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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.
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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.
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BODY OF WORK
Ciarán Hinds's Filmography
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Narnia: The Magician's Nephew

The Three Urns
as Mr O'Connor

Midwinter Break
as Gerry

Is This Thing On?
as Jan

Words of War
as Dmitry Muratov

Saint Patrick: Born in Britain, Made in Ireland
as Narrator

Patrick: A Slave To Ireland
as Narrator

A Bear Remembers
as Voice of the Bear

Cottontail
as John

The Family Plan
as McCaffrey

In the Land of Saints and Sinners
as Vincent O'Shea

Untameable
as Narrator (voice)

The Wonder
as Father Thaddeus

Belfast
as Pop

Zack Snyder's Justice League
as Steppenwolf (voice)

The Man in the Hat
as The Man In The Hat

The Hour
as Himself

Frozen II
as Pabbie (voice)

Lost Lives
as Self (voice)

First Man
as Robert R. Gilruth

Grace and Goliath
as Surgeon

Captain Morten and the Spider Queen
as Captain Stinger (voice)

Elizabeth Harvest
as Henry

National Theatre Collection: Translations
as Hugh

Woman Walks Ahead
as James McLaughlin

Red Sparrow
as Alexei Zyuganov

Justice League
as Steppenwolf (voice)

Axis
as Jim (voice)

Silence
as Father Valignano

Bleed for This
as Angelo Pazienza

The Hope Rooms
as Eamonn

Last Days in the Desert
as Father

National Theatre Live: Hamlet
as Claudius

Hitman: Agent 47
as Litvenko

Love is a Sting
as Narrator (voice)

The Driftless Area
as Ned

Game of Thrones The IMAX Experience
as Mance Rayder

The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Him
as Spencer Ludlow

The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Them
as Spencer Ludlow

McCanick
as Quinn

Frozen
as Pabbie / Grandpa (voice)

Closed Circuit
as Devlin

The Sea
as Max Morden

The Path to Vengeance: Making 'Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance'
as Self

John Carter
as Tardos Mors

The Woman in Black
as Mr. Daily

Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance
as Roarke

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
as Roy Bland

Salvation Boulevard
as Jim Hunt

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
as Aberforth Dumbledore

The Shore
as Joe

The Rite
as Father Xavier

The Debt
as David Peretz

Life During Wartime
as Bill Maplewood
No Poster
Glock
as Luger

The Eclipse
as Michael Farr

Race to Witch Mountain
as Burke

The Tale of Despereaux
as Botticelli (voice)

Ca$h
as Barnes

Stop-Loss
as Roy King

Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
as Joe Blomfield

In Bruges
as Priest (uncredited)

There Will Be Blood
as Fletcher Hamilton

Margot at the Wedding
as Dick Koosman

Hallam Foe
as Julius Foe

Amazing Grace
as Lord Tarleton

The Nativity Story
as Herod

The Tiger's Tail
as Father Andy

Miami Vice
as FBI Agent John Fujima

Munich
as Carl

Mickybo and Me
as Jonjo's Da

The Phantom of the Opera
as Firmin

The Mayor of Casterbridge
as Michael Henchard

The Statement
as Pochon

Calendar Girls
as Rod Harper

Lara Croft: Tomb Raider - The Cradle of Life
as Jonathan Reiss

Veronica Guerin
as John Traynor

Thursday the 12th
as Marius Bannister

Road to Perdition
as Finn McGovern

The Sum of All Fears
as President Nemerov

The Weight of Water
as Louis Wagner

The Sleeper
as Fergus Moon

The Lost Lover
as Adam

A Time to Love
as Peter

The Lost Son
as Carlos

Titanic Town
as Aidan McPhelimy
No Poster
Getting Hurt
as Charlie Cross

Oscar and Lucinda
as Reverend Dennis Hasset

The Life of Stuff
as David Arbogast

Jane Eyre
as Edward Rochester

Some Mother's Son
as Danny Boyle

Mary Reilly
as Sir Danvers Carew

The Affair
as Edward Leyland

Persuasion
as Captain Frederick Wentworth

Circle of Friends
as Professor Flynn

The Man Who Cried
as Abel Mason

Hostages
as Brian Keenan

Yellowbacks
as Martin Pitt

December Bride
as Frank Echlin

Who Bombed Birmingham?
as Richard McIlkenny

The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
as Cory

Excalibur
as Lot

Our Boys
as Brother

The Long March
as Michael Canning

Cry to Heaven
as Andrea
No Poster
Ceasefire
as Bill Flynn
No Poster
Walk the Blue Fields
No Poster
Isle of Man
No Poster
This Old Love of Mine
as Harry Bannon