert
as Father
2016
National Theatre Live: Hamlet
as Claudius
2015
Hitman: Agent 47
as Litvenko
2015
Love is a Sting
as Narrator (voice)
2015
The Driftless Area
as Ned
2015
Game of Thrones The IMAX Experience
as Mance Rayder
2015
The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Him
as Spencer Ludlow
2014
The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Them
as Spencer Ludlow
2014
McCanick
as Quinn
2014
Frozen
as Pabbie / Grandpa (voice)
2013
Closed Circuit
as Devlin
2013
The Sea
as Max Morden
2013
TV Shows (11)
The Narrow Road to the Deep North
as Dorrigo Evans 1980s
2025
Ireland's Coast
as Narrator
2024
Treason
as Sir Martin Angelis
2022
The English
as Richard M Watts
2022
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power
as Dark Wizard
2022
The Dry
as Tom Sheridan
2022
Kin
as Eamon Cunningham
2021
The Terror
as Sir John Franklin
2018
My Mother and Other Strangers
as Older Francis
2016
Delirium
2014
Shetland
as Michael Maguire
2013