Gabriel Byrne
Biography
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).
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Personal info
Gender
Male
Birthday
1950-05-12
Place of birth
Dublin, Ireland
Images
Cast
Miller's Crossing
1990
7.46
Dead Man
1995
7.30
The Usual Suspects
1995
8.18
Leningrad
2009
5.50
Stigmata
1999
6.28
Point of No Return
1993
6.20
Jindabyne
2006
5.40
Excalibur
1981
6.95
Vanity Fair
2004
5.80
Played
2006
3.80
P.S.
2004
5.56
Assault on Precinct 13
2005
6.17
Gothic
1987
5.73
Into the West
1992
6.60
Smilla's Sense of Snow
1997
6.29
The Man in the Iron Mask
1998
6.64
Little Women
1994
7.28
End of Days
1999
6.09
Enemy of the State
1998
7.05
Spider
2002
6.65
Ghost Ship
2002
5.99
The Keep
1983
5.65
Emotional Arithmetic
2008
5.40
Hello Again
1987
5.80
Perrier's Bounty
2009
5.76
Defence of the Realm
1986
6.50
Trial by Jury
1994
5.40
Cool World
1992
5.63
Making Love
2000
6.89
Shade
2003
6.18
Siesta
1987
5.10
Wah-Wah
2005
6.00
A Simple Twist of Fate
1994
6.10
Virginia's Run
2002
7.20
All Things Bright and Beautiful
1994
8.00
The Last of the High Kings
1996
5.80
Hanna K.
1983
6.05
Polish Wedding
1998
5.10
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
2004
5.10
This Is the Sea
1997
5.70
Mad Dog Time
1996
5.40
The End of Violence
1997
5.30
The Courier
1988
0.00
Prince of Jutland
1994
5.60
Quest for Camelot
1998
6.80
Shipwrecked
1990
6.60
Frankie Starlight
1995
5.30
Julia and Julia
1988
5.20
A Man's Story
2011
6.90
Lionheart
1987
5.20
The Brylcreem Boys
1996
3.90
Walking with Ghosts
2022
0.00
Capital
2012
6.12
Buffalo Girls
1995
6.64
A Dangerous Woman
1993
5.30
Patrick
2004
0.00
The Rocking Horse Winner
1982
0.00
Dark Obsession
1990
3.11
I, Anna
2012
5.30
All Things To All Men
2013
4.30
Vampire Academy
2014
6.34
Just a Sigh
2013
6.20
Murder at Yellowstone City
2022
5.45
Dance First
2023
7.10
A Soldier's Tale
1988
4.00
Horses: The Story of Equus
2002
0.00
Reflections
1984
4.50
Sauver Mozart
0.00
When Brendan Met Trudy
2000
4.00
Killing Emmett Young
2002
5.50
Weapons of Mass Distraction
1997
5.10
Louder Than Bombs
2015
6.40
Endless Night
2015
6.00
The Treatment
1984
0.00
2:22
2008
5.23
The 33
2015
6.40
Mad to Be Normal
2017
5.91
Gabriel Byrne: Stories from Home
2008
0.00
Four Letters of Love
2025
0.00
Carrie Pilby
2017
6.90
Somebody Is Waiting
1996
2.00
No Pay, Nudity
2016
4.00
Pursuing the Suspects
2002
6.70
An L.A. Minute
2018
2.00
Lies We Tell
2018
5.52
Hereditary
2018
7.29
In the Cloud
2018
5.00
Lost Girls
2020
6.09
Atlantic Salmon: Lost at Sea
2018
8.00
The Outsider
1979
5.60
The Women of SNL
2010
7.30
On a Paving Stone Mounted
1978
0.00
Death of a Ladies' Man
2021
5.50
Pirates
1998
6.00
Irish Cinema: Ourselves Alone?
1995
5.00
Excalibur: Behind the Movie
2013
0.00
Out of Ireland
1995
6.00