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Gabriel Byrne

Gabriel Byrne

Acting1950Dublin, Ireland

Biography

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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Acting History

2023
Dance First
as Samuel Beckett
2021
Death of a Ladies' Man
as Samuel O'Shea
2020
Lost Girls
as Richard Dormer
ZeroZeroZero
TVas Edward Lynwood2 eps
2019
War of the Worlds
TVas Bill Ward24 eps
Land Without God
Executive Producer
2018
Lies We Tell
as Donald
An L.A. Minute
as Ted Gold
Hereditary
as Steve Graham
In the Cloud
as Doc Wolff
Maniac
TVas Porter Milgrim5 eps
Hereditary
Executive Producer
2016
No Pay, Nudity
as Lester Rosenthal aka Lawrence Rose
2015
The 33 (2015)
as Andre Sougarret
Louder Than Bombs
as Gene Reed
Vikings: Athelstan's Journal
TVas Earl Haraldson (archive footage)3 eps
2014
Vampire Academy
as Victor Dashkov
Quirke
TVas Quirke3 eps
2013
All Things To All Men
as Joseph Corso
Vikings
TVas Earl Haraldson9 eps
2012
I, Anna
as D.C.I. Bernie Reid
Capital
as Dittmar Rigule
Secret State
TVas Tom Dawkins4 eps
Tent City, U.S.A
Executive Producer
2011
2010
The Women of SNL
as Priest (archive footage)
2009
Perrier's Bounty
as Voice of the Grim Reaper (voice)
Leningrad
as Philip Parker
2008
2:22
as Detective Swain (uncredited)
Emotional Arithmetic
as Christopher Lewis
In Treatment
TVas Dr. Paul Weston106 eps
2006
Played
as Eddie
Jindabyne
as Stewart
2005
Wah-Wah
as Harry Compton
Assault on Precinct 13
as Captain Marcus Duvall
2004
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
as Brother Juniper
Patrick
as Patrick
Vanity Fair
as The Marquess of Steyne
P.S.
as Peter Harrington
2002
Spider
as Bill Cleg
Ghost Ship
as Captain Sean Murphy
Virginia's Run
as Ford Lofton
Killing Emmett Young
as Jack Marlow / Stephen Bracken
The View
TVas Self1 eps
2000
Making Love
as Violinista / Jeno Varga Adulto
When Brendan Met Trudy
as Special Appearance
Inside the Actors Studio
TVas Self1 eps
Madigan Men
TVas Benjamin Madigan
Mad About Mambo
Executive Producer
Madigan Men
TVProducer
1999
End of Days
as The Man
Stigmata
as Father Andrew Kiernan
1996
The Brylcreem Boys
as Commandant O'Brien
Summer Fling
as Jack Griffin
Mad Dog Time
as Ben London
Somebody Is Waiting
as Roger Ellis
Summer Fling
Co-Executive Producer
Summer Fling
Screenplay
1995
Dead Man
as Charlie Dickinson
Frankie Starlight
as Jack Kelly
Buffalo Girls
as Teddy Blue
Out of Ireland
as Richard O'Gorman (voice)
Saturday Night Live
TVas Self - Host1 eps
1994
Little Women
as Friedrich Bhaer
A Simple Twist of Fate
as John Newland
Trial by Jury
as Daniel Graham
1993
1992
Into the West
as Papa Reilly
Cool World
as Jack Deebs
Into the West
Associate Producer
1990
Miller's Crossing
as Tom Reagan
Shipwrecked
as Lt. John Merrick
Live from Lincoln Center
TVas King Arthur31 eps
1987
Gothic
as Lord Byron
Hello Again
as Kevin Scanlon
Siesta
as Augustine
Lionheart
as Black Prince
1986
Defence of the Realm
as Nicholas 'Nick' Mullen
1985
Mussolini: The Untold Story
TVas Vittorio Mussolini
Christopher Columbus
TVas Christopher Columbus
1984
Reflections
as William Masters
The Treatment
as Father Michael
1983
The Keep
as Major Kaempffer
Hanna K.
as Joshué Herzog
1980
Bracken
TVas Pat Barry
1979
The Outsider
as Man in Street
1978
Strangers
TVas Johnny Maguire32 eps
The Last of Summer
TVas Bishop's secretary

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Personal Info

Known For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
5/12/1950(75 years old)
Place of Birth
Dublin, Ireland