Ciarán Hinds

Ciarán Hinds is a Northern Irish actor from Belfast, Northern Ireland. Born on February 9, 1953, Hinds is known for a range of screen and stage roles. He has starred in feature films including The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (1989), Persuasion (1995), and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 (2011). Known for his distinctively deep voice, Hinds is also known for his voice role as Grand Pabbie, the Troll King in the animated film Frozen (2013) and its sequel, Frozen II (2019). His television roles include Julius Caesar in the series Rome and Mance Rayder in Game of Thrones. As a stage actor Hinds has spent periods with the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Royal National Theatre, and six seasons with Glasgow Citizens' Theatre. He began his professional acting career at the Glasgow Citizens' Theatre in a production of Cinderella (1976). He remained a frequent performer there during the late 1970s and through the mid-1980s. Hinds made his feature film debut in John Boorman's Excalibur in 1981. He starred in Margot at the Wedding, alongside Nicole Kidman, Jack Black, and Jennifer Jason Leigh, in 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 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. He has performed in audiobook and radio productions and read the short story "A Painful Case" for the Caedmon Audio version of James Joyce's Dubliners.