Gabriel Byrne
Born in Dublin, Ireland — May 12 1950
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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 C…
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Vikings
Earl Haraldson
In Treatment
Dr. Paul Weston
Ballerina
The Chancellor
Hereditary
Steve Graham
War of the Worlds
Bill Ward
Maniac
Porter Milgrim
The Usual Suspects
Keaton
Strangers
Johnny Maguire
ZeroZeroZero
Edward Lynwood
Live from Lincoln Center
King Arthur
Enemy of the State
'Brill'
Madigan Men
Benjamin Madigan
Excalibur
Uther
Ghost Ship
Captain Sean Murphy
The Man in the Iron Mask
D'Artagnan
Little Women
Friedrich Bhaer
Secret State
Tom Dawkins
The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse
The Horse (voice)
Stigmata
Father Andrew Kiernan
Miller's Crossing
Tom Reagan
In the Name of the Father
Production
Dead Man
Charlie Dickinson
Mussolini: The Untold Story
Vittorio Mussolini
Vampire Academy
Victor Dashkov
Vikings: Athelstan's Journal
Earl Haraldson (archive footage)
Christopher Columbus
Christopher Columbus
Shade
Charlie Miller
Quirke
Quirke
The 33
Andre Sougarret
The Keep
Major Kaempffer
End of Days
The Man
The End of Violence
Ray
Cool World
Jack Deebs
Lamborghini: The Man Behind the Legend
Enzo Ferrari
Point of No Return
Bob
Quest for Camelot
Lionel (voice)
Assault on Precinct 13
Captain Marcus Duvall
P.S.
Peter Harrington
Spider
Bill Cleg
The Last of Summer
Bishop's secretary
Lost Girls
Richard Dormer
Four Letters of Love
Muiris Gore
Polish Wedding
Bolek
A Dangerous Woman
Mackey
Murder at Yellowstone City
Sheriff Ambrose
Jindabyne
Stewart
Wah-Wah
Harry Compton
Vanity Fair
The Marquess of Steyne
Buffalo Girls
Teddy Blue
Prince of Jutland
Fenge
I, Anna
D.C.I. Bernie Reid
Into the West
Papa Reilly
Trial by Jury
Daniel Graham
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
Brother Juniper
Capital
Dittmar Rigule
Endless Night
Bram
Carrie Pilby
Mr. Pilby
Mad Dog Time
Ben London
Gothic
Lord Byron
Saturday Night Live in the '90s: Pop Culture Nation
Self
Smilla's Sense of Snow
The Mechanic
A Man's Story
Self
Hanna K.
Joshué Herzog
Making Love
Violinista / Jeno Varga Adulto
The Women of SNL
Priest (archive footage)
Excalibur: Behind the Movie
Self
All Things To All Men
Joseph Corso
2:22
Detective Swain (uncredited)
A Simple Twist of Fate
John Newland
Versus: The Life and Films of Ken Loach
Self - Actor
Perrier's Bounty
Voice of the Grim Reaper (voice)
In the Cloud
Doc Wolff
Dance First
Samuel Beckett
Bracken
Pat Barry
Leningrad
Philip Parker
This Is the Sea
Rohan
Killing Emmett Young
Jack Marlow / Stephen Bracken
Defence of the Realm
Nicholas 'Nick' Mullen
Diamond Skulls
Hugo
Louder Than Bombs
Gene Reed
Leningrad
An L.A. Minute
Ted Gold
The Outsider
Man in Street
Played
Eddie
Mad to Be Normal
Jim
Siesta
Augustine
The Courier
Val
Weapons of Mass Distraction
Lionel Powers
Richard Burton: Wild Genius
Self
Hello Again
Kevin Scanlon
A World War II Fairy Tale: The Making of Michael Mann's 'The Keep'
Self (archive footage)
Julia and Julia
Paolo
Lies We Tell
Donald
Out of Ireland
Richard O'Gorman (voice)
Lionheart
Black Prince
Patrick
Patrick
The Last of the High Kings
Jack Griffin
Emotional Arithmetic
Christopher Lewis
The Rocking Horse Winner
Bassett
The Brylcreem Boys
Commandant O'Brien
Camelot: Live from Lincoln Center
King Arthur
Pursuing the Suspects
Himself
Frankie Starlight
Jack Kelly
John Ford: Dreaming the Quiet Man
Narrator
When Brendan Met Trudy
Special Appearance
No Pay, Nudity
Lester Rosenthal aka Lawrence Rose
Death of a Ladies' Man
Samuel O'Shea
My Astonishing Self: Gabriel Byrne on George Bernard Shaw
Narrator
Round Up: Deposing 'The Usual Suspects'
Self
Somebody Is Waiting
Roger Ellis
Keyser Soze, Lie or Legend - Featurette
Self
Diary of a Mad Old Man
Attack on Leningrad
Phillip Parker
Mad About Mambo
Production
Into the Night: Portraits of Life and Death
Self
Cursed: The True Nature of Hereditary
Self - Steve
Reflections
William Masters
All Things Bright and Beautiful
The Good Thief
Blue Road: The Edna O'Brien Story
Self
Nothing Is What It Seems: The Making Of 'The Usual Suspects'
Self
On a Paving Stone Mounted
Pirates
Narrator (voice)
Virginia's Run
Ford Lofton
A Soldier's Tale
Saul
The Treatment
Father Michael
The Search for Alexander the Great
Ptolemy
Flight from Death: The Quest for Immortality
Narrator
Gabriel Byrne: Stories from Home
Just a Sigh
Man
Atlantic Salmon: Lost at Sea
Narrator
Shipwrecked
Lt. John Merrick
Michael Des Barres: Who Do You Want Me To Be?
Self
Tent City, U.S.A
Production
Irish Cinema: Ourselves Alone?
Narrator (voice)
Horses: The Story of Equus
Narrator
Walking with Ghosts
Himself
Land Without God
Production
Sauver Mozart