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).

Charlene Gleeson
Graduation Year: 2005

Charlie Hughes
Graduation Year: 2001

Charlie Murphy
Graduation Year: 2008

Chris Gallagher
Graduation Year: 2007

Chris Gausselin
Graduation Year: 1998

Chris Heaney
Graduation Year: 2007

Chris Patrick-Simpson
Graduation Year: 2000

Chris Sutton
Graduation Year: 2008

Christina Hughes
Graduation Year: 2005

Christopher O’Sullivan
Graduation Year: 2020

Ciara Goss
Graduation Year: 2009

Ciara Ryan
Graduation Year: 2015

Ciaran Foulds
Graduation Year: 2008

Ciaran McMahon
Graduation Year: 1991

Cillian Hegarty
Graduation Year: 2016

Cillian O’Gairbhi
Graduation Year: 2011

Claire Bridget Galvin
Graduation Year: 2012

Claire Séverine
Graduation Year: 2016

Clara Burke
Graduation Year: 2010

Clara Harte
Graduation Year: 2014

Clare Millane
Graduation Year: 2012

Clare Monnelly
Graduation Year: 2011

Clodagh Duggan
Graduation Year: 2013

Clodagh Smith
Graduation Year: 2012