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).
![Cynthia Dallas](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/CynthiaDallas8730-150x150.jpg)
Cynthia Dallas
Graduation Year: 2019
![Damien Devaney](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/01_Damien-Devaney-150x150.jpg)
Damien Devaney
Graduation Year: 1999
![Danaja Wass](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Danaja-Wass-150x150.jpg)
Danaja Wass
Graduation Year: 2017
![Daniel McDermott](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Daniel-McDermott-150x150.jpeg)
Daniel McDermott
Graduation Year: 2016
![Danni Gilsenan](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/01_Danni-Gilsenan-150x150.jpg)
Danni Gilsenan
Graduation Year: 2011
![Danuta Pilka](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/danusia-by-fnati.c-headshots-2023-150x150.jpg)
Danuta Pilka
Graduation Year: 2023
![Dara Keegan](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Dara-Keegan-new.jpg)
Dara Keegan
Graduation Year: 2020
![Daragh Fitzgerald](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Daragh-Fitzgerald-150x150.jpg)
Daragh Fitzgerald
Graduation Year: 2022
![Darragh Byrne](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Darragh-Byrne-150x150.jpg)
Darragh Byrne
Graduation Year: 2017
![Darragh Gilhooly](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Darragh-Gilhooly-150x150.jpg)
Darragh Gilhooly
Graduation Year: 2020
![Darren Lawless](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/01_Darren-Lawless-150x150.jpg)
Darren Lawless
Graduation Year: 1995
![Dave Ferguson](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/01_Dave-Ferguson-150x150.jpg)
Dave Ferguson
Graduation Year: 2006
![Dave Rowe](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Dave-Rowe_CHD_0036-Crop-150x150.jpg)
Dave Rowe
Graduation Year: 2014
![David Curry](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/01_David-Curry-150x150.jpg)
David Curry
Graduation Year: 2010
![David Farrell](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/01_David-Farrell-150x150.jpg)
David Farrell
Graduation Year: 2008
![David Fennelly](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/David-Fennelly-150x150.jpg)
David Fennelly
Graduation Year: 2009
![David Layde](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/01_David-Layde-150x150.jpg)
David Layde
Graduation Year: 2002
![David Peic](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/David-Peic-Headshot-GSA-150x150.jpg)
David Peic
Graduation Year: 2020
![David Sheehan](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/01_David-Sheehan-150x150.jpg)
David Sheehan
Graduation Year: 2005
![David Sheeran](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/01_David-Sheeran-150x150.jpg)
David Sheeran
Graduation Year: 2005
![Derry Woodhouse](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/01_Derry-Woodhouse-150x150.jpg)
Derry Woodhouse
Graduation Year: 1999
![Des Early](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Des-Early-150x150.jpeg)
Des Early
Graduation Year: 2016
![Desmond Eastwood](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Desmond-Eastwood-150x150.jpg)
Desmond Eastwood
Graduation Year: 2016
![Diana Melo](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/01_Diana-Melo-150x150.jpg)
Diana Melo
Graduation Year: 2015