Ciarán Hinds (; born 9 February 1953) is an Irish actor. Born in
Belfast
Belfast ( , ; from ga, Béal Feirste , meaning 'mouth of the sand-bank ford') is the capital and largest city of Northern Ireland, standing on the banks of the River Lagan on the east coast. It is the 12th-largest city in the United Kingdom ...
, 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
''Oscar and Lucinda'' is a novel by Australian author Peter Carey which won the 1988 Booker Prize and the 1989 Miles Franklin Award. It was shortlisted for The Best of the Booker.
Plot introduction
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'' (1997), ''
Road to Perdition
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'' (2002), ''
The Sum of All Fears'' (2002), ''
Munich'' (2005), ''
Amazing Grace
"Amazing Grace" is a Christian hymn published in 1779 with words written in 1772 by English Anglican clergyman and poet John Newton (1725–1807). It is an immensely popular hymn, particularly in the United States, where it is used for both ...
'' (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
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'' (2016), ''
First Man'' (2018), and ''
Belfast
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'' (2021). He was nominated for the
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
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for the last of these.
Hinds is also known for his voice role as Grand Pabbie, the Troll King in the animated film ''
Frozen'' (2013) and its sequel, ''
Frozen II'' (2019). He played General Zakharow in ''
Red Sparrow
''Red Sparrow'' is a 2018 American spy thriller film directed by Francis Lawrence and written by Justin Haythe, based on the 2013 novel of the same name by Jason Matthews. The film stars Jennifer Lawrence, Joel Edgerton, Matthias Schoenaerts, ...
'' (2018). He also portrayed
Steppenwolf in
Zack Snyder
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'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'', and
Mance Rayder
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in ''
Game of Thrones''. In addition, Hinds appeared in series 3 of ''
Shetland (TV series)
''Shetland'' is a Scottish crime drama series made by ITV Studios for BBC Scotland and first broadcast on BBC One on 10 March 2013. Based upon the novels of Ann Cleeves and adapted for television by David Kane, who has remained a principal wri ...
'' (2016), produced by ITV. As a stage actor Hinds has spent periods with the
Royal Shakespeare Company, the
Royal National Theatre, and six seasons with
Glasgow Citizens' Theatre
The Citizens Theatre, in what was the Royal Princess's Theatre, is the creation of James Bridie and is based in Glasgow, Scotland as a principal producing theatre. The theatre includes a 500-seat Main Auditorium, and has also included various ...
, and he has continued to work on stage throughout his career. In 2020, he was listed at number 31 on ''
The Irish Times
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'' list of Ireland's greatest film actors.
Early life
Hinds was born on 9 February 1953 in
Belfast
Belfast ( , ; from ga, Béal Feirste , meaning 'mouth of the sand-bank ford') is the capital and largest city of Northern Ireland, standing on the banks of the River Lagan on the east coast. It is the 12th-largest city in the United Kingdom ...
,
Northern Ireland. Raised as a Catholic
in north Belfast, he was one of five children and the only son of his doctor father, Gerry, and schoolteacher and amateur actress mother, Moya.
He was an
Irish dancer in his youth and was educated at Holy Family Primary School and
St Malachy's College
St Malachy's College, in Belfast, Northern Ireland, is the oldest Catholic diocesan college in Ulster. The college's alumni and students are known as Malachians.
History
The college, founded by Bishop William Crolly, opened on the feast of Sa ...
. After leaving St Malachy's, he then attended the College of Business Studies before enrolling as a law student at
Queen's University Belfast
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, but was soon persuaded to pursue acting and abandoned his studies at Queen's to enroll at the
Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, finishing in 1975.
Career
Hinds began his professional acting career at the
Glasgow Citizens' Theatre
The Citizens Theatre, in what was the Royal Princess's Theatre, is the creation of James Bridie and is based in Glasgow, Scotland as a principal producing theatre. The theatre includes a 500-seat Main Auditorium, and has also included various ...
in a production of ''
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'' (1976). He remained a frequent performer at the Citizens' Theatre during the late 1970s and through the mid-1980s. During this same period, Hinds also performed on stage in Ireland with the
Abbey Theatre
The Abbey Theatre ( ga, Amharclann na Mainistreach), also known as the National Theatre of Ireland ( ga, Amharclann Náisiúnta na hÉireann), in Dublin, Ireland, is one of the country's leading cultural institutions. First opening to the p ...
, the
Field Day Theatre Company, the
Druid Theatre
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As well as touring extensively across Ireland, the company's productions have played internationally to Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the ...
, the
Lyric Players' Theatre
The Lyric Theatre, or simply The Lyric, is the principal, full-time producing theatre in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
The theatre's current Executive Producer is Jimmy Fay, previously the founder and Artistic Director of Bedrock Productions.
His ...
and at the
Project Arts Centre
Project Arts Centre is a multidisciplinary arts centre based in Temple Bar, Dublin, which hosts visual arts, theatre, dance, music, and performance.
History
Project Arts Centre was founded by Jim FitzGerald and Colm O'Briain in 1967 after a thre ...
. In 1987, he was cast by
Peter Brook
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in ''
The Mahabharata'', a six-hour theatre piece that toured the world, and he also featured in its 1989 film version. Hinds almost missed the casting call in Paris due to difficulties renewing his
Irish passport
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. In the early 1990s, he was a member of the
Royal Shakespeare Company.
He appeared in the title role of the RSC's production of ''
Richard III
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'' in 1993, directed by
Sam Mendes, who turned to Hinds as a last minute replacement for an injured
Simon Russell Beale
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. Hinds gained his most popular recognition as a stage actor for his performance as Larry in the London and Broadway productions of
Patrick Marber's
Tony Award-nominated play ''
Closer''. In 1999, Hinds was awarded both the
Theatre World Award for Best Debut in New York and the
Outer Critics Circle Award
The Outer Critics Circle Awards are presented annually for theatrical achievements both on Broadway and Off-Broadway. They are presented by the Outer Critics Circle (OCC), the official organization of New York theater writers for out-of-town newspa ...
for Special Achievement (Best Ensemble Cast Performance) for his work in ''Closer''. He was on stage in 2001 in ''The Yalta Game'' by
Brian Friel
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at Dublin's
Gate Theatre. He appeared on Broadway in ''
The Seafarer'' by
Conor McPherson
Conor McPherson (born 6 August 1971) is an Irish playwright, screenwriter and director of stage and film. In recognition of his contribution to world theatre, McPherson was awarded a doctorate of Literature, Honoris Causa, in June 2013 by the Un ...
, which ran at the
Booth Theatre
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from December 2007 through March 2008. In February 2009 he took the leading role of General Sergei Kotov in ''
Burnt by the Sun
''Burnt by the Sun'' (russian: Утомлённые солнцем, translit. ''Utomlyonnye solntsem'', literally "wearied by the sun") is a 1994 film by Russian director and screenwriter Nikita Mikhalkov and Azerbaijani screenwriter Rustam ...
'' by
Peter Flannery
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at London's
National Theatre. Hinds returned to the stage later in 2009 with a role in Conor McPherson's play ''The Birds'', which opened at Dublin's
Gate Theatre in September 2009.
Hinds made his feature film debut in
John Boorman
Sir John Boorman (; born 18 January 1933) is a British film director, best known for feature films such as ''Point Blank'' (1967), '' Hell in the Pacific'' (1968), ''Deliverance'' (1972), '' Zardoz'' (1974), '' Exorcist II: The Heretic'' (1977 ...
's ''
Excalibur
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'' in 1981. He played Captain Frederick Wentworth in
Jane Austen's ''
Persuasion'' in 1995, Jonathan Reiss in ''
Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life'' and John Traynor in ''
Veronica Guerin'', both in 2003, and Firmin in the film version of
Andrew Lloyd Webber
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's ''
The Phantom of the Opera'' in 2004. Hinds also played Carl, a professional assisting a group of assassins, in
Steven Spielberg's political thriller, ''
Munich'' in 2005. In 2006, he appeared in
Michael Mann's film adaptation of the 80's television show, ''
Miami Vice'', and as
Herod the Great in ''
The Nativity Story''. In the 2006 film ''
Amazing Grace
"Amazing Grace" is a Christian hymn published in 1779 with words written in 1772 by English Anglican clergyman and poet John Newton (1725–1807). It is an immensely popular hymn, particularly in the United States, where it is used for both ...
'', Hinds portrayed
Sir Banastre Tarleton, one of the chief opponents of abolition of the
slave trade in
Parliament. He starred in ''
Margot at the Wedding
''Margot at the Wedding'' is a 2007 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Noah Baumbach. It stars Nicole Kidman, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Jack Black, John Turturro, Ciarán Hinds and Halley Feiffer. The film is about the familial storm th ...
'', alongside
Nicole Kidman,
Jack Black
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and
Jennifer Jason Leigh, in a comedy-drama about family secrets and relationships. He also appeared in 2007's ''
There Will Be Blood'', directed by
Paul Thomas Anderson
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.
On television, Hinds portrayed
Gaius Julius Caesar
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in the first season of BBC/HBO's series, ''
Rome'' in 2006. He has also been featured in a number of made-for-television films, including the role of Michael Henchard in
Thomas Hardy
Thomas Hardy (2 June 1840 – 11 January 1928) was an English novelist and poet. A Victorian realist in the tradition of George Eliot, he was influenced both in his novels and in his poetry by Romanticism, including the poetry of William Word ...
's ''
The Mayor of Casterbridge
''The Mayor of Casterbridge: The Life and Death of a Man of Character'' is an 1886 novel by the English author Thomas Hardy. One of Hardy's Wessex novels, it is set in a fictional rural England with Casterbridge standing in for Dorchester in D ...
'' in 2004, for which he received the Irish Film and Television Award for Best Actor in a Dramatic Series. Additional television performances include Edward Parker-Jones in the crime drama series ''
Prime Suspect 3'' (1993), Abel Mason in
Dame Catherine Cookson's ''The Man Who Cried'' (1993), Jim Browner in ''
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
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'' episode "The Cardboard Box" (1994), Fyodor Glazunov in the science fiction miniseries ''
Cold Lazarus
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'' (1996),
Edward Rochester in
Charlotte Brontë
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She enlisted i ...
's ''
Jane Eyre
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'' (1997), the
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Brian de Bois-Guilbert in
Sir Walter Scott's ''
Ivanhoe
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'' (1997) and a portrayal of the French
existentialist
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Albert Camus
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in ''Broken Morning'' (2003).
In 1996, Hinds acted as a police detective in the ''
Tales from the Crypt
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'' episode "Confessions".
Hinds was featured in two notable television docudramas:
Granada Television
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's docudrama ''
Who Bombed Birmingham?'' (1990) in which Hinds portrayed Richard McIlkenny, a Belfastman falsely imprisoned for an
IRA bombing; and
HBO
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's docudrama ''Hostages'' (1993), where he portrayed Irish writer and former hostage
Brian Keenan. Hinds starred opposite
Kelly Reilly in ''
Above Suspicion'', a TV adaptation of
Lynda La Plante
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's detective story, which was broadcast in the United Kingdom in January 2009; he returned for the sequels ''The Red Dahlia'' (2010), ''Deadly Intent'' (2011) and ''Silent Scream'' (2012). Hinds has performed in audiobook and radio productions as well. He performed as Valmont in the BBC Radio production of ''
Les Liaisons Dangereuses'', and also narrated the Penguin Audiobook ''
Ivanhoe
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''. He also performed in ''
Antony and Cleopatra
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'' and ''
The Winter's Tale'' as part of ''
The Complete Arkangel Shakespeare'', an audio production of Shakespeare's plays which won the 2004
Audie Award
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for Best Audio Drama. He read the short story "
A Painful Case" for the Caedmon Audio version of
James Joyce's ''
Dubliners
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The stories were writ ...
''.
Hinds played the role of
Albus Dumbledore
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's brother Aberforth in ''
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2'', the final film in the ''
Harry Potter'' series. Also in 2011, he appeared as David Peretz in the 1997 sections of ''
The Debt'' alongside
Helen Mirren
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and
Tom Wilkinson. Hinds played Roy Bland in the 2011 adaptation of the John le Carré's ''
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy''.
In September 2011, Hinds returned to the
Abbey Theatre
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in Dublin to star as Captain Jack Boyle in a revival of
Seán O'Casey's ''
Juno and the Paycock
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'', alongside
Sinéad Cusack as Juno. The production transferred to the
National Theatre of Great Britain in November 2011 for a three-month run. He played "Jim" in the film ''
The Shore'' (2011), written and directed by
Terry George. ''The Shore'' won the Best Short Film, Live Action category at the 84th Annual Academy Awards (The Oscars) in 2012.
In 2013, he was cast as the wildling leader
Mance Rayder
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in
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of the
HBO
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television series ''
Game of Thrones''. He reprised this role in
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, and in
Season 5
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. On Broadway at The Richard Rodgers Theater in New York, he was Big Daddy to
Scarlett Johansson in ''
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
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'', which began previews on 18 December 2012 and opened on 17 January 2013.
In the summer of 2013, he performed at the Donmar Warehouse in London in the premiere production of ''
The Night Alive'', a play by
Conor McPherson
Conor McPherson (born 6 August 1971) is an Irish playwright, screenwriter and director of stage and film. In recognition of his contribution to world theatre, McPherson was awarded a doctorate of Literature, Honoris Causa, in June 2013 by the Un ...
, which transferred in November 2013, with Hinds in the lead role, to the Atlantic Theater Company in New York.
In 2015, he was in ''
Hamlet'' alongside
Benedict Cumberbatch
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at the London Barbican, playing King Claudius. He appeared the following year as Deputy Governor Danforth in the Broadway production of
Arthur Miller
Arthur Asher Miller (October 17, 1915 – February 10, 2005) was an American playwright, essayist and screenwriter in the 20th-century American theater. Among his most popular plays are ''All My Sons'' (1947), ''Death of a Salesman'' (194 ...
's play ''
The Crucible'' alongside
Saoirse Ronan and
Ben Whishaw
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.
In 2018 he shot the film ''The Thin Man'' which has since been retitled ''
The Man in the Hat'' in France directed by Oscar-winning composer
Stephen Warbeck
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Warbeck was born in Southampton, Hampshire. He first became known for the music for ''Prime Suspect'' and won an Oscar for his score fo ...
.
In 2017, Hinds portrayed the
DC Comics villain
Steppenwolf in the superhero film ''
Justice League''. Disappointed with the reshoots and changes made by
Joss Whedon following director
Zack Snyder
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's departure, including ones made to Steppenwolf's appearance and characterization, Hinds publicly supported the release of Snyder's original cut of the film, calling it superior to the theatrical version. On 18 March 2021 Snyder's version, titled ''
Zack Snyder's Justice League
''Zack Snyder's Justice League'' (colloquially referred to as the Snyder Cut) is the 2021 director's cut of the 2017 American superhero film '' Justice League'', the fifth film set within the DC Extended Universe (DCEU) based on the team ...
'', was released on the
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HBO Max, restoring many scenes, including those of Hinds as Steppenwolf in the character's original design, which were not featured in the theatrical version.
Hinds starred in
Kenneth Branagh's 2021 film ''
Belfast
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'', for which Hinds received critical acclaim and won the National Board of Review for Best Supporting Actor. In August 2021, it was announced Hinds would star in the comedy-drama series ''
The Dry'', developed by
Element Pictures
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Britbox
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Liam Neeson
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and directed by
Robert Lorenz
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.
Personal life
Hinds lives in
Paris with his wife, the French-Vietnamese actress Hélène Patarot. They met in 1987 while in the cast of Peter Brook's production of ''
The Mahabharata'' and have a daughter, Aoife Hinds, born 1991 in
London, who is also an actor and has appeared in ''
Derry Girls
''Derry Girls'' is a British teen sitcom created and written by Lisa McGee that premiered on 4 January 2018 on Channel 4. The channel's most successful comedy since ''Father Ted'', the series was inspired by McGee's own experiences growing up ...
'', ''
Normal People
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'', and ''
Hellraiser
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Awards and nominations
References
Further reading
Ciarán Hinds, entretien réalisé par Andréa Grunert,le 16 décembre 2008http://www.objectif-cinema.com (March 2009) p. 1–10.
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* GRUNERT, Andrea. "Ciarán Hinds, acteur". ''Jeune Cinéma''. issue 361/362. Autumn 2014. p. 62-69.
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External links
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Website dedicated to his works on stage and screenYouthaction.org Northern Ireland Organization Supported by Hinds
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1953 births
Living people
Alumni of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
Male voice actors from Northern Ireland
Male film actors from Northern Ireland
Male stage actors from Northern Ireland
Male Shakespearean actors from Northern Ireland
Male television actors from Northern Ireland
People educated at St Malachy's College
Male actors from Belfast
20th-century male actors from Northern Ireland
21st-century male actors from Northern Ireland
Expatriates from Northern Ireland in France
Royal Shakespeare Company members
Theatre World Award winners