Ciaran Hinds is a chameleon. He can play nearly anyone, from a terrorist to a Roman emperor to Albus Dumbledore’s brother in the Harry Potter series. He is a classic character actor, an Irish man weened on the English stage and with an attractive, interesting face and expressive eyes. Hinds so thoroughly embodies the character he is playing that the public may be forgiven for forgetting the last time they saw him. He's one of those actor who is in everything, whose name is always on the tip of the tongue. In other words, Hinds is an actor’s actor, the kind of player a director brings on to a project without worrying if he can get the job done. In fact, Hinds tells us that had little time to prepare for his role in the new show premiering tonight at 10 p.m. on the USA Network, “Political Animals.” “I had very little time to do [research] because I was double jobbing,” he says. He spent most of the filming schedule — much of which took place during the GOP presidential primary — traveling between London, Los Angeles and his home in Paris. (more…)
