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->''"You try to work with the director and your fellow actors to get somewhere, but other people are the judge of whether you hit that note right."''

Ciarán Hinds (/ˈkɪərɔːn ˈhaɪndz/ KEER-awn HYNDZ; born 9 February 1953 in Belfast, Northern Ireland) is a Northern Irish film, television and stage actor.

Hinds regularly receives acclaim from both audiences and critics, and has built a solid reputation as a highly versatile character actor with many high-profile roles in film, television and stage. Even if the production is bad, you can usually expect Hinds to give it his all and deliver a memorable performance.

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!!Film Roles:
* 1981 ''Film/{{Excalibur}}'' as King Lot
* 1989 ''Film/TheCookTheThiefHisWifeAndHerLover'' as Cory
* 1995 ''Film/{{Persuasion|1995}}'' as Captain Frederick Wentworth
* 1996 ''Film/MaryReilly'' as Sir Danvers Carew
* 1997 ''Film/{{Jane Eyre|1997}}'' as Edward Fairfax Rochester
* 2002 ''Film/TheSumOfAllFears'' as President Alexander Nemerov
* 2002 ''Film/RoadToPerdition'' as Finn [=McGovern=]
* 2003 ''Film/LaraCroftTombRaiderTheCradleOfLife'' as Jonathan Reiss
* 2004 ''[[Film/ThePhantomOfTheOpera2004 The Phantom of the Opera]]'' as Richard Firmin
* 2005 ''Film/{{Munich}}'' as Carl
* 2006 ''Film/MiamiVice'' as FBI Agent John Fujima
* 2006 ''Film/AmazingGrace'' as Lord Tarleton
* 2006 ''Film/TheNativityStory'' as King Herod
* 2007 ''Film/ThereWillBeBlood'' as Fletcher
* 2008 ''Film/InBruges'' as the Priest
* 2008 ''Film/MissPettigrewLivesForADay'' as Joe Blomfield
* 2009 ''Film/RaceToWitchMountain'' as Henry Burke
* 2009 ''Film/LifeDuringWartime'' as Bill Maplewood
* 2011 ''[[Film/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2]]'' as Aberforth Dumbledore
* 2011 ''Film/TheDebt'' as David Peretz
* 2011 ''Film/TheRite'' as Father Xavier
* 2011 ''Film/TheShore'' as Jim
* 2011 ''Film/TinkerTailorSoldierSpy'' as Roy Bland
* 2012 ''Film/TheWomanInBlack'' as Sam Daily
* 2012 ''Film/GhostRiderSpiritOfVengeance'' as Roarke (a guise of The Devil)
* 2012 ''Film/JohnCarter'' as Tardos Mors
* 2013 ''Film/TheDisappearanceOfEleanorRigby'' as Spencer Ludlow
* 2013 ''WesternAnimation/{{Frozen|2013}}'' as Grand Pabbie
** 2019 ''WesternAnimation/FrozenII''
* 2014 ''WesternAnimation/MrPeabodyAndSherman'' as Waitler
* 2015 ''Film/HitmanAgent47'' as Dr. Piotr Aaron Litvenko
* 2016 ''Film/{{Silence}}'' as Friar Alessandro Valignano
* 2017 ''Film/{{Justice League|2017}}'' as [[Characters/DCEUSteppenwolf Steppenwolf]]
** 2021 ''Film/ZackSnydersJusticeLeague'' as Steppenwolf
* 2018 ''Film/RedSparrow'' as Colonel Zakharov
* 2020 ''Film/TheManInTheHat'' as the titular lead
* 2021 ''Film/{{Belfast}}'' as Pop
* 2023 ''Film/TheFamilyPlan'' as [=McCaffery=]

!!Television Roles
* 1994 ''Series/SherlockHolmes'' as Jim Browner
* 2005 ''Series/{{Rome}}'' as [[UsefulNotes/JuliusCaesar Gaius Julius Caesar]]
* 2012 ''Series/PoliticalAnimals'' as Bud Hammond
* 2013–2015 ''Series/GameOfThrones'' as Mance Rayder
* 2016 ''Series/{{Shetland}}'' as Michael Maguire
* 2018 ''Series/TheTerror'' as Sir John Franklin
* 2024 ''Series/TheLordOfTheRingsTheRingsOfPower''

!!Tropes
* ChronicallyKilledActor: If you see his name in a movie or series with a medieval tone, it's guaranteed he'll die a brutal death.
* CreatorBacklash:
** He holds no love for the theatrical cut of ''Jutice League'', due to his character being completely rewritten in a way that reduced him to a CardCarryingVillain rather than the TragicMonster he was hoping for.
** He wasn't a fan of how overly sexualised ''Game of Thrones'' turned out, feeling the sex scenes distracted from the political drama.
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