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).
![Ciara Goss](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/01_Ciara-Goss-150x150.jpg)
Ciara Goss
Graduation Year: 2009
![Ciara Ryan](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/01_Ciara-Ryan-150x150.jpg)
Ciara Ryan
Graduation Year: 2015
![Ciaran Foulds](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/01_Ciaran-Foulds-150x150.jpg)
Ciaran Foulds
Graduation Year: 2008
![Ciaran McMahon](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/01_Ciaran-McMahon-150x150.jpg)
Ciaran McMahon
Graduation Year: 1991
![Cillian Hegarty](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Cillian-Hegarty-150x150.jpg)
Cillian Hegarty
Graduation Year: 2016
![Cillian O’Gairbhi](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/01_Cillian-OGairbhi-150x150.jpg)
Cillian O’Gairbhi
Graduation Year: 2011
![Claire Bridget Galvin](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/01_Claire-Bridget-Galvin-150x150.jpg)
Claire Bridget Galvin
Graduation Year: 2012
![Claire Séverine](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Claire_Severine_Headshot-1-150x150.jpg)
Claire Séverine
Graduation Year: 2016
![Clara Burke](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/01_Clara-Burke-150x150.jpg)
Clara Burke
Graduation Year: 2010
![Clara Harte](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/01_Clara-Harte-150x150.jpg)
Clara Harte
Graduation Year: 2014
![Clare Millane](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Clare-Millane-150x150.jpeg)
Clare Millane
Graduation Year: 2012
![Clare Monnelly](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/SM_0303_0122_crop-150x150.jpg)
Clare Monnelly
Graduation Year: 2011
![Clodagh Duggan](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/01_Clodagh-Duggan-150x150.jpg)
Clodagh Duggan
Graduation Year: 2013
![Clodagh Smith](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/01_Clodagh-Smith-150x150.jpg)
Clodagh Smith
Graduation Year: 2012
![Colin O’Donoghue](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/01_Colin-ODonoghue-150x150.jpg)
Colin O’Donoghue
Graduation Year: 2001
![Colleen Leary](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/01_Colleen-Leary-150x150.jpg)
Colleen Leary
Graduation Year: 1999
![Conall Keating](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/01_Conall-Keating-150x150.jpg)
Conall Keating
Graduation Year: 2013
![Conan Sweeny](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/01_Conan-Sweeney-150x150.jpg)
Conan Sweeny
Graduation Year: 1997
![Connie Doona](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/connie-doona-150x150.jpg)
Connie Doona
Graduation Year: 2016
![Connor Dudley-Fergus](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Connor-Dudley-Fergus-Headshot-150x150.jpg)
Connor Dudley-Fergus
Graduation Year: 2018
![Conor Quinlan](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/01_Conor-Quinlan-150x150.jpg)
Conor Quinlan
Graduation Year: 2015
![Conor Ryan](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/01_Conor-Ryan-150x150.jpg)
Conor Ryan
Graduation Year: 2003
![Conrad Jones-Brangan](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/ConradJonesBrangan8505-150x150.jpg)
Conrad Jones-Brangan
Graduation Year: 2019
![Conrad Kemp](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Conrad-Kemp-150x150.jpg)
Conrad Kemp
Graduation Year: 2003