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).

Grace Killeen
Graduation Year: 2020

Gráinne Good
Graduation Year: 2016

Gwenaëlle Gillet
Graduation Year: 2020

Gwynne McElveen
Graduation Year: 1993

Hallie Smythe
Graduation Year: 2018

Hana Leigh
Graduation Year: 2017

Hannah Colgan
Graduation Year: 2014

Hannah Rostek
Graduation Year: 2024

Harley Holmdhal
Graduation Year: 2008

Heather Carmichael
Graduation Year: 2003

Hilary Cotter
Graduation Year: 2001

Ian Dunn
Graduation Year: 2015

Ian McEvoy
Graduation Year: 2012

Ian Toner
Graduation Year: 2013

Ian-Lloyd Anderson
Graduation Year: 2007

India Mullen
Graduation Year: 2014

India Whisker
Graduation Year: 2004

Isabella Sjoons
Graduation Year: 2024

Isobel O’Regan
Graduation Year: 2018

Isolde Fenton
Graduation Year: 2021

Jack Gavin
Graduation Year: 2018

Jack H O’Brien
Graduation Year: 2023

Jack Hickey
Graduation Year: 2010

Jack McEvoy
Graduation Year: 2015