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