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.

Movies(117)

Richard Burton: Wild Genius

Self

2025

A World War II Fairy Tale: The Making of Michael Mann's 'The Keep'

Self (archive footage)

2025

Four Letters of Love

Muiris Gore

2025

Ballerina

The Chancellor

2025

Blue Road: The Edna O'Brien Story

Self

2025

Dance First

Samuel Beckett

2023

The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse

The Horse (voice)

2022

Lamborghini: The Man Behind the Legend

Enzo Ferrari

2022

Murder at Yellowstone City

Sheriff Ambrose

2022

Walking with Ghosts

Himself

2022

Death of a Ladies' Man

Samuel O'Shea

2021

Michael Des Barres: Who Do You Want Me To Be?

Self

2020

Lost Girls

Richard Dormer

2020

Cursed: The True Nature of Hereditary

Self - Steve

2018

An L.A. Minute

Ted Gold

2018

Hereditary

Steve Graham

2018

My Astonishing Self: Gabriel Byrne on George Bernard Shaw

Narrator

2018

In the Cloud

Doc Wolff

2018

Lies We Tell

Donald

2018

Atlantic Salmon: Lost at Sea

Narrator

2018

Into the Night: Portraits of Life and Death

Self

2017

Mad to Be Normal

Jim

2017

Carrie Pilby

Mr. Pilby

2017

No Pay, Nudity

Lester Rosenthal aka Lawrence Rose

2016

Versus: The Life and Films of Ken Loach

Self - Actor

2016

Endless Night

Bram

2015

Louder Than Bombs

Gene Reed

2015

The 33

Andre Sougarret

2015

Vampire Academy

Victor Dashkov

2014

Excalibur: Behind the Movie

Self

2013

Just a Sigh

Man

2013

All Things To All Men

Joseph Corso

2013

Capital

Dittmar Rigule

2012

John Ford: Dreaming the Quiet Man

Narrator

2012

I, Anna

D.C.I. Bernie Reid

2012

A Man's Story

Self

2011

The Women of SNL

Priest (archive footage)

2010

Perrier's Bounty

Voice of the Grim Reaper (voice)

2009

Leningrad

Philip Parker

2009

2:22

Detective Swain (uncredited)

2008

Gabriel Byrne: Stories from Home

2008

Camelot: Live from Lincoln Center

King Arthur

2008

Emotional Arithmetic

Christopher Lewis

2008

Saturday Night Live in the '90s: Pop Culture Nation

Self

2007

Jindabyne

Stewart

2006

Played

Eddie

2006

Wah-Wah

Harry Compton

2005

Assault on Precinct 13

Captain Marcus Duvall

2005

The Bridge of San Luis Rey

Brother Juniper

2004

P.S.

Peter Harrington

2004

Vanity Fair

The Marquess of Steyne

2004

Patrick

2004

Shade

Charlie Miller

2003

Flight from Death: The Quest for Immortality

Narrator

2003

Spider

Bill Cleg

2002

Ghost Ship

Captain Sean Murphy

2002

Horses: The Story of Equus

Narrator

2002

Pursuing the Suspects

Himself

2002

Killing Emmett Young

Jack Marlow / Stephen Bracken

2002

Round Up: Deposing 'The Usual Suspects'

Self

2002

Keyser Soze, Lie or Legend - Featurette

Self

2002

Virginia's Run

Ford Lofton

2002

When Brendan Met Trudy

Special Appearance

2000

Making Love

Violinista / Jeno Varga Adulto

2000

End of Days

The Man

1999

Stigmata

Father Andrew Kiernan

1999

Enemy of the State

'Brill'

1998

Quest for Camelot

Lionel (voice)

1998

Pirates

Narrator (voice)

1998

The Man in the Iron Mask

D'Artagnan

1998

Polish Wedding

Bolek

1998

Nothing Is What It Seems: The Making Of 'The Usual Suspects'

Self

1998

This Is the Sea

Rohan

1997

The End of Violence

Ray

1997

Weapons of Mass Distraction

Lionel Powers

1997

Smilla's Sense of Snow

The Mechanic

1997

Somebody Is Waiting

Roger Ellis

1996

The Last of the High Kings

Jack Griffin

1996

The Brylcreem Boys

Commandant O'Brien

1996

Mad Dog Time

Ben London

1996

Dead Man

Charlie Dickinson

1995

Irish Cinema: Ourselves Alone?

Narrator (voice)

1995

Frankie Starlight

Jack Kelly

1995

The Usual Suspects

Keaton

1995

Out of Ireland

Richard O'Gorman (voice)

1995

Buffalo Girls

Teddy Blue

1995

Little Women

Friedrich Bhaer

1994

Trial by Jury

Daniel Graham

1994

A Simple Twist of Fate

John Newland

1994

All Things Bright and Beautiful

The Good Thief

1994

Prince of Jutland

Fenge

1994

A Dangerous Woman

Mackey

1993

Point of No Return

Bob

1993

Into the West

Papa Reilly

1992

Cool World

Jack Deebs

1992

Shipwrecked

Lt. John Merrick

1990

Miller's Crossing

Tom Reagan

1990

Diamond Skulls

Hugo

1990

A Soldier's Tale

Saul

1988

The Courier

Val

1988

Julia and Julia

Paolo

1988

Siesta

Augustine

1987

Hello Again

Kevin Scanlon

1987

Lionheart

Black Prince

1987

Gothic

Lord Byron

1987

Defence of the Realm

Nicholas 'Nick' Mullen

1986

Reflections

William Masters

1984

The Treatment

Father Michael

1984

The Keep

Major Kaempffer

1983

Hanna K.

Joshué Herzog

1983

The Rocking Horse Winner

Bassett

1982

The Search for Alexander the Great

Ptolemy

1981

Excalibur

Uther

1981

The Outsider

Man in Street

1979

On a Paving Stone Mounted

1978

Sauver Mozart

Diary of a Mad Old Man

Gabriel Byrne

TV Shows(23)

Movies(117)