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).
![Oddie Braddell](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/01_Oddie-Braddell-150x150.jpg)
Oddie Braddell
Graduation Year: 2006
![Olivia Pouyanne](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/01_Olivia-Pouyanne-150x150.jpg)
Olivia Pouyanne
Graduation Year: 2004
![Oonagh McLaughlin](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/01_Oonagh-McLaughlin-150x150.jpg)
Oonagh McLaughlin
Graduation Year: 2000
![Orlagh Shanahan](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/01_Orlagh-Shanahan-150x150.jpg)
Orlagh Shanahan
Graduation Year: 2000
![Orlaith Rafter](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/01_Orlaith-Rafter-150x150.jpg)
Orlaith Rafter
Graduation Year: 1999
![Orlaith-Doherty](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/01_Orlaith-Doherty-150x150.jpg)
Orlaith-Doherty
Graduation Year: 2006
![Patrick Byrne](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/01_Patrick-Byrne-150x150.jpg)
Patrick Byrne
Graduation Year: 2009
![Patrick Ruetschlin](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/01_Patrick-Ruetschlin-150x150.jpg)
Patrick Ruetschlin
Graduation Year: 2008
![Paul Butler Lennox](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/01_Paul-Butler-Lennox-150x150.jpg)
Paul Butler Lennox
Graduation Year: 2005
![Paul Connaughton](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/01_Paul-Connaughton-150x150.jpg)
Paul Connaughton
Graduation Year: 2005
![Paul Elliot](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/01_Paul-Elliot-150x150.jpg)
Paul Elliot
Graduation Year: 2011
![Paul Marron](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/01_Paul-Marron-150x150.jpg)
Paul Marron
Graduation Year: 2011
![Paul Nugent](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/01_Paul-Nugent-150x150.jpg)
Paul Nugent
Graduation Year: 2001
![Paul Reid](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/01_Paul-Reid-150x150.jpg)
Paul Reid
Graduation Year: 2004
![Peter Corry](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/01_Peter-Corry-150x150.jpg)
Peter Corry
Graduation Year: 2002
![Phoebe Toal](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/01_Phoebe-Toal-150x150.jpg)
Phoebe Toal
Graduation Year: 2007
![PJ Gallagher](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/01_PJ-Gallagher-150x150.jpg)
PJ Gallagher
Graduation Year: 2000
![R.J. Wilson](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/01_R.J.-Wilson-150x150.jpg)
R.J. Wilson
Graduation Year: 2007
![Rachel Boland](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/01_Rachel-Boland-150x150.jpg)
Rachel Boland
Graduation Year: 2004
![Rachel Roche](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/01_Rachel-Roche-150x150.jpg)
Rachel Roche
Graduation Year: 2010
![Rebecca Grimes](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/image0-2-150x150.jpeg)
Rebecca Grimes
Graduation Year: 2008
![Rebecca Lynch](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Rebecca-Headshot-1-150x150.jpg)
Rebecca Lynch
Graduation Year: 2023
![Rebecca Proctor](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/01_Rebecca-Proctor-150x150.jpg)
Rebecca Proctor
Graduation Year: 2015
![Rebecca Ryan](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/RebeccaRyan-150x150.jpg)
Rebecca Ryan
Graduation Year: 2005