Aoife Hinds

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.^[2] She moved to Paris at the age of 10.^[3] She graduated with a Bachelor of Science in International Relations from the London School of Economics (LSE) in 2013.^[4] 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 (CNSAD) in 2017.^[5]

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.^[6] She starred in i will still be whole (when you rip me in half) at the Bunker Theatre.^[7][8]

Hinds had a recurring role as Helen Brophy, Connell's (Paul Mescal) university girlfriend, in the 2020 BBC Three and Hulu miniseries adaptation of Sally Rooney's Normal People.^[9] 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.^[10]

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.^[3]

Hinds appeared in the films Cottontail and Scoop, and in HBO Max series Dune: Prophecy.^[11]

Film

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Year	Title	Role	Notes
2018	The Commuter	Jeanie
2020	The Man in the Hat	Garagista
2022	Hellraiser	Nora	Hulu film
2023	Cottontail	Mary
2024	Scoop	Rebecca
	We Live in Time	Skye
2025	Saipan	Karen

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Television

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Year	Title	Role	Notes
2018	Immortality	Tisha	Miniseries
	Nightflyers	Sylvie	Episode: "Torches and Pitchforks"
2019	Cheat	Ellie	Main role
	Derry Girls	Mae Chung	Episode: "The Prom"
	The Feed	Lyla	2 episodes
2020	Normal People	Helen Brophy	4 episodes
2021	Celebrity Mastermind	Herself – Winner	1 episode
	Anne Boleyn	Princess Mary	Miniseries
	The Long Call	Gaby Chadwell	Main role
2022	The Brontës: An Irish Tale	Herself – Presenter	Documentary
2024	Dune: Prophecy	Sister Emeline	Main role
2026	Secret Service	Julia Price

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