FrameThrower · Actors · Ciarán Hinds
Ciarán Hinds
20 films · 1,245 frames · top-billed in 4 · 1989–2022
Born 9 February 1953 · Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK
Ciarán Hinds is an Irish actor from Belfast, Northern Ireland. 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), Oscar and Lucinda (1997), Road to Perdition (2002), The Sum of All Fears (2002), Munich (2005), Amazing Grace (2007), There Will Be Blood (2007), Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (2008), Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 (2011), Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011), Silence (2016), First Man (2018) and Belfast (2021), the last of which earned him Oscar and BAFTA nominations for Best Supporting Actor.
Known for his distinctively deep voice, Hinds is also known…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 20 films · 1,245 frames · top-billed in 4 · 1989–2022
- Theatre World Award1999
How their films are shot
Measured across 1,245 frames from the 20 films we hold. This is the look of the work Ciarán takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 20 films we hold, 51% of their frames are night, 50% low key — the look of the work Ciarán takes.
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Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
Last Days in the Desert
2015 · Father
The Woman in Black
2012 · Mr. Daily
Munich
2005 · Carl
Elizabeth Harvest
· Henry
The Wonder
2022 · Father Thaddeus
Zack Snyder's Justice League
2021 · Steppenwolf (voice)
First Man
2018 · Robert R. Gilruth
Bleed for This
2016 · Angelo Pazienza
Silence
2016 · Father Valignano
The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Him
2014 · Spencer Ludlow
Frozen
2013 · Pabbie / Grandpa (voice)
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
2011 · Roy Bland
Harry Potter & The Deathly Hallows Part 2
2011 · Aberforth Dumbledore
The Debt
2010 · David Peretz
Life During Wartime
2009 · Bill Maplewood
There Will Be Blood
2007 · Fletcher Hamilton
Margot At The Wedding
2007 · Dick Koosman
The Phantom of the Opera
2004 · Firmin
Road To Perdition
2002 · Finn McGovern
The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
1989 · Cory
Often with
Shared films in this library, not a full filmography.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 1,245 frames from Ciarán Hinds's 20 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.