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