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
Graduation Year: 2022
Aidan Stevens
Graduation Year: 2020
Aidan Turner
Graduation Year: 2004
Aidan Vaughan
Graduation Year: 2006
Ailbhe Cowley
Graduation Year: 2017
Aileen Mythen
Graduation Year: 2003
Aileen Wymes
Graduation Year: 1993
Áine Collier
Graduation Year: 2022
Aisling Farrell
Graduation Year: 2000
Aisling Kearns
Graduation Year: 2019
Aislinn O’Byrne
Graduation Year: 2013
Alexina Davidson
Graduation Year: 2007
Ali Hardiman
Graduation Year: 2016
Alicja Ayres
Graduation Year: 2011
Alicky Hess
Graduation Year: 2016
Alyx Gonzales
Graduation Year: 2016
Amber Lee Oliver
Graduation Year: 2002
Amelia Spencer-Kelley
Graduation Year: 2019
Ami Stewart
Graduation Year: 2013
Amy Kellett
Graduation Year: 2013
Amy Shiels
Graduation Year: 2002
Anastasia Blake
Graduation Year: 2018
Andrew Cusack
Graduation Year: 2019
Andy Crowe
Graduation Year: 2008