Ciarán Hinds (; born 9 February 1953) is an Irish actor. Born in

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, 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), ''

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'' (2002), '' The Sum of All Fears'' (2002), ''

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'' (2005), ''

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'' (2007), ''

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'' (2007), '' Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day'' (2008), ''

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'' (2011), ''

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'' (2011), ''

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'' (2016), '' First Man'' (2018), and ''

'' (2021). He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for the last of these. Hinds is also known for his voice role as Grand Pabbie, the Troll King in the animated film '' Frozen'' (2013) and its sequel, ''

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'' (2019). He played General Zakharow in '' Red Sparrow'' (2018). He also portrayed Steppenwolf in

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's ''

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'' (2017) and its 2021 director's cut. His television roles include

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in the series ''

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'', DCI James Langton in '' Above Suspicion'', and

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in '' Game of Thrones''. In addition, Hinds appeared in series 3 of ''

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'' (2016), produced by ITV. As a stage actor Hinds has spent periods with the Royal Shakespeare Company, the Royal National Theatre, and six seasons with

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, and he has continued to work on stage throughout his career. In 2020, he was listed at number 31 on ''

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'' list of Ireland's greatest film actors.

Early life

Hinds was born on 9 February 1953 in

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. Raised as a Catholic in north Belfast, he was one of five children and the only son of his doctor father, Gerry, and schoolteacher and amateur actress mother, Moya. He was an

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r in his youth and was educated at Holy Family Primary School and

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. After leaving St Malachy's, he then attended the College of Business Studies before enrolling as a law student at Queen's University Belfast, but was soon persuaded to pursue acting and abandoned his studies at Queen's to enroll at the

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, finishing in 1975.

Career

Hinds began his professional acting career at the

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Citizens' Theatre in a production of ''

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'' (1976). He remained a frequent performer at the Citizens' Theatre during the late 1970s and through the mid-1980s. During this same period, Hinds also performed on stage in Ireland with the

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, the Field Day Theatre Company, the Druid Theatre, the Lyric Players' Theatre and at the Project Arts Centre. In 1987, he was cast by

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in '' The Mahabharata'', a six-hour theatre piece that toured the world, and he also featured in its 1989 film version. Hinds almost missed the casting call in Paris due to difficulties renewing his

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. In the early 1990s, he was a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company. He appeared in the title role of the RSC's production of '' Richard III'' in 1993, directed by Sam Mendes, who turned to Hinds as a last minute replacement for an injured Simon Russell Beale. Hinds gained his most popular recognition as a stage actor for his performance as Larry in the London and Broadway productions of Patrick Marber's

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-nominated play '' Closer''. In 1999, Hinds was awarded both the

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for Best Debut in New York and the Outer Critics Circle Award for Special Achievement (Best Ensemble Cast Performance) for his work in ''Closer''. He was on stage in 2001 in ''The Yalta Game'' by

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at Dublin's

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. He appeared on Broadway in '' The Seafarer'' by

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, which ran at the

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from December 2007 through March 2008. In February 2009 he took the leading role of General Sergei Kotov in ''

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'' by Peter Flannery at London's National Theatre. Hinds returned to the stage later in 2009 with a role in Conor McPherson's play ''The Birds'', which opened at Dublin's

in September 2009. Hinds made his feature film debut in John Boorman's ''

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'' in 1981. He played Captain Frederick Wentworth in Jane Austen's '' Persuasion'' in 1995, Jonathan Reiss in '' Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life'' and John Traynor in '' Veronica Guerin'', both in 2003, and Firmin in the film version of Andrew Lloyd Webber's ''

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'' in 2004. Hinds also played Carl, a professional assisting a group of assassins, in Steven Spielberg's political thriller, ''

'' in 2005. In 2006, he appeared in Michael Mann's film adaptation of the 80's television show, ''

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'', and as

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in '' The Nativity Story''. In the 2006 film ''

'', Hinds portrayed Sir Banastre Tarleton, one of the chief opponents of abolition of the

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. He starred in '' Margot at the Wedding'', alongside

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, Jack Black and

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, in a comedy-drama about family secrets and relationships. He also appeared in 2007's ''

'', directed by Paul Thomas Anderson. On television, Hinds portrayed

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in the first season of BBC/HBO's series, ''

'' in 2006. He has also been featured in a number of made-for-television films, including the role of Michael Henchard in Thomas Hardy's '' The Mayor of Casterbridge'' in 2004, for which he received the Irish Film and Television Award for Best Actor in a Dramatic Series. Additional television performances include Edward Parker-Jones in the crime drama series '' Prime Suspect 3'' (1993), Abel Mason in Dame Catherine Cookson's ''The Man Who Cried'' (1993), Jim Browner in ''

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'' episode "The Cardboard Box" (1994), Fyodor Glazunov in the science fiction miniseries ''

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'' (1996), Edward Rochester in

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's '' Jane Eyre'' (1997), the

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Brian de Bois-Guilbert in

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's '' Ivanhoe'' (1997) and a portrayal of the French

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in ''Broken Morning'' (2003). In 1996, Hinds acted as a police detective in the '' Tales from the Crypt'' episode "Confessions". Hinds was featured in two notable television docudramas: Granada Television's docudrama '' Who Bombed Birmingham?'' (1990) in which Hinds portrayed Richard McIlkenny, a Belfastman falsely imprisoned for an IRA bombing; and HBO's docudrama ''Hostages'' (1993), where he portrayed Irish writer and former hostage Brian Keenan. Hinds starred opposite

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in '' Above Suspicion'', a TV adaptation of Lynda La Plante's detective story, which was broadcast in the United Kingdom in January 2009; he returned for the sequels ''The Red Dahlia'' (2010), ''Deadly Intent'' (2011) and ''Silent Scream'' (2012). Hinds has performed in audiobook and radio productions as well. He performed as Valmont in the BBC Radio production of ''

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'', and also narrated the Penguin Audiobook '' Ivanhoe''. He also performed in '' Antony and Cleopatra'' and ''

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'' as part of '' The Complete Arkangel Shakespeare'', an audio production of Shakespeare's plays which won the 2004

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for Best Audio Drama. He read the short story " A Painful Case" for the Caedmon Audio version of

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's ''

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''. Hinds played the role of

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's brother Aberforth in ''

'', the final film in the '' Harry Potter'' series. Also in 2011, he appeared as David Peretz in the 1997 sections of '' The Debt'' alongside Helen Mirren and Tom Wilkinson. Hinds played Roy Bland in the 2011 adaptation of the John le Carré's '' Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy''. In September 2011, Hinds returned to the

in Dublin to star as Captain Jack Boyle in a revival of

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's '' Juno and the Paycock'', alongside Sinéad Cusack as Juno. The production transferred to the National Theatre of Great Britain in November 2011 for a three-month run. He played "Jim" in the film '' The Shore'' (2011), written and directed by Terry George. ''The Shore'' won the Best Short Film, Live Action category at the 84th Annual Academy Awards (The Oscars) in 2012. In 2013, he was cast as the wildling leader

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of the HBO television series '' Game of Thrones''. He reprised this role in

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, and in Season 5. On Broadway at The Richard Rodgers Theater in New York, he was Big Daddy to

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in '' Cat on a Hot Tin Roof'', which began previews on 18 December 2012 and opened on 17 January 2013. In the summer of 2013, he performed at the Donmar Warehouse in London in the premiere production of '' The Night Alive'', a play by

, which transferred in November 2013, with Hinds in the lead role, to the Atlantic Theater Company in New York. In 2015, he was in ''

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'' alongside

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at the London Barbican, playing King Claudius. He appeared the following year as Deputy Governor Danforth in the Broadway production of

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's play ''

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'' alongside

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and

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. In 2018 he shot the film ''The Thin Man'' which has since been retitled '' The Man in the Hat'' in France directed by Oscar-winning composer

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. In 2017, Hinds portrayed the

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villain Steppenwolf in the superhero film ''

''. Disappointed with the reshoots and changes made by Joss Whedon following director

's departure, including ones made to Steppenwolf's appearance and characterization, Hinds publicly supported the release of Snyder's original cut of the film, calling it superior to the theatrical version. On 18 March 2021 Snyder's version, titled '' Zack Snyder's Justice League'', was released on the WarnerMedia Entertainment streaming service

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, restoring many scenes, including those of Hinds as Steppenwolf in the character's original design, which were not featured in the theatrical version. Hinds starred in

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's 2021 film ''

'', for which Hinds received critical acclaim and won the National Board of Review for Best Supporting Actor. In August 2021, it was announced Hinds would star in the comedy-drama series '' The Dry'', developed by

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for

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. In October 2021, he was cast in the thriller film ''In the Land of Saints and Sinners'' starring

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and directed by

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Personal life

Hinds lives in

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with his wife, the French-Vietnamese actress Hélène Patarot. They met in 1987 while in the cast of Peter Brook's production of '' The Mahabharata'' and have a daughter, Aoife Hinds, born 1991 in

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, who is also an actor and has appeared in ''

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'', '' Normal People'', and ''

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''.

Awards and nominations

References

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