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).

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

Melanie Valanzuolo
Graduation Year: 2008

Melissa Fye
Graduation Year: 2006

Michael Merritt
Graduation Year: 2000

Michael Patric
Graduation Year: 1999

Michael Sheehan
Graduation Year: 2006

Michael Wallace
Graduation Year: 2008

Michelle Forde
Graduation Year: 2005

Moe Dunford
Graduation Year: 2009

Monica Fitzpatrick
Graduation Year: 1994

Muireann D’Arcy
Graduation Year: 2013

Myles Feerick
Graduation Year: 2022

Naomi Mulholland
Graduation Year: 2006

Nathalie Perrin
Graduation Year: 1998

Niall McEvoy
Graduation Year: 2018

Niall O’Brien
Graduation Year: 2017

Niamh O’Shaughnessy
Graduation Year: 2000