![]() ![]() The following year, he had his first prominent feature role, playing one of two brothers (the other being Donal McCann) in love with the same woman (Saskia Reeves) in "December Bride" (1990), a romantic drama set in turn-of-the-twentieth century Ireland. After a return to the theatre world, which included a partial season with the Greenwich Theatre in London in 1984 and appearing in Peter Brook's six-hour long staging of "The Mahabharata" (1987), Hinds returned to film with a supporting role in "The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover" (1989), his first film with Dame Helen Mirren. Meanwhile, he became sort of a journeyman actor, taking roles wherever he could get them, including the Druid Theatre in Galway, the Lyric Players' Theatre in Belfast and the Field Day Theatre Company in Derry, which was formed by playwright Brian Fiel and actor Stephen Rea.Naturally, Hinds segued from the stage to the screen, making his film debut as Lot in "Excalibur" (1981), the cult classic look at King Arthur (Nigel Terry) and his Knights of the Round Table. Despite his inauspicious beginning, Hinds remained with the theatre for the next decade. After graduating in 1975, Hinds made his professional debut as the rear end of a horse in a production of "Cinderella" (1976) at the Glasgow Citizens Theatre in Scotland. In 1972, he briefly attended Queen's College to study law, but dropped out to take up drama at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. Malachy's College, where, when he was 12 or 13, he shined as Lady Macbeth. As a boy, he performed in the Patricia Mulholland Irish Dance troupe and in productions at the all-boys high school, St. ![]() Though his father hoped his son would follow in his footsteps, Hinds had intentions of following his mother's course instead. ![]() Born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, Hinds was raised the youngest of five children by his physician father and his teacher mother, Moya, who was also an amateur actress before the kids were born. ![]()
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