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