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