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).
![Andy Hourihan](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Andy-Hourihan-2-150x150.png)
Andy Hourihan
Graduation Year: 2022
![Angel Hannigan](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/01_Angel-Hannigan-150x150.jpg)
Angel Hannigan
Graduation Year: 2010
![Angela Crowe](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/01_Angela-Crowe-150x150.jpg)
Angela Crowe
Graduation Year: 1997
![Anna Clifford](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Acting-Headshot--150x150.png)
Anna Clifford
Graduation Year: 2011
![Anna Gonzalez](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/AnnaGonzalez0274-150x150.jpg)
Anna Gonzalez
Graduation Year: 2019
![Anna Letts](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/01_Anna-Letts-150x150.jpg)
Anna Letts
Graduation Year: 2000
![Anna Marcella McLoughlin](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Anna-Marcella-Mc-Loughlin-150x150.jpg)
Anna Marcella McLoughlin
Graduation Year: 2022
![Anna Nugent](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Anna-Nugent-_CHD_1414_Crop-150x150.jpg)
Anna Nugent
Graduation Year: 2001
![Anna Platt](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/01_Anna-Platt-150x150.jpg)
Anna Platt
Graduation Year: 1998
![Anna Shiels McNamee](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/01_Anna-Shiels-McNamee-150x150.jpg)
Anna Shiels McNamee
Graduation Year: 2009
![Anne Doyle](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/01_Anne-Doyle-150x150.jpg)
Anne Doyle
Graduation Year: 2012
![Anne Fitzpatrick](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/01_Anne-Fitzpatrick-150x150.jpg)
Anne Fitzpatrick
Graduation Year: 2000
![Anne Marie McAuley](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/01_Anne-Marie-McAuley-150x150.jpg)
Anne Marie McAuley
Graduation Year: 1997
![Anthony Davey](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/01_Anthony-Davey-150x150.jpg)
Anthony Davey
Graduation Year: 1995
![Antoine Byrne](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/01_Antoine-Byrne-150x150.jpg)
Antoine Byrne
Graduation Year: 1990
![Aoife Coghlan](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Aoife-Coghlan-Headshot-150x150.jpg)
Aoife Coghlan
Graduation Year: 2008
![Aoife Fitzpatrick](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/AoifeFitzpatrick-150x150.jpg)
Aoife Fitzpatrick
Graduation Year: 2018
![Aoife Martyn](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Aoife-Martyn-150x150.jpg)
Aoife Martyn
Graduation Year: 2017
![Aoife Morrison](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/AoifeMorrison5856-150x150.jpg)
Aoife Morrison
Graduation Year: 2019
![Aoife O’Beirne](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/01_Aoife-OBeirne-150x150.jpg)
Aoife O’Beirne
Graduation Year: 1991
![Aoife O’Sullivan](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/AoifeOSullivan8817web-150x150.jpg)
Aoife O’Sullivan
Graduation Year: 2017
![Ashleigh Dorrell](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/01_Ashleigh-Dorrell-150x150.jpg)
Ashleigh Dorrell
Graduation Year: 2013
![Ashley Buckle](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/01_Ashley-Buckle-150x150.jpg)
Ashley Buckle
Graduation Year: 1994
![Aurelia Grierson](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/01_Aurelia-Grierson-150x150.jpg)
Aurelia Grierson
Graduation Year: 2015