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Gabriel Byrne

Born 1950-05-12
📍 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). 

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).

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Filmography 134

Richard Burton: Wild Genius
as Self
2025
A World War II Fairy Tale: The Making of Michael Mann's 'The Keep'
as Self (archive footage)
2025
A World War II Fairy Tale: The Making of Michael Mann's 'The Keep'
as Self
2025
Four Letters of Love
as Muiris Gore
2025
Ballerina
as The Chancellor
2025
Blue Road: The Edna O'Brien Story
as Self
2025
Dance First
as Samuel Beckett
2023
The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse
as The Horse (voice)
2022
Lamborghini: The Man Behind the Legend
as Enzo Ferrari
2022
Murder at Yellowstone City
as Sheriff Ambrose
2022
Walking with Ghosts
as Himself
2022
Death of a Ladies' Man
as Samuel O'Shea
2021
Michael Des Barres: Who Do You Want Me To Be?
as Self
2020
ZeroZeroZero
as Edward Lynwood
2020
Lost Girls
as Richard Dormer
2020
War of the Worlds
as Bill Ward
2019
Cursed: The True Nature of Hereditary
as Self - Steve
2018
Maniac
as Porter Milgrim
2018
An L.A. Minute
as Ted Gold
2018
Hereditary
as Steve Graham
2018
My Astonishing Self: Gabriel Byrne on George Bernard Shaw
as Narrator
2018
In the Cloud
as Doc Wolff
2018
Lies We Tell
as Donald
2018
Atlantic Salmon: Lost at Sea
as Narrator
2018
Into the Night: Portraits of Life and Death
as Self
2017
Mad to Be Normal
as Jim
2017
Carrie Pilby
as Mr. Pilby
2017
No Pay, Nudity
as Lester Rosenthal aka Lawrence Rose
2016
Versus: The Life and Films of Ken Loach
as Self - Actor
2016
Endless Night
as Bram
2015
Louder Than Bombs
as Gene Reed
2015
The 33
as Andre Sougarret
2015
Vikings: Athelstan's Journal
as Earl Haraldson (archive footage)
2015
Quirke
as Quirke
2014
Vampire Academy
as Victor Dashkov
2014
Excalibur: Behind the Movie
as Self
2013
Just a Sigh
as Man
2013
All Things To All Men
as Joseph Corso
2013
Vikings
as Earl Haraldson
2013
Capital
as Dittmar Rigule
2012
Secret State
as Tom Dawkins
2012
John Ford: Dreaming the Quiet Man
as Narrator
2012
I, Anna
as D.C.I. Bernie Reid
2012
A Man's Story
as Self
2011
The Women of SNL
as Priest (archive footage)
2010
Perrier's Bounty
as Voice of the Grim Reaper (voice)
2009
Leningrad
as Philip Parker
2009
2:22
as Detective Swain (uncredited)
2008
Camelot: Live from Lincoln Center
as King Arthur
2008
Emotional Arithmetic
as Christopher Lewis
2008
In Treatment
as Dr. Paul Weston
2008
Leningrad
2007
Saturday Night Live in the '90s: Pop Culture Nation
as Self
2007
The Graham Norton Show
as Self
2007
Jindabyne
as Stewart
2006
Played
as Eddie
2006
Wah-Wah
as Harry Compton
2005
Assault on Precinct 13
as Captain Marcus Duvall
2005
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
as Brother Juniper
2004
P.S.
as Peter Harrington
2004
Vanity Fair
as The Marquess of Steyne
2004
Patrick
as Patrick
2004
Shade
as Charlie Miller
2003
Flight from Death: The Quest for Immortality
as Narrator
2003
Spider
as Bill Cleg
2002
Ghost Ship
as Captain Sean Murphy
2002
Horses: The Story of Equus
as Narrator
2002
Killing Emmett Young
as Jack Marlow / Stephen Bracken
2002
Keyser Soze, Lie or Legend - Featurette
as Self
2002
Round Up: Deposing 'The Usual Suspects'
as Self
2002
Virginia's Run
as Ford Lofton
2002
When Brendan Met Trudy
as Special Appearance
2000
Madigan Men
as Benjamin Madigan
2000
Making Love
as Violinista / Jeno Varga Adulto
2000
End of Days
as The Man
1999
Stigmata
as Father Andrew Kiernan
1999
Enemy of the State
as 'Brill'
1998
Quest for Camelot
as Lionel (voice)
1998
Pirates
as Narrator (voice)
1998
The Man in the Iron Mask
as D'Artagnan
1998
Polish Wedding
as Bolek
1998
Nothing Is What It Seems: The Making Of 'The Usual Suspects'
as Self
1998
This Is the Sea
as Rohan
1997
The End of Violence
as Ray
1997
The View
as Self
1997
Weapons of Mass Distraction
as Lionel Powers
1997
Smilla's Sense of Snow
as The Mechanic
1997
Somebody Is Waiting
as Roger Ellis
1996
The Last of the High Kings
as Jack Griffin
1996
The Brylcreem Boys
as Commandant O'Brien
1996
Mad Dog Time
as Ben London
1996
Dead Man
as Charlie Dickinson
1995
Irish Cinema: Ourselves Alone?
as Narrator (voice)
1995
Frankie Starlight
as Jack Kelly
1995
The Usual Suspects
as Keaton
1995
Out of Ireland
as Richard O'Gorman (voice)
1995
Buffalo Girls
as Teddy Blue
1995
Little Women
as Friedrich Bhaer
1994
Trial by Jury
as Daniel Graham
1994
A Simple Twist of Fate
as John Newland
1994
Inside the Actors Studio
as Self
1994
All Things Bright and Beautiful
as The Good Thief
1994
Prince of Jutland
as Fenge
1994
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
as Self - Guest
1993
A Dangerous Woman
as Mackey
1993
Point of No Return
as Bob
1993
Into the West
as Papa Reilly
1992
Cool World
as Jack Deebs
1992
Shipwrecked
as Lt. John Merrick
1990
Miller's Crossing
as Tom Reagan
1990
Diamond Skulls
as Hugo
1990
A Soldier's Tale
as Saul
1988
The Courier
as Val
1988
Julia and Julia
as Paolo
1988
Siesta
as Augustine
1987
Hello Again
as Kevin Scanlon
1987
Lionheart
as Black Prince
1987
Gothic
as Lord Byron
1987
Defence of the Realm
as Nicholas 'Nick' Mullen
1986
Mussolini: The Untold Story
as Vittorio Mussolini
1985
Christopher Columbus
as Christopher Columbus
1985
The Keep
as Major Kaempffer
1983
Hanna K.
as Joshué Herzog
1983
The Rocking Horse Winner
as Bassett
1982
The Search for Alexander the Great
as Ptolemy
1981
Excalibur
as Uther
1981
The Outsider
as Man in Street
1979
On a Paving Stone Mounted
1978
The Last of Summer
as Bishop's secretary
1978
Strangers
as Johnny Maguire
1978
Live from Lincoln Center
as King Arthur
1976
Saturday Night Live
as Self - Host
1975
Tony Awards
as Self - Presenter
1956
Diary of a Mad Old Man