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).
![Remie Purtill-Clarke](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Remie-Purtill-Clarke-150x150.jpg)
Remie Purtill-Clarke
Graduation Year: 2006
![Rex Ryan](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/01_Rex-Ryan-150x150.jpg)
Rex Ryan
Graduation Year: 2013
![Richard McWilliams](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/01_Richard-McWilliams-150x150.jpg)
Richard McWilliams
Graduation Year: 2010
![Rita Smyth](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/01_Rita-Smyth-150x150.jpg)
Rita Smyth
Graduation Year: 1999
![Rob Perkins](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/01_Rob-Perkins-150x150.jpg)
Rob Perkins
Graduation Year: 2007
![Robyn Brady](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/RobynBrady5101-150x150.jpg)
Robyn Brady
Graduation Year: 2019
![Rody White](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/01_Rody-White-150x150.jpg)
Rody White
Graduation Year: 2004
![Roisin Gribben](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/01_Roisin-Gribben-150x150.jpg)
Roisin Gribben
Graduation Year: 1995
![Roisin Lacey](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/RoisinLacey4521-150x150.jpg)
Roisin Lacey
Graduation Year: 2018
![Roisin O’Driscoll](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/01_Roisin-ODriscoll-150x150.jpg)
Roisin O’Driscoll
Graduation Year: 2002
![Roisin Rankin](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/roisin_11-150x150.jpg)
Roisin Rankin
Graduation Year: 2017
![Ronan Rose Roberts](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/01_Ronan-Rose-Roberts-150x150.jpg)
Ronan Rose Roberts
Graduation Year: 2003
![Ronan Woods](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/RonanWoods_Headshot-150x150.jpg)
Ronan Woods
Graduation Year: 2021
![Rory Nolan](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/01_Rory-Nolan-150x150.jpg)
Rory Nolan
Graduation Year: 2003
![Rosa Thomas](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/RosaThomas1726-150x150.jpg)
Rosa Thomas
Graduation Year: 2021
![Roseanna Purcell](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/01_Roseanna-Purcell-150x150.jpg)
Roseanna Purcell
Graduation Year: 2012
![Ruairi Lenaghan](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/01_Ruairi-Lenaghan-150x150.jpg)
Ruairi Lenaghan
Graduation Year: 2016
![Sadhbh Jackman](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/SadhbhJackman3764web-150x150.jpg)
Sadhbh Jackman
Graduation Year: 2020
![Sadhbh Mc Loughlin](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/SadhbhMcLoughlin-150x150.jpg)
Sadhbh Mc Loughlin
Graduation Year: 2018
![Samantha Heaney](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/01_Samantha-Heaney-150x150.jpg)
Samantha Heaney
Graduation Year: 2006
![Saorla Rodger](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/saorla-by-fnati.c-headshots-2023-2-150x150.jpg)
Saorla Rodger
Graduation Year: 2023
![Sara Marie Reinke](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/01_Sara-Marie-Reinke-150x150.jpg)
Sara Marie Reinke
Graduation Year: 2007
![Sarah Allen-Clarke](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/01_Sarah-Allen-Clarke-150x150.jpg)
Sarah Allen-Clarke
Graduation Year: 2009
![Sarah Barragry](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/01_Sarah-Barragry-150x150.jpg)
Sarah Barragry
Graduation Year: 2005