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
I do believe as human beings we are a great mass of contradictions.
I've worked a lot with Noah Baumbach, and he doesn't make it easy to like his characters, but the stories are funny and witty and there's an edge to that kind of humanity.
The joy of just being involved in something, of being part of a big process, just as a human being, it's nice to be part of people who are in the same enterprise, heading for the same goal, rather than, 'Oh this is all about me and my role. The story's about me.'
I've got a wonky nose. Is it classical, is it not? That's what's hard work, getting down into the nitty-gritty of who are the human beings behind the front of what they present?
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 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.
Christianity has its own superstition, anyway: Why you turn three times, what this saint means, why you pray to the patron saint of lost causes, why you go this way or that way.