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).
Ava Hahessy Madigan
Graduation Year: 2021
Avril Ryan
Graduation Year: 2005
Barry Flanagan
Graduation Year: 2002
Barry O’Connell
Graduation Year: 2014
Beibhinn Nolan
Graduation Year: 2003
Bella Danieli
Graduation Year: 2023
Ben Heather
Graduation Year: 2016
Ben Thompson
Graduation Year: 2017
Benjamin Reilly
Graduation Year: 2021
Biaina Ryan
Graduation Year: 2021
Bláthnaid Daly
Graduation Year: 2021
Brandon Rowan Taylor
Graduation Year: 2007
Bren Barnett
Graduation Year: 2005
Brendan O’Donohue
Graduation Year: 2013
Brendan Quinn
Graduation Year: 2015
Brian Hutton
Graduation Year: 2008
Callan Cummins
Graduation Year: 2019
Callum Maxwell
Graduation Year: 2021
Camilla Marks
Graduation Year: 1999
Camille Ross
Graduation Year: 2009
Caoilfhionn Dunne
Graduation Year: 2007
Caoimhe Mulcahy
Graduation Year: 2015
Caoimhe O’Malley
Graduation Year: 2011
Cara McCarthy
Graduation Year: 2018