Name
Gabriel Byrne
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1950-05-12 (76 years old)
Place of Birth
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).
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- 1990 Miller's Crossing as Tom Reagan
- 1995 Dead Man as Charlie Dickinson
- 1995 The Usual Suspects as Keaton
- 2009 Leningrad as Philip Parker
- 1999 Stigmata as Father Andrew Kiernan
- 2022 Lamborghini: The Man Behind the Legend as Enzo Ferrari
- 1993 Point of No Return as Bob
- 2006 Jindabyne as Stewart
- 1981 Excalibur as Uther
- 2004 Vanity Fair as The Marquess of Steyne
- 2006 Played as Eddie
- 2004 P.S. as Peter Harrington
- 2005 Assault on Precinct 13 as Captain Marcus Duvall
- 1987 Gothic as Lord Byron
- 1992 Into the West as Papa Reilly
- 1997 Smilla's Sense of Snow as The Mechanic
- 1998 The Man in the Iron Mask as D'Artagnan
- 1994 Little Women as Friedrich Bhaer
- 1999 End of Days as The Man
- 1998 Enemy of the State as 'Brill'
- 2002 Spider as Bill Cleg
- 2002 Ghost Ship as Captain Sean Murphy
- 1983 The Keep as Major Kaempffer
- 2008 Emotional Arithmetic as Christopher Lewis
- 1987 Hello Again as Kevin Scanlon
- 2010 Perrier's Bounty as Voice of the Grim Reaper (voice)
- 1986 Defence of the Realm as Nicholas 'Nick' Mullen
- 1994 Trial by Jury as Daniel Graham
- 1992 Cool World as Jack Deebs
- 2000 Making Love as Violinista / Jeno Varga Adulto
- 2003 Shade as Charlie Miller
- 1987 Siesta as Augustine
- 2005 Wah-Wah as Harry Compton
- 1994 A Simple Twist of Fate as John Newland
- 2002 Virginia's Run as Ford Lofton
- 1994 All Things Bright and Beautiful as The Good Thief
- 1996 The Last of the High Kings as Jack Griffin
- 1983 Hanna K. as Joshué Herzog
- 1998 Polish Wedding as Bolek
- 2004 The Bridge of San Luis Rey as Brother Juniper
- 1997 This Is the Sea as Rohan
- 1996 Mad Dog Time as Ben London
- 1997 The End of Violence as Ray
- 1988 The Courier as Val
- 1994 Prince of Jutland as Fenge
- 1998 Quest for Camelot as Lionel (voice)
- 1990 Shipwrecked as Lt. John Merrick
- 1988 Julia and Julia as Paolo
- 2011 A Man's Story as Self
- 1987 Lionheart as Black Prince
- 1996 The Brylcreem Boys as Commandant O'Brien
- 2022 Walking with Ghosts as Himself
- 2012 Capital as Dittmar Rigule
- 1995 Buffalo Girls as Teddy Blue
- 1993 A Dangerous Woman as Mackey
- 2004 Patrick as Patrick
- 1982 The Rocking Horse Winner as Bassett
- 1990 Diamond Skulls as Hugo
- 2012 I, Anna as D.C.I. Bernie Reid
- 2012 John Ford: Dreaming the Quiet Man as Narrator
- 2013 All Things To All Men as Joseph Corso
- 2014 Vampire Academy as Victor Dashkov
- 2013 Just a Sigh as Man
- 2022 Murder at Yellowstone City as Sheriff Ambrose
- 2023 Dance First as Samuel Beckett
- 1988 A Soldier's Tale as Saul
- 2002 Horses: The Story of Equus as Narrator
- 1984 Reflections as William Masters
- Soon Sauver Mozart
- 2000 When Brendan Met Trudy as Special Appearance
- 2002 Killing Emmett Young as Jack Marlow / Stephen Bracken
- 2003 Flight from Death: The Quest for Immortality as Narrator
- 1997 Weapons of Mass Distraction as Lionel Powers
- 2015 Louder Than Bombs as Gene Reed
- 2022 The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse as The Horse (voice)
- 2015 Endless Night as Bram
- 1998 Nothing Is What It Seems: The Making Of 'The Usual Suspects' as Self
- 1984 The Treatment as Father Michael
- 2008 2:22 as Detective Swain (uncredited)
- 2015 The 33 as Andre Sougarret
- 2025 Ballerina as The Chancellor
- 2017 Mad to Be Normal as Jim
- 2008 Gabriel Byrne: Stories from Home
- 2025 Four Letters of Love as Muiris Gore
- 2018 Cursed: The True Nature of Hereditary as Self - Steve
- 2017 Carrie Pilby as Mr. Pilby
- 2016 Versus: The Life and Films of Ken Loach as Self - Actor
- 1996 Somebody Is Waiting as Roger Ellis
- 2016 No Pay, Nudity as Lester Rosenthal aka Lawrence Rose
- 2002 Pursuing the Suspects as Himself
- 2018 An L.A. Minute as Ted Gold
- 2017 Into the Night: Portraits of Life and Death as Self
- 2018 Lies We Tell as Donald
- 2018 Hereditary as Steve Graham
- 2018 In the Cloud as Doc Wolff
- 2008 Camelot: Live from Lincoln Center as King Arthur
- 2018 My Astonishing Self: Gabriel Byrne on George Bernard Shaw as Narrator
- 2020 Lost Girls as Richard Dormer
- 2018 Atlantic Salmon: Lost at Sea as Narrator
- 1979 The Outsider as Man in Street
- 2010 The Women of SNL as Priest (archive footage)
- 1978 On a Paving Stone Mounted
- 2021 Death of a Ladies' Man as Samuel O'Shea
- 2002 Keyser Soze, Lie or Legend - Featurette as Self
- 2002 Round Up: Deposing 'The Usual Suspects' as Self
- 2020 Michael Des Barres: Who Do You Want Me To Be? as Self
- 1998 Pirates as Narrator (voice)
- 1995 Irish Cinema: Ourselves Alone? as Narrator (voice)
- 2013 Excalibur: Behind the Movie as Self
- 2025 Blue Road: The Edna O'Brien Story as Self
- 1995 Out of Ireland as Richard O'Gorman (voice)
- 2025 A World War II Fairy Tale: The Making of Michael Mann's 'The Keep' as Self (archive footage)
- 2025 A World War II Fairy Tale: The Making of Michael Mann's 'The Keep' as Self
- 2025 Richard Burton: Wild Genius as Self
- 2007 Saturday Night Live in the '90s: Pop Culture Nation as Self
- 1982 Joyce in June as Keogh / Blazes Boylan
- 1996 Draíocht as Father
- 1999 Saturday Night Live: 25th Anniversary Special as (archive footage)
- 1995 Frankie Starlight as Jack Kelly
- 1994 Inside the Actors Studio ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1997 The View ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1993 Late Night with Conan O'Brien ( 1 episode ) as Self - Guest
- 2000 Madigan Men ( 12 episodes ) as Benjamin Madigan
- 1976 Live from Lincoln Center ( 31 episodes ) as King Arthur
- 1980 Bracken ( 12 episodes ) as Pat Barry
- 2008 In Treatment ( 106 episodes ) as Dr. Paul Weston
- 2007 Attack on Leningrad ( 4 episodes ) as Phillip Parker
- 2013 Vikings ( 9 episodes ) as Earl Haraldson
- 1975 Saturday Night Live ( 1 episode ) as Self - Host
- 2012 Secret State ( 4 episodes ) as Tom Dawkins
- 2014 Quirke ( 3 episodes ) as Quirke
- 2015 Vikings: Athelstan's Journal ( 3 episodes ) as Earl Haraldson (archive footage)
- 2007 The Graham Norton Show ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1985 Christopher Columbus ( 4 episodes ) as Christopher Columbus
- 1985 Mussolini: The Untold Story ( 4 episodes ) as Vittorio Mussolini
- 2019 War of the Worlds ( 24 episodes ) as Bill Ward
- 2007 Leningrad ( 4 episodes )
- 1978 The Last of Summer ( 4 episodes ) as Bishop's secretary
- 2020 ZeroZeroZero ( 2 episodes ) as Edward Lynwood
- 2018 Maniac ( 5 episodes ) as Porter Milgrim
- 1978 Strangers ( 1 episode ) as Johnny Maguire
- 1956 Tony Awards ( 1 episode ) as Self - Presenter
- 2009 The Meaning of Life ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1981 The Search for Alexander the Great ( 4 episodes ) as Ptolemy
- 1971 Film '72 ( 3 episodes ) as Self
