"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.
Film Roles:
- 1981 Excalibur as King Lot
- 1989 The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover as Cory
- 1995 Persuasion as Captain Frederick Wentworth
- 1996 Mary Reilly as Sir Danvers Carew
- 1997 Jane Eyre as Edward Fairfax Rochester
- 2002 The Sum of All Fears as President Alexander Nemerov
- 2002 Road to Perdition as Finn McGovern
- 2003 Lara Croft: Tomb Raider – The Cradle of Life as Jonathan Reiss
- 2004 The Phantom of the Opera as Richard Firmin
- 2005 Munich as Carl
- 2006 Miami Vice as FBI Agent John Fujima
- 2006 Amazing Grace as Lord Tarleton
- 2006 The Nativity Story as King Herod
- 2007 There Will Be Blood as Fletcher
- 2008 In Bruges as the Priest
- 2008 Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day as Joe Blomfield
- 2009 Race to Witch Mountain as Henry Burke
- 2009 Life During Wartime as Bill Maplewood
- 2011 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 as Aberforth Dumbledore
- 2011 The Debt as David Peretz
- 2011 The Rite as Father Xavier
- 2011 The Shore as Jim
- 2011 Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy as Roy Bland
- 2012 The Woman in Black as Sam Daily
- 2012 Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance as Roarke (a guise of The Devil)
- 2012 John Carter as Tardos Mors
- 2013 The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby as Spencer Ludlow
- 2013 Frozen as Grand Pabbie
- 2019 Frozen II
- 2014 Mr. Peabody & Sherman as Waitler
- 2015 Hitman: Agent 47 as Dr. Piotr Aaron Litvenko
- 2016 Silence as Friar Alessandro Valignano
- 2017 Justice League as Steppenwolf
- 2021 Zack Snyder's Justice League as Steppenwolf
- 2018 Red Sparrow as Colonel Zakharov
- 2020 The Man In The Hat as the titular lead
- 2021 Belfast as Pop
- 2023 The Family Plan as McCaffery
Television Roles
- 1994 Sherlock Holmes as Jim Browner
- 2005 Rome as Gaius Julius Caesar
- 2012 Political Animals as Bud Hammond
- 2013–2015 Game of Thrones as Mance Rayder
- 2016 Shetland as Michael Maguire
- 2018 The Terror as Sir John Franklin
- 2024 The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power
Tropes
- Chronically Killed Actor: If you see his name in a movie or series with a medieval tone, it's guaranteed he'll die a brutal death.
- Creator Backlash:
- 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 Card-Carrying Villain rather than the Tragic Monster 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.
