Gabriel Byrne
107 movies · 18 TV shows
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- May 12, 1950 (age 76)
- Place of birth
- Dublin, Ireland
- Also known as
- Gabriel James 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).
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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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Gabriel Byrne: movies and TV shows
Acting (121)
- Upcoming
- 2025 Four Letters of Love
as Muiris Gore
- 2025 Ballerina
as The Chancellor
- 2023 Dance First
as Samuel Beckett
- 2022 The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse
as The Horse (voice)
- 2022 Lamborghini: The Man Behind the Legend
as Enzo Ferrari
- 2022 Murder at Yellowstone City
as Sheriff Ambrose
- 2021 Death of a Ladies' Man
as Samuel O'Shea
- 2020
- 2020 Lost Girls
as Richard Dormer
- 2019
- 2018
- 2018 An L.A. Minute
as Ted Gold
- 2018 Hereditary
as Steve Graham
- 2018
- 2018 In the Cloud
as Doc Wolff
- 2018 Lies We Tell
as Donald
- 2018 Atlantic Salmon: Lost at Sea
as Narrator
- 2017 Mad to Be Normal
as Jim
- 2017 Carrie Pilby
as Mr. Pilby
- 2016 No Pay, Nudity
as Lester Rosenthal aka Lawrence Rose
- 2015 Endless Night
as Bram
- 2015 Louder Than Bombs
as Gene Reed
- 2015 The 33
as Andre Sougarret
- 2015
- 2014
- 2014 Vampire Academy
as Victor Dashkov
- 2013 Just a Sigh
as Man
- 2013 All Things To All Men
as Joseph Corso
- 2013
- 2012 Capital
as Dittmar Rigule
- 2012
- 2012 John Ford: Dreaming the Quiet Man
as Narrator
- 2012 I, Anna
as D.C.I. Bernie Reid
- 2010 The Women of SNL
as Priest (archive footage)
- 2010 Perrier's Bounty
as Voice of the Grim Reaper (voice)
- 2009 Leningrad
as Philip Parker
- 2008 2:22
as Detective Swain (uncredited)
- 2008
- 2008 Camelot: Live from Lincoln Center
as King Arthur
- 2008 Emotional Arithmetic
as Christopher Lewis
- 2008
- 2007
- 2007
- 2006 Jindabyne
as Stewart
- 2006 Played
as Eddie
- 2005 Wah-Wah
as Harry Compton
- 2005 Assault on Precinct 13
as Captain Marcus Duvall
- 2004 The Bridge of San Luis Rey
as Brother Juniper
- 2004 P.S.
as Peter Harrington
- 2004 Vanity Fair
as The Marquess of Steyne
- 2004 Patrick
as Patrick
- 2003 Shade
as Charlie Miller
- 2003 Flight from Death: The Quest for Immortality
as Narrator
- 2002 Spider
as Bill Cleg
- 2002 Ghost Ship
as Captain Sean Murphy
- 2002 Horses: The Story of Equus
as Narrator
- 2002 Killing Emmett Young
as Jack Marlow / Stephen Bracken
- 2002 Virginia's Run
as Ford Lofton
- 2000 When Brendan Met Trudy
as Special Appearance
- 2000
- 2000 Making Love
as Violinista / Jeno Varga Adulto
- 1999 End of Days
as The Man
- 1999 Saturday Night Live: 25th Anniversary Special
as (archive footage)
- 1999 Stigmata
as Father Andrew Kiernan
- 1998 Enemy of the State
as 'Brill'
- 1998 Quest for Camelot
as Lionel (voice)
- 1998 Pirates
as Narrator (voice)
- 1998 The Man in the Iron Mask
as D'Artagnan
- 1998 Polish Wedding
as Bolek
- 1997 This Is the Sea
as Rohan
- 1997 The End of Violence
as Ray
- 1997 Weapons of Mass Distraction
as Lionel Powers
- 1997 Smilla's Sense of Snow
as The Mechanic
- 1996 Somebody Is Waiting
as Roger Ellis
- 1996 The Last of the High Kings
as Jack Griffin
- 1996 The Brylcreem Boys
as Commandant O'Brien
- 1996 Mad Dog Time
as Ben London
- 1996 Draíocht
as Father
- 1995 Dead Man
as Charlie Dickinson
- 1995 Irish Cinema: Ourselves Alone?
as Narrator (voice)
- 1995 Frankie Starlight
as Jack Kelly
- 1995 The Usual Suspects
as Keaton
- 1995 Out of Ireland
as Richard O'Gorman (voice)
- 1995 Buffalo Girls
as Teddy Blue
- 1994 Little Women
as Friedrich Bhaer
- 1994 Trial by Jury
as Daniel Graham
- 1994 A Simple Twist of Fate
as John Newland
- 1994 All Things Bright and Beautiful
as The Good Thief
- 1994 Prince of Jutland
as Fenge
- 1993 A Dangerous Woman
as Mackey
- 1993 Point of No Return
as Bob
- 1992 Into the West
as Papa Reilly
- 1992 Cool World
as Jack Deebs
- 1990 Shipwrecked
as Lt. John Merrick
- 1990 Miller's Crossing
as Tom Reagan
- 1990 Diamond Skulls
as Hugo
- 1988 A Soldier's Tale
as Saul
- 1988 The Courier
as Val
- 1988 Julia and Julia
as Paolo
- 1987 Siesta
as Augustine
- 1987 Hello Again
as Kevin Scanlon
- 1987 Lionheart
as Black Prince
- 1987 Gothic
as Lord Byron
- 1986 Defence of the Realm
as Nicholas 'Nick' Mullen
- 1985
- 1985
- 1984 Reflections
as William Masters
- 1984 The Treatment
as Father Michael
- 1983 The Keep
as Major Kaempffer
- 1983 Hanna K.
as Joshué Herzog
- 1982 Joyce in June
as Keogh / Blazes Boylan
- 1982 The Rocking Horse Winner
as Bassett
- 1981
- 1981 Excalibur
as Uther
- 1980
- 1979 The Outsider
as Man in Street
- 1978
- 1978
- 1978
- 1976
Behind the camera (11)
- 2019 Land Without God
Executive Producer
- 2018 Hereditary
Executive Producer
- 2012 Tent City, U.S.A
Executive Producer
- 2000
- 2000 Mad About Mambo
Executive Producer
- 1996 Somebody Is Waiting
Co-Producer
- 1996 The Last of the High Kings
Co-Executive Producer, Screenplay
- 1996 The Brylcreem Boys
Producer
- 1996 Draíocht
Writer
- 1993 In the Name of the Father
Executive Producer
- 1992 Into the West
Associate Producer
Talk shows and appearances (23)
- 2025
- 2025
- 2025
- 2022
- 2020
- 2018
- 2017
- 2016
- 2013
- 2011
- 2009 The Meaning of Life
1 episode
- 2007
- 2007 The Graham Norton Show
1 episode
- 2002
- 2002
- 2002
- 1998
- 1997 The View
1 episode
- 1994 Inside the Actors Studio
1 episode
- 1993 Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1 episode
- 1975 Saturday Night Live
1 episode
- 1971 Film '72
3 episodes
- 1956 Tony Awards
1 episode