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Gabriel Byrne
Gabriel Byrne

Gabriel Byrne

ActingBorn May 12, 1950 (age 76)Dublin, Ireland

Biography

Gabriel James Byrne (born 12 May 1950) is an Irish actor. He has received a Golden Globe Award and nominations for a Grammy Award, two Primetime Emmy Awards and two Tony Awards. Byrne was awarded the Irish Film and Television Academy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2018 and was listed at number 17 on The Irish Times list of Ireland's greatest film actors in 2020. In 2009, The Guardian named him one of the best actors who never received an Academy Award nomination. Byrne's acting career began at the Focus Theatre in Dublin before he joined London's Royal Court Theatre in 1974. His screen debut came in the Irish drama serial The Riordans and the spin-off show Bracken. He went on to star in such films as Defence of the Realm (1986), Lionheart (1987), Miller's Crossing (1990), Little Women (1994), Dead Man (1995), The Usual Suspects (1995), The Man in the Iron Mask (1998), Enemy of the State (1998), Vanity Fair (2004), The 33 (2015), and Hereditary (2018). He co-wrote The Last of the High Kings (1996) and produced In the Name of the Father (1993).  For his Broadway work, Byrne has received two nominations for the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play for his roles in the Eugene O'Neill plays A Moon for the Misbegotten (2000) and Long Day's Journey into Night (2016). For his television work, Byrne has received two nominations for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series for his role as Paul Weston in the HBO drama series In Treatment (2008–2010). He also received a Golden Globe Award. His other notable television roles include Vikings (2013), Maniac (2018), and War of the Worlds (2019–2022). Description above from the Wikipedia article Gabriel Byrne, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmography

2025
Four Letters of Love

as Muiris Gore

Movie
2025
Ballerina

as The Chancellor

Movie
2023
Dance First

as Samuel Beckett

Movie
2022Movie
2022
Murder at Yellowstone City

as Sheriff Ambrose

Movie
2022Movie
2021
Death of a Ladies' Man

as Samuel O'Shea

Movie
2020
ZeroZeroZero

as Edward Lynwood

TV
2020
Lost Girls

as Richard Dormer

Movie
2019
War of the Worlds

as Bill Ward

TV
2018
Maniac

as Porter Milgrim

TV
2018
An L.A. Minute

as Ted Gold

Movie
2018
Hereditary

as Steve Graham

Movie
2018
In the Cloud

as Doc Wolff

Movie
2018
Lies We Tell

as Donald

Movie
2018Movie
2017Movie
2017
Carrie Pilby

as Mr. Pilby

Movie
2016
No Pay, Nudity

as Lester Rosenthal aka Lawrence Rose

Movie
2015Movie
2015
Louder Than Bombs

as Gene Reed

Movie
2015
The 33

as Andre Sougarret

Movie
2015
Vikings: Athelstan's Journal

as Earl Haraldson (archive footage)

TV
2014
Quirke

as Quirke

TV
2014
Vampire Academy

as Victor Dashkov

Movie
2013Movie
2013
All Things To All Men

as Joseph Corso

Movie
2013
Vikings

as Earl Haraldson

TV
2012
Capital

as Dittmar Rigule

Movie
2012
Secret State

as Tom Dawkins

TV
2012
I, Anna

as D.C.I. Bernie Reid

Movie
2011Movie
2010
The Women of SNL

as Priest (archive footage)

Movie
2009
Perrier's Bounty

as Voice of the Grim Reaper (voice)

Movie
2009TV
2009
Leningrad

as Philip Parker

Movie
2008
2:22

as Detective Swain (uncredited)

Movie
2008Movie
2008
Emotional Arithmetic

as Christopher Lewis

Movie
2008
In Treatment

as Dr. Paul Weston

TV
2007
Attack on Leningrad

as Phillip Parker

TV
2007TV
2006
Jindabyne

as Stewart

Movie
2006
Played

as Eddie

Movie
2005
Wah-Wah

as Harry Compton

Movie
2005
Assault on Precinct 13

as Captain Marcus Duvall

Movie
2004
The Bridge of San Luis Rey

as Brother Juniper

Movie
2004
P.S.

as Peter Harrington

Movie
2004
Vanity Fair

as The Marquess of Steyne

Movie
2004
Patrick

as Patrick

Movie
2003
Shade

as Charlie Miller

Movie
2002
Spider

as Bill Cleg

Movie
2002
Ghost Ship

as Captain Sean Murphy

Movie
2002Movie
2002Movie
2002
Killing Emmett Young

as Jack Marlow / Stephen Bracken

Movie
2002
Virginia's Run

as Ford Lofton

Movie
2000
When Brendan Met Trudy

as Special Appearance

Movie
2000
Madigan Men

as Benjamin Madigan

TV
2000
Making Love

as Violinista / Jeno Varga Adulto

Movie
1999
End of Days

as The Man

Movie
1999
Stigmata

as Father Andrew Kiernan

Movie
1998Movie
1998
Quest for Camelot

as Lionel (voice)

Movie
1998
Pirates

as Narrator (voice)

Movie
1998Movie
1998Movie
1997Movie
1997Movie
1997
The View

as Self

TV
1997Movie
1997
Smilla's Sense of Snow

as The Mechanic

Movie
1996
Somebody Is Waiting

as Roger Ellis

Movie
1996Movie
1996
The Brylcreem Boys

as Commandant O'Brien

Movie
1996
Mad Dog Time

as Ben London

Movie
1995
Dead Man

as Charlie Dickinson

Movie
1995Movie
1995
Frankie Starlight

as Jack Kelly

Movie
1995Movie
1995
Out of Ireland

as Richard O'Gorman (voice)

Movie
1995
Buffalo Girls

as Teddy Blue

Movie
1994
Little Women

as Friedrich Bhaer

Movie
1994
Trial by Jury

as Daniel Graham

Movie
1994
A Simple Twist of Fate

as John Newland

Movie
1994Movie
1994Movie
1993TV
1993Movie
1993Movie
1992
Into the West

as Papa Reilly

Movie
1992
Cool World

as Jack Deebs

Movie
1990
Shipwrecked

as Lt. John Merrick

Movie
1990
Miller's Crossing

as Tom Reagan

Movie
1990Movie
1988Movie
1988Movie
1988Movie
1987
Siesta

as Augustine

Movie
1987
Hello Again

as Kevin Scanlon

Movie
1987
Lionheart

as Black Prince

Movie
1987
Gothic

as Lord Byron

Movie
1986
Defence of the Realm

as Nicholas 'Nick' Mullen

Movie
1985
Mussolini: The Untold Story

as Vittorio Mussolini

TV
1985
Christopher Columbus

as Christopher Columbus

TV
1984
Reflections

as William Masters

Movie
1984
The Treatment

as Father Michael

Movie
1983
The Keep

as Major Kaempffer

Movie
1983
Hanna K.

as Joshué Herzog

Movie
1982
Joyce in June

as Keogh / Blazes Boylan

Movie
1982Movie
1981
Excalibur

as Uther

Movie
1980
Bracken

as Pat Barry

TV
1979
The Outsider

as Man in Street

Movie
1978
The Last of Summer

as Bishop's secretary

TV
1978
Strangers

as Johnny Maguire

TV
1976TV
1975
Saturday Night Live

as Self - Host

TV
1956
Tony Awards

as Self - Presenter

TV

Personal Info

DepartmentActing
BirthdayMay 12, 1950
Place of BirthDublin, Ireland
Popularity2.0