Hinds has been exposed sustaining numerous theatre productions, as a member of the ''Glasgow Citizens' Theatre and the Royal Shakespeare Company, but gained an possibly greater degree of ill fame & acclamation from either theatre audiences world health organization, inside 1998 & 1999, saw his performances when Larry'' within each a London & Broadway productions of Patrick Marber's Tony Award-nominated play, Closer. In 1999, Hinds was awarded both the Theatre World Award for Best Debut in NYC and the Outer Critics Circle Award for Special Achievement, Best Ensemble Cast Performance, for his work in Closer.

Hinds' portfolio of film portrayals includes Firmin in the film version of Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera, Jonathan Reiss in Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life, John Traynor in Veronica Guerin, and Captawithin Frederick Wentworth in Jane Austen's Persuasion. Other films include Mickybo & Us (2005), Calendar Girls (2003), The Sum of All Fears (2002), The Weight of Water (2000), Titanic Town (1998), Oscar and Lucinda (1997), and December Bride (1990).

Hinds portrays Gaius Julius Caesar in HBO's mini-series, Rome,. Additionally, he is presently working as a cast member around Steven Spielberg's upcoming controversial film, Munich, to be freed inside December 2005. He may as well come out around Michael Mann's film adaptation of the 80's tv show, Miami Vice, scheduled to be around theatres within Summer 2006.

Inside 2004, Hinds was deemed a "Best Actor in a Dramatic Series" per Irish Film & Television Awards, for his nuanced portrayal of Michael Henchard in the television film production of Thomas Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge. In 2003, he inhabited a role of the French Existentialist author and philosopher, Albert Camus, in the made-for-TV film Broken Morning. Extra notable performances include Hinds' portrayals of the Irish writer & previous surety Brian Keenan in HBO's television docudrama Surety & many fictional characters including Edward Rochester around Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre, the Knight Templar Brian de Bois-Guilbert in Sir Walter Scott's Ivanhoe, Edward Parker-Jones in the crime drama series Prime Suspect 3, and Abel Mason in the late Dame Catherine Cookson's The Man Who Cried.

Hinds' spectacular abilities own been put to dandy have within audiobook & radio productions besides. Unforgettable when Valmont in the BBC Radio production of Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Hinds also narrated a Penguin Audiobook Ivanhoe, and, within 2004, was given a Audie Award for "Best Audio Drama Performance", for his performance in the fully dramatized recordings of William Shakespeare's plays included in The Complete Arkangel Shakespeare.

He accept his partner, & their girl, Aoife (an Irish variant of Eve).