Gabriel Byrne
Known for: Acting
Born: May 12, 1950
Place of birth: Dublin, Ireland
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.
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Filmography
122 movies · 26 TV shows, newest first
7.5
Richard Burton: Wild Genius
2025
NR
A World War II Fairy Tale: The Making of Michael Mann's 'The Keep'
2025
6.0
Four Letters of Love
2025
7.3
Ballerina
2025
5.7
Blue Road: The Edna O'Brien Story
2025
6.9
Dance First
2023
8.2
The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse
2022
6.4
Lamborghini: The Man Behind the Legend
2022
5.5
Murder at Yellowstone City
2022
NR
Walking with Ghosts
2022
5.7
Death of a Ladies' Man
2021
2.0
Michael Des Barres: Who Do You Want Me To Be?
2020
7.8
ZeroZeroZero
2020
6.1
Lost Girls
2020
7.2
War of the Worlds
2019
7.0
Land Without God
2019
8.8
Cursed: The True Nature of Hereditary
2018
7.3
Maniac
2018
2.0
An L.A. Minute
2018
7.3
Hereditary
2018
6.0
My Astonishing Self: Gabriel Byrne on George Bernard Shaw
2018
5.0
In the Cloud
2018
5.3
Lies We Tell
2018
8.0
Atlantic Salmon: Lost at Sea
2018
8.0
Into the Night: Portraits of Life and Death
2017
5.8
Mad to Be Normal
2017
6.8
Carrie Pilby
2017
4.0
No Pay, Nudity
2016
6.6
Versus: The Life and Films of Ken Loach
2016
6.1
Endless Night
2015
6.5
Louder Than Bombs
2015
6.4
The 33
2015
6.9
Vikings: Athelstan's Journal
2015
5.9
Quirke
2014
6.3
Vampire Academy
2014
NR
Excalibur: Behind the Movie
2013
6.2
Just a Sigh
2013
4.3
All Things To All Men
2013
8.1
Vikings
2013
6.2
Capital
2012
7.1
Secret State
2012
7.8
John Ford: Dreaming the Quiet Man
2012
7.3
Tent City, U.S.A
2012
5.3
I, Anna
2012
6.9
A Man's Story
2011
5.2
The Women of SNL
2010
5.8
Perrier's Bounty
2010
7.0
The Meaning of Life
2009
5.5
Leningrad
2009
5.1
2:22
2008NR
Gabriel Byrne: Stories from Home
2008
2.0
Camelot: Live from Lincoln Center
2008
5.5
Emotional Arithmetic
2008
7.7
In Treatment
20085.5
Attack on Leningrad
2007
NR
Leningrad
2007
NR
Saturday Night Live in the '90s: Pop Culture Nation
2007
7.2
The Graham Norton Show
2007
5.4
Jindabyne
2006
3.9
Played
2006
5.8
Wah-Wah
2005
6.2
Assault on Precinct 13
2005
5.2
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
2004
5.6
P.S.
2004
5.8
Vanity Fair
2004
6.0
Patrick
2004
6.2
Shade
2003
7.7
Flight from Death: The Quest for Immortality
2003
6.6
Spider
2002
6.0
Ghost Ship
2002
9.0
Horses: The Story of Equus
20026.7
Pursuing the Suspects
2002
5.4
Killing Emmett Young
2002
7.0
Keyser Soze, Lie or Legend - Featurette
2002
8.0
Round Up: Deposing 'The Usual Suspects'
2002
7.4
Virginia's Run
2002
4.4
When Brendan Met Trudy
2000
8.0
Madigan Men
2000
5.3
Mad About Mambo
2000
6.8
Making Love
2000
6.1
End of Days
1999
6.9
Saturday Night Live: 25th Anniversary Special
1999
6.3
Stigmata
1999
7.1
Enemy of the State
1998
6.8
Quest for Camelot
1998
8.0
Pirates
1998
6.7
The Man in the Iron Mask
1998
5.1
Polish Wedding
1998
7.0
Nothing Is What It Seems: The Making Of 'The Usual Suspects'
1998
6.0
This Is the Sea
1997
5.4
The End of Violence
1997
4.3
The View
1997
5.2
Weapons of Mass Distraction
1997
6.4
Smilla's Sense of Snow
1997
5.5
Somebody Is Waiting
1996
5.6
The Last of the High Kings
1996
4.2
The Brylcreem Boys
1996
5.2
Mad Dog Time
1996NR
Draíocht
1996
7.3
Dead Man
1995
6.3
Irish Cinema: Ourselves Alone?
1995
5.3
Frankie Starlight
1995
8.2
The Usual Suspects
1995
7.0
Out of Ireland
1995
6.5
Buffalo Girls
1995
7.3
Little Women
1994
5.4
Trial by Jury
1994
6.1
A Simple Twist of Fate
1994
NR
Inside the Actors Studio
1994
8.0
All Things Bright and Beautiful
1994
5.4
Prince of Jutland
1994
7.9
In the Name of the Father
1993
7.3
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993
5.5
A Dangerous Woman
1993
6.2
Point of No Return
1993
6.4
Into the West
1992
5.7
Cool World
1992
6.7
Shipwrecked
1990
7.4
Miller's Crossing
1990
3.4
Diamond Skulls
1990
4.2
A Soldier's Tale
1988
7.5
The Courier
1988
5.1
Julia and Julia
1988
5.3
Siesta
1987
5.7
Hello Again
1987
5.6
Lionheart
1987
5.7
Gothic
1987
6.4
Defence of the Realm
1986
5.3
Mussolini: The Untold Story
1985
6.2
Christopher Columbus
19855.3
Reflections
198410.0
The Treatment
1984
5.6
The Keep
1983
6.3
Hanna K.
1983NR
Joyce in June
1982
9.0
The Rocking Horse Winner
1982
NR
The Search for Alexander the Great
1981
7.0
Excalibur
1981NR
Bracken
1980
5.8
The Outsider
1979
9.0
On a Paving Stone Mounted
1978
8.0
The Last of Summer
1978
7.3
Strangers
1978
8.7
Live from Lincoln Center
1976
6.9
Saturday Night Live
19755.1
Film '72
1971
NR
Tony Awards
1956NR
Sauver Mozart
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