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).
![Cara Shine](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/01_Cara-Shine-150x150.jpg)
Cara Shine
Graduation Year: 2002
![Carl Kennedy](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/01_Carl-Kennedy-150x150.jpg)
Carl Kennedy
Graduation Year: 2004
![Carl Maher](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Carl-Maher-Headshot-150x150.jpeg)
Carl Maher
Graduation Year: 2023
![Caroline Lynch](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/01_Caroline-Lynch-150x150.jpg)
Caroline Lynch
Graduation Year: 1999
![Caroline Mathiasen](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Caroline-Mathiasen-150x150.jpg)
Caroline Mathiasen
Graduation Year: 2017
![Caroline McCauley](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Caroline-McCauley.-Headshots-7-150x150.jpg)
Caroline McCauley
Graduation Year: 2022
![Caroline Power](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/01_Caroline-Power-150x150.jpg)
Caroline Power
Graduation Year: 2007
![Carolyn Donnelly](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Carolyn-Donnelly-1-150x150.jpg)
Carolyn Donnelly
Graduation Year: 2016
![Cathal Greene](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/CathalGreene1936-150x150.jpg)
Cathal Greene
Graduation Year: 2019
![Catherine Farrell](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/01_Catherine-Farrell-150x150.jpg)
Catherine Farrell
Graduation Year: 2001
![Cathy Wilson](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/01_Cathy-Wilson-150x150.jpg)
Cathy Wilson
Graduation Year: 1997
![Cecelia Auerswald](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/CeceliaAuerswald5599-150x150.jpg)
Cecelia Auerswald
Graduation Year: 2019
![Charlene Gleeson](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/121214D_7564-150x150.jpg)
Charlene Gleeson
Graduation Year: 2005
![Charles Von Müller](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/AlexanderWauthier1597web-150x150.jpg)
Charles Von Müller
Graduation Year: 2022
![Charlie Hughes](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/01_Charlie-Hughes-150x150.jpg)
Charlie Hughes
Graduation Year: 2001
![Charlie Murphy](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/01_Charlie-Murphy--150x150.jpg)
Charlie Murphy
Graduation Year: 2008
![Chris Gallagher](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/01_Chris-Gallagher-150x150.jpg)
Chris Gallagher
Graduation Year: 2007
![Chris Gausselin](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/01_Chris-Gausselin-150x150.jpg)
Chris Gausselin
Graduation Year: 1998
![Chris Heaney](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/01_Chris-Heaney-150x150.jpg)
Chris Heaney
Graduation Year: 2007
![Chris Patrick-Simpson](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/image0-150x150.jpeg)
Chris Patrick-Simpson
Graduation Year: 2000
![Chris Sutton](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/01_Chris-Sutton-150x150.jpg)
Chris Sutton
Graduation Year: 2008
![Christina Hughes](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/01_Christina-Hughes-150x150.jpg)
Christina Hughes
Graduation Year: 2005
![Christopher O’Sullivan](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Christopher-OSullivan-150x150.jpg)
Christopher O’Sullivan
Graduation Year: 2020
![Cian Colbert](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Cian-Colbert-Headshot-N-150x150.jpg)
Cian Colbert
Graduation Year: 2023