Ciarán Hinds ( ; born 9 February 1953) is a British Northern Irish actor from

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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), ''

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'' (1995), '' Oscar and Lucinda'' (1997), '' Road to Perdition'' (2002), ''

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'' (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), '' Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy'' (2011), ''

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

'' (2021), the last of which earned him

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and

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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 film '' Frozen'' (2013) and its sequel, '' Frozen II'' (2019). He played General Zakharow in ''

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'' (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,'' Mance Rayder in ''

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,'' and Captain Sir John Franklin in '' The Terror''. In addition, Hinds appeared in season 3 of ''

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'' (2016), produced by ITV. As a stage actor Hinds has spent periods with the

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and the

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, and six seasons with Glasgow Citizens' Theatre. Hinds 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 in

, Northern Ireland, on 9 February 1953. 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 St Malachy's College. After leaving St Malachy's he attended the College of Business Studies before enrolling as a law student at

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but was soon persuaded to pursue acting and abandoned his studies at Queen's to enrol 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

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, 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

. He appeared in the title role of the RSC's production of ''

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'' in 1993, directed by

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, 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 Theatre World Award for Best Debut in New York and the

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for Special Achievement (Best Ensemble Cast Performance) for his work in ''Closer''. He was on stage in 2001 in ''The Yalta Game'' by Brian Friel at Dublin's

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. He appeared on Broadway in '' The Seafarer'' by Conor McPherson, which ran at the Booth Theatre 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

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's ''

'' in 1995, Dr 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

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's '' The Phantom of the Opera'' in 2004. Hinds also played Carl, a professional assisting a group of assassins, in

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's political thriller, ''

'' in 2005. In 2006, he appeared in

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'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 slave trade in

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

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and

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

'', directed by

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. On television, Hinds portrayed Gaius Julius Caesar 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

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'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 '' The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes'' episode "The Cardboard Box" (1994), Fyodor Glazunov in the science fiction miniseries '' Cold Lazarus'' (1996),

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's ''

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'' (1997), the Knight Templar Brian de Bois-Guilbert in

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's ''

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'' (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:

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's docudrama '' Who Bombed Birmingham?'' (1990) in which Hinds portrayed Richard McIlkenny, a Belfastman falsely imprisoned for an IRA bombing; and

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'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 ''

''. He also performed in ''

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'' and ''

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

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'' series. Also in 2011, he appeared as David Peretz in the 1997 sections of '' The Debt'' alongside

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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 Seán O'Casey's '' Juno and the Paycock'', alongside

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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

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. ''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 Mance Rayder in Season 3 of the

television series ''

''. He reprised this role in Season 4, and in Season 5. On Broadway at The Richard Rodgers Theater in New York, he was Big Daddy to

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in ''

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'', 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 Conor McPherson, 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 Saoirse Ronan 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 Stephen Warbeck. In 2017, Hinds portrayed the

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villain Steppenwolf in the superhero film ''

''. Disappointed with the reshoots and changes made by

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following director

's departure, including ones made to Steppenwolf's appearance and characterisation, 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 ''

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'', 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. In 2021, Hinds appeared as a drug trafficking gangster known as Eamon Cunningham, in the TV drama "Kin". The drama was first broadcast on 9 September 2021 on RTÉ. A second series was commissioned and broadcast 19 March 2023. The BBC aired the series in 2023 in the United Kingdom. The series is also available in the United States of America and Canada on AMC+. 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 Element Pictures 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 Robert Lorenz.

Personal life

Hinds lives in Paris 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''. Their daughter, Aoife Hinds (born 1991, in London), is also an actress and has appeared in '' Derry Girls'', '' Normal People'', and '' Hellraiser''.

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