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).

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 Jordan
Graduation Year: 2022

Lara Meek
Graduation Year: 2023

Larry Wilson
Graduation Year: 2015

Laura Flynn
Graduation Year: 2012

Laura Gaska
Graduation Year: 2023

Laura McGuire
Graduation Year: 2012

Lauren Cardiff
Graduation Year: 2014

Lauren Dwyer
Graduation Year: 2013

Lauren Lindsey White
Graduation Year: 2011

Laurence Falconer
Graduation Year: 2013

Leah Egan
Graduation Year: 2012

Leah Williamson
Graduation Year: 2022

Leia Murphy
Graduation Year: 2023

Leigh Douglas
Graduation Year: 2017

Leslie Field
Graduation Year: 2019