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Gabriel Byrne

Gabriel Byrne

Birthday: 1950-05-12 | Place of Birth: 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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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2025
Four Letters of Love

as    Muiris Gore

2025
2025
2025
Ballerina

as    The Chancellor

2024
Dance First

as    Samuel Beckett

2022
2022
Walking with Ghosts

as    Himself

2022
Murder at Yellowstone City

as    Sheriff Ambrose

2022
The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse

as    The Horse (voice)

2021
Death of a Ladies' Man

as    Samuel O'Shea

2020
Lost Girls

as    Richard Dormer

2019
War of the Worlds

as    Bill Ward

2019
Lies We Tell

as    Donald

2018
In the Cloud

as    Doc Wolff

2018
Atlantic Salmon: Lost at Sea

as    Narrator

2018
Cursed: The True Nature of Hereditary

as    Self - Steve

2018
Hereditary

as    Steve Graham

2018
An L.A. Minute

as    Ted Gold

2017
Mad to Be Normal

as    Jim

2017
Carrie Pilby

as    Mr. Pilby

2016
Louder Than Bombs

as    Gene Reed

2016
No Pay, Nudity

as    Lester Rosenthal aka Lawrence Rose

2016
2015
Endless Night

as    Bram

2014
Quirke

as    Quirke