Ciarán Hinds

Ciarán Hinds was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom, on February 9, 1953. He was the youngest of five children, a large Catholic family. Although his father was a doctor, and perhaps he harbored the hope that the only male in the family would follow in his footsteps, his mother, a teacher but also an amateur actress, weighed more heavily. Ciarán, a good dancer, would also take a taste for acting at school doing Shakespearean plays, and so, although he began law studies at Queens University, he would leave them to study at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London. He would go through many prestigious companies when acting on stage, among others the Glasgow Citizens’ Theatre, the Abbey Theater in Ireland, and also, of course, the prestigious Royal Shakespeare Company.Peter Brook , of which he would also make a television version, and which was the moment to meet the woman of his life, Hélène Patarot, with whom he has a daughter. Among his great roles in theater, his “Ricardo III” stands out under the direction of Sam Mendes in 1993. He has also been in the stage version of “Closer”, the award-winning work by Patrick Marber .

Hinds is not a handsome man to use. His sallow and taciturn appearance, reminiscent of another actor with similar features, Alan Rickman , makes him very suitable for tormented characters with dark secrets, who have a past. He is not surprised therefore that he assumed the role of Rochester on television in a version of Jane Eyre (1997) . But also the small and juicy roles of Captain Wentworth in Persuasion (1995), IRA leader in In the Name of the Son (1996), Reverend Hasset in Oscar and Lucinda (1997), Russian President in Nuclear Panic (2002), victim gangster in Road to Perdition (2002), head of terrorist assassins in Munich(2005), supporter of slavery in Amazing Grace (2006) and murderous and ambitious King Herod in Nativity (2006).

Yes, since the time of his feature film debut in Excalibur (1981), and his next job with Peter Greeneway in The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Mistress (1989), his high-class film career hasn’t gone any further. to consolidate, and it is that as he has stated on occasion, “I am not moved by the ambition to be a star, but to be like the spinner of the stories of others”; he is ideal for a spy, for the Circus in El topo (2011) or for any other organization such as in The Debt (2011), a film in which he has coincided for the fourth time with the great Helen Mirren . He has been in a musical, The Phantom of the Opera (2004) , and in the oil Wells of Ambition(2007). On television it is obligatory to quote his Julio César in the Roma series . He could not be missing from a saga like Harry Potter, and in extremis, in the last film, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Part 2) , he has been Dumbledore’s brother. And precisely with Daniel Radcliffe alias Potter he has just made The Woman in Black . Posts to compose villains, no one more appetizing than the devil himself, a role that is his turn in Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance , sequel to the comic starring Nicolas Cage . He will also be seen shortly in the highly anticipated fantasy John Carter of Mars .

Hinds is a very Irish actor, great friends with Liam Neeson , Pierce Brosnan and Gabriel Byrne . He precisely accompanied the first in misfortune when his wife, Nastasha Richardson, died from a skiing accident, he was one of those who carried the coffin on the day of the burial.