Cast & creator
Ciarán Hinds
Best known for Game of Thrones, East of Eden, Jason and the Argonauts
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.
Also known as: Ciaran Hinds, Ciarin Hinds, Киран Хайндс, Ciaràn Hinds, Кіран Гайндс
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film credits
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television credits
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1953–2027 · acting roles
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Filmography (142)
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Game of Thrones
Mance Rayder
2011
East of Eden
Samuel Hamilton
2026
Jason and the Argonauts
King Aeson
2000
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power
Dark Wizard
2022
Shetland
Michael Maguire
2013
Rome
Julius Caesar
2005
Sherlock Holmes
Jim Browner
1984
Tales from the Crypt
Jack Lynch
1989
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
Aberforth Dumbledore
2011
Frozen II
Pabbie (voice)
2019
Frozen
Pabbie / Grandpa (voice)
2013
The Oscars
Self
1953
Zack Snyder's Justice League
Steppenwolf (voice)
2021
Justice League
Steppenwolf (voice)
2017
Prime Suspect
Edward Parker-Jones
1991
The Terror
Sir John Franklin
2018
Soldier Soldier
Clive Hickey
1991
The Narrow Road to the Deep North
Dorrigo Evans 1980s
2025
The Family Plan
McCaffrey
2023
There Will Be Blood
Fletcher Hamilton
2007
The Play on One
Martin Pitt
1988
Between the Lines
Det. Insp. Micky Flynn
1992
Above Suspicion
James Langton
2009
Kin
Eamon Cunningham
2021
John Carter
Tardos Mors
2012
First Man
Robert R. Gilruth
2018
The Sum of All Fears
President Nemerov
2002
Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance
Roarke
2011
Red Sparrow
Alexei Zyuganov
2018
Miami Vice
FBI Agent John Fujima
2006
In Bruges
Priest (uncredited)
2008
Munich
Carl
2005
The Phantom of the Opera
Firmin
2004
Silence
Father Valignano
2016
Road to Perdition
Finn McGovern
2002
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider - The Cradle of Life
Jonathan Reiss
2003
Hitman: Agent 47
Litvenko
2015
The Rite
Father Xavier
2011
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Roy Bland
2011
The Woman in Black
Mr. Daily
2012
The English
Richard M Watts
2022
The Dry
Tom Sheridan
2022
Race to Witch Mountain
Burke
2009
In the Land of Saints and Sinners
Vincent O'Shea
2023
Excalibur
Lot
1981
Political Animals
Bud Hammond
2012
The Tale of Despereaux
Botticelli (voice)
2008
The Wonder
Father Thaddeus
2022
Treason
Sir Martin Angelis
2022
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
Jim Browner
1994
Is This Thing On?
Jan
2025
Narnia: The Magician's Nephew
2027
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
Cory
1989
The Nativity Story
Herod
2006
Testament: The Bible in Animation
Lucifer (voice)
1996
Bleed for This
Angelo Pazienza
2016
Midwinter Break
Gerry
2026
Delirium
2014
Calendar Girls
Rod Harper
2003
Woman Walks Ahead
James McLaughlin
2018
Words of War
Dmitry Muratov
2025
Hallam Foe
Julius Foe
2007
Cold Lazarus
Fyodor
1996
Belfast
Pop
2021
Ivanhoe
Brian de Bois-Guilbert
1997
Veronica Guerin
John Traynor
2003
The Debt
David Peretz
2010
Closed Circuit
Devlin
2013
Perfect Scoundrels
Jack Vosper
1990
Last Days in the Desert
Father
2016
Persuasion
Captain Frederick Wentworth
1995
My Mother and Other Strangers
Older Francis
2016
Elizabeth Harvest
Henry
2018
Margot at the Wedding
Dick Koosman
2007
The Mahabharata
Ashwatthaman
1990
Stop-Loss
Roy King
2008
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
Joe Blomfield
2008
Mary Reilly
Sir Danvers Carew
1996
Circle of Friends
Professor Flynn
1995
The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Them
Spencer Ludlow
2014
The Weight of Water
Louis Wagner
2001
Game of Thrones The IMAX Experience
Mance Rayder
2015
Life During Wartime
Bill Maplewood
2010
Some Mother's Son
Danny Boyle
1996
The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Him
Spencer Ludlow
2014
The Man in the Hat
The Man In The Hat
2020
The Mayor of Casterbridge
Michael Henchard
2003
The Statement
Pochon
2003
Oscar and Lucinda
Reverend Dennis Hasset
1997
Amazing Grace
Lord Tarleton
2007The Ministry of Time
Peter
Captain Morten and the Spider Queen
Captain Stinger (voice)
2018
Ca$h
Barnes
2008
The Tiger's Tail
Father Andy
2006
The Shore
Joe
2011
Salvation Boulevard
Jim Hunt
2011
The Three Urns
Mr O'Connor
2026
Jane Eyre
Edward Rochester
1997
National Theatre Live: Hamlet
Claudius
2015
Cry to Heaven
Andrea
The Life of Stuff
David Arbogast
1997
The Driftless Area
Ned
2015Walk the Blue Fields
Mickybo and Me
Jonjo's Da
2005
McCanick
Quinn
2014
The Lost Son
Carlos
1999
December Bride
Frank Echlin
1990
The Affair
Edward Leyland
1995
The Man Who Cried
Abel Mason
1993
Thursday the 12th
Marius Bannister
2003
The Mayor of Casterbridge
Michael Henchard
2003
Lost Lives
Self (voice)
2019
A Bear Remembers
Voice of the Bear
2025
Axis
Jim (voice)
2017
The Path to Vengeance: Making 'Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance'
Self
2012
A Time to Love
Peter
1999Ceasefire
Bill Flynn
The Sea
Max Morden
2013Isle of Man
The Eclipse
Michael Farr
2009
Titanic Town
Aidan McPhelimy
1998
The Hope Rooms
Eamonn
2016Glock
Luger
2009
Who Bombed Birmingham?
Richard McIlkenny
1990
National Theatre Collection: Translations
Hugh
2018
Love is a Sting
Narrator (voice)
2015
Untameable
Narrator (voice)
2023
Grace and Goliath
Surgeon
2018
The Lost Lover
Adam
1999
Ireland's Coast
Narrator
2024
Cottontail
John
2024This Old Love of Mine
Harry Bannon
Yellowbacks
Martin Pitt
1990Getting Hurt
Charlie Cross
1998
The Sleeper
Fergus Moon
2000
Saint Patrick: Born in Britain, Made in Ireland
Narrator
2025
Hostages
Brian Keenan
1992
Our Boys
Brother
1981
Patrick: A Slave To Ireland
Narrator
2025
The Hour
Himself
2020
The Long March
Michael Canning
1980
Three Keenings
Executive Producer
2024