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