Gabriel Byrne

Acting · 2.8 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

End of Days

19996.1

Ghost Ship

20026.0

Enemy of the State

19987.1

Little Women

19947.3

The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse

20228.2

The Man in the Iron Mask

19986.7

Excalibur

19817.0

Cool World

19925.7

Assault on Precinct 13

20056.2

The 33

20156.4

Dead Man

19957.3

Lamborghini: The Man Behind the Legend

20226.4

Endless Night

20156.1

The Keep

19835.6

Quest for Camelot

19986.8

Miller's Crossing

19907.4

Hello Again

19875.7

Vampire Academy

20146.3

Stigmata

19996.3

Shade

20036.2

Spider

20026.7

Vanity Fair

20045.8

Point of No Return

19936.2

Louder Than Bombs

20156.5

I, Anna

20125.3

P.S.

20045.6

Smilla's Sense of Snow

19976.3

Lost Girls

20206.1

Into the West

19926.4

A Simple Twist of Fate

19946.1

Murder at Yellowstone City

20225.5

Four Letters of Love

20256.0

Carrie Pilby

20176.8

Jindabyne

20065.5

Wah-Wah

20055.9

A Dangerous Woman

19935.5

Capital

20126.2

The Women of SNL

20105.2

The End of Violence

19975.4

Richard Burton: Wild Genius

20257.5

All Things To All Men

20134.3

The Bridge of San Luis Rey

20045.2

Played

20063.9

Julia and Julia

19885.1

Dance First

20236.9

Mad Dog Time

19965.2

Perrier's Bounty

20105.8

Leningrad

20095.5

Prince of Jutland

19945.4

Gothic

19875.7

Weapons of Mass Distraction

19975.2

Pirates

19988.0

Trial by Jury

19945.4

Frankie Starlight

19955.3

Lionheart

19875.6

Gabriel Byrne: Stories from Home

2008

Siesta

19875.3

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

2007

The Brylcreem Boys

19964.4

Buffalo Girls

19956.5

A Man's Story

20116.9

Versus: The Life and Films of Ken Loach

20166.6

Blue Road: The Edna O'Brien Story

20257.5

Mad to Be Normal

20175.9

Making Love

20006.8

Out of Ireland

19957.0

This Is the Sea

19976.0

Excalibur: Behind the Movie

2013

Keyser Soze, Lie or Legend - Featurette

20027.0

The Last of the High Kings

19965.6

Camelot: Live from Lincoln Center

20082.0

Lies We Tell

20185.3

Diamond Skulls

19903.4

Death of a Ladies' Man

20215.6

Round Up: Deposing 'The Usual Suspects'

20028.0

When Brendan Met Trudy

20004.4

2:22

20085.1

Somebody Is Waiting

19965.5

John Ford: Dreaming the Quiet Man

20127.8

Defence of the Realm

19866.5

Pursuing the Suspects

20026.7

In the Cloud

20185.0

Hanna K.

19836.3

Polish Wedding

19985.1

Emotional Arithmetic

20085.5

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

2025

Reflections

19845.3

No Pay, Nudity

20164.0

Atlantic Salmon: Lost at Sea

20188.0

An L.A. Minute

20182.0

Killing Emmett Young

20025.4

Just a Sigh

20136.2

All Things Bright and Beautiful

19948.0

Virginia's Run

20027.4

The Outsider

19795.8

Joyce in June

1982

On a Paving Stone Mounted

19789.0

Horses: The Story of Equus

20029.0

A Soldier's Tale

19884.2

Patrick

20046.0

Irish Cinema: Ourselves Alone?

19956.3

Shipwrecked

19906.7

The Courier

19887.5

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

20202.0

The Rocking Horse Winner

19829.0

My Astonishing Self: Gabriel Byrne on George Bernard Shaw

20186.0

Cursed: The True Nature of Hereditary

20188.8

Into the Night: Portraits of Life and Death

20178.0

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

19987.0

Walking with Ghosts

2022

The Treatment

198410.0

Flight from Death: The Quest for Immortality

20037.7

Sauver Mozart

2026