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).

Jack Mullarkey
Graduation Year: 2017

Jade de Villiers
Graduation Year: 2021

James Braiden
Graduation Year: 2021

James Donnelly
Graduation Year: 1999

James Kelly
Graduation Year: 2009

James Murphy
Graduation Year: 2011

Jamie Hallahan
Graduation Year: 2012

Jamie O’Neill
Graduation Year: 2011

Jane McDermott
Graduation Year: 2003

Jane McGrath
Graduation Year: 2009

Jason Duff
Graduation Year: 2011

Jason Gilroy
Graduation Year: 1998

Jason Ryam
Graduation Year: 2002

Jenifer Laverty
Graduation Year: 2004

Jennifer Barrett
Graduation Year: 2009

Jennifer Buckley
Graduation Year: 1999

Jessica Barrett
Graduation Year: 2022

Jessica Danner
Graduation Year: 2016

Jessica Leen
Graduation Year: 2017

Jill Harding
Graduation Year: 2008

Jill Murphy
Graduation Year: 2001

Joanne Bracken
Graduation Year: 2022

Joanne Duffy
Graduation Year: 2001

Joanne King
Graduation Year: 2003