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).
![Emily Perrott](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/EmilyPerrott-150x150.jpg)
Emily Perrott
Graduation Year: 2018
![Emma Loughrey](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/01_Emma-Loughrey-150x150.jpg)
Emma Loughrey
Graduation Year: 2001
![Emma Moohan](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/01_Emma-Moohan-150x150.jpg)
Emma Moohan
Graduation Year: 1997
![Emma Parsons](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Emma-Parsons-150x150.jpg)
Emma Parsons
Graduation Year: 2020
![Enda Ormonde](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/01_Enda-Ormonde-150x150.jpg)
Enda Ormonde
Graduation Year: 1997
![Eoghan Collins](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Eoghan-Collins-150x150.jpg)
Eoghan Collins
Graduation Year: 2017
![Eoin Cunningham](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/01_Eoin-Cunningham-150x150.jpg)
Eoin Cunningham
Graduation Year: 2003
![Eoin Morgan](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Eoin-Morgan-Headshot-2018-150x150.jpg)
Eoin Morgan
Graduation Year: 2010
![Eoin Shanley](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/01_Eoin-Shanley-150x150.jpg)
Eoin Shanley
Graduation Year: 1998
![Esther DeMaggio](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/01_Esther-DeMaggio-150x150.jpg)
Esther DeMaggio
Graduation Year: 2008
![Esther Suess](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/01_Esther-Suess-150x150.jpg)
Esther Suess
Graduation Year: 2012
![Ethan Dillon](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/01_Ethan-Dillon-150x150.jpg)
Ethan Dillon
Graduation Year: 2015
![Eva Birthistle](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/01_Eva-Birthistle-150x150.jpg)
Eva Birthistle
Graduation Year: 1995
![Eve Connolly](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Eve-Connolly-150x150.jpg)
Eve Connolly
Graduation Year: 2016
![Ewan Downie](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Ewan-Downie-150x150.jpg)
Ewan Downie
Graduation Year: 2001
![Faye Shortt](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Faye-Shortt-150x150.jpeg)
Faye Shortt
Graduation Year: 2019
![Fergus Mulligan](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Fergus-Mulligan_CHD_2217-1-150x150.jpg)
Fergus Mulligan
Graduation Year: 2015
![Fidelma Keogh](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/01_Fidelma-Keogh-150x150.jpg)
Fidelma Keogh
Graduation Year: 1997
![Fiona Bergin](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/FionaBergin9877web-150x150.jpg)
Fiona Bergin
Graduation Year: 2020
![Fiona Frawley](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/01_Fiona-Frawley-150x150.jpg)
Fiona Frawley
Graduation Year: 2015
![Fiona Moon](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/01_Fiona-Moon-150x150.jpg)
Fiona Moon
Graduation Year: 2009
![Fiona Ryan](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/01_Fiona-Ryan-150x150.jpg)
Fiona Ryan
Graduation Year: 2005
![Fionn McDonnell](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/FionnMcDonnell9295-150x150.jpg)
Fionn McDonnell
Graduation Year: 2019
![Flora Montgomery](https://gaietyschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/01_Flora-Montgomery-150x150.jpg)
Flora Montgomery
Graduation Year: 1994