Gabriel Byrne

Acting · 2.7 popularity

Age

Movies

116

Born: May 12, 1950
From: Dublin, Ireland

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). Description above from the Wikipedia article Gabriel Byrne, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Works

116 films

Ballerina

20257.3

The Usual Suspects

19958.2

Hereditary

20187.3

Ghost Ship

20026.0

Enemy of the State

19987.1

End of Days

19996.1

The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse

20228.2

The Man in the Iron Mask

19986.7

Little Women

19947.3

Excalibur

19817.0

Assault on Precinct 13

20056.2

The 33

20156.4

Cool World

19925.7

Dead Man

19957.3

Lamborghini: The Man Behind the Legend

20226.4

The Keep

19835.6

Quest for Camelot

19986.8

Endless Night

20156.1

Vampire Academy

20146.3

Miller's Crossing

19907.4

Stigmata

19996.3

Shade

20036.2

Hello Again

19875.7

Spider

20026.7

Point of No Return

19936.2

Vanity Fair

20045.8

I, Anna

20125.3

Louder Than Bombs

20156.5

Murder at Yellowstone City

20225.5

P.S.

20045.6

A Simple Twist of Fate

19946.1

Smilla's Sense of Snow

19976.3

Lost Girls

20206.1

Four Letters of Love

20256.0

Into the West

19926.4

Jindabyne

20065.5

Wah-Wah

20055.9

Played

20063.9

Carrie Pilby

20176.8

The Bridge of San Luis Rey

20045.2

Capital

20126.2

A Dangerous Woman

19935.5

Gothic

19875.7

Mad Dog Time

19965.2

The End of Violence

19975.4

The Women of SNL

20105.2

Trial by Jury

19945.4

Perrier's Bounty

20105.8

Richard Burton: Wild Genius

20257.5

All Things To All Men

20134.3

Julia and Julia

19885.1

Leningrad

20095.5

Weapons of Mass Distraction

19975.2

Dance First

20236.9

Siesta

19875.3

The Brylcreem Boys

19964.4

Frankie Starlight

19955.3

Prince of Jutland

19945.4

Lionheart

19875.6

Pirates

19988.0

When Brendan Met Trudy

20004.4

Versus: The Life and Films of Ken Loach

20166.6

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

2007

The Last of the High Kings

19965.6

Gabriel Byrne: Stories from Home

2008

Buffalo Girls

19956.5

This Is the Sea

19976.0

Death of a Ladies' Man

20215.6

Out of Ireland

19957.0

Camelot: Live from Lincoln Center

20082.0

Mad to Be Normal

20175.9

Excalibur: Behind the Movie

2013

A Man's Story

20116.9

Hanna K.

19836.3

Blue Road: The Edna O'Brien Story

20257.5

Keyser Soze, Lie or Legend - Featurette

20027.0

Somebody Is Waiting

19965.5

Defence of the Realm

19866.5

Diamond Skulls

19903.4

Making Love

20006.8

2:22

20085.1

John Ford: Dreaming the Quiet Man

20127.8

Lies We Tell

20185.3

Pursuing the Suspects

20026.7

In the Cloud

20185.0

Killing Emmett Young

20025.4

Reflections

19845.3

Emotional Arithmetic

20085.5

Polish Wedding

19985.1

Round Up: Deposing 'The Usual Suspects'

20028.0

No Pay, Nudity

20164.0

Just a Sigh

20136.2

Patrick

20046.0

All Things Bright and Beautiful

19948.0

Virginia's Run

20027.4

An L.A. Minute

20182.0

Irish Cinema: Ourselves Alone?

19956.3

The Outsider

19795.8

The Courier

19887.5

On a Paving Stone Mounted

19789.0

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

2025

Horses: The Story of Equus

20029.0

Joyce in June

1982

A Soldier's Tale

19884.2

Atlantic Salmon: Lost at Sea

20188.0

Cursed: The True Nature of Hereditary

20188.8

Into the Night: Portraits of Life and Death

20178.0

Shipwrecked

19906.7

The Rocking Horse Winner

19829.0

My Astonishing Self: Gabriel Byrne on George Bernard Shaw

20186.0

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

20202.0

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

19987.0

Walking with Ghosts

2022

Flight from Death: The Quest for Immortality

20037.7

The Treatment

198410.0

Sauver Mozart

2026