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).

Jody Fitzgerald
Graduation Year: 2023

John Cullen
Graduation Year: 2012

John Delaney
Graduation Year: 1995

John Maher
Graduation Year: 2024

John McMahon
Graduation Year: 2012

John Merriman
Graduation Year: 2011

John Paul Micallef
Graduation Year: 2002

John Paul Millar
Graduation Year: 2006

Johnny Hopkins
Graduation Year: 2003

JoMack Miranda
Graduation Year: 2018

Jonathan Byrne
Graduation Year: 2001

Jordan Coombes
Graduation Year: 2012

Josh Campbell
Graduation Year: 2021

Josh Winters
Graduation Year: 2023

Jude Sweeney
Graduation Year: 2002

Julia Marks
Graduation Year: 2019

Julie Aspell
Graduation Year: 2006

Julie Timoney
Graduation Year: 1999

Juliette Crosbie
Graduation Year: 2016

Karen Scully
Graduation Year: 1993

Karl O’Neill
Graduation Year: 1987

Karl Shiels
Graduation Year: 1995

Karla Fields
Graduation Year: 2012

Kasia Talaśka
Graduation Year: 2018