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Gabriel Byrne

Gabriel Byrne

Acting
Born: May 12, 1950
From: Dublin, Ireland
Credits: 30 titles

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 …

Filmography

Title Character Year Rating
Lamborghini: The Man Behind the Legend Enzo Ferrari 2022 6.387
Leningrad Philip Parker 2009 5.469
Perrier's Bounty Voice of the Grim Reaper … 2009 5.8
Emotional Arithmetic Christopher Lewis 2008 5.5
Jindabyne Stewart 2006 5.481
Played Eddie 2006 3.875
Assault on Precinct 13 Captain Marcus Duvall 2005 6.185
Vanity Fair The Marquess of Steyne 2004 5.791
P.S. Peter Harrington 2004 5.614
Spider Bill Cleg 2002 6.647
Ghost Ship Captain Sean Murphy 2002 6.001
Stigmata Father Andrew Kiernan 1999 6.292
End of Days The Man 1999 6.091
The Man in the Iron Mask D'Artagnan 1998 6.648
Enemy of the State 'Brill' 1998 7.061
Smilla's Sense of Snow The Mechanic 1997 6.317
Dead Man Charlie Dickinson 1995 7.311
The Usual Suspects Keaton 1995 8.17
Little Women Friedrich Bhaer 1994 7.275
Trial by Jury Daniel Graham 1994 5.36
Point of No Return Bob 1993 6.213
Into the West Papa Reilly 1992 6.407
Cool World Jack Deebs 1992 5.651
Miller's Crossing Tom Reagan 1990 7.451
Gothic Lord Byron 1987 5.674
Hello Again Kevin Scanlon 1987 5.745
Defence of the Realm Nicholas 'Nick' Mullen 1986 6.488
The Keep Major Kaempffer 1983 5.618
The Search for Alexander the Great Ptolemy 1981 7.0
Excalibur Uther 1981 6.949
Quick Facts
Known forActing
Credits30
Born1950
FromDublin, Ireland