Gabriel Byrne
Gabriel Byrne

Gabriel Byrne

May 12, 1950 (75 years old)

Overview

Gender
Male
Birthday
May 12, 1950

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

Four Letters of Love
2h 5m
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Movie 2025

Four Letters of Love

Nicholas and Isabel were made for each other but how...

From the World of John Wick: Ballerina
1h 49m
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Movie 2025

From the World of John Wick: Ballerina

Taking place during the events of John Wick: Chapter 3...

Blue Road: The Edna O'Brien Story
1h 40m
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Movie 2025

Blue Road: The Edna O'Brien Story

Emerging from rural Ireland, Edna O’Brien broke multiple taboos with...

Dance First
1h 40m
DOLBY
Movie 2023

Dance First

Parisian bon vivant, World War II Resistance fighter, Nobel Prize-winning...

The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse
35min
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Movie 2022

The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse

The unlikely friendship of a boy, a mole, a fox...

Lamborghini: The Man Behind the Legend
1h 37m
DOLBY
Movie 2022

Lamborghini: The Man Behind the Legend

Follow the launch of Lamborghini’s career as a manufacturer of...

Murder at Yellowstone City
2h 6m
DOLBY
Movie 2022

Murder at Yellowstone City

A former slave who arrives in Yellowstone City, Montana, a...

Walking with Ghosts
2h 19m
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Movie 2022

Walking with Ghosts

A stage adaptation of Gabriel Byrne's 2020 memoir of the...

Death of a Ladies' Man
1h 44m
DOLBY
Movie 2021

Death of a Ladies' Man

A carousing college professor's life takes a series of unimaginable...

Michael Des Barres: Who Do You Want Me To Be?
1h 22m
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Movie 2020

Michael Des Barres: Who Do You Want Me To Be?

The son of a junkie aristocrat and a schizophrenic showgirl...

Acting

2025
Four Letters of Love
Movie
2025
From the World of John Wick: Ballerina
Movie
2025
Blue Road: The Edna O'Brien Story
Movie
2023
Dance First
Movie
2022
The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse
Movie
2022
Lamborghini: The Man Behind the Legend
Movie
2022
Murder at Yellowstone City
Movie
2022
Walking with Ghosts
Movie
2021
Death of a Ladies' Man
Movie
2020
Michael Des Barres: Who Do You Want Me To Be?
Movie
2020
Lost Girls
Movie
2019
War of the Worlds
Tv
2018
Cursed: The True Nature of Hereditary
Movie
2018
An L.A. Minute
Movie
2018
Hereditary
Movie
2018
My Astonishing Self: Gabriel Byrne on George Bernard Shaw
Movie
2018
In the Cloud
Movie
2018
Lies We Tell
Movie
2018
Atlantic Salmon: Lost at Sea
Movie
2017
Into the Night: Portraits of Life and Death
Movie
2017
Mad to Be Normal
Movie
2017
Carrie Pilby
Movie
2016
No Pay, Nudity
Movie
2016
Versus: The Life and Films of Ken Loach
Movie
2015
Endless Night
Movie
2015
The 33
Movie
2014
Quirke
Tv
2013
Excalibur: Behind the Movie
Movie
2013
Just a Sigh
Movie
2013
All Things To All Men
Movie
2012
Secret State
Tv
2012
I, Anna
Movie
2008
Gabriel Byrne: Stories from Home
Movie
2008
Emotional Arithmetic
Movie
2007
Attack on Leningrad
Tv
2007
Leningrad
Tv
2006
Jindabyne
Movie
2006
Played
Movie
2005
Wah-Wah
Movie
2005
Assault on Precinct 13
Movie
2004
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
Movie
2004
P.S.
Movie
2004
Vanity Fair
Movie
2004
Patrick
Movie
2003
Shade
Movie
2003
Flight from Death: The Quest for Immortality
Movie
2002
Spider
Movie
2002
Ghost Ship
Movie
2002
Horses: The Story of Equus
Movie
2002
Killing Emmett Young
Movie
2002
Round Up: Deposing 'The Usual Suspects'
Movie
2002
Virginia's Run
Movie
2000
Madigan Men
Tv
2000
Making Love
Movie
1999
End of Days
Movie
1998
Quest for Camelot
Movie
1998
Pirates
Movie
1998
The Man in the Iron Mask
Movie
1998
Polish Wedding
Movie
1997
This Is the Sea
Movie
1997
The End of Violence
Movie
1996
Somebody Is Waiting
Movie
1996
The Last of the High Kings
Movie
1996
The Brylcreem Boys
Movie
1995
Frankie Starlight
Movie
1995
Irish Cinema: Ourselves Alone?
Movie
1995
Out of Ireland
Movie
1994
Little Women
Movie
1994
Trial by Jury
Movie
1994
A Simple Twist of Fate
Movie
1994
All Things Bright and Beautiful
Movie
1994
Prince of Jutland
Movie
1994
Out of Ireland: The Story of Irish Emigration to America
Movie
1993
A Dangerous Woman
Movie
1992
Into the West
Movie
1990
Shipwrecked
Movie
1990
Miller's Crossing
Movie
1990
Dark Obsession
Movie
1988
The Courier
Movie
1988
Julia and Julia
Movie
1987
Hello Again
Movie
1987
Gothic
Movie
1986
Defence of the Realm
Movie
1985
Mussolini: The Untold Story
Tv
1985
Christopher Columbus
Tv