Ciarán Hinds

Ciarán Hinds is one of those actors who makes every scene feel weightier just by showing up — you probably know the face even if the name takes a second. Born in Belfast in 1953, he came up through serious stage work, and that theatrical grounding is written into every performance he gives: the stillness, the economy, the sense that there's always more going on beneath the surface than he's showing you. Whether he's playing a Roman general in Rome, a menacing villain, or a world-weary authority figure, he never telegraphs it — he just inhabits it. His run of films from Road to Perdition through Munich and There Will Be Blood put him in rooms with some of cinema's heaviest hitters, and he held his own every time. A genuinely underrated talent who deserves way more top billing than he usually gets.

Name (English)

Ciarán Hinds

Name (Japanese)

キアラン・ハインズ

Reading

きあらん・はいんず

Born

February 9, 1953 (age 73)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aquarius / Snake

Origin

Belfast, United Kingdom

Height

2 cm

Occupation

stage actor / film actor / television actor / actor

University

St Malachy's College

Awards & achievements

• 1999 Theatre World Award

Motto

Private

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AD%E3%82%A2%E3%83%A9%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%8F%E3%82%A4%E3%83%B3%E3%82%BA

Tags

• stage actor
• film actor
• television actor

Last updated

2026-06-02

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