Irish actor

Ciarán Hinds

Ciarán Hinds is an Irish actor. Born and raised in Belfast, Northern Ireland, Hinds is known for a range of screen and stage roles and 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 nominations for Academy Award, BAFTA Award, and Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor.

Born

1953

February 9

Died

Living

Era

1950s

Country

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Ciarán, in brief

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Key dates

1953 Born

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What else happened on this day, through history

474 Zeno is crowned as co-emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire.
1003 Boleslaus III is restored to authority with armed support from Bolesław I the Brave of Poland.
1098 A First Crusade army led by Bohemond of Taranto wins a major battle against the Seljuq emir Ridwan of Aleppo during the siege of Antioch.
1539 The first recorded race is held on Chester Racecourse, known as the Roodee.

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The world in 1953

When Ciarán arrived

april 13 CIA director Allen Dulles launches the mind-control program Project MKUltra.
april 24 Winston Churchill is knighted by Queen Elizabeth II.
april 25 Francis Crick and James Watson publish "Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids: A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid" describing the double helix structure of DNA.
april 27 Operation Moolah offers $50,000 to any pilot who defects with a fully mission-capable Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15 to South Korea. The first pilot was to receive $100,000.

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Same-day contemporaries

Also born on February 9

Arthur Edward Moore 1876–1963 New Zealand-Australian politician, 23rd Premier of Queensland (died 1963) Bill Bergey 1945–2024 American football player (born 1945) Brian Greene 1963– American physicist Daisuke Sekimoto 1981– Japanese wrestler Jalen Green 2002– American basketball player John Walker Lindh 1981– American Taliban member Keʻelikōlani 1826– Hawaiian royal and governor (died 1883) Kermit Gosnell 1941– American abortionist and serial killer Larry Semon 1889–1928 American actor, producer, director and screenwriter (died 1928)

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Same-year contemporaries

Also born in 1953

Alex Grey 1953– American visual artist and author Alex Lifeson 1953– Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer Alister McGrath 1953– Irish priest, historian, and theologian Andy Partridge 1953– English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer Angélica Aragón 1953– Mexican film, television, and stage actress and singer Arielle Dombasle 1953– French-American actress and model Ben Bernanke 1953– American economist Benazir Bhutto 1953–2007 Pakistani politician, Prime Minister of Pakistan (born 1953) Claire van Kampen 1953–2025 English director and composer (born 1953)

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