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Personal Info

Gender

Male

Birthday

1950-05-12 (74 years old)

Place of Birth

Dublin, Ireland

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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Known For

Acting

2025

2023

Dance First as Samuel Beckett

2022

2021

Death of a Ladies' Man as Samuel O'Shea

2020

2019

War of the Worlds as Bill Ward

2018

2017

2016

2015

Louder Than Bombs as Gene Reed
The 33 as Andre Sougarret
Vikings: Athelstan's Journal as Earl Haraldson (archive footage)

2014

Vampire Academy as Victor Dashkov
Quirke as Quirke

2013

All Things To All Men as Joseph Corso
Vikings as Earl Haraldson

2012

Capital as Dittmar Rigule
I, Anna as D.C.I. Bernie Reid
Secret State as Tom Dawkins

2011

2010

The Women of SNL as Priest (archive footage)

2009

Leningrad as Philip Parker
Perrier's Bounty as Voice of the Grim Reaper (voice)

2008

Emotional Arithmetic as Christopher Lewis
2:22 as Detective Swain (uncredited)
In Treatment as Dr. Paul Weston

2007

2006

Jindabyne as Stewart
Played as Eddie

2005

Assault on Precinct 13 as Captain Marcus Duvall
Wah-Wah as Harry Compton

2004

Vanity Fair as The Marquess of Steyne
P.S. as Peter Harrington
The Bridge of San Luis Rey as Brother Juniper
Patrick as Patrick

2003

2002

Spider as Bill Cleg
Ghost Ship as Captain Sean Murphy
Virginia's Run as Ford Lofton
Killing Emmett Young as Jack Marlow / Stephen Bracken

2000

Making Love as il violinista/Jeno Varga adulto
When Brendan Met Trudy as Special Appearance
Madigan Men as Benjamin Madigan

1999

Stigmata as Father Andrew Kiernan
End of Days as The Man

1998

Quest for Camelot as Lionel (voice)
Pirates as Narrator (voice)

1997

1996

Mad Dog Time as Ben London
The Brylcreem Boys as Commandant O'Brien
Somebody Is Waiting as Roger Ellis

1995

Dead Man as Charlie Dickinson
Frankie Starlight as Jack Kelly
Buffalo Girls as Teddy Blue
Irish Cinema: Ourselves Alone? as Narrator (voice)
Out of Ireland as Richard O'Gorman (voice)

1994

1993

1992

Into the West as Papa Reilly
Cool World as Jack Deebs

1990

Miller's Crossing as Tom Reagan
Shipwrecked as Lt. John Merrick

1988

1987

Gothic as Lord Byron
Hello Again as Kevin Scanlon
Siesta as Augustine
Lionheart as Black Prince

1986

Defence of the Realm as Nicholas 'Nick' Mullen

1985

Christopher Columbus as Christopher Columbus
Mussolini: The Untold Story as Vittorio Mussolini

1984

Reflections as William Masters
The Treatment as Father Michael

1983

The Keep as Major Kaempffer
Hanna K. as Joshué Herzog

1982

1981

1980

Bracken as Pat Barry

1979

The Outsider as Man in Street

1978

Strangers as Johnny Maguire
The Last of Summer as Bishop's secretary

1976

1975

Saturday Night Live as Self - Host

1956

Tony Awards as Self - Presenter

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Production

2019

Land Without God as Executive Producer

2018

Hereditary as Executive Producer

2012

Tent City, U.S.A as Executive Producer

2000

Mad About Mambo as Executive Producer
Madigan Men as Producer

1996

The Brylcreem Boys as Producer
Somebody Is Waiting as Co-Producer
The Last of the High Kings as Co-Executive Producer

1993

In the Name of the Father as Executive Producer

1992

Into the West as Associate Producer

Writing

1996