Gabriel Byrne

Actor

Born May 12, 1950 in Dublin, Ireland

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).

Filmography

Richard Burton: Wild Genius

Self

A World War II Fairy Tale: The Making of Michael Mann's 'The Keep'

Self (archive footage)

Four Letters of Love

Muiris Gore

Ballerina

The Chancellor

Blue Road: The Edna O'Brien Story

Self

Dance First

Samuel Beckett

The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse

The Horse (voice)

Lamborghini: The Man Behind the Legend

Enzo Ferrari

Murder at Yellowstone City

Sheriff Ambrose

Walking with Ghosts

Himself

Death of a Ladies' Man

Samuel O'Shea

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

Self

ZeroZeroZero

Edward Lynwood

Lost Girls

Richard Dormer

War of the Worlds

Bill Ward

Land Without God

Cursed: The True Nature of Hereditary

Self - Steve

Maniac

Porter Milgrim

An L.A. Minute

Ted Gold

Hereditary

Steve Graham

My Astonishing Self: Gabriel Byrne on George Bernard Shaw

Narrator

In the Cloud

Doc Wolff

Lies We Tell

Donald

Atlantic Salmon: Lost at Sea

Narrator

Into the Night: Portraits of Life and Death

Self

Mad to Be Normal

Jim

Carrie Pilby

Mr. Pilby

No Pay, Nudity

Lester Rosenthal aka Lawrence Rose

Versus: The Life and Films of Ken Loach

Self - Actor

Endless Night

Bram

Louder Than Bombs

Gene Reed

The 33

Andre Sougarret

Vikings: Athelstan's Journal

Earl Haraldson (archive footage)

Quirke

Vampire Academy

Victor Dashkov

Excalibur: Behind the Movie

Self

Just a Sigh

Man

All Things To All Men

Joseph Corso

Vikings

Earl Haraldson

Capital

Dittmar Rigule

Secret State

Tom Dawkins

John Ford: Dreaming the Quiet Man

Narrator

Tent City, U.S.A

I, Anna

D.C.I. Bernie Reid

A Man's Story

Self

The Women of SNL

Priest (archive footage)

Perrier's Bounty

Voice of the Grim Reaper (voice)

The Meaning of Life

Self

Leningrad

Philip Parker

2:22

Detective Swain (uncredited)

Camelot: Live from Lincoln Center

King Arthur

Emotional Arithmetic

Christopher Lewis

In Treatment

Dr. Paul Weston

Leningrad

Saturday Night Live in the '90s: Pop Culture Nation

Self

The Graham Norton Show

Self

Jindabyne

Stewart

Played

Eddie

Wah-Wah

Harry Compton

Assault on Precinct 13

Captain Marcus Duvall

The Bridge of San Luis Rey

Brother Juniper

P.S.

Peter Harrington

Vanity Fair

The Marquess of Steyne

Patrick

Shade

Charlie Miller

Flight from Death: The Quest for Immortality

Narrator

Spider

Bill Cleg

Ghost Ship

Captain Sean Murphy

Horses: The Story of Equus

Narrator

Killing Emmett Young

Jack Marlow / Stephen Bracken

Round Up: Deposing 'The Usual Suspects'

Self

Keyser Soze, Lie or Legend - Featurette

Self

Virginia's Run

Ford Lofton

When Brendan Met Trudy

Special Appearance

Madigan Men

Benjamin Madigan

Mad About Mambo

Making Love

Violinista / Jeno Varga Adulto

End of Days

The Man

Stigmata

Father Andrew Kiernan

Enemy of the State

'Brill'

Quest for Camelot

Lionel (voice)

Pirates

Narrator (voice)

The Man in the Iron Mask

D'Artagnan

Polish Wedding

Bolek

Nothing Is What It Seems: The Making Of 'The Usual Suspects'

Self

This Is the Sea

Rohan

The End of Violence

Ray

The View

Self

Weapons of Mass Distraction

Lionel Powers

Smilla's Sense of Snow

The Mechanic

Somebody Is Waiting

Roger Ellis

The Last of the High Kings

Jack Griffin

The Brylcreem Boys

Commandant O'Brien

Mad Dog Time

Ben London

Dead Man

Charlie Dickinson

Irish Cinema: Ourselves Alone?

Narrator (voice)

Frankie Starlight

Jack Kelly

The Usual Suspects

Keaton

Out of Ireland

Richard O'Gorman (voice)

Buffalo Girls

Teddy Blue

Little Women

Friedrich Bhaer

Trial by Jury

Daniel Graham

A Simple Twist of Fate

John Newland

Inside the Actors Studio

Self

All Things Bright and Beautiful

The Good Thief

Prince of Jutland

Fenge

In the Name of the Father

Late Night with Conan O'Brien

Self - Guest

A Dangerous Woman

Mackey

Point of No Return

Bob

Into the West

Papa Reilly

Cool World

Jack Deebs

Shipwrecked

Lt. John Merrick

Miller's Crossing

Tom Reagan

Diamond Skulls

Hugo

A Soldier's Tale

Saul

The Courier

Val

Julia and Julia

Paolo

Siesta

Augustine

Hello Again

Kevin Scanlon

Lionheart

Black Prince

Gothic

Lord Byron

Defence of the Realm

Nicholas 'Nick' Mullen

Mussolini: The Untold Story

Vittorio Mussolini

Christopher Columbus

The Keep

Major Kaempffer

Hanna K.

Joshué Herzog

The Rocking Horse Winner

Bassett

The Search for Alexander the Great

Ptolemy

The Search for Alexander the Great

Ptolemy

Excalibur

Uther

The Outsider

Man in Street

On a Paving Stone Mounted

The Last of Summer

Bishop's secretary

Strangers

Johnny Maguire

Live from Lincoln Center

King Arthur

Saturday Night Live

Self - Host

Tony Awards

Self - Presenter