Gabriel Byrne
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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
Credits
Cool World (1992)
as Jack Deebs
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The Usual Suspects (1995)
as Keaton
Ballerina (2025)
as The Chancellor
Hereditary (2018)
as Steve Graham
Miller's Crossing (1990)
as Tom Reagan
The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse (2022)
as The Horse (voice)
Enemy of the State (1998)
as 'Brill'
The 33 (2015)
as Andre Sougarret
Ghost Ship (2002)
as Captain Sean Murphy
End of Days (1999)
as The Man
The Man in the Iron Mask (1998)
as D'Artagnan
Assault on Precinct 13 (2005)
as Captain Marcus Duvall
Shade (2003)
as Charlie Miller
Excalibur (1981)
as Uther
Little Women (1994)
as Friedrich Bhaer
Vampire Academy (2014)
as Victor Dashkov
Lamborghini: The Man Behind the Legend (2022)
as Enzo Ferrari
Jindabyne (2006)
as Stewart
Hello Again (1987)
as Kevin Scanlon
Dead Man (1995)
as Charlie Dickinson
I, Anna (2012)
as D.C.I. Bernie Reid
Stigmata (1999)
as Father Andrew Kiernan
Quest for Camelot (1998)
as Lionel (voice)
Played (2006)
as Eddie
Point of No Return (1993)
as Bob
Endless Night (2015)
as Bram
Wah-Wah (2005)
as Harry Compton
Louder Than Bombs (2015)
as Gene Reed
Four Letters of Love (2025)
as Muiris Gore
The Keep (1983)
as Major Kaempffer
Vanity Fair (2004)
as The Marquess of Steyne
Spider (2002)
as Bill Cleg
Murder at Yellowstone City (2022)
as Sheriff Ambrose
Pirates (1998)
as Narrator (voice)
A Simple Twist of Fate (1994)
as John Newland
Richard Burton: Wild Genius (2025)
as Self
Into the West (1992)
as Papa Reilly
Draíocht (1996)
as Father
A Dangerous Woman (1993)
as Mackey
Carrie Pilby (2017)
as Mr. Pilby
This Is the Sea (1997)
as Rohan
Julia and Julia (1988)
as Paolo
All Things To All Men (2013)
as Joseph Corso
The End of Violence (1997)
as Ray
Smilla's Sense of Snow (1997)
as The Mechanic
Trial by Jury (1994)
as Daniel Graham
Polish Wedding (1998)
as Bolek
Gothic (1987)
as Lord Byron
The Bridge of San Luis Rey (2004)
as Brother Juniper
P.S. (2004)
as Peter Harrington
Lost Girls (2020)
as Richard Dormer
Saturday Night Live: 25th Anniversary Special (1999)
as (archive footage)
Siesta (1987)
as Augustine
Gabriel Byrne: Stories from Home (2008)
Actor
Leningrad (2009)
as Philip Parker
Somebody Is Waiting (1996)
as Roger Ellis
Joyce in June (1982)
as Keogh / Blazes Boylan
Dance First (2023)
as Samuel Beckett
The Women of SNL (2010)
as Priest (archive footage)
Pursuing the Suspects (2002)
as Himself
Capital (2012)
as Dittmar Rigule
Perrier's Bounty (2010)
as Voice of the Grim Reaper (voice)
A Man's Story (2011)
as Self
Keyser Soze, Lie or Legend - Featurette (2002)
as Self
Mad Dog Time (1996)
as Ben London
Out of Ireland (1995)
as Richard O'Gorman (voice)
Lies We Tell (2018)
as Donald
Killing Emmett Young (2002)
as Jack Marlow / Stephen Bracken
Just a Sigh (2013)
as Man
Death of a Ladies' Man (2021)
as Samuel O'Shea
Making Love (2000)
as Violinista / Jeno Varga Adulto
Irish Cinema: Ourselves Alone? (1995)
as Narrator (voice)
Diamond Skulls (1990)
as Hugo
Defence of the Realm (1986)
as Nicholas 'Nick' Mullen
Weapons of Mass Distraction (1997)
as Lionel Powers
Prince of Jutland (1994)
as Fenge
Mad to Be Normal (2017)
as Jim
The Brylcreem Boys (1996)
as Commandant O'Brien
Blue Road: The Edna O'Brien Story (2025)
as Self
Saturday Night Live in the '90s: Pop Culture Nation (2007)
as Self
Buffalo Girls (1995)
as Teddy Blue
Versus: The Life and Films of Ken Loach (2016)
as Self - Actor
Lionheart (1987)
as Black Prince
A World War II Fairy Tale: The Making of Michael Mann's 'The Keep' (2025)
as Self (archive footage)
All Things Bright and Beautiful (1994)
as The Good Thief
When Brendan Met Trudy (2000)
as Special Appearance
John Ford: Dreaming the Quiet Man (2012)
as Narrator
The Last of the High Kings (1996)
as Jack Griffin
Nothing Is What It Seems: The Making Of 'The Usual Suspects' (1998)
as Self
Frankie Starlight (1995)
as Jack Kelly
No Pay, Nudity (2016)
as Lester Rosenthal aka Lawrence Rose
2:22 (2008)
as Detective Swain (uncredited)
Emotional Arithmetic (2008)
as Christopher Lewis
Cursed: The True Nature of Hereditary (2018)
as Self - Steve
Round Up: Deposing 'The Usual Suspects' (2002)
as Self
An L.A. Minute (2018)
as Ted Gold
Hanna K. (1983)
as Joshué Herzog
Excalibur: Behind the Movie (2013)
as Self
The Rocking Horse Winner (1982)
as Bassett
In the Cloud (2018)
as Doc Wolff
A Soldier's Tale (1988)
as Saul
Virginia's Run (2002)
as Ford Lofton
Patrick (2004)
as Patrick
Horses: The Story of Equus (2002)
as Narrator
Into the Night: Portraits of Life and Death (2017)
as Self
Michael Des Barres: Who Do You Want Me To Be? (2020)
as Self
Atlantic Salmon: Lost at Sea (2018)
as Narrator
My Astonishing Self: Gabriel Byrne on George Bernard Shaw (2018)
as Narrator
The Outsider (1979)
as Man in Street
Camelot: Live from Lincoln Center (2008)
as King Arthur
Reflections (1984)
as William Masters
On a Paving Stone Mounted (1978)
Actor
The Courier (1988)
as Val
The Treatment (1984)
as Father Michael
Shipwrecked (1990)
as Lt. John Merrick
Flight from Death: The Quest for Immortality (2003)
as Narrator
Sauver Mozart (—)
Actor
Walking with Ghosts (2022)
as Himself