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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A World War II Fairy Tale: The Making of Michael Mann's 'The Keep' | Himself (archive footage) | 2025-09-10 |
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Blue Road: The Edna O'Brien Story | Self | 2025-01-31 |
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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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Richard Burton: Wild Genius | Self | 2025-11-10 |
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Ballerina | The Chancellor | 2025-06-04 |
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Dance First | Samuel Beckett | 2023-11-03 |
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The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse | The Horse (voice) | 2022-12-25 |
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Lamborghini: The Man Behind the Legend | Enzo Ferrari | 2022-11-17 |
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Murder at Yellowstone City | Sheriff Ambrose | 2022-06-24 |
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Walking with Ghosts | Himself | 2022-02-26 |
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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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Cursed: The True Nature of Hereditary | Self - Steve | 2018-10-08 |
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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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Atlantic Salmon: Lost at Sea | Narrator | 2018-02-01 |
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Hereditary | Steve Graham | 2018-06-07 |
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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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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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Carrie Pilby | Mr. Pilby | 2017-03-31 |
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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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Nadie quiere la noche | Bram | 2015-11-27 |
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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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Vampire Academy | Victor Dashkov | 2014-02-07 |
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All Things To All Men | Joseph Corso | 2013-04-05 |
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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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I, Anna | D.C.I. Bernie Reid | 2012-03-03 |
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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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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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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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Gabriel Byrne: Stories from Home | 2008-07-12 | |
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2:22 | Detective Swain (uncredited) | 2008-09-24 |
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Played | Eddie | 2006-05-19 |
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Jindabyne | Stewart | 2006-07-20 |
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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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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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P.S. | Peter Harrington | 2004-10-15 |
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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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Horses: The Story of Equus | Narrator | 2002-06-12 |
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Round Up: Deposing 'The Usual Suspects' | Self | 2002-04-02 |
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Ghost Ship | Captain Sean Murphy | 2002-10-25 |
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Pursuing the Suspects | Himself | 2002-04-29 |
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Keyser Soze, Lie or Legend - Featurette | Self | 2002-04-02 |
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Spider | Bill Cleg | 2002-11-06 |
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Emmett's Mark | Jack Marlow / Stephen Bracken | 2002-04-13 |
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Virginia's Run | Ford Lofton | 2002-03-03 |
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When Brendan Met Trudy | Special Appearance | 2000-12-14 |
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Canone inverso | il violinista/Jeno Varga adulto | 2000-02-11 |
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Stigmata | Father Andrew Kiernan | 1999-09-02 |
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End of Days | The Man | 1999-11-24 |
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Enemy of the State | 'Brill' | 1998-11-20 |
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Polish Wedding | Bolek | 1998-01-16 |
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The Man in the Iron Mask | D'Artagnan | 1998-03-12 |
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Quest for Camelot | Lionel (voice) | 1998-05-15 |
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Pirates | Narrator (voice) | 1998-04-06 |
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This Is the Sea | Rohan | 1997-09-15 |
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The End of Violence | Ray | 1997-09-12 |
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Weapons of Mass Distraction | Lionel Powers | 1997-05-17 |
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Smilla's Sense of Snow | The Mechanic | 1997-02-28 |
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Somebody Is Waiting | Roger Ellis | 1996-12-19 |
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The Brylcreem Boys | Commandant O'Brien | 1996-11-14 |
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Mad Dog Time | Ben London | 1996-11-08 |
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The Last of the High Kings | Jack Griffin | 1996-12-06 |
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Frankie Starlight | Jack Kelly | 1995-11-22 |
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Out of Ireland | Richard O'Gorman (voice) | 1995-06-09 |
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Dead Man | Charlie Dickinson | 1995-12-23 |
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Irish Cinema: Ourselves Alone? | Narrator (voice) | 1995-10-20 |
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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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Prince of Jutland | Fenge | 1994-02-23 |
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Trial by Jury | Daniel Graham | 1994-09-09 |
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A Simple Twist of Fate | John Newland | 1994-09-02 |
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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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Point of No Return | Bob | 1993-03-19 |
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A Dangerous Woman | Mackey | 1993-09-10 |
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Cool World | Jack Deebs | 1992-07-10 |
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Into the West | Papa Reilly | 1992-10-23 |
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Miller's Crossing | Tom Reagan | 1990-09-21 |
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Diamond Skulls | Hugo | 1990-06-08 |
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Håkon Håkonsen | Lt. John Merrick | 1990-10-03 |
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Giulia e Giulia | Paolo | 1988-02-05 |
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The Courier | Val | 1988-02-10 |
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A Soldier's Tale | Saul | 1988-06-16 |
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Siesta | Augustine | 1987-11-11 |
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Hello Again | Kevin Scanlon | 1987-11-06 |
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Gothic | Lord Byron | 1987-02-27 |
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Lionheart | Black Prince | 1987-08-14 |
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Defence of the Realm | Nicholas 'Nick' Mullen | 1986-05-09 |
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Reflections | William Masters | 1984-04-01 |
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The Treatment | Father Michael | 1984-03-16 |
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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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Excalibur | Uther | 1981-04-10 |
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The Search for Alexander the Great | Ptolemy | 1981-05-06 |
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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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Nothing Is What It Seems: The Making Of 'The Usual Suspects' | Self | |
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