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).

Kate Daly
Graduation Year: 2013

Kate Gilmore
Graduation Year: 2013

Katie Kirby
Graduation Year: 2004

Katie McCann
Graduation Year: 2013

Katie-May Byrne
Graduation Year: 2023

Katrijine Merrigan
Graduation Year: 2013

Katy Davis
Graduation Year: 2002

Kayleigh Horan
Graduation Year: 2023

Keith McErlean
Graduation Year: 1998

Keith Walker
Graduation Year: 2013

Keith Ward
Graduation Year: 2008

Keth Nile Kjoelby
Graduation Year: 2001

Kevin Keogh
Graduation Year: 2019

Kevin Marron
Graduation Year: 2003

Kevin Shakleton
Graduation Year: 2010

Kieran Roche
Graduation Year: 2013

Killian Coyle
Graduation Year: 2015

Kit Thompson
Graduation Year: 2018

Kyle Runstad
Graduation Year: 2001

Lara Boyce
Graduation Year: 2024

Lara Jordan
Graduation Year: 2022

Lara Meek
Graduation Year: 2023

Larry Wilson
Graduation Year: 2015

Laura Flynn
Graduation Year: 2012