Known For
Acting
Born
Mar 29, 1955
Place of Birth
Dublin, Ireland
Credits
122 titles
Brendan Gleeson
Biography
Brendan Gleeson (born 29 March 1955) is an Irish actor and film director. He is the recipient of three IFTA Awards, two BIFA's, and a Primetime Emmy Award and has been nominated twice for a BAFTA Award, five times for a Golden Globe Award and once for an Academy Award. In 2020, he was listed at number 18 on The Irish Times list of Ireland's greatest film actors. He is the father of actors Domhnall Gleeson and Brian Gleeson. He is best known for his performance as Alastor Moody in the Harry Potter films (2005–2010). He is also known for his supporting roles in films such as Braveheart (1995), Michael Collins (1996), 28 Days Later (2002), Gangs of New York (2002), Cold Mountain (2003), Troy (2004), Suffragette (2015), Paddington 2 (2017), The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018), and The Tragedy of Macbeth (2021). He is also known for his leading roles in films such as The General (1998), In Bruges (2008), The Guard (2011), Calvary (2014), Frankie (2019), and The Banshees of Inisherin (2022). He received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for the lattermost film. He won an Primetime Emmy Award in 2009 for his portrayal of Winston Churchill in the television film Into the Storm. He also received a Golden Globe Award nomination for his performance as Donald Trump in the Showtime series The Comey Rule (2020). From 2017 to 2019 he starred in the crime series Mr. Mercedes. He received an Emmy Award nomination for Stephen Frears' Sundance TV series State of the Union (2022).
Known For
Filmography
The Good Daughter
Rusty
Spider-Noir
Finn 'Silvermane' Byrne
H Is for Hawk
Alisdair Macdonald
Kerry: Tides of Time
Narrator
Joker: Folie à Deux
Jackie Sullivan
Brendan Gleeson's Farewell to Hughes's
Self
A Greyhound of a Girl
Paddy (voice)
On the Red Carpet Presents: The Banshees of Inisherin
Self
The Irish Civil War
Narrator
The Banshees of Inisherin
Colm Doherty
The Dead Zoo
Narrator
The Tragedy of Macbeth
Duncan
Riverdance: The Animated Adventure
Huntsman (voice)
Frank of Ireland
Liam
The Burren: Heart of Stone
Narrator
The Comey Rule
Donald Trump
Gay Byrne's Late Late Moments
Self (archive footage)
Lost Lives
Self (voice)
Frankie
Jimmy
State of the Union
Scott
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
Irishman (segment "The Mortal Remains")
Captain Morten and the Spider Queen
Captain Vicks (voice)
Psychic
Jeremiah
Paddington 2
Knuckles McGinty
Mr. Mercedes
Detective Bill Hodges
Hampstead
Donald Horner
Live by Night
Thomas Coughlin
Assassin's Creed
Joseph Lynch
Trespass Against Us
Colby Culter
Alone in Berlin
Otto Quangel
Atlantic
Narrator
In the Heart of the Sea
Old Thomas Nickerson
Suffragette
Arthur Steed
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Self
Pursuit
Searbhán
The Late Late Show with James Corden
Self - Guest
Stonehearst Asylum
The Alienist
Song of the Sea
Conor / Mac Lir (voice)
The Grand Seduction
Murray French
Edge of Tomorrow
General Brigham
Calvary
Father James Lavelle
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Self
1916 Seachtar Dearmadta
Glór
The Smurfs 2
Victor Doyle
The Company You Keep
Henry Osborne
So You Want To Be A Pirate!
The Pirate With Gout
The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists!
The Pirate with Gout (voice)
The Raven
Colonel Hamilton
Safe House
David Barlow
Albert Nobbs
Dr. Holloran