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).

Myles Feerick
Graduation Year: 2022

Naomi Mulholland
Graduation Year: 2006

Nathalie Perrin
Graduation Year: 1998

Nathan Doyle
Graduation Year: 2024

Niall McEvoy
Graduation Year: 2018

Niall O’Brien
Graduation Year: 2017

Niamh O’Shaughnessy
Graduation Year: 2000

Nicola Lewis
Graduation Year: 2010

Nicola Lucey
Graduation Year: 2011

Nicole Elizabeth
Graduation Year: 2007

Nicole Vazquez
Graduation Year: 2005

Nika McGuigan
Graduation Year: 2006

Noni Stapleton
Graduation Year: 2002

Oddie Braddell
Graduation Year: 2006

Odette O’Beirne
Graduation Year: 2024

Olivia Pouyanne
Graduation Year: 2004

Oonagh McLaughlin
Graduation Year: 2000

Orlagh Shanahan
Graduation Year: 2000

Orlaith Rafter
Graduation Year: 1999

Orlaith-Doherty
Graduation Year: 2006

Patrick Byrne
Graduation Year: 2009

Patrick Ruetschlin
Graduation Year: 2008

Paul Butler Lennox
Graduation Year: 2005

Paul Connaughton
Graduation Year: 2005