Gabriel Byrne
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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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Credits
Cool World (1992)
as Jack Deebs
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Ballerina (2025)
as The Chancellor
The Usual Suspects (1995)
as Keaton
Hereditary (2018)
as Steve Graham
Enemy of the State (1998)
as 'Brill'
The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse (2022)
as The Horse (voice)
The Man in the Iron Mask (1998)
as D'Artagnan
Ghost Ship (2002)
as Captain Sean Murphy
End of Days (1999)
as The Man
Little Women (1994)
as Friedrich Bhaer
Lamborghini: The Man Behind the Legend (2022)
as Enzo Ferrari
Assault on Precinct 13 (2005)
as Captain Marcus Duvall
Miller's Crossing (1990)
as Tom Reagan
Excalibur (1981)
as Uther
Quest for Camelot (1998)
as Lionel (voice)
Point of No Return (1993)
as Bob
Vampire Academy (2014)
as Victor Dashkov
Dead Man (1995)
as Charlie Dickinson
Murder at Yellowstone City (2022)
as Sheriff Ambrose
Louder Than Bombs (2015)
as Gene Reed
Vanity Fair (2004)
as The Marquess of Steyne
The 33 (2015)
as Andre Sougarret
Shade (2003)
as Charlie Miller
Stigmata (1999)
as Father Andrew Kiernan
P.S. (2004)
as Peter Harrington
The Keep (1983)
as Major Kaempffer
The End of Violence (1997)
as Ray
The Women of SNL (2010)
as Priest (archive footage)
Spider (2002)
as Bill Cleg
Four Letters of Love (2025)
as Muiris Gore
Endless Night (2015)
as Bram
Saturday Night Live: 25th Anniversary Special (1999)
as (archive footage)
Smilla's Sense of Snow (1997)
as The Mechanic
Dance First (2023)
as Samuel Beckett
A Simple Twist of Fate (1994)
as John Newland
The Bridge of San Luis Rey (2004)
as Brother Juniper
Hello Again (1987)
as Kevin Scanlon
I, Anna (2012)
as D.C.I. Bernie Reid
All Things To All Men (2013)
as Joseph Corso
Carrie Pilby (2017)
as Mr. Pilby
Excalibur: Behind the Movie (2013)
as Self
Lost Girls (2020)
as Richard Dormer
Trial by Jury (1994)
as Daniel Graham
Camelot: Live from Lincoln Center (2008)
as King Arthur
Richard Burton: Wild Genius (2025)
as Self
A Man's Story (2011)
as Self
Defence of the Realm (1986)
as Nicholas 'Nick' Mullen
Perrier's Bounty (2010)
as Voice of the Grim Reaper (voice)
Mad Dog Time (1996)
as Ben London
Jindabyne (2006)
as Stewart
Gothic (1987)
as Lord Byron
A Dangerous Woman (1993)
as Mackey
Into the West (1992)
as Papa Reilly
Played (2006)
as Eddie
Wah-Wah (2005)
as Harry Compton
Death of a Ladies' Man (2021)
as Samuel O'Shea
Mad to Be Normal (2017)
as Jim
Capital (2012)
as Dittmar Rigule
Leningrad (2009)
as Philip Parker
Weapons of Mass Distraction (1997)
as Lionel Powers
Just a Sigh (2013)
as Man
Saturday Night Live in the '90s: Pop Culture Nation (2007)
as Self
Prince of Jutland (1994)
as Fenge
Versus: The Life and Films of Ken Loach (2016)
as Self - Actor
This Is the Sea (1997)
as Rohan
Siesta (1987)
as Augustine
The Last of the High Kings (1996)
as Jack Griffin
Polish Wedding (1998)
as Bolek
Lies We Tell (2018)
as Donald
Lionheart (1987)
as Black Prince
Buffalo Girls (1995)
as Teddy Blue
Keyser Soze, Lie or Legend - Featurette (2002)
as Self
A World War II Fairy Tale: The Making of Michael Mann's 'The Keep' (2025)
as Self (archive footage)
In the Cloud (2018)
as Doc Wolff
Round Up: Deposing 'The Usual Suspects' (2002)
as Self
All Things Bright and Beautiful (1994)
as The Good Thief
Diamond Skulls (1990)
as Hugo
An L.A. Minute (2018)
as Ted Gold
When Brendan Met Trudy (2000)
as Special Appearance
On a Paving Stone Mounted (1978)
Actor
Blue Road: The Edna O'Brien Story (2025)
as Self
2:22 (2008)
as Detective Swain (uncredited)
A Soldier's Tale (1988)
as Saul
Nothing Is What It Seems: The Making Of 'The Usual Suspects' (1998)
as Self
Somebody Is Waiting (1996)
as Roger Ellis
John Ford: Dreaming the Quiet Man (2012)
as Narrator
Draíocht (1996)
as Father
Julia and Julia (1988)
as Paolo
Cursed: The True Nature of Hereditary (2018)
as Self - Steve
Michael Des Barres: Who Do You Want Me To Be? (2020)
as Self
My Astonishing Self: Gabriel Byrne on George Bernard Shaw (2018)
as Narrator
The Rocking Horse Winner (1982)
as Bassett
Emotional Arithmetic (2008)
as Christopher Lewis
Killing Emmett Young (2002)
as Jack Marlow / Stephen Bracken
Making Love (2000)
as Violinista / Jeno Varga Adulto
Frankie Starlight (1995)
as Jack Kelly
The Brylcreem Boys (1996)
as Commandant O'Brien
Pirates (1998)
as Narrator (voice)
Hanna K. (1983)
as Joshué Herzog
Out of Ireland (1995)
as Richard O'Gorman (voice)
Pursuing the Suspects (2002)
as Himself
No Pay, Nudity (2016)
as Lester Rosenthal aka Lawrence Rose
Gabriel Byrne: Stories from Home (2008)
Actor
Virginia's Run (2002)
as Ford Lofton
The Outsider (1979)
as Man in Street
The Courier (1988)
as Val
Irish Cinema: Ourselves Alone? (1995)
as Narrator (voice)
Horses: The Story of Equus (2002)
as Narrator
Into the Night: Portraits of Life and Death (2017)
as Self
Patrick (2004)
as Patrick
The Treatment (1984)
as Father Michael
Atlantic Salmon: Lost at Sea (2018)
as Narrator
Flight from Death: The Quest for Immortality (2003)
as Narrator
Shipwrecked (1990)
as Lt. John Merrick
Reflections (1984)
as William Masters
Joyce in June (1982)
as Keogh / Blazes Boylan
Walking with Ghosts (2022)
as Himself
Sauver Mozart (—)
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