Brendan Gleeson
94 movies · 17 TV shows
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Mar 29, 1955 (age 71)
- Place of birth
- Dublin, Ireland
Biography
Brendan Gleeson (born 29 March 1955) is an Irish actor and film director. He is the recipient of three IFTA Awards, two BIFA's, and a Primetime Emmy Award and has been nominated twice for a BAFTA Award, five times for a Golden Globe Award and once for an Academy Award. In 2020, he was listed at number 18 on The Irish Times list of Ireland's greatest film actors. He is the father of actors Domhnall Gleeson and Brian Gleeson.
He is best known for his performance as Alastor Moody in the Harry Potter films (2005–2010). He is also known for his supporting roles in films such as Braveheart (1995), Michael Collins (1996), 28 Days Later (2002), Gangs of New York (2002), Cold Mountain (2003), Troy (2004), Suffragette (2015), Paddington 2 (2017), The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018), and The Tragedy of Macbeth (2021). He is also known for his leading roles in films such as The General (1998), In Bruges (2008), The Guard (2011), Calvary (2014), Frankie (2019), and The Banshees of Inisherin (2022). He received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for the lattermost film.
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He won an Primetime Emmy Award in 2009 for his portrayal of Winston Churchill in the television film Into the Storm. He also received a Golden Globe Award nomination for his performance as Donald Trump in the Showtime series The Comey Rule (2020). From 2017 to 2019 he starred in the crime series Mr. Mercedes. He received an Emmy Award nomination for Stephen Frears' Sundance TV series State of the Union (2022).
Profiles IMDb
Known for
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★ 7.8 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
2005 · Film
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★ 7.7 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
2007 · Film
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★ 7.7 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
2010 · Film
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★ 7.6 Edge of Tomorrow
2014 · Film
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★ 7.2 Troy
2004 · Film
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★ 7.9 Braveheart
1995 · Film
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★ 8.0 The Simpsons
1989 · TV
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★ 7.2 28 Days Later
2002 · Film
Brendan Gleeson: movies and TV shows
Acting (111)
- Upcoming
- Upcoming Sexual Healing
as Freddy Cousaert
- Upcoming The Honey Wars
as (voice)
- Upcoming A Hero's Journey: The Making of Beowulf
as Wiglaf
- Upcoming
- Upcoming Blood Runs Coal
as Joseph Yablonski
- Upcoming The Weir
as Jack
- Upcoming
- 2026
- 2025 H Is for Hawk
as Dad
- 2025
- 2024 Joker: Folie à Deux
as Jackie Sullivan
- 2023 A Greyhound of a Girl
as Paddy (voice)
- 2022
- 2022 The Banshees of Inisherin
as Colm Doherty
- 2022 The Dead Zoo
as Narrator
- 2021 The Tragedy of Macbeth
as Duncan
- 2021 Riverdance: The Animated Adventure
as Huntsman (voice)
- 2021
- 2021
- 2020
- 2019 Frankie
as Jimmy
- 2019
- 2018 The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
as Irishman (segment "The Mortal Remains")
- 2018 Captain Morten and the Spider Queen
as Captain Vicks (voice)
- 2018 Psychic
as Jeremiah
- 2017 Paddington 2
as Knuckles McGinty
- 2017
- 2017 Hampstead
as Donald Horner
- 2016 Live by Night
as Thomas Coughlin
- 2016 Assassin's Creed
as Joseph Lynch
- 2016 Trespass Against Us
as Colby Culter
- 2016 Alone in Berlin
as Otto Quangel
- 2016 Atlantic
as Narrator
- 2015 In the Heart of the Sea
as Old Thomas Nickerson
- 2015 Suffragette
as Arthur Steed
- 2015 Pursuit
as Searbhán
- 2014 Stonehearst Asylum
as The Alienist
- 2014 Song of the Sea
as Conor / Mac Lir (voice)
- 2014 The Grand Seduction
as Murray French
- 2014 Edge of Tomorrow
as General Brigham
- 2014 Calvary
as Father James Lavelle
- 2013
- 2013 The Smurfs 2
as Victor Doyle
- 2012 The Company You Keep
as Henry Osborne
- 2012 So You Want To Be A Pirate!
as The Pirate With Gout
- 2012 The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists!
as The Pirate with Gout (voice)
- 2012 The Raven
as Colonel Hamilton
- 2012 Safe House
as David Barlow
- 2011 Albert Nobbs
as Dr. Holloran
- 2011 The Cup
as Dermot Weld
- 2011 The Guard
as Sergeant Gerry Boyle
- 2010 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
as Alastor 'Mad-Eye' Moody
- 2010 Noreen
as Con Keogh
- 2010 Perrier's Bounty
as Darren Perrier
- 2010 Green Zone
as Martin Brown
- 2009 Into the Storm
as Winston Churchill
- 2009 The Secret of Kells
as Abbot Cellach (voice)
- 2008 In Bruges
as Ken
- 2007 Beowulf
as Wiglaf (Voice)
- 2007 Black Irish
as Desmond McKay
- 2007 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
as Alastor 'Mad-Eye' Moody
- 2006 The Tiger's Tail
as Liam O'Leary
- 2006 Studs
as Walter Keegan
- 2005 Breakfast on Pluto
as John Joe Kenny
- 2005 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
as Alastor 'Mad-Eye' Moody
- 2005 Kingdom of Heaven
as Reynald de Chatillon
- 2004 Six Shooter
as Donnelly
- 2004 The Village
as August Nicholson
- 2004 Troy
as Menelaus
- 2004 In My Country
as De Jagar
- 2003 Cold Mountain
as Stobrod Thewes
- 2003
- 2002 Gangs of New York
as Walter 'Monk' McGinn
- 2002 Dark Blue
as Jack van Meter
- 2002 28 Days Later
as Frank
- 2001 A.I. Artificial Intelligence
as Lord Johnson-Johnson
- 2001 Cáca Milis
as Paul
- 2001 The Tailor of Panama
as Mickie Abraxas
- 2000 Wild About Harry
as Harry McKee
- 2000 Saltwater
as Simple Simon
- 2000 Harrison's Flowers
as Marc Stevenson
- 2000 Mission: Impossible II
as McCloy
- 1999 My Life So Far
as Jim Menzies
- 1999 Lake Placid
as Sheriff Hank Keough
- 1999 This Is My Father
as Garda Jim
- 1999 Sweety Barrett
as Sweety Barrett
- 1998 The General
as Martin Cahill
- 1998 The Butcher Boy
as Father Bubbles
- 1997 Before I Sleep
as John Harte
- 1997 I Went Down
as Bunny Kelly
- 1997 Angela Mooney Dies Again
as Barney Mooney
- 1997 Turbulence
as Stubbs
- 1997 A Further Gesture
as Richard
- 1996 Spaghetti Slow
as Frank Ferguson
- 1996 Michael Collins
as Liam Tobin
- 1996 Trojan Eddie
as Ginger
- 1995 Braveheart
as Hamish Campbell
- 1994
- 1993 The Snapper
as Lester
- 1993 Love Lies Bleeding
as Thomas Macken
- 1992 Into the West
as Inspector Bolger
- 1992 Far and Away
as Social Club Policeman
- 1991 The Treaty
as Michael Collins
- 1990
- 1990 The Field
as Quarryman
- 1990 Dear Sarah
as Brendan Dowd
- 1989
- 1989
- 1986
- 1985
Behind the camera (1)
- 2018 Psychic
Producer, Director
Talk shows and appearances (14)
- 2024
- 2023
- 2020 Gay Byrne's Late Late Moments
1 episode
- 2019
- 2015 The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
1 episode
- 2015 The Late Late Show with James Corden
1 episode
- 2014 Late Night with Seth Meyers
2 episodes
- 2010 1916 Seachtar na Cásca
7 episodes
- 2007 The Graham Norton Show
1 episode
- 2006
- 2005
- 2003
- 1975 Saturday Night Live
1 episode
- 1944 Golden Globe Awards
1 episode