On television, Hinds portrayed Gaius Julius Caesar in the first season of BBC/HBO's series, "Rome" in 2006. He has also been featured in a number of made-for-television films, including the role of Michael Henchard in Thomas Hardy's "The Mayor of Casterbridge" in 2004, for which he received the Irish Film and Television Award for Best Actor in a Dramatic Series. Additional television performances include Edward Parker-Jones in the crime drama series "Prime Suspect 3" (1993), Abel Mason in Dame Catherine Cookson's "The Man Who Cried" (1993), Jim Browner in "The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes" episode "The Cardboard Box" (1994), Fyodor Glazunov in the science fiction miniseries "Cold Lazarus" (1996), Edward Rochester in Charlotte Brontë's "Jane Eyre" (1997), the Knight Templar Brian de Bois-Guilbert in Sir Walter Scott's "Ivanhoe" (1997) and a portrayal of the French existentialist Albert Camus in "Broken Morning" (2003).