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Ciarán Hinds (/ˈkɪərən/ KEER-ən; born 9 February 1953) is an Irish actor from Belfast, Northern Ireland. Hinds is known for a range of screen and stage roles. He has starred in feature films including The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (1989), Persuasion (1995), Oscar and Lucinda (1997), Road to Perdition (2002), The Sum of All Fears (2002), Munich (2005), Amazing Grace (2007), There Will Be Blood (2007), Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (2008), Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 (2011), Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011), Silence (2016), First Man (2018) and Belfast (2021), the last of which earned him Oscar and BAFTA nominations for Best Supporting Actor. Known for his distinctively deep voice, Hinds is also known for his voice role as Grand Pabbie, the Troll King, in the animated films Frozen (2013) and Frozen II (2019). He played General Zakharow in Red Sparrow (2018). He also portrayed Steppenwolf in Zack Snyder's Justice League (2017) and its 2021 director's cut. His television roles include Julius Caesar in the series Rome, DCI James Langton in Above Suspicion, Mance Rayder in Game of Thrones, and Captain Sir John Franklin in The Terror. In addition, Hinds appeared in season 3 of Shetland (2016), produced by ITV. As a stage actor, Hinds has spent periods with the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Royal National Theatre, and six seasons with Glasgow Citizens' Theatre. Hinds has continued to work on stage throughout his career. In 2020, he was ranked 31st on The Irish Times list of Ireland's greatest film actors. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ciarán Hinds, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Ciarán Hinds
Steppenwolf
for Steppenwolf in Justice League: Final Crisis Part One (2019)
Suggested by j_bkr
Steppenwolf, uncle of the tyrannical ruler of Apokolips Darkseid, launches an invasion of earth to retrieve 3 mother boxes, but he is stopped and killed by the Justice League. As the league sees Darkseid through Cyborg's boom tube, they decide to take the war to his planet, Apokolips, before he could attack earth again. Superman is hesitant as Lois Lane is pregnant, but upon knowing the nightmare that Batman had, the league goes to Apokolips. After an intense battle, the league gets overwhelmed by the forces of Apokolips. Darkseid manages to capture Superman and discovers a way to manipulate free will, the Anti-life equation. As the portal to return to earth is destroyed, Batman tries to launch an attack on the planet but it fails and Darkseid manages to subdue earth, now renamed New Apokolips. Superman manages to escape from Apokolips, but when arrives to earth he sees the dead bodies of his mother, Martha Kent and Lois Lane. Full of rage, Superman kills Darkseid and puts himself as the supreme ruler of earth.
