Ciarán Hinds | |
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Ciarán Hinds, 2008 |
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Born | 9 February 1953 Belfast, Northern Ireland |
Occupation | Actor |
Years active | 1976–present |
Partner | Hélène Patarot (1987–present) |
Ciarán Hinds (English pronunciation: /ˈkɪərən ˈhaɪndz/ keer-ən hyndz; born 9 February 1953) is an Irish film, television and stage actor. He has built up a reputation as a versatile character actor appearing in such high profile films as Road to Perdition, The Phantom of the Opera, Munich, There Will Be Blood, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2, and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. His television roles include Gaius Julius Caesar in Rome and DCI James Langton in Above Suspicion. As a stage actor, Hinds has enjoyed spells with the Royal Shakespeare Company, the Royal National Theatre in London and six seasons with Glasgow Citizens' Theatre.[1][2]
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Hinds was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Brought up as a Catholic[3] in North Belfast, he was one of five children and the only son of his doctor father and schoolteacher mother. His mother, Moya, was also an amateur actress. He was an Irish dancer in his youth and 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, but was soon persuaded to pursue acting and abandoned his studies at Queen's to enroll at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA).[4][5][6][7][8]
Hinds began his professional acting career at the Glasgow Citizens' Theatre in a 1976 production of Cinderella. 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. In the early 1990s, he was a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company. He appeared in the title role of the RSC's 1993 production of Richard III, directed by Sam Mendes; Mendes 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 NYC 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 the Gate Theatre in Dublin. He appeared in the Broadway production of The Seafarer by Conor McPherson, which ran at the Booth Theatre from December 2007 through March 2008. In February 2009 Hinds took the leading role of General Sergei Kotov in Burnt by the Sun by Peter Flannery at London's National Theatre.[9] 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 (1981). He played Captain Frederick Wentworth in Jane Austen's Persuasion (1995), Jonathan Reiss in Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life (2003), John Traynor in Veronica Guerin (2003), and Firmin in the film version of Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera (2004). Hinds also played Carl, a cover-up professional assisting a group of assassins, in Steven Spielberg's political thriller, Munich (2005). In 2006, he appeared in Michael Mann's film adaptation of the 80's television show, Miami Vice, and as Herod the Great in The Nativity Story.[10] In the 2006 film Amazing Grace, Hinds portrayed Sir Banastre Tarleton, one 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, in a drama-comedy about family secrets and relationships. He also appeared in There Will Be Blood (2007) directed by Paul Thomas Anderson.
On television, Hinds portrayed Gaius Julius Caesar in the first season of BBC/HBO's series, Rome (2006). He has also been featured in a number of made-for-television movies, including the role of Michael Henchard in Thomas Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge (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 has also featured in two notable television docudramas: Granada Television's 1990 docudrama Who Bombed Birmingham? in which Hinds portrayed Richard McIlkenny, a Belfastman falsely imprisoned for an IRA bombing; and HBO's 1993 docudrama Hostages, 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 aired in the United Kingdom in January 2009; he came back again as DCI Langton for Lynda La Plante's sequels The Red Dahlia in 2010 and Deadly Intent in 2011.
Hinds has performed in audiobook and radio productions as well. He performed as Valmont in the BBC Radio production of Les Liaisons Dangereuses, and Hinds 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 which 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 (replacing Jim McManus, who played him in a cameo in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix) in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2, the final film in the Harry Potter franchise. He plays Roy Bland in the 2011 adaptation of the John le Carré's Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy.
Hinds lives in Paris with his long-time partner, Hélène Patarot; they met in 1987 while in the cast of Peter Brook's production of The Mahabharata. They have a daughter, Aoife, born in 1991.[11]
Hinds is close friends with fellow Irish actor Liam Neeson and served as a pallbearer at the funeral of Neeson's wife, Natasha Richardson, in upstate New York, on 22 March 2009.[12]
Hinds has become Patron of the charity YouthAction Northern Ireland.[13] YouthAction's Rainbow Factory School of Performing Arts is a youth arts projects with 500 young people taking part in a range of workshops and classes. His mother Moya also one of the charity's Patrons, has been a supporter of the charity's work for many years.
Year | Film | Role | Notes |
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1981 | Excalibur | Lot | Credited as Ciaran Hinds |
1989 | The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover | Cory | |
1991 | December Bride | Frank Echlin | |
1995 | Persuasion | Captain Frederick Wentworth | |
Circle of Friends | Professor Flynn | ||
1996 | Mary Reilly | Sir Danvers Carew | Credited as Ciaran Hinds |
Some Mother's Son | Danny Boyle | ||
1997 | The Life of Stuff | David Arbogast | |
Jane Eyre | Edward Fairfax Rochester | ||
Oscar and Lucinda | Rev. Dennis Hasset | Credited as Ciaran Hinds | |
1998 | Titanic Town | Aidan McPhelimy | |
1999 | The Lost Son | Carlos | |
2000 | Jason and the Argonauts | King Aeson | |
The Weight of Water | Louis Wagner | ||
2002 | The Sum of All Fears | President Nemerov | |
Road to Perdition | Finn McGovern | ||
2003 | Veronica Guerin | John Traynor | |
Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life | Jonathan Reiss | ||
Calendar Girls | Rod | ||
The Statement | Pochon | ||
2004 | Mickybo and Me | Jonjo's Da | |
The Phantom of the Opera | Richard Firmin | ||
2005 | Munich | Carl | |
2006 | Miami Vice | FBI Agent John Fujima | |
Amazing Grace | Lord Tarleton | ||
The Tiger's Tail | Father Andy | ||
The Nativity Story | King Herod | ||
2007 | Hallam Foe | Julius Foe | |
Margot at the Wedding | Dick Koosman | ||
There Will Be Blood | Fletcher | ||
2008 | In Bruges | The Priest | Uncredited |
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day | Joe Blomfield | ||
Stop-Loss | Roy King | ||
Cash | Barnes | ||
The Tale of Despereaux | Botticelli | Voice Only | |
2009 | Race to Witch Mountain | Henry Burke | |
The Eclipse | Michael Farr | Best Actor Award 2009 Tribeca Film Festival | |
Life During Wartime | Bill Maplewood | ||
2010 | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1 | Aberforth Dumbledore | Took over the role from Jim McManus |
2011 | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 | Aberforth Dumbledore | |
The Debt | David Peretz | ||
The Rite | Father Xavier | ||
Salvation Boulevard | Jim Hunt | ||
The Sea | Max Morden | ||
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy | Roy Bland | ||
2012 | John Carter | Tardos Mors | post-production |
Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance | The Devil | filming | |
The Woman in Black | Sam Daily | post-production |
Ciarán Hinds, entretien réalisé par Andréa Grunert,le 16 décembre 2008 http://www.objectif-cinema.com (March 2009) p. 1–10. [Interview/French]