Ciaran Hinds
Ciaran Hinds was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland on February 9th, 1953 and is the TV Actor. At the age of 71, Ciaran Hinds biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, movies, TV shows, and networth are available.
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Ciarán Hinds (born 9 February 1953) is an Irish actor.
He has appeared in feature films including Road to Perdition, Munich, There Will Be Blood, Harry Potter, and the Deathly Hallows. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Frozen, Silence, First Man, and Frozen II. Gaius Julius Caesar in the series Rome, DCI James Langton in Above Suspicion, and Mance Rayder in Game of Thrones, among his television appearances.
Hinds has performed in spells with the Royal Shakespeare Company, the Royal National Theatre in London, and six seasons with Glasgow Citizens' Theatre, and he has continued to perform on stage throughout his career.
Early life
Hinds was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, on February 9, 1953. He was raised in north Belfast as a Catholic and the sole son of his doctor father, Gerry, and Moya's schoolteacher and amateur actor.
He began training at Holy Family Primary School and St Malachy's College as an Irish dancer in his youth and was educated there. After leaving St Malachy's, he attended the College of Business Studies before enrolling as a law student at Queen's University Belfast but was soon refused to continue studying and went to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, graduating in 1975.
Personal life
Hinds and his partner, the French-Vietnamese actress Hélène Patarot, live in Paris. They met in 1987 as part of Peter Brook's production of The Mahabharata. They have a daughter, Aoife Hinds, who was born 1991 in London (England), is also an actor and appeared in Derry Girls, Normal People, and Hellraiser.
Career
Hinds began his professional acting career at the Glasgow Citizens' Theatre in a 1976 production of Cinderella. He appeared at the Citizens' Theatre in the late 1970s and 1980s, and he was a regular performer at the Citizens' Theatre. Hinds appeared on stage in Ireland during the same period as the Abbey Theatre, the Field Day Theatre Company, the Druid Theatre, the Lyric Players' Theatre, and the Project Arts Centre. He appeared in The Mahabharata, a six-hour theatre performance that toured the world, in 1987, and also in its 1989 film version. Hinds almost missed the casting call in Paris due to the difficulties in renewing his Irish passport. He was a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company in the early 1990s.
Richard III, the RSC's production of Richard III, was directed by Sam Mendes, who returned to Hinds as a last-minute replacement for an injured Simon Russell Beale. Hinds gained his most well-known name as a stage actor thanks to his appearances as Larry in Patrick Marber's Tony Award-nominated play Closer's London and Broadway productions. Hinds was given both the Theatre World Award for Best Debut in New York and the Outer Critics Circle Award for Special Achievement (Best Ensemble Cast Performance) for his role in Closer in 1999. In 2001, Brian Friel's The Yalta Game at Dublin's Gate Theatre brought him to life. He appeared on Broadway in Conor McPherson's The Seafarer, which appeared at the Booth Theatre from December 2007 to March 2008. He played GM Sergei Kotov in Burnt by the Sun, a leading actor at London's National Theatre in February 2009. Hinds returned to the stage in 2009 as part of Conor McPherson's play The Birds, which opened at the Gate Theatre in Dublin.
In 1981, Hinds made his debut in John Boorman's Excalibur. In Jane Austen's Persuasion in 1995, Frederick Wentworth played Captain Frederick Wentworth, Jonathan Reiss in Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life and John Traynor in Veronica Guerin, 2004. In Steven Spielberg's political thriller, Munich in 2005, Hinds also played Carl, a trained support for a group of assassins. He appeared in Michael Mann's film adaptation of the 80's television show Miami Vice, as Hero of the Great in The Nativity Story in 2006. Sir Banastre Tarleton, one of Parliament's top proponents of the abolition of the slave trade, was depicted in Hanging Grace, 2006. He appeared in Margot at the Wedding, alongside Nicole Kidman, Jack Black, and Jennifer Jason Leigh in a comedy-drama about family secrets and marriages. He appeared in 2007's There Will Be Blood, directed by Paul Thomas Anderson.
In the first season of BBC/HBO's Rome in 2006, Hinds portrayed Gaius Julius Caesar. He has appeared in a number of made-for-television films, including Michael Henchard's role in Thomas Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge, in 2004, for which he received the Irish Film and Television Award for Best Actor in a Dramatic Series. Edward Parker-Jones' appearance in the crime drama "The Cardboard Box" (1993), Abel Mason in Dame Catherine Cookson's "The Man Who Cried (1993), Fyodor Glazunov in The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes' "The Cardboard Box" (1994), and a portrait of French existentialist Albert Camus in Broken Morning (2003).
Hinds appeared as a police detective in the Tales from the Crypt episode "Confessions" in 1996.
Hinds appeared in two well-known television docudramas: Who Bombed Birmingham, Granada Television's docudrama Who Bombed Birmingham? (1990) (in which Hinds portrayed Richard McIlkenny, a Belfast man wrongfully arrested for an IRA bombing), and HBO's docudrama Hostages (1993), where he portrayed Irish writer and former host Brian Keenan. Hinds appeared in Above Suspicion, a television adaptation of Lynda La Plante's detective novel, 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 appeared in audiobook and radio shows as well. In the BBC Radio production of Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Valmont was Valmont, and he also narrated the Penguin Audiobook Ivanhoe. He appeared in Antony and Cleopatra, as part of The Complete Shakespeare Shakespeare, an audio recording of Shakespeare's performances that received the Audience Award in 2004. For the Caedmon Audio version of James Joyce's Dubliners, he read "A Painful Case."
In Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2, Hinds appeared as Albus Dumbledore's brother Aberforth. He appeared in the 1997 sections of The Debt alongside Helen Mirren and Tom Wilkinson. In the 2011 adaptation of the John le Carré's Tinker, Tailor, Spy, Hinds played Roy Bland.
Hinds returned to the Abbey Theatre in Dublin in September 2011 to act Captain Jack Boyle in a revival of Seán O'Casey's Juno and the Paycock, as well as Sinéad Cusack as Juno. In November 2011, the production was transferred to the National Theatre of Great Britain for a three-month run. In the film The Shore (2011), written and directed by Terry George, he appeared "Jim." In 2012, the Shore received the Best Short Film, Live Action category at the 84th Annual Academy Awards (The Oscars).
In season 3 of HBO's Game of Thrones, he appeared as the wildling leader Mance Rayder. In Season 4, and in Season 5, he reprised this role. On Broadway at The Richard Rodgers Theater in New York, he was Big Daddy to Scarlett Johansson in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, which opened on December 18, 2012 and opened on January 17, 2013.
In the summer of 2013, he appeared at the Donmar Warehouse in London in the premiere performance of The Night Alive, a Conor McPherson play, which transferred to the Atlantic Theater Company in New York with Hinds in the lead role.
He was in Hamlet with Benedict Cumberbatch at the London Barbican in 2015, portraying King Claudius. In Arthur Miller's play The Crucible with Saoirse Ronan and Ben Whishaw, he appeared in the Broadway production the following year.
In 2018, he shot The Thin Man, which has since been retitled The Man in the Hat in France directed by Oscar-winning composer Stephen Warbeck.
In the superhero film Justice League in 2017, Hinds portrayed the DC Comics villain Steppenwolf. Hinds has expressed disappointment with the reshoots and changes made by Joss Whedon after director Zack Snyder's departure, including ones relating to Steppenwolf's appearance and characterization, while still supporting the introduction of Snyder's original version of the film over the theatrical version. On March 18, 2021 Snyder's version, Zack Snyder's Justice League, was released on the WarnerMedia Entertainment subscription service HBO Max, restoring several scenes, including those of Hinds as Steppenwolf in the character's original layout but not included in the theatrical version.
Hinds appeared in Kenneth Branagh's 2021 film Belfast, for which Hinds received critical acclaim and was named National Board of Review for Best Supporting Actor. Hinds would appear in the comedy-drama series The Dry, produced by Element Pictures for British viewers in August 2021. He appeared in the thriller film In the Land of Saints and Sinners, directed by Robert Lorenz, in October 2021.