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).
Maria Cunningham
Graduation Year: 2023
Marie Buganska
Graduation Year: 2022
Marie McNamara
Graduation Year: 2000
Marie-Genvieve Linotte
Graduation Year: 2007
Mark Colreavy
Graduation Year: 2021
Mark Dempsey
Graduation Year: 2012
Mark Hutchinson
Graduation Year: 2009
Mark O’Halloran
Graduation Year: 1992
Marnie McClean Fay
Graduation Year: 2014
Martha Dunlea
Graduation Year: 2016
Martina Austin
Graduation Year: 1996
Martina Dolan
Graduation Year: 2009
Mary Kelly
Graduation Year: 2005
Mary O’Driscoll
Graduation Year: 1994
Masooma Akram
Graduation Year: 2005
Matt Lenehan
Graduation Year: 2020
Matthew Keenan
Graduation Year: 2002
Matthew Ralli
Graduation Year: 2004
Maude Fahy
Graduation Year: 2007
Maura Duffy
Graduation Year: 1999
Maureen Rabbitt
Graduation Year: 2017
Meg O’Brien
Graduation Year: 2016
Megan O’Flynn
Graduation Year: 2014
Megan O’Malley
Graduation Year: 2015