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.

Filmography

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

Appearances as themselves (4)

• 2020The Hour — Himself
• 2019Lost Lives — Self (voice)
• 2012The Path to Vengeance: Making 'Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance' — Self
• The Oscars — Self