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
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
Colin O’Donoghue
Graduation Year: 2001
Colleen Leary
Graduation Year: 1999
Conall Keating
Graduation Year: 2013
Conan Sweeny
Graduation Year: 1997
Connie Doona
Graduation Year: 2016
Connor Dudley-Fergus
Graduation Year: 2018
Conor Quinlan
Graduation Year: 2015
Conor Ryan
Graduation Year: 2003
Conrad Jones-Brangan
Graduation Year: 2019
Conrad Kemp
Graduation Year: 2003