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 | 2025-06-06 |
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Blue Road: The Edna O'Brien Story | Self | 2025-01-31 |
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From the World of John Wick: Ballerina | The Chancellor | 2025-06-04 |
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Dance First | Samuel Beckett | 2023-11-03 |
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Murder at Yellowstone City | Sheriff Ambrose | 2022-06-24 |
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The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse | The Horse (voice) | 2022-12-25 |
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Walking with Ghosts | Himself | 2022-02-26 |
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Lamborghini: The Man Behind the Legend | Enzo Ferrari | 2022-11-17 |
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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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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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In the Cloud | Doc Wolff | 2018-02-08 |
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Lies We Tell | Donald | 2018-02-02 |
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Atlantic Salmon: Lost at Sea | Narrator | 2018-02-01 |
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An L.A. Minute | Ted Gold | 2018-08-24 |
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My Astonishing Self: Gabriel Byrne on George Bernard Shaw | Narrator | 2018-03-25 |
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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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Into the Night: Portraits of Life and Death | Self | 2017-10-27 |
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No Pay, Nudity | Lawrence Rose | 2016-11-04 |
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Versus: The Life and Films of Ken Loach | Self - Actor | 2016-06-30 |
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Louder Than Bombs | Gene Reed | 2015-10-01 |
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The 33 | Andre Sougarret | 2015-08-06 |
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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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Le Temps de l'aventure | Man | 2013-04-10 |
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Excalibur: Behind the Movie | Self | 2013-12-20 |
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All Things To All Men | Joseph Corso | 2013-04-05 |
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I, Anna | D.C.I. Bernie Reid | 2012-03-03 |
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Le Capital | Dittmar Rigule | 2012-11-14 |
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John Ford: Dreaming the Quiet Man | Narrator | 2012-06-15 |
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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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Leningrad | Philip Parker | 2009-01-01 |
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Perrier's Bounty | Voice of the Grim Reaper (voice) | 2009-09-11 |
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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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Emotional Arithmetic | Christopher Lewis | 2008-04-18 |
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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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Flight from Death: The Quest for Immortality | Narrator | 2003-01-01 |
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Shade | Charlie Miller | 2003-05-18 |
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Emmett's Mark | Jack Marlow / Stephen Bracken | 2002-04-13 |
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Keyser Soze, Lie or Legend - Featurette | Self | 2002-04-02 |
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Ghost Ship | Captain Sean Murphy | 2002-10-25 |
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Round Up: Deposing 'The Usual Suspects' | Self | 2002-04-02 |
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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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Horses: The Story of Equus | Narrator | 2002-06-12 |
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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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End of Days | The Man | 1999-11-24 |
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Stigmata | Father Andrew Kiernan | 1999-09-02 |
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The Man in the Iron Mask | D'Artagnan | 1998-03-12 |
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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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Pirates | Narrator (voice) | 1998-04-06 |
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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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The End of Violence | Ray | 1997-09-12 |
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Smilla's Sense of Snow | The Mechanic | 1997-02-28 |
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This Is the Sea | Rohan | 1997-09-15 |
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The Brylcreem Boys | Commandant O'Brien | 1996-11-14 |
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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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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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Buffalo Girls | Teddy Blue | 1995-04-30 |
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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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Out of Ireland: The Story of Irish Emigration to America | Richard O'Gorman (voice) | 1994-01-01 |
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Little Women | Friedrich Bhaer | 1994-12-21 |
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Trial by Jury | Daniel Graham | 1994-09-09 |
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Prince of Jutland | Fenge | 1994-02-23 |
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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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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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Håkon Håkonsen | Lt. John Merrick | 1990-10-03 |
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Diamond Skulls | Hugo | 1990-02-01 |
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Miller's Crossing | Tom Reagan | 1990-09-21 |
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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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Giulia e Giulia | Paolo | 1988-02-05 |
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Siesta | Augustine | 1987-11-11 |
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Hello Again | Kevin Scanlon | 1987-11-06 |
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Lionheart | Black Prince | 1987-08-14 |
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Gothic | Lord Byron | 1986-11-30 |
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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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The Keep | Major Kaempffer | 1983-12-16 |
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Hanna K. | Joshué Herzog | 1983-09-07 |
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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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A World War II Fairytale: The Making of Michael Mann's 'The Keep' | Himself (Archive Footage) | |
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Nothing Is What It Seems: The Making Of 'The Usual Suspects' | Self |
