Acting
Ciarán Hinds
EN, FR, IT cinema · 110 credits
Born
9 February 1953 (age 73)
Birthplace
Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK
Also known as Ciaran Hinds · Ciarin Hinds · Киран Хайндс · Ciaràn Hinds · Кіран Гайндс · کیران هایندز
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.
Known for
Filmography
Cry to Heaven
as Andrea
Ceasefire
Ceasefire
as Bill Flynn
This Old Love of Mine
This Old Love of Mine
as Harry Bannon
Midwinter Break
as Gerry
The Three Urns
as Mr O'Connor
Words of War
as Dmitry Muratov
A Bear Remembers
as Voice of the Bear
Cottontail
as John
Three Keenings
Executive Producer
The Family Plan
as McCaffrey
In the Land of Saints and Sinners
as Vincent O'Shea
Untameable
as Narrator (voice)
The Wonder
as Father Thaddeus
Belfast
as Pop
Zack Snyder's Justice League
as Steppenwolf (voice)
The Hour
as Himself
The Man in the Hat
as The Man In The Hat
Lost Lives
as Self (voice)
Frozen II
as Pabbie (voice)
Grace and Goliath
as Surgeon
Woman Walks Ahead
as James McLaughlin
Red Sparrow
as Alexei Zyuganov
Elizabeth Harvest
as Henry
Captain Morten and the Spider Queen
as Captain Stinger (voice)
First Man
as Robert R. Gilruth
Justice League
as Steppenwolf (voice)
Axis
as Jim (voice)
Last Days in the Desert
as Father
Bleed for This
as Angelo Pazienza
Silence
as Father Valignano
The Hope Rooms
as Eamonn
Hitman: Agent 47
as Litvenko
Game of Thrones The IMAX Experience
as Mance Rayder
National Theatre Live: Hamlet
as Claudius
Love is a Sting
as Narrator (voice)
The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Them
as Spencer Ludlow
McCanick
as Quinn
The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Him
as Spencer Ludlow
Frozen
as Pabbie / Grandpa (voice)
Closed Circuit
as Devlin
The Sea
as Max Morden
The Woman in Black
as Mr. Daily
John Carter
as Tardos Mors
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
as Aberforth Dumbledore
The Rite
as Father Xavier
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
as Roy Bland
The Shore
as Joe
Salvation Boulevard
as Jim Hunt
The Debt
as David Peretz
Life During Wartime
as Bill Maplewood
The Eclipse
as Michael Farr
Glock
2009
Glock
as Luger
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
as Joe Blomfield
Ca$h
as Barnes
The Tale of Despereaux
as Botticelli (voice)
Stop-Loss
as Roy King
In Bruges
as Priest (uncredited)
Hallam Foe
as Julius Foe
There Will Be Blood
as Fletcher Hamilton
Margot at the Wedding
as Dick Koosman
Amazing Grace
as Lord Tarleton
Miami Vice
as FBI Agent John Fujima
The Nativity Story
as Herod
The Tiger's Tail
as Father Andy
Munich
as Carl
Mickybo and Me
as Jonjo's Da
The Phantom of the Opera
as Firmin
Veronica Guerin
as John Traynor
Calendar Girls
as Rod Harper
The Statement
as Pochon
The Mayor of Casterbridge
as Michael Henchard
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider - The Cradle of Life
as Jonathan Reiss
Thursday the 12th
as Marius Bannister
Road to Perdition
as Finn McGovern
The Sum of All Fears
as President Nemerov
The Weight of Water
as Louis Wagner
The Sleeper
as Fergus Moon
The Lost Son
as Carlos
A Time to Love
as Peter
The Lost Lover
as Adam
Titanic Town
as Aidan McPhelimy
Getting Hurt
1998
Getting Hurt
as Charlie Cross
Jane Eyre
as Edward Rochester
Oscar and Lucinda
as Reverend Dennis Hasset
The Life of Stuff
as David Arbogast
Some Mother's Son
as Danny Boyle
Mary Reilly
as Sir Danvers Carew
Persuasion
as Captain Frederick Wentworth
Circle of Friends
as Professor Flynn
The Affair
as Edward Leyland
The Man Who Cried
as Abel Mason
Hostages
as Brian Keenan
Yellowbacks
as Martin Pitt
December Bride
as Frank Echlin
Who Bombed Birmingham?
as Richard McIlkenny
Our Boys
as Brother
Excalibur
as Lot
The Long March
as Michael Canning