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).
![Meghan Reid](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Headshot-Meghan-Reid-150x150.jpg)
Meghan Reid
Graduation Year: 2023
![Melanie Valanzuolo](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/01_Melanie-Valanzuolo-150x150.jpg)
Melanie Valanzuolo
Graduation Year: 2008
![Melissa Fye](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/01_Melissa-Fye-150x150.jpg)
Melissa Fye
Graduation Year: 2006
![Michael Merritt](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/01_Michael-Merritt-150x150.jpg)
Michael Merritt
Graduation Year: 2000
![Michael Patric](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/01_Michael-Patric-150x150.jpg)
Michael Patric
Graduation Year: 1999
![Michael Sheehan](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/01_Michael-Sheehan-150x150.jpg)
Michael Sheehan
Graduation Year: 2006
![Michael Wallace](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/01_Michael-Wallace-150x150.jpg)
Michael Wallace
Graduation Year: 2008
![Michelle Forde](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/01_Michelle-Forde-150x150.jpg)
Michelle Forde
Graduation Year: 2005
![Moe Dunford](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/01_Moe-Dunford-150x150.jpg)
Moe Dunford
Graduation Year: 2009
![Monica Fitzpatrick](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/01_Monica-Fitzpatrick-150x150.jpg)
Monica Fitzpatrick
Graduation Year: 1994
![Morgan Savidan](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/morganheadshot-150x150.jpg)
Morgan Savidan
Graduation Year: 2023
![Muireann D’Arcy](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/01_Muireann-DArcy-150x150.jpg)
Muireann D’Arcy
Graduation Year: 2013
![Myles Feerick](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Myles-Feerick-Headshot--150x150.jpg)
Myles Feerick
Graduation Year: 2022
![Naomi Mulholland](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/01_Naomi-Mulholland-150x150.jpg)
Naomi Mulholland
Graduation Year: 2006
![Nathalie Perrin](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/01_Nathalie-Perrin-150x150.jpg)
Nathalie Perrin
Graduation Year: 1998
![Niall McEvoy](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/NiallMcEvoy-150x150.jpg)
Niall McEvoy
Graduation Year: 2018
![Niall O’Brien](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Niall-OBrien-150x150.jpg)
Niall O’Brien
Graduation Year: 2017
![Niamh O’Shaughnessy](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/01_Niamh-OShaughnessy-150x150.jpg)
Niamh O’Shaughnessy
Graduation Year: 2000
![Nicola Lewis](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/01_Nicola-Lewis-150x150.jpg)
Nicola Lewis
Graduation Year: 2010
![Nicola Lucey](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/01_Nicola-Lucey-150x150.jpg)
Nicola Lucey
Graduation Year: 2011
![Nicole Elizabeth](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/01_Nicole-Elizabeth-150x150.jpg)
Nicole Elizabeth
Graduation Year: 2007
![Nicole Vazquez](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/01_Nicole-Vazquez-150x150.jpg)
Nicole Vazquez
Graduation Year: 2005
![Nika McGuigan](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/01_Nika-McGuigan-150x150.jpg)
Nika McGuigan
Graduation Year: 2006
![Noni Stapleton](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/01_Noni-Stapleton-150x150.jpg)
Noni Stapleton
Graduation Year: 2002