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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Ballerina | The Chancellor | 2025-06-04 |
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Richard Burton: Wild Genius | Self | 2025-11-10 |
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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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Blue Road: The Edna O'Brien Story | Self | 2025-01-31 |
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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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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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Walking with Ghosts | Himself | 2022-02-26 |
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Murder at Yellowstone City | Sheriff Ambrose | 2022-06-24 |
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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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Lies We Tell | Donald | 2018-02-02 |
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Hereditary | Steve Graham | 2018-06-07 |
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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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Carrie Pilby | Mr. Pilby | 2017-03-31 |
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Mad to Be Normal | Jim | 2017-04-06 |
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No Pay, Nudity | Lester Rosenthal aka 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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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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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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Camelot: Live from Lincoln Center | King Arthur | 2008-05-08 |
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2:22 | Detective Swain (uncredited) | 2008-09-24 |
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Gabriel Byrne: Stories from Home | 2008-07-12 | |
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Emotional Arithmetic | Christopher Lewis | 2008-04-18 |
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Saturday Night Live in the '90s: Pop Culture Nation | Self | 2007-05-06 |
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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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Vanity Fair | The Marquess of Steyne | 2004-09-01 |
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Patrick | Patrick | 2004-03-14 |
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P.S. | Peter Harrington | 2004-10-15 |
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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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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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Ghost Ship | Captain Sean Murphy | 2002-10-25 |
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Spider | Bill Cleg | 2002-11-06 |
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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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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 | 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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Polish Wedding | Bolek | 1998-01-16 |
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Quest for Camelot | Lionel (voice) | 1998-05-15 |
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Enemy of the State | 'Brill' | 1998-11-20 |
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The Man in the Iron Mask | D'Artagnan | 1998-03-12 |
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Pirates | Narrator (voice) | 1998-04-06 |
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 | 1990-06-08 |
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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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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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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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