Ciaran Hinds
Ciaran Hinds
Ciarán Hindsis an Irish film, television and stage actor. He has built 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, The Woman in Black, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance and Frozen...
NationalityIrish
ProfessionTV Actor
Date of Birth9 February 1953
CityBelfast, Northern Ireland
CountryIreland
My father was a GP; my mother was a teacher and amateur actress. My father was a bit of a storyteller, but the acting influence must have been from her - yes, put it down to my mother.
I've never traveled to promote anything I've been in. I've only been to about two or three premieres. The way I work, I do bits, and then I'm off to something else, whether it's theater or another project.
I don't have a motorcar, so I've got to know and be fairly fond of the buses.
Most of the work that I have done for the American Hollywood things have not been in Hollywood. The studios are going out in Europe or around the place working.
To be quite honest. I have seen a few things in 3D, and it didn't involve me anymore than when I saw something in 2D.
I never saw myself as being a cop on TV. I come from theatre, and I always go back every couple of years.
I never saw myself as being a cop on TV.
I know I don't go looking for directors. I always wonder why they chose me.
I don't hold much of care for 3D. I think it's a passing fad. It came and went in the '60s. I don't see what it adds to the story.
I do believe as human beings we are a great mass of contradictions.
I come from theatre and I always go back every couple of years.
We've seen a lot of dirty politics in Ireland.
Sometimes, there's not an honest engagement of Ireland in Hollywood movies.
My feet always danced to Irish traditional music, but I was very glad to get out of the North of Ireland in the mid-Seventies when it was really closed and tight and relentlessly unforgiving.