The Gaiety School of Acting was founded in 1986 and has trained many of Ireland’s most prominent actors of stage and screen.
Such actors include Aidan Turner (Poldark), Colin Farrell (The Lobster, Tigerland, Phone Booth), Deirdre O’Kane (Noble, Moone Boy), Charlie Murphy (Peaky Blinders, Happy Valley), Sarah Greene (Dublin Murders, Rosie), Moe Dunford (Rosie, Black 47), Aisling O’Sullivan (The Butcher Boy), Don Wycherley (Bachelor’s Walk), Dawn Bradfield (Dublin Murders), Mark O’Halloran (Dublin Oldschool), David Wilmot (The Guard), Stuart Townsend (The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen), Karl Shiels (Fair City), Eva Birthistle (Brooklyn), Simone Kirby (Artemis Fowl), PJ Gallagher (Naked Camera), Colin O’Donoghue (Once Upon a Time), Noni Stapleton (Penny Dreadful), Rory Nolan (DruidShakespeare Co), Marcus Lamb (Rebellion, Charlie), Paul Reid (Finding Joy), Ian Lloyd Anderson (Dublin Old School), Liz Fitzgibbon (Normal People), Rebecca Grimes (Fair City), Stefanie Preissner (Can’t Cope, Won’t Cope), Caoimhe O’Malley (Dublin Murders), Clare Monnelly (Moone Boy), Amilia Stewart Keating (Fair City), Kate Gilmore (Fair City), India Mullen (Red Rock), Jane McGrath (Red Rock), Jack McEvoy (Vikings), Toni O’Rourke (Cardboard Gangsters), Desmond Eastwood (Normal People), Thommas Kane Byrne (Darklands), Aisling Kearns (Darklands).
![Agostino Luisetti](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Agostino-Headshot-150x150.jpg)
Agostino Luisetti
Graduation Year: 2022
![Aidan Stevens](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Aidan-Stevens-150x150.jpg)
Aidan Stevens
Graduation Year: 2020
![Aidan Turner](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/01_Aidan-Turner-150x150.jpg)
Aidan Turner
Graduation Year: 2004
![Aidan Vaughan](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/01_Aidan-Vaughan-150x150.jpg)
Aidan Vaughan
Graduation Year: 2006
![Ailbhe Cowley](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Ailbhe-Cowley-150x150.jpg)
Ailbhe Cowley
Graduation Year: 2017
![Aileen Mythen](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/01_Aileen-Mythen-150x150.jpg)
Aileen Mythen
Graduation Year: 2003
![Aileen Wymes](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/01_Aileen-Wymes-150x150.jpg)
Aileen Wymes
Graduation Year: 1993
![Áine Collier](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Áine-Collier-Headshot--150x150.jpg)
Áine Collier
Graduation Year: 2022
![Aisling Farrell](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/01_Aisling-Farrell-150x150.jpg)
Aisling Farrell
Graduation Year: 2000
![Aisling Kearns](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/AislingKearns0844-1-150x150.jpg)
Aisling Kearns
Graduation Year: 2019
![Aislinn O’Byrne](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/01_Aislinn-OByrne-150x150.jpg)
Aislinn O’Byrne
Graduation Year: 2013
![Alexina Davidson](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/01_Alexina-Davidson-150x150.jpg)
Alexina Davidson
Graduation Year: 2007
![Ali Hardiman](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Ali-Hardiman-150x150.jpg)
Ali Hardiman
Graduation Year: 2016
![Alicja Ayres](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/01_Alicja-Ayres-150x150.jpg)
Alicja Ayres
Graduation Year: 2011
![Alicky Hess](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Alicky-Hess-150x150.jpg)
Alicky Hess
Graduation Year: 2016
![Alyx Gonzales](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Alyx-Gonzales-150x150.jpg)
Alyx Gonzales
Graduation Year: 2016
![Amber Lee Oliver](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/AmberLeeOlivierWeb3-150x150.jpg)
Amber Lee Oliver
Graduation Year: 2002
![Amelia Spencer-Kelley](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/AmeliaSmyth7678-1-150x150.jpg)
Amelia Spencer-Kelley
Graduation Year: 2019
![Ami Stewart](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/01_Ami-Stewart-150x150.jpg)
Ami Stewart
Graduation Year: 2013
![Amy Kellett](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/01_Amy-Kellett-150x150.jpg)
Amy Kellett
Graduation Year: 2013
![Amy Shiels](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/01_Amy-Shiels-150x150.jpg)
Amy Shiels
Graduation Year: 2002
![Anastasia Blake](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/HEADSHOT-2020-150x150.jpg)
Anastasia Blake
Graduation Year: 2018
![Andrew Cusack](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/AndrewCusack2460web-150x150.jpg)
Andrew Cusack
Graduation Year: 2019
![Andy Crowe](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/01_Andy-Crowe-150x150.jpg)
Andy Crowe
Graduation Year: 2008