Gabriel Byrne
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).
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Acting (109 movies)
Miller's Crossing
1990
Dead Man
1995
The Usual Suspects
1995
Leningrad
2009
Stigmata
1999
Lamborghini: The Man Behind the Legend
2022
Point of No Return
1993
Jindabyne
2006
The Search for Alexander the Great
1981
Excalibur
1981
Vanity Fair
2004
Played
2006
P.S.
2004
Assault on Precinct 13
2005
Gothic
1987
Into the West
1992
Smilla's Sense of Snow
1997
The Man in the Iron Mask
1998
Little Women
1994
End of Days
1999
Enemy of the State
1998
Spider
2002
Ghost Ship
2002
The Keep
1983
Emotional Arithmetic
2008
Hello Again
1987
Perrier's Bounty
2009
Defence of the Realm
1986
Trial by Jury
1994
Cool World
1992
Making Love
2000
Shade
2003
Siesta
1987
Wah-Wah
2005
A Simple Twist of Fate
1994
Virginia's Run
2002
All Things Bright and Beautiful
1994
The Last of the High Kings
1996
Hanna K.
1983
Polish Wedding
1998
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
2004
This Is the Sea
1997
Mad Dog Time
1996
The End of Violence
1997
The Courier
1988
Prince of Jutland
1994
Quest for Camelot
1998
Shipwrecked
1990
Frankie Starlight
1995
Julia and Julia
1988
A Man's Story
2011
Lionheart
1987
The Brylcreem Boys
1996
Walking with Ghosts
2022
Capital
2012
Buffalo Girls
1995
A Dangerous Woman
1993
Patrick
2004
The Rocking Horse Winner
1982
Diamond Skulls
1990
I, Anna
2012
John Ford: Dreaming the Quiet Man
2012
All Things To All Men
2013
Vampire Academy
2014
Just a Sigh
2013
Murder at Yellowstone City
2022
Dance First
2023
A Soldier's Tale
1988
Horses: The Story of Equus
2002
When Brendan Met Trudy
2000
Killing Emmett Young
2002
Flight from Death: The Quest for Immortality
2003
Weapons of Mass Distraction
1997
Louder Than Bombs
2015
The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse
2022
Endless Night
2015
2:22
2008
The 33
2015
Ballerina
2025
Mad to Be Normal
2017
Four Letters of Love
2025
Cursed: The True Nature of Hereditary
2018
Carrie Pilby
2017
Versus: The Life and Films of Ken Loach
2016
Somebody Is Waiting
1996
No Pay, Nudity
2016
An L.A. Minute
2018
Into the Night: Portraits of Life and Death
2017
Lies We Tell
2018
Hereditary
2018
In the Cloud
2018
Camelot: Live from Lincoln Center
2008
My Astonishing Self: Gabriel Byrne on George Bernard Shaw
2018
Lost Girls
2020
Atlantic Salmon: Lost at Sea
2018
The Outsider
1979
The Women of SNL
2010
On a Paving Stone Mounted
1978
Death of a Ladies' Man
2021
Round Up: Deposing 'The Usual Suspects'
2002
| Title | Year | Job |
|---|---|---|
| In the Name of the Father | 1993 | Executive Producer |
| The Brylcreem Boys | 1996 | Producer |
| The Last of the High Kings | 1996 | Screenplay |
| Mad About Mambo | 2000 | Executive Producer |
| Tent City, U.S.A | 2012 | Executive Producer |
| Hereditary | 2018 | Executive Producer |
| Land Without God | 2019 | Executive Producer |