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