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).
![Diarmaid Murtagh](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/01_Diarmaid-Murtagh-121x150.jpg)
Diarmaid Murtagh
Graduation Year: 2007
![Diarmuid Coffee](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/01_Diarmuid-Coffee-150x150.jpg)
Diarmuid Coffee
Graduation Year: 2011
![Dmitry Vinokurov](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Dmitry-Vinokurov-1-150x150.jpg)
Dmitry Vinokurov
Graduation Year: 2018
![Donal Courtney](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Donal-1-150x150.jpg)
Donal Courtney
Graduation Year: 1991
![Donnagh Mayock](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Donnagh-Mayock-Headshot-150x150.jpg)
Donnagh Mayock
Graduation Year: 2023
![Dorothy cotter](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/01_Dorothy-cotter-150x150.jpg)
Dorothy cotter
Graduation Year: 2002
![Douglas Rankine](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/01_Douglas-Rankine-150x150.jpg)
Douglas Rankine
Graduation Year: 2000
![Duncan Smith](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/DuncanSmith4947web-150x150.jpg)
Duncan Smith
Graduation Year: 2021
![Dympna Heffernan](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Dympna-Heffernan-1-150x150.jpg)
Dympna Heffernan
Graduation Year: 2020
![Eadaoin Barrett](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Eadaoin-Barrett-150x150.jpg)
Eadaoin Barrett
Graduation Year: 2017
![Eddie Tighe](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/01_Eddie-Tighe-150x150.jpg)
Eddie Tighe
Graduation Year: 1994
![Edel Sheridan](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/01_Edel-Sheridan-150x150.jpg)
Edel Sheridan
Graduation Year: 1996
![Edward Coughlan](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/01_Edward-Coughlan-150x150.jpg)
Edward Coughlan
Graduation Year: 1997
![Eilis Carey](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/01_Eilis-Carey-150x150.jpg)
Eilis Carey
Graduation Year: 2014
![Eilis O’Donnell](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/01_Eilis-ODonnell--150x150.jpg)
Eilis O’Donnell
Graduation Year: 2004
![Eimear Morrissey](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Eimear-Morrisey-150x150.jpg)
Eimear Morrissey
Graduation Year: 2008
![Eimear Mullen Frew](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Eimear-Mullen-Frew-GSA2020-1-1-150x150.jpg)
Eimear Mullen Frew
Graduation Year: 2020
![Elaine Dea](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/01_Elaine-Dea-150x150.jpg)
Elaine Dea
Graduation Year: 2004
![Elena Bolster](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/01_Elena-Bolster-150x150.jpg)
Elena Bolster
Graduation Year: 2005
![Elijah Rowen](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/01_Elijah-Ronan-150x150.jpg)
Elijah Rowen
Graduation Year: 2014
![Elizabeth McGrath](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/01_Elizabeth-McGrath-150x150.jpg)
Elizabeth McGrath
Graduation Year: 2010
![Ellen Cloney](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/01_Ellen-Cloney-150x150.jpg)
Ellen Cloney
Graduation Year: 2014
![Emily Elphinstone](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/01_Emily-Elphinstone-150x150.jpg)
Emily Elphinstone
Graduation Year: 2010
![Emily Healy](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Emily-Healy-Headshot_-150x150.jpg)
Emily Healy
Graduation Year: 2022