Known For
Acting
Born
May 12, 1950
Place of Birth
Dublin, Ireland
Credits
146 titles
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
Filmography
Richard Burton: Wild Genius
Self
A World War II Fairy Tale: The Making of Michael Mann's 'The Keep'
Self (archive footage)
Four Letters of Love
Muiris Gore
Ballerina
The Chancellor
Blue Road: The Edna O'Brien Story
Self
Dance First
Samuel Beckett
The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse
The Horse (voice)
Lamborghini: The Man Behind the Legend
Enzo Ferrari
Murder at Yellowstone City
Sheriff Ambrose
Walking with Ghosts
Himself
Death of a Ladies' Man
Samuel O'Shea
Michael Des Barres: Who Do You Want Me To Be?
Self
ZeroZeroZero
Edward Lynwood
Lost Girls
Richard Dormer
War of the Worlds
Bill Ward
Land Without God
Executive Producer
Cursed: The True Nature of Hereditary
Self - Steve
Maniac
Porter Milgrim
An L.A. Minute
Ted Gold
Hereditary
Steve Graham
My Astonishing Self: Gabriel Byrne on George Bernard Shaw
Narrator
In the Cloud
Doc Wolff
Lies We Tell
Donald
Atlantic Salmon: Lost at Sea
Narrator
Into the Night: Portraits of Life and Death
Self
Mad to Be Normal
Jim
Carrie Pilby
Mr. Pilby
No Pay, Nudity
Lester Rosenthal aka Lawrence Rose
Versus: The Life and Films of Ken Loach
Self - Actor
Endless Night
Bram
Louder Than Bombs
Gene Reed
The 33
Andre Sougarret
Vikings: Athelstan's Journal
Earl Haraldson (archive footage)
Quirke
Quirke
Vampire Academy
Victor Dashkov
Excalibur: Behind the Movie
Self
Just a Sigh
Man
All Things To All Men
Joseph Corso
Vikings
Earl Haraldson
Capital
Dittmar Rigule
Secret State
Tom Dawkins
John Ford: Dreaming the Quiet Man
Narrator
Tent City, U.S.A
Executive Producer
I, Anna
D.C.I. Bernie Reid
A Man's Story
Self
The Women of SNL
Priest (archive footage)
Perrier's Bounty
Voice of the Grim Reaper (voice)
The Meaning of Life
Self
Leningrad
Philip Parker
2:22
Detective Swain (uncredited)