Aoife Hinds


Aoife Hinds is a British actress. On television, she is known for her roles in the BBC Three and Hulu miniseries Normal People, the ITV series The Long Call, and the HBO series Dune: Prophecy. Her films include Hellraiser.
Hinds is the daughter of Irish actor Ciarán Hinds.

Early life

Hinds was born in South London to Irish actor Ciarán Hinds and Vietnamese-born French actress Hélène Patarot. Hinds took weekend violin and piano lessons at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. She moved to Paris at the age of 10. She graduated with a Bachelor of Science in International Relations from the London School of Economics in 2013. She went on to graduate from the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama in 2016 with a Master of Arts in Acting. She also trained at the Conservatoire national supérieur d'art dramatique in 2017.

Career

In 2018, Hinds made her feature film debut in The Commuter and her television debut in the French miniseries Immortality and with a guest appearance in an episode of the Syfy adaptation of Nightflyers. The following year, she played Ellie in the ITV series Cheat and Lyla in the science fiction series The Feed, and gained prominence through her guest role as Mae Chung in an episode of the Channel 4 sitcom Derry Girls. She starred in i will still be whole at the Bunker Theatre.
Hinds had a recurring role as Helen Brophy, Connell's university girlfriend, in the 2020 BBC Three and Hulu miniseries adaptation of Sally Rooney's Normal People. She also appeared in the film The Man in the Hat. In 2021, Hinds portrayed Princess Mary Tudor in the Channel 5 series Anne Boleyn and was in the main cast of the ITV crime drama The Long Call as Gaby Chadwell.
In 2022, Hinds starred in the eleventh instalment of the Hellraiser horror franchise, which was released on Hulu. She was in the original cast of the play Patriots at the Almeida Theatre and will make her West End debut when the production transfers to the Noël Coward Theatre. She also presented a television documentary titled The Brontës: An Irish Tale.
Hinds appeared in the films Cottontail and Scoop, and in HBO Max series Dune: Prophecy.