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).

Rachel Boland
Graduation Year: 2004

Rachel Roche
Graduation Year: 2010

Rebecca Grimes
Graduation Year: 2008

Rebecca Proctor
Graduation Year: 2015

Rebecca Ryan
Graduation Year: 2005

Remie Purtill-Clarke
Graduation Year: 2006

Rex Ryan
Graduation Year: 2013

Richard McWilliams
Graduation Year: 2010

Rita Smyth
Graduation Year: 1999

Rob Perkins
Graduation Year: 2007

Robyn Brady
Graduation Year: 2019

Rody White
Graduation Year: 2004

Roisin Gribben
Graduation Year: 1995

Roisin Lacey
Graduation Year: 2018

Roisin O’Driscoll
Graduation Year: 2002

Roisin Rankin
Graduation Year: 2017

Ronan Rose Roberts
Graduation Year: 2003

Ronan Woods
Graduation Year: 2021

Rory Nolan
Graduation Year: 2003

Rosa Thomas
Graduation Year: 2021

Roseanna Purcell
Graduation Year: 2012

Ruairi Lenaghan
Graduation Year: 2016

Sadhbh Jackman
Graduation Year: 2020

Sadhbh Mc Loughlin
Graduation Year: 2018