Acting credits
128
Prolific
Very extensive acting filmography.
Actor
Ciarán Hinds
Acting
Career Snapshot
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TMDB popularity
3.8
Moderate attention
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Movies: 101Series: 28Crew credits: 1
TMDB ID: 8785
IMDb ID: nm0001354
Known for: Acting
Born: February 9, 1953
Age: 73
Place of birth: Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK
Gender: Male
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1953 - 2026
Years active: 74
Average TMDB rating: 6.68
Wikidata: Q314892
Also known as
Ciaran Hinds • Ciarin Hinds • Киран Хайндс • Ciaràn Hinds • Кіран Гайндс • کیران هایندز
Other jobs
Executive Producer (1)
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.
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Movies
Movie credits linked with Ciarán Hinds.
In 4 days
Midwinter Break
as Gerry
2026 Movie
6.8
Is This Thing On?
as Jan
2025 Movie
6.7
Words of War
as Dmitry Muratov
2025 Movie
Saint Patrick: Born in Britain, Made in Ireland
as Narrator
2025 Movie
7.0
A Bear Remembers
as Voice of the Bear
2025 Movie
Three Keenings
Executive Producer
2024 Movie
6.8
Cottontail
as John
2024 Movie
7.2
The Family Plan
as McCaffrey
2023 Movie
6.5
In the Land of Saints and Sinners
as Vincent O'Shea
2023 Movie
Untameable
as Narrator (voice)
2023 Movie
6.6
The Wonder
as Father Thaddeus
2022 Movie
7.0
Belfast
as Pop
2021 Movie
8.1
Zack Snyder's Justice League
as Steppenwolf (voice)
2021 Movie
6.0
The Man in the Hat
as The Man In The Hat
2020 Movie
The Hour
as Himself
2020 Movie
7.2
Frozen II
as Pabbie (voice)
2019 Movie
6.0
Lost Lives
as Self
2019 Movie
7.0
First Man
as Robert R. Gilruth
2018 Movie
5.7
Grace and Goliath
as Surgeon
2018 Movie
4.4
Captain Morten and the Spider Queen
as Captain Stinger (voice)
2018 Movie
6.2
Elizabeth Harvest
as Henry
2018 Movie
National Theatre Collection: Translations
as Hugh
2018 Movie
6.7
Woman Walks Ahead
as James McLaughlin
2018 Movie
6.5
Red Sparrow
as Alexei Zyuganov
2018 Movie
Series
Series
Series credits linked with Ciarán Hinds.
7.6
The Narrow Road to the Deep North
as Dorrigo Evans 1980s • 5 eps
2025 Series
8.0
Ireland's Coast
as Narrator • 3 eps
2024 Series
6.8
Treason
as Sir Martin Angelis • 5 eps
2022 Series
7.3
The English
as Richard M Watts • 1 eps
2022 Series
7.3
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power
as Dark Wizard • 5 eps
2022 Series
6.0
The Dry
as Tom Sheridan • 8 eps
2022 Series
7.7
Kin
as Eamon Cunningham • 8 eps
2021 Series
7.3
The Terror
as Sir John Franklin • 10 eps
2018 Series
6.4
My Mother and Other Strangers
as Older Francis • 5 eps
2016 Series
9.7
Delirium
1 eps
2014 Series
7.5
Shetland
as Michael Maguire • 3 eps
2013 Series
7.1
Political Animals
as Bud Hammond • 6 eps
2012 Series
8.5
Game of Thrones
as Mance Rayder • 5 eps
2011 Series
6.8
Above Suspicion
as DCS James Langton • 11 eps
2009 Series
8.2
Rome
as Julius Caesar • 22 eps
2005 Series
7.0
The Mayor of Casterbridge
as Michael Henchard • 2 eps
2003 Series
6.2
Jason and the Argonauts
as King Aeson • 2 eps
2000 Series
6.9
Ivanhoe
as Brian de Bois-Guilbert • 6 eps
1997 Series
6.4
Testament: The Bible in Animation
as Lucifer (voice) • 1 eps
1996 Series
6.8
Cold Lazarus
as Fyodor • 4 eps
1996 Series
5.2
Between the Lines
as Det. Insp. Micky Flynn • 1 eps
1992 Series
6.6
Soldier Soldier
as Clive Hickey • 1 eps
1991 Series
7.7
Prime Suspect
as Edward Parker-Jones • 2 eps
1991 Series
6.0
The Mahabharata
as Ashwatthaman • 1 eps
1990 Series