Ciarán Hinds

Ciarán Hinds began his career at The Glasgow Citizens Theatre and was a member of the company for many years. In Ireland he has worked at the Lyric Theatre Belfast, the Druid Theatre in Galway and at the Project and the Abbey in Dublin, where he last appeared as Cuchulain in “The Yeats Cycle.” For the Gate Theatre he has appeared in The Field Day Company’s version of “Antigone,” “The School for Wives” and Brian Friel’s “The Yalta Game.”

He toured internationally with Peter Brook’s Company in “The Mahabharata” and has played leading roles at the Royal Shakespeare Company, the Royal Court, the Donmar Warehouse and the National Theatre, where he played Larry in Patrick Marber’s “Closer,” which also transferred to Broadway.

On television he appeared as Julius Caesar in the BBC/HBO co-production of “Rome.” This followed extensive television credits including leading roles in “The Mayor of Casterbridge,” “Jane Eyre,” “Jason and the Argonauts,” “Seaforth,” “Ivanhoe,” “Rules of Engagement,” “Sherlock Holmes,” “Soldier Soldier,” “Prime Suspect 3” and the award-winning film of Jane Austen’s “Persuasion,” in which he played Captain Wentworth.

Film credits include Peter Greenaway’s “The Cook, The Thief, The Wife and Her Lover,” “December Bride,” “Circle of Friends” for Pat O’Connor, and “Titanic Town,” directed by Roger Michell. Other notable films include “Some Mother’s Son,” Gillian Armstrong’s “Oscar and Lucinda,” “The Lost Son,” “The Weight of Water” and “Mary Reilly.”

Recent credits include the family adventure “Race to Witch Mountain,” “Miss Pettigrew Lives For A Day” for Bharat Nalluri, “In Bruges” for Martin McDonagh, “There Will Be Blood” for Paul Thomas Anderson, “The Road to Perdition” for Sam Mendes, “The Sum of All Fear” for Phil Alden Robinson, “Jonjo Mickybo,” “Calendar Girls” with Helen Mirren and Julie Walters, “Lara Croft: The Cradle of Life” with Angelina Jolie, “The Statement for Norman Jewison,” Joel Schumacher’s “Veronica Guerin” and “The Phantom of the Opera,” “Miami Vice” for Michael Mann, “Munich” for Steven Spielberg and voiced a character for the animated feature film “The Tale of Desperaux.”

In 2006 Ciaran filmed “Amazing Grace” for Michael Apted, “Nativity” for Catherine Hardwicke, “Hallam Foe” for David MacKenzie, “A Tiger’s Tail” for John Boorman, “Margo At The Wedding” for Noah Baumbach, and “Stop Loss” for Kimberly Pearce.

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