Gabriel Byrne

Personal Info

Known For Actor

Gender Male

Birthday 1950-05-12 (74 years old)

Place of Birth Dublin, Ireland

Also Known As Gabriel James Byrne, Гэбриэл Бирн, Гэбриел Бирн, Гэбриел Бёрн, Гебріел Бірн, گابریل بایرن

Gabriel 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).  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.

Known For

Actor

2025
Four Letters of Love

as Muiris Gore

2023
Dance First

as Samuel Beckett

2022
Murder at Yellowstone City

as Sheriff Ambrose

2022
2021
Death of a Ladies' Man

as Samuel O'Shea

2020
Lost Girls

as Richard Dormer

2020
ZeroZeroZero

as Edward Lynwood

2019
War of the Worlds

as Bill Ward

2018
An L.A. Minute

as Ted Gold

2018
Hereditary

as Steve Graham

2018
In the Cloud

as Doc Wolff

2018
Lies We Tell

as Donald

2018
Maniac

as Porter Milgrim

2017
2017
Carrie Pilby

as Mr. Pilby

2016
No Pay, Nudity

as Lawrence Rose

2015
2015
Louder Than Bombs

as Gene Reed

2015
The 33

as Andre Sougarret

2015
Vikings: Athelstan's Journal

as Earl Haraldson (archive footage)

2014
Vampire Academy

as Victor Dashkov

2014
Quirke

as Quirke

2013
2013
All Things To All Men

as Joseph Corso

2013
Vikings

as Earl Haraldson

2012
Capital

as Dittmar Rigule

2012
I, Anna

as D.C.I. Bernie Reid

2012
Secret State

as Tom Dawkins

2011
2010
The Women of SNL

as Priest (archive footage)

2009
Perrier's Bounty

as Voice of the Grim Reaper (voice)

2009
Leningrad

as Philip Parker

2008
2:22

as Detective Swain (uncredited)

2008
Emotional Arithmetic

as Christopher Lewis

2008
In Treatment

as Dr. Paul Weston

2007
Attack on Leningrad

as Phillip Parker

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

2002
Spider

as Bill Cleg

2002
Ghost Ship

as Captain Sean Murphy

2002
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
Making Love

as il violinista/Jeno Varga adulto

2000
Madigan Men

as Benjamin Madigan

1999
End of Days

as The Man

1999
Stigmata

as Father Andrew Kiernan

1998
1998
Quest for Camelot

as Lionel (voice)

1998
Pirates

as Narrator (voice)

1998
1998
1997
1997
1997
Smilla's Sense of Snow

as The Mechanic

1997
The View

as Self

1996
Somebody Is Waiting

as Roger Ellis

1996
1996
The Brylcreem Boys

as Commandant O'Brien

1996
Mad Dog Time

as Ben London

1995
Dead Man

as Charlie Dickinson

1995
Frankie Starlight

as Jack Kelly

1995
Irish Cinema: Ourselves Alone?

as Narrator (voice)

1995
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
1994
1993
1993
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
1988
1988
1988
1987
Siesta

as Augustine

1987
Hello Again

as Kevin Scanlon

1987
Lionheart

as Black Prince

1986
Gothic

as Lord Byron

1986
Defence of the Realm

as Nicholas 'Nick' Mullen

1985
Mussolini: The Untold Story

as Vittorio Mussolini

1985
Christopher Columbus

as Christopher Columbus

1984
Reflections

as William Masters

1984
The Treatment

as Father Michael

1983
The Keep

as Major Kaempffer

1983
Hanna K.

as Joshué Herzog

1981
Excalibur

as Uther

1980
Bracken

as Pat Barry

1979
The Outsider

as Man in Street

1978
The Last of Summer

as Bishop's secretary

1978
Strangers

as Johnny Maguire

1976
1975
Saturday Night Live

as Self - Host

1956
Tony Awards

as Self - Presenter

Producer

2019
Land Without God

as Executive Producer

2018
Hereditary

as Executive Producer

2012
Tent City, U.S.A

as Executive Producer

2000
Mad About Mambo

as Executive Producer

2000
Madigan Men

as Producer

1996
The Brylcreem Boys

as Producer

1996
Somebody Is Waiting

as Co-Producer

1996
The Last of the High Kings

as Co-Executive Producer

1993
In the Name of the Father

as Executive Producer

1992
Into the West

as Associate Producer

Writer

1996