Ciarán Hinds Biography
Ciarán Hinds is an Irish actor, originally from Belfast, Northern Ireland. A versatile character actor, Hinds has played roles ranging from the villainous to the heroic, starring in feature films including The Sum of All Fears, Road to Perdition, Munich, There Will Be Blood, Harry Potter, and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Frozen, Silence, Red Sparrow, Justice League, and its director’s cut, First Man, Frozen II, and The Man in the Hat.
10 Quick Facts About Ciarán Hinds
- Name: Ciarán Hinds
- Age: 69 years old
- Birthday: 9 February
- Zodiac Sign: Aquarius
- Height: 6 feet 1 inch
- Nationality: Irish
- Occupation: Actor
- Marital Status: Married
- Salary: Not Available
- Net worth: $5 million and $10 million dollars
Ciarán Hinds Age
Hinds is 69 years old as of 2022, he was born on 9 February 1953, in Belfast, United Kingdom. He celebrates his birthday every 9 February every year, his birth sign is Aquarius.
Ciarán Hinds Height
Hinds stand at a height of 6 feet 1 inch (1.85 meters tall). He has dark brown hair and brown eyes. His other body measurements are not available.
Ciarán Hinds Weight
Hinds has a weight 85 kilograms (187 lbs).
Ciarán Hinds Education
Hinds was educated at Holy Family Primary School and St Malachy’s College. After leaving St Malachy’s, he enrolled 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 Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.
Ciarán Hinds Family
Ciaran was born and raised in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Hinds was one of five children and the only son of his doctor father and schoolteacher, and amateur actress mother. Brought up as a Catholic in north Belfast. Our efforts to find out more about his family came to no avail as no such information is publicly available. Thus, the identity of Hinds’s parents is still unclear. It is also not known if he has any siblings. We will update this section once this information is available.
Ciarán Hinds Wife
Hinds is married to a 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 London, who is also an actor and has appeared in Derry Girls and Normal People.
Ciarán Hinds Salary
Details pertaining to his annual earnings are currently unavailable. This information is however currently under review and will soon be updated.
Ciarán Hinds Net Worth
Hinds’s net worth is estimated to be between $5 million and $10 million dollars. This includes his assets, money, and income. His primary source of income is his career as an Actor. Through his various sources of income, he has been able to accumulate good fortune but prefers to lead a modest lifestyle.
Ciarán Hinds Measurements and Facts
Here are some interesting facts and body measurements you should know about Ciarán Hinds.
Ciarán Hinds Wiki
- Full Names: Ciarán Hinds
- Popular As: Ciarán
- Gender: Male
- Occupation / Profession: Actor
- Nationality: American
- Race / Ethnicity: White
- Religion: Not Known
- Sexual Orientation: Straight
Ciarán Hinds Birthday
- Age / How Old?: 68 years old as of 2021
- Zodiac Sign: Aquarius
- Date of Birth: 9 February 1953
- Place of Birth: Belfast, United Kingdom
- Birthday: February 9
Ciarán Hinds Body Measurements
- Body Measurements: Not Available
- Height / How Tall?: 1.85 m
- Weight: 85 kg
- Eye Color: Brown
- Hair Color: Dark Brown
- Breast Size: Not Available
- Waist Size: Not Available
- Hip Size: Not Available
Ciarán Hinds Family and Relationship
- Father (Dad): Gerry Hinds
- Mother: Moya Hinds
- Siblings (Brothers and Sisters): Bronagh Hinds, Caitriona Hinds, Gerardine Hinds, Moya Hinds
- Marital Status: Married or Single
- Dating /Wife: Hélène Patarot
- Children: Aoife Hinds
Ciarán Hinds Net Worth and Salary
- Net Worth: $5 million and $10 million
- Salary: Under Review
- Source of Income: Actor
Ciarán Hinds Career
Hinds began his professional acting career at the Glasgow Citizens’ Theatre in a production of Cinderella (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 Abbey Theatre, the Field Day Theatre Company, the Druid Theatre, the Lyric Players’ Theatre, and at the Project Arts Centre.
In 1987, he was cast by Peter Brook 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 Irish passport. 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 Tony Award-nominated play Closer.
In 1999, Hinds was awarded both the Theatre World Award 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 Brian Friel at Dublin’s Gate Theatre.
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 Burnt by the Sun 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 Gate Theatre in September 2009.
Hinds made his feature film debut in John Boorman’s Excalibur 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 The Phantom of the Opera in 2004.
Hinds also played Carl, a professional assisting a group of assassins, in Steven Spielberg’s political thriller, Munich in 2005. In 2006, he appeared in Michael Mann’s film adaptation of the 80’s television show, Miami Vice, and Herod the Great in The Nativity Story. In the 2006 film Amazing Grace, Hinds portrayed Sir Banastre Tarleton, one of the chief opponents of abolition of the slave trade in Parliament. He starred in Margot at the Wedding, alongside Nicole Kidman, Jack Black, and Jennifer Jason Leigh a comedy-drama about family secrets and relationships. He also appeared in 2007’s There Will Be Blood, directed by Paul Thomas Anderson.
On television, Hinds portrayed Gaius Julius Caesar in the first season of BBC/HBO’s series, Rome 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 The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes episode “The Cardboard Box” (1994), Fyodor Glazunov in the science fiction miniseries Cold Lazarus (1996), Edward Rochester in Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre (1997), the Knight Templar Brian de Bois-Guilbert in Sir Walter Scott’s Ivanhoe (1997) and a portrayal of the French existentialist Albert Camus in Broken Morning (2003).
Hinds was featured in two notable television docudramas: Granada Television’s docudrama Who Bombed Birmingham? (1990) in which Hinds portrayed Richard McIlkenny, a Belfast man 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 Kelly Reilly 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 Les Liaisons Dangereuses, and also narrated the Penguin Audiobook Ivanhoe. He also performed in Antony and Cleopatra and The Winter’s Tale as part of The Complete Arkangel Shakespeare, an audio production of Shakespeare’s plays that won the 2004 Audie Award for Best Audio Drama. He read the short story “A Painful Case” for the Caedmon Audio version of James Joyce’s Dubliners.
Hinds played the role of Albus Dumbledore’s brother Aberforth in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2, 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 John le Carré’s Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy.
In September 2011, Hinds returned to the Abbey Theatre in Dublin to star as Captain Jack Boyle in a revival of Seán O’Casey’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 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 Hamlet alongside Benedict Cumberbatch at the London Barbican, playing King Claudius. He appeared the following year as Deputy Governor Danforth in the Broadway production of Arthur Miller’s play The Crucible alongside Saoirse Ronan and Ben Whishaw.
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 DC Comics villain Steppenwolf in the superhero film Justice League. Disappointed with the reshoots and changes made by Joss Whedon following director Zack Snyder’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 March 18th, 2021, Snyder’s version, titled Zack Snyder’s Justice League, was released on the WarnerMedia Entertainment streaming service HBO Max, restoring many scenes, including those of Hinds as Steppenwolf in the character’s original design, which were not featured in the theatrical version.
In August 2021, it was announced Hinds would star in the comedy-drama series The Dry, developed by Element Pictures for Britbox. In October 2021, he was cast in the thriller film In The Land Of Saints And Sinners starring Liam Neeson and directed by Robert Lorenz.
Ciarán Hinds Game of Thrones
In 2013, he was cast as the wildling leader Mance Rayder in Season 3 of the HBO television series Game of Thrones. 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 Scarlett Johansson in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, which began previews on 18 December 2012 and opened on 17 January 2013.
Ciarán Hinds Movies
- Cottontail
- The English (6 episodes)
- Mother Russia as Dmitry Muratov
- The Wonder
- The Dry (8 episodes) as Tom Sheridan
- Belfast as Pop
- Kin (8 episodes) as Eamon Cunningham
- Zack Snyder’s Justice League as Steppenwolf (voice)
- The Man the Hat The Man In The Hat
- Frozen II as Pabbie (voice)
- Lost Lives
- 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
- The Terror (10 episodes) as Sir John Franklin
- Red Sparrow as Alexei Zyuganov
- Justice League as Steppenwolf (voice)
- Axis as Jim (voice)
- Silence as Alessandro Valignano
- My Mother and Other Strangers (5 episodes) as Older Francis
- 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
- The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Him as Spencer Ludlow
- Delirium (1 episode)
- 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
- Shetland (3 episodes) as Michael Maguire
- Political Animals (6 episodes) as Bud Hammond
- John Carter as Tardos Mors
- The Woman in Black as Mr. Daily
- Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance as Roarke / The Devil
- Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy as Roy Bland
- Salvation Boulevard as Jim Hunt
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 as Aberforth Dumbledore
- Game of Thrones (6 episodes) as Mance Rayder
- The Shore as Joe
- The Rite as Father Xavier
- The Debt as David Peretz
- Glock as Luger
- Life During Wartime as Bill
- The Eclipse as Michael Farr
- Race to Witch Mountain as Burke
- Above Suspicion (11 episodes)
- 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
- The Nativity Story as Herod
- The Tiger’s Tail as Father Andy
- Amazing Grace as Lord Tarleton
- Miami Vice as FBI Agent John Fujima
- Munich as Carl
- Rome (22 episodes) as Julius Caesar
- 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 Sleeper as Fergus Moon
- The Weight of Water as Louis Wagner
- Jason and the Argonauts (2 episodes) as King Aeson
- The Lost Lover as Adam
- The Lost Son as Carlos
- A Time to Love
- Titanic Town as Aidan McPhelimy
- Getting Hurt as Charlie Cross
- Oscar and Lucinda as Reverend Dennis Hasset
- The Life of Stuff as David Arbogast
- Jane Eyre as Edward Rochester
- Ivanhoe (6 episodes) as Brian de Bois-Guilbert
- Ivanhoe as Brian de Bois-Guilbert
- Testament: The Bible in Animation (9 episodes)
- Some Mother’s Son as Danny Boyle
- Cold Lazarus (4 episodes) as Fyodor
- Mary Reilly as Sir Danvers Carew
- The Affair as Edward Leyland
- Persuasion as Captain Frederick Wentworth
- Circle of Friends as Professor Flynn
- A Dark Adapted Eye
- Prime Suspect 3: The Keeper of Souls as Edward Parker-Jones
- The Man Who Cried as Abel Mason
- Hostages as Brian Keenan
- Between the Lines (1 episode)
- Prime Suspect (2 episodes) as Edward Parker-Jones
- December Bride as Frank Echlin
- Perfect Scoundrels (1 episode)
- Who Bombed Birmingham? as Richard McIlkenny
- The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover as Cory
- Tales from the Crypt (1 episode)
- Sherlock Holmes (1 episode) as Jim Browner
Frequently Asked Questions About Ciarán Hinds
Ciarán Hinds is an Irish actor, originally from Belfast, Northern Ireland. A versatile character actor, Hinds has played roles ranging from the villainous to the heroic, starring in feature films including The Sum of All Fears, Road to Perdition, Munich, There Will Be Blood, Harry Potter, and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2.
Hinds is an British national born on 9 February 1953, in Belfast, United Kingdom.
Hinds stand at a height of 6 feet 1 inch (1.85 meters tall).
Hinds is married to 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 London, who is also an actor and has appeared in Derry Girls and Normal People.
Hinds’s net worth is estimated to be between $5 million and $10 million dollars. This amount has been accrued from his leading roles in the entertainment industry.
Details about Hinds’s salary are not yet disclosed. However, information about how much he makes will be updated as soon as it is available.
Because of personal reasons, Ciarán has not shared his precise location of residence. We will update this information if we get the location and images of his house.
Ciarán is alive and in good health. There have been no reports of him being sick or having any health-related issues.
Hinds is still active in his career as an actor.
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