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). Description above from the Wikipedia article Gabriel Byrne, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Four Letters of Love | Muiris Gore | 2025-07-18 |
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Blue Road: The Edna O'Brien Story | Self | 2025-01-31 |
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Ballerina | The Chancellor | 2025-06-04 |
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A World War II Fairy Tale: The Making of Michael Mann's 'The Keep' | Himself | 2025-09-10 |
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A World War II Fairy Tale: The Making of Michael Mann's 'The Keep' | Himself (archive footage) | 2025-09-10 |
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Dance First | Samuel Beckett | 2023-11-03 |
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Walking with Ghosts | Himself | 2022-02-26 |
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Murder at Yellowstone City | Sheriff Ambrose | 2022-06-24 |
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Lamborghini: The Man Behind the Legend | Enzo Ferrari | 2022-11-17 |
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The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse | The Horse (voice) | 2022-12-25 |
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Death of a Ladies' Man | Samuel O'Shea | 2021-03-12 |
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Lost Girls | Richard Dormer | 2020-01-28 |
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Michael Des Barres: Who Do You Want Me To Be? | Self | 2020-07-10 |
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Lies We Tell | Donald | 2018-02-02 |
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An L.A. Minute | Ted Gold | 2018-08-24 |
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Hereditary | Steve Graham | 2018-06-07 |
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Cursed: The True Nature of Hereditary | Self - Steve | 2018-10-08 |
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Atlantic Salmon: Lost at Sea | Narrator | 2018-02-01 |
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In the Cloud | Doc Wolff | 2018-02-08 |
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My Astonishing Self: Gabriel Byrne on George Bernard Shaw | Narrator | 2018-03-25 |
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Carrie Pilby | Mr. Pilby | 2017-03-31 |
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Into the Night: Portraits of Life and Death | Self | 2017-10-27 |
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Mad to Be Normal | Jim | 2017-04-06 |
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Versus: The Life and Films of Ken Loach | Self - Actor | 2016-06-30 |
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No Pay, Nudity | Lester Rosenthal aka Lawrence Rose | 2016-11-04 |
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The 33 | Andre Sougarret | 2015-08-06 |
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Louder Than Bombs | Gene Reed | 2015-10-01 |
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Nadie quiere la noche | Bram | 2015-11-27 |
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Vampire Academy | Victor Dashkov | 2014-02-07 |
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Excalibur: Behind the Movie | Self | 2013-12-20 |
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Le Temps de l'aventure | Man | 2013-04-10 |
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All Things To All Men | Joseph Corso | 2013-04-05 |
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John Ford: Dreaming the Quiet Man | Narrator | 2012-06-15 |
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Le Capital | Dittmar Rigule | 2012-11-14 |
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I, Anna | D.C.I. Bernie Reid | 2012-03-03 |
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A Man's Story | Self | 2011-10-08 |
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The Women of SNL | Priest (archive footage) | 2010-11-01 |
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Perrier's Bounty | Voice of the Grim Reaper (voice) | 2009-09-11 |
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Leningrad | Philip Parker | 2009-01-01 |
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Gabriel Byrne: Stories from Home | 2008-07-12 | |
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2:22 | Detective Swain (uncredited) | 2008-09-24 |
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Emotional Arithmetic | Christopher Lewis | 2008-04-18 |
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Camelot: Live from Lincoln Center | King Arthur | 2008-05-08 |
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Jindabyne | Stewart | 2006-07-20 |
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Played | Eddie | 2006-05-19 |
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Wah-Wah | Harry Compton | 2005-08-17 |
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Assault on Precinct 13 | Captain Marcus Duvall | 2005-01-19 |
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Patrick | Patrick | 2004-03-14 |
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P.S. | Peter Harrington | 2004-10-15 |
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Vanity Fair | The Marquess of Steyne | 2004-09-01 |
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The Bridge of San Luis Rey | Brother Juniper | 2004-12-22 |
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Shade | Charlie Miller | 2003-05-18 |
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Flight from Death: The Quest for Immortality | Narrator | 2003-01-01 |
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Emmett's Mark | Jack Marlow / Stephen Bracken | 2002-04-13 |
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Ghost Ship | Captain Sean Murphy | 2002-10-25 |
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Keyser Soze, Lie or Legend - Featurette | Self | 2002-04-02 |
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Round Up: Deposing 'The Usual Suspects' | Self | 2002-04-02 |
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Horses: The Story of Equus | Narrator | 2002-06-12 |
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Pursuing the Suspects | Himself | 2002-04-29 |
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Virginia's Run | Ford Lofton | 2002-03-03 |
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Spider | Bill Cleg | 2002-11-06 |
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Canone inverso | il violinista/Jeno Varga adulto | 2000-02-11 |
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When Brendan Met Trudy | Special Appearance | 2000-12-14 |
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End of Days | The Man | 1999-11-24 |
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Stigmata | Father Andrew Kiernan | 1999-09-02 |
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Pirates | Narrator (voice) | 1998-04-06 |
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Polish Wedding | Bolek | 1998-01-16 |
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Quest for Camelot | Lionel (voice) | 1998-05-15 |
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The Man in the Iron Mask | D'Artagnan | 1998-03-12 |
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Enemy of the State | 'Brill' | 1998-11-20 |
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Weapons of Mass Distraction | Lionel Powers | 1997-05-17 |
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This Is the Sea | Rohan | 1997-09-15 |
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Smilla's Sense of Snow | The Mechanic | 1997-02-28 |
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The End of Violence | Ray | 1997-09-12 |
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Somebody Is Waiting | Roger Ellis | 1996-12-19 |
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The Last of the High Kings | Jack Griffin | 1996-12-06 |
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Mad Dog Time | Ben London | 1996-11-08 |
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The Brylcreem Boys | Commandant O'Brien | 1996-11-14 |
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Irish Cinema: Ourselves Alone? | Narrator (voice) | 1995-10-20 |
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Dead Man | Charlie Dickinson | 1995-12-23 |
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The Usual Suspects | Keaton | 1995-07-19 |
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Buffalo Girls | Teddy Blue | 1995-04-30 |
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Out of Ireland | Richard O'Gorman (voice) | 1995-06-09 |
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Frankie Starlight | Jack Kelly | 1995-11-22 |
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Prince of Jutland | Fenge | 1994-02-23 |
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Little Women | Friedrich Bhaer | 1994-12-21 |
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All Things Bright and Beautiful | The Good Thief | 1994-03-16 |
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A Simple Twist of Fate | John Newland | 1994-09-02 |
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Trial by Jury | Daniel Graham | 1994-09-09 |
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Point of No Return | Bob | 1993-03-19 |
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A Dangerous Woman | Mackey | 1993-09-10 |
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Into the West | Papa Reilly | 1992-10-23 |
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Cool World | Jack Deebs | 1992-07-10 |
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Diamond Skulls | Hugo | 1990-02-01 |
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Håkon Håkonsen | Lt. John Merrick | 1990-10-03 |
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Miller's Crossing | Tom Reagan | 1990-09-21 |
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Giulia e Giulia | Paolo | 1988-02-05 |
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A Soldier's Tale | Saul | 1988-06-16 |
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The Courier | Val | 1988-02-10 |
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Siesta | Augustine | 1987-11-11 |
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Gothic | Lord Byron | 1987-02-27 |
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Lionheart | Black Prince | 1987-08-14 |
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Hello Again | Kevin Scanlon | 1987-11-06 |
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Defence of the Realm | Nicholas 'Nick' Mullen | 1986-05-09 |
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The Treatment | Father Michael | 1984-03-16 |
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Reflections | William Masters | 1984-04-01 |
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Hanna K. | Joshué Herzog | 1983-09-07 |
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The Keep | Major Kaempffer | 1983-12-16 |
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The Rocking Horse Winner | Bassett | 1982-11-25 |
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The Search for Alexander the Great | Ptolemy | 1981-05-06 |
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Excalibur | Uther | 1981-04-10 |
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The Outsider | Man in Street | 1979-11-26 |
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On a Paving Stone Mounted | 1978-12-12 | |
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Diary Of A Mad Old Man | ||
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Nothing Is What It Seems: The Making Of 'The Usual Suspects' | Self | |
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