
About
Gabriel Byrne
Overview
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).
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Known for
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2025 | From the World of John Wick: Ballerina | Actor | The Chancellor | N/A N/A |
2025 | Four Letters of Love | Actor | Muiris Gore | N/A N/A |
2025 | Blue Road: The Edna O'Brien Story | Actor | Self | N/A N/A |
2023 | Dance First | Actor | Samuel Beckett | 59 Average |
2022 | The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse | Actor | The Horse (voice) | 71 Good |
2022 | Lamborghini: The Man Behind the Legend | Actor | Enzo Ferrari | 61 Fair |
2022 | Murder at Yellowstone City | Actor | Sheriff Ambrose | 58 Average |
2022 | Walking with Ghosts | Actor | Himself | N/A N/A |
2021 | Death of a Ladies' Man | Actor | Samuel O'Shea | 58 Average |
2020 | Michael Des Barres: Who Do You Want Me To Be? | Actor | Self | N/A N/A |
2020 | Lost Girls | Actor | Richard Dormer | 60 Fair |
2019 | War of the Worlds | Actor | Bill Ward | 72 Good |
2018 | Cursed: The True Nature of Hereditary | Actor | Self - Steve | 59 Average |
2018 | An L.A. Minute | Actor | Ted Gold | 58 Average |
2018 | Hereditary | Actor | Steve Graham | 72 Good |
2018 | My Astonishing Self: Gabriel Byrne on George Bernard Shaw | Actor | Narrator | 58 Average |
2018 | In the Cloud | Actor | Doc Wolff | 58 Average |
2018 | Lies We Tell | Actor | Donald | 58 Average |
2018 | Atlantic Salmon: Lost at Sea | Actor | Narrator | 59 Average |
2017 | Into the Night: Portraits of Life and Death | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
2017 | Mad to Be Normal | Actor | Jim | 58 Average |
2017 | Carrie Pilby | Actor | Mr. Pilby | 63 Fair |
2016 | No Pay, Nudity | Actor | Lawrence Rose | 58 Average |
2016 | Versus: The Life and Films of Ken Loach | Actor | Self - Actor | 59 Average |
2015 | Endless Night | Actor | Bram | 59 Average |
2015 | Louder Than Bombs | Actor | Gene Reed | 61 Fair |
2015 | The 33 | Actor | Andre Sougarret | 62 Fair |
2014 | Quirke | Actor | Quirke | 66 Fair |
2014 | Vampire Academy | Actor | Victor Dashkov | 62 Fair |
2013 | Excalibur: Behind the Movie | Actor | Self | N/A N/A |
2013 | Just a Sigh | Actor | Man | 59 Average |
2013 | All Things To All Men | Actor | Joseph Corso | 57 Average |
2012 | Capital | Actor | Dittmar Rigule | 59 Average |
2012 | Secret State | Actor | Tom Dawkins | 69 Fair |
2012 | John Ford: Dreaming the Quiet Man | Actor | Narrator | 58 Average |
2012 | I, Anna | Actor | D.C.I. Bernie Reid | 58 Average |
2011 | A Man's Story | Actor | Self | 58 Average |
2010 | The Women of SNL | Actor | Priest (archive footage) | 59 Average |
2009 | Perrier's Bounty | Actor | Voice of the Grim Reaper (voice) | 58 Average |
2009 | Leningrad | Actor | Philip Parker | 58 Average |
2008 | 2:22 | Actor | Detective Swain (uncredited) | 58 Average |
2008 | Gabriel Byrne: Stories from Home | Actor | N/A N/A |
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2008 | Camelot: Live from Lincoln Center | Actor | King Arthur | N/A N/A |
2008 | Emotional Arithmetic | Actor | Christopher Lewis | 58 Average |
2007 | Leningrad | Actor | N/A N/A |
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2007 | Attack on Leningrad | Actor | Phillip Parker | 69 Fair |
2006 | Jindabyne | Actor | Stewart | 58 Average |
2006 | Played | Actor | Eddie | 58 Average |
2005 | Wah-Wah | Actor | Harry Compton | 58 Average |
2005 | Assault on Precinct 13 | Actor | Captain Marcus Duvall | 61 Fair |
2004 | The Bridge of San Luis Rey | Actor | Brother Juniper | 57 Average |
2004 | P.S. | Actor | Peter Harrington | 58 Average |
2004 | Vanity Fair | Actor | The Marquess of Steyne | 58 Average |
2004 | Patrick | Actor | Patrick | N/A N/A |
2003 | Shade | Actor | Charlie Miller | 59 Average |
2003 | Flight from Death: The Quest for Immortality | Actor | Narrator | 59 Average |
2002 | Spider | Actor | Bill Cleg | 63 Fair |
2002 | Ghost Ship | Actor | Captain Sean Murphy | 59 Average |
2002 | Horses: The Story of Equus | Actor | Narrator | N/A N/A |
2002 | Pursuing the Suspects | Actor | Himself | 59 Average |
2002 | Killing Emmett Young | Actor | Jack Marlow / Stephen Bracken | 58 Average |
2002 | Keyser Soze, Lie or Legend - Featurette | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
2002 | Round Up: Deposing 'The Usual Suspects' | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
2002 | Virginia's Run | Actor | Ford Lofton | 59 Average |
2000 | When Brendan Met Trudy | Actor | Special Appearance | 58 Average |
2000 | Madigan Men | Actor | Benjamin Madigan | N/A N/A |
2000 | Making Love | Actor | il violinista/Jeno Varga adulto | 59 Average |
1999 | End of Days | Actor | The Man | 60 Fair |
1999 | Stigmata | Actor | Father Andrew Kiernan | 61 Fair |
1998 | Enemy of the State | Actor | 'Brill' | 69 Fair |
1998 | Quest for Camelot | Actor | Lionel (voice) | 64 Fair |
1998 | Pirates | Actor | Narrator (voice) | 58 Average |
1998 | The Man in the Iron Mask | Actor | D'Artagnan | 65 Fair |
1998 | Polish Wedding | Actor | Bolek | 58 Average |
1997 | This Is the Sea | Actor | Rohan | 59 Average |
1997 | The End of Violence | Actor | Ray | 58 Average |
1997 | Weapons of Mass Distraction | Actor | Lionel Powers | 58 Average |
1997 | Smilla's Sense of Snow | Actor | The Mechanic | 60 Fair |
1996 | Somebody Is Waiting | Actor | Roger Ellis | 58 Average |
1996 | The Last of the High Kings | Actor | Jack Griffin | 58 Average |
1996 | The Brylcreem Boys | Actor | Commandant O'Brien | 58 Average |
1996 | Mad Dog Time | Actor | Ben London | 58 Average |
1995 | Dead Man | Actor | Charlie Dickinson | 69 Fair |
1995 | Frankie Starlight | Actor | Jack Kelly | 58 Average |
1995 | Irish Cinema: Ourselves Alone? | Actor | Narrator | 59 Average |
1995 | The Usual Suspects | Actor | Keaton | 80 Very good |
1995 | Buffalo Girls | Actor | Teddy Blue | 59 Average |
1994 | Little Women | Actor | Friedrich Bhaer | 68 Fair |
1994 | Trial by Jury | Actor | Daniel Graham | 58 Average |
1994 | A Simple Twist of Fate | Actor | John Newland | 59 Average |
1994 | All Things Bright and Beautiful | Actor | The Good Thief | N/A N/A |
1994 | Prince of Jutland | Actor | Fenge | 58 Average |
1993 | A Dangerous Woman | Actor | Mackey | 58 Average |
1993 | Point of No Return | Actor | Bob | 60 Fair |
1992 | Into the West | Actor | Papa Reilly | 59 Average |
1992 | Cool World | Actor | Jack Deebs | 57 Average |
1990 | Shipwrecked | Actor | Lt. John Merrick | 59 Average |
1990 | Miller's Crossing | Actor | Tom Reagan | 70 Good |
1990 | Dark Obsession | Actor | Hugo | 58 Average |
1988 | A Soldier's Tale | Actor | Saul | 58 Average |
1988 | The Courier | Actor | Val | 58 Average |
1988 | Julia and Julia | Actor | Paolo | 58 Average |
1987 | Siesta | Actor | Augustine | 58 Average |
1987 | Hello Again | Actor | Kevin Scanlon | 58 Average |
1987 | Lionheart | Actor | Black Prince | 58 Average |
1986 | Gothic | Actor | Lord Byron | 58 Average |
1986 | Defence of the Realm | Actor | Nicholas 'Nick' Mullen | 59 Average |
1985 | Mussolini: The Untold Story | Actor | Vittorio Mussolini | 69 Fair |
1985 | Christopher Columbus | Actor | Christopher Columbus | 69 Fair |
1984 | Reflections | Actor | William Masters | 58 Average |
1984 | The Treatment | Actor | Father Michael | N/A N/A |
1983 | The Keep | Actor | Major Kaempffer | 58 Average |
1983 | Hanna K. | Actor | Joshué Herzog | 58 Average |
1982 | The Rocking Horse Winner | Actor | Bassett | N/A N/A |
1981 | The Search for Alexander the Great | Actor | Ptolemy | N/A N/A |
1981 | Excalibur | Actor | Uther | 65 Fair |
1980 | Bracken | Actor | Pat Barry | N/A N/A |
1979 | The Outsider | Actor | Man in Street | 58 Average |
1978 | On a Paving Stone Mounted | Actor | N/A N/A |
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1978 | The Last of Summer | Actor | Bishop's secretary | N/A N/A |
1978 | Strangers | Actor | Johnny Maguire | 69 Fair |
Diary Of A Mad Old Man | Actor | N/A N/A |
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A World War II Fairytale: The Making of Michael Mann's 'The Keep' | Actor | Himself (Archive Footage) | 58 Average |
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Nothing Is What It Seems: The Making Of 'The Usual Suspects' | Actor | Self | N/A N/A |
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Sauver Mozart | Actor | N/A N/A |
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Writing |
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1996 | The Last of the High Kings | Writing | Screenplay | 58 Average |
Production |
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2019 | Land Without God | Production | Executive Producer | 59 Average |
2018 | Hereditary | Production | Executive Producer | 72 Good |
2012 | Tent City, U.S.A | Production | Executive Producer | 59 Average |
2000 | Madigan Men | Production | Producer | N/A N/A |
2000 | Mad About Mambo | Production | Executive Producer | 58 Average |
1996 | Somebody Is Waiting | Production | Co-Producer | 58 Average |
1996 | The Last of the High Kings | Production | Co-Executive Producer | 58 Average |
1996 | The Brylcreem Boys | Production | Producer | 58 Average |
1993 | In the Name of the Father | Production | Executive Producer | 74 Good |
1992 | Into the West | Production | Associate Producer | 59 Average |