Gabriel Byrne
Acting
Born May 12, 1950 · Dublin, Ireland
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.
Films (115)
Richard Burton: Wild Genius
2025
A World War II Fairy Tale: The Making of Michael Mann's 'The Keep'
2025
Four Letters of Love
2025
Ballerina
2025
Blue Road: The Edna O'Brien Story
2025
Dance First
2023
The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse
2022
Lamborghini: The Man Behind the Legend
2022
Murder at Yellowstone City
2022
Walking with Ghosts
2022
Death of a Ladies' Man
2021
Michael Des Barres: Who Do You Want Me To Be?
2020
Lost Girls
2020
Cursed: The True Nature of Hereditary
2018
An L.A. Minute
2018
Hereditary
2018
My Astonishing Self: Gabriel Byrne on George Bernard Shaw
2018
In the Cloud
2018
Lies We Tell
2018
Atlantic Salmon: Lost at Sea
2018
Into the Night: Portraits of Life and Death
2017
Mad to Be Normal
2017
Carrie Pilby
2017
No Pay, Nudity
2016
Versus: The Life and Films of Ken Loach
2016
Endless Night
2015
Louder Than Bombs
2015
The 33
2015
Vampire Academy
2014
Excalibur: Behind the Movie
2013
Just a Sigh
2013
All Things To All Men
2013
Capital
2012
John Ford: Dreaming the Quiet Man
2012
I, Anna
2012
A Man's Story
2011
The Women of SNL
2010
Perrier's Bounty
2009
Leningrad
2009
2:22
2008
Gabriel Byrne: Stories from Home
2008
Camelot: Live from Lincoln Center
2008
Emotional Arithmetic
2008
Saturday Night Live in the '90s: Pop Culture Nation
2007
Jindabyne
2006
Played
2006
Wah-Wah
2005
Assault on Precinct 13
2005
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
2004
P.S.
2004
Vanity Fair
2004
Patrick
2004
Shade
2003
Flight from Death: The Quest for Immortality
2003
Spider
2002
Ghost Ship
2002
Horses: The Story of Equus
2002
Pursuing the Suspects
2002
Killing Emmett Young
2002
Keyser Soze, Lie or Legend - Featurette
2002
Round Up: Deposing 'The Usual Suspects'
2002
Virginia's Run
2002
When Brendan Met Trudy
2000
Making Love
2000
End of Days
1999
Stigmata
1999
Enemy of the State
1998
Quest for Camelot
1998
Pirates
1998
The Man in the Iron Mask
1998
Polish Wedding
1998
Nothing Is What It Seems: The Making Of 'The Usual Suspects'
1998
This Is the Sea
1997
The End of Violence
1997
Weapons of Mass Distraction
1997
Smilla's Sense of Snow
1997
Somebody Is Waiting
1996
The Last of the High Kings
1996
The Brylcreem Boys
1996
Mad Dog Time
1996
Dead Man
1995
Frankie Starlight
1995
Irish Cinema: Ourselves Alone?
1995
The Usual Suspects
1995
Out of Ireland
1995
Buffalo Girls
1995
Little Women
1994
Trial by Jury
1994
A Simple Twist of Fate
1994
All Things Bright and Beautiful
1994
Prince of Jutland
1994
A Dangerous Woman
1993
Point of No Return
1993
Into the West
1992
Cool World
1992
Shipwrecked
1990
Miller's Crossing
1990
Diamond Skulls
1990
A Soldier's Tale
1988
The Courier
1988
Julia and Julia
1988
Siesta
1987
Hello Again
1987
Lionheart
1987
Gothic
1987
Defence of the Realm
1986
Reflections
1984
The Treatment
1984
The Keep
1983
Hanna K.
1983
The Rocking Horse Winner
1982
The Search for Alexander the Great
1981
Excalibur
1981
The Outsider
1979
On a Paving Stone Mounted
1978