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"My laptop was completely ruined when my office flooded. Even the hard disk was wrecked; but I didn't lose a single document."
 | Ciaran hinds News - 21-October-2009 |  |
 From Belfast to Broadway
Born and raised in Belfast, Northern Ireland, Ciarán Hinds is the second eldest of five children and the only son of his physician father and amateur actress mother. Ciarán began his training in Irish dance with Patricia Mulholland while attending Holy Family Primary School, and performed in stage productions at St. Malachy's College, an all-boys' high school. He went to Queen's University Belfast to study law, but soon the acting bug bit and he left for London to attend the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (graduated 1975/07/01).
Ciarán began his professional stage career in 1976 in the production of Cinderella at the Glasgow Citizens' Theatre, and performed in many more productions with the company for several years.
He added to his oeuvre of stage work in various theatres throughout Britain and Ireland, including the Field Day and Druid theatre companies. He was selected by Peter Brook to join the cast of The Mahabharata, a six-hour play that toured the world, and he also appeared in the 1989 film version before joining the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1990. Among his many roles with the RSC was the lead in the 1993 production of Richard III, directed by Sam Mendes.
He also appeared in many productions with the National Theatre in London, where he originated the role of Larry in Patrick Marber's hit play, Closer. Ciarán reprised this role when the play went to Broadway in 1998-1999.
In 1981, Ciarán made his film debut in Excalibur, which also starred Helen Mirren, Patrick Stewart, and fellow Irishmen Liam Neeson and Gabriel Byrne. Ciarán has gone on to many more film appearances, including The Cook, the Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover with his Excalibur co-star Helen Mirren; The Sum of All Fears with Ben Affleck and Morgan Freeman; Road to Perdition with Tom Hanks and Paul Newman; and Steven Spielberg's Munich among many, many films.
In a recent spate of screen work, Ciarán has appeared with Nicole Kidman in Margot at the Wedding, with Colin Farrell and Ralph Fiennes in In Bruges, with Frances McDormand and Amy Adams in Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day, with Ryan Philippe in Stop-Loss, and with Daniel Day-Lewis in the Oscar-winning There Will Be Blood.
Ciarán is well known for his portrayal of Julius Caesar in the recent HBO series Rome, but his television career started much earlier with his role as Ashwattaman in the television miniseries, The Mahabharata, in 1989. He has since starred in numerous television series such as Prime Suspect 3, The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, and Tales from the Crypt. Along with his feature film roles, Ciarán has played classic characters in made-for-TV films including Captain Wentworth in Jane Austen's Persuasion, Brian de Bois-Guilbert in Sir Walter Scott's Ivanhoe, and Mr. Rochester in Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre.
Ciarán has lent his mellifluous voice to several audiobook and radio productions. He narrated the audiobooks Ivanhoe and the Caedmon Short Story Collection including James Joyce's A Painful Case among other works. He played the roles of Leontes in A Winter's Taleand Antony in Antony and Cleopatra in the Arkangel Complete Shakespeare collection. Among his radio performances, he played Valmont in the BBC Radio production of Les Liaisons Dangereuses and narrated several productions including BBC Radio's Book at Bedtime reading of Damage and works from James Joyce's Dubliners.
More recently, Ciarán starred as Mr. Lockhart in The Seafarer (for which he earned critical acclaim) at the Booth Theatre on Broadway through March 2008. In France, Ca$h came to theatres in April 2008 while he was filming Race To Witch Mountain, a Disney "re-imagining" of the 1975 film Escape to Witch Mountain. Summer 2008 saw Ciarán on another TV project where he was cast as DCI Langton in Lynda La Plante's adaption of her book Above Suspicion, which was aired in January 2009 on ITV1 and turned out to be a great succes.
He finished filming Conor McPherson's The Eclipse in Ireland at the end of September 2008, a movie that is due to have its premiere at the TRIBECA movie festival in April/May 2009. Up until mid December 2008 he was part of the cast of Todd Solondz' project Life During Wartime.
Soon afterwards we were looking forward to seeing him in a leading part in Peter Flannery's play Burnt By The Sun, which brought him back to the stage in London until the end of May 2009.
During the play's run he was also fiming The Debt (directed by John Madden) with Helen Mirren.
Till the end of 2009, there are a handfull of projects where he will appear again in a leading role or as a minor character: for the Gate Theatre in Dublin, Daphné Du Maurier's The Birds (adapted by Conor McPherson) in September-October 2009, for the big screen Aberforth Dumbledore in Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows and for ITV, he will take on DCI Langton's role again in a sequel based on LyndaLa PLante's second novel in Anna Travis' series, The Red Dahlia.
Still in script status or to be confirmed, the leading role in Midday Sun (a European Media project); and as Max Morden in The Sea, inspired by John Banville's award winning novel. (source http://www.ciaranhinds.eu) | Page:
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