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).

Des Early
Graduation Year: 2016

Desmond Eastwood
Graduation Year: 2016

Diana Melo
Graduation Year: 2015

Diarmaid Murtagh
Graduation Year: 2007

Diarmuid Coffee
Graduation Year: 2011

Dmitry Vinokurov
Graduation Year: 2018

Donal Courtney
Graduation Year: 1991

Donnagh Mayock
Graduation Year: 2023

Dorothy cotter
Graduation Year: 2002

Douglas Rankine
Graduation Year: 2000

Duncan Smith
Graduation Year: 2021

Dympna Heffernan
Graduation Year: 2020

Eadaoin Barrett
Graduation Year: 2017

Eddie Tighe
Graduation Year: 1994

Edel Sheridan
Graduation Year: 1996

Edward Coughlan
Graduation Year: 1997

Eilis Carey
Graduation Year: 2014

Eilis O’Donnell
Graduation Year: 2004

Eimear Morrissey
Graduation Year: 2008

Eimear Mullen Frew
Graduation Year: 2020

Elaine Dea
Graduation Year: 2004

Elena Bolster
Graduation Year: 2005

Elijah Rowen
Graduation Year: 2014

Elizabeth McGrath
Graduation Year: 2010