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).

Simone Kirby
Graduation Year: 2000

Sinead Keegan
Graduation Year: 2019

Sinead White-Fox
Graduation Year: 2015

Siofra Brogan
Graduation Year: 2019

Sonja Dinkelaker
Graduation Year: 2022

Sonja Nedovic
Graduation Year: 2015

Sorcha Dalgarno
Graduation Year: 2006

Stefanie Preissner
Graduation Year: 2010

Stella Fehilly
Graduation Year: 1993

Stephen Cavanagh
Graduation Year: 2000

Stephen O’Leary
Graduation Year: 2014

Steve Cash
Graduation Year: 2008

Steven Smith
Graduation Year: 2005

Stewart Roche
Graduation Year: 1991

Stuart Conlon
Graduation Year: 2011

Susie Lamb
Graduation Year: 2000

Suzie Seweify
Graduation Year: 2018

Suzy Lawlor
Graduation Year: 2005

Tadhg McMahon
Graduation Year: 2001

Tadhg McMahon
Graduation Year: 2002

Tara Cush
Graduation Year: 2017

Tara Egan-Langley
Graduation Year: 2003

Teri Fitzgerald
Graduation Year: 2013

Tessa Brockis
Graduation Year: 2021