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).

Aurelia Grierson
Graduation Year: 2015

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 Kavanagh
Graduation Year: 2024

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