Ciarán Hinds (/ˈkɪərɔːn ˈhaɪndz/ KEER-awn HYNDZ; born 9 February 1953) is an Irish film, television and stage actor. He has built a reputation as a versatile character actor appearing in such high-profile films as Road to Perdition, The Phantom of the Opera, Munich, There Will Be Blood, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2, The Woman in Black and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. His television roles include Gaius Julius Caesar in the series Rome, DCI James Langton in Above Suspicion, Bud Hammond in Political Animals and Mance Rayder in Emmy Award winning Game of Thrones. As a stage actor, Hinds has enjoyed spells with the Royal Shakespeare Company, the Royal National Theatre in London and six seasons with Glasgow Citizens' Theatre. Adding to his New York Broadway theatre performances, Hinds starred in a production of Tennessee Williams' Cat on a Hot Tin Roof as Big Daddy in early 2013.
April 4, 1991, Lower Merion Township, Pennsylvania, United States
Place Of Birth
Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK
Height
6' (1.83 m)
Profession
Actor, Soundtrack
Education
Holy Family Catholic Primary School, Queen's University Belfast, St. Malachy's College, Stephen F. Austin State University, Phillips Exeter Academy, Harvard Business School, Harvard University, Yale University
Outer Critics Circle Special Award, Tribeca Film Festival Award for Best Actor in a Narrative Feature Film
Nominations
Gotham Independent Film Award for Best Ensemble Performance, Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play, WhatsOnStage Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Play
Movies
Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance, The Woman in Black, John Carter, Hitman: Agent 47, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2, Frozen, Bleed for This, There Will Be Blood, Munich, The Eclipse, The Debt, The Rite, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Persuasion, Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day, Race to W...
TV Shows
Political Animals, Above Suspicion, Rome, Ivanhoe, Cold Lazarus, Testament: The Bible in Animation
Star Sign
Aquarius
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Quote
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I'll tell you, being on set on 'Harry Potter' was nerve-wracking. It was surreal to be in a room with those three kids, all of whom know exactly what they're doing.
2
I've worked a lot with Noah Baumbach, and he doesn't make it easy to like his characters, but the stories are funny and witty and there's an edge to that kind of humanity.
3
My feet always danced to Irish traditional music, but I was very glad to get out of the North of Ireland in the mid-Seventies when it was really closed and tight and relentlessly unforgiving.
4
You know, Christianity has its own superstition anyway: Why you turn three times, what this saint means, why you pray to the patron saint of lost causes, why you go this way or that way.
5
My soul is still Irish.
6
No nation can claim, 'We are an uncorrupt nation, therefore we will tell you what the morals of democracy are.'
7
Sometimes, there's not an honest engagement of Ireland in Hollywood movies.
8
We've seen a lot of dirty politics in Ireland.
9
You get to an age when you lose people close to you.
10
I float from one project to another project, so you miss people and you don't see them for years.
11
I know I don't go looking for directors.
12
I never saw myself as being a cop on TV.
13
I'm not a comic person at all.
14
It's so tough to get movies made in Ireland anymore. A whole generation of Irish filmmakers doesn't have the resources to get a movie made.
15
Casting is very, very important.
16
Grief is exhausting.
17
I come from theatre and I always go back every couple of years.
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I do believe as human beings we are a great mass of contradictions.
19
I don't use the word 'artists' lightly.
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Fact
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Partner of actress Helene Patarot since 1987. Their daughter, Aoife, was born in 1991.
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Is one of few actors to appear in two non-related films that both earned 1 billion dollars at the worldwide box office, due to his appearance in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011) and Frozen (2013).
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New York, NY: Appearing as Big Daddy opposite Scarlett Johansson's Maggie the Cat in Tennessee Williams' Pulitzer Prize winning play, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. [January 2013]
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Starring on Broadway in 'The Seafarer' through March of 2008. [December 2007]
5
Starting rehearsals this month for 'Burnt By Sun' at the National Theatre (London). [January 2009]
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Filming in Bruges, Belgium [February 2007]
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Has played a Mossad agent in two movies - Munich (2005) and The Debt (2011).
$9 Million
