Gabriel Byrne
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1950-05-12
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). Description above from the Wikipedia article Gabriel Byrne, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Also Known For
Miller's Crossing
Sep 21, 1990
Dead Man
Dec 23, 1995
The Usual Suspects
Jul 19, 1995
Leningrad
Jan 01, 2009
Stigmata
Sep 02, 1999
Lamborghini: The Man Behind the Legend
Nov 17, 2022
Point of No Return
Mar 19, 1993
Jindabyne
Jul 20, 2006
The Search for Alexander the Great
May 06, 1981
Excalibur
Apr 10, 1981
Vanity Fair
Sep 01, 2004
Played
May 19, 2006
P.S.
Oct 15, 2004
Assault on Precinct 13
Jan 19, 2005
Gothic
Feb 27, 1987
Into the West
Oct 23, 1992
Smilla's Sense of Snow
Feb 28, 1997
The Man in the Iron Mask
Mar 12, 1998
Little Women
Dec 21, 1994
End of Days
Nov 24, 1999
Enemy of the State
Nov 20, 1998
Spider
Nov 06, 2002
Ghost Ship
Oct 25, 2002
The Keep
Dec 16, 1983
Emotional Arithmetic
Apr 18, 2008
Hello Again
Nov 06, 1987
Perrier's Bounty
Sep 11, 2009
Defence of the Realm
May 09, 1986
Trial by Jury
Sep 09, 1994
Cool World
Jul 10, 1992
Making Love
Feb 11, 2000
Shade
May 18, 2003
Siesta
Nov 11, 1987
Wah-Wah
Aug 17, 2005
A Simple Twist of Fate
Sep 02, 1994
Virginia's Run
Mar 03, 2002
All Things Bright and Beautiful
Mar 16, 1994
The Last of the High Kings
Dec 06, 1996
Hanna K.
Sep 07, 1983
Polish Wedding
Jan 16, 1998
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
Dec 22, 2004
This Is the Sea
Sep 15, 1997
Mad Dog Time
Nov 08, 1996
The End of Violence
Sep 12, 1997
The Courier
Feb 10, 1988
Prince of Jutland
Feb 23, 1994
Quest for Camelot
May 15, 1998
Shipwrecked
Oct 03, 1990
Frankie Starlight
Nov 22, 1995
Julia and Julia
Feb 05, 1988
A Man's Story
Oct 08, 2011
Lionheart
Aug 14, 1987
The Brylcreem Boys
Nov 14, 1996
Walking with Ghosts
Feb 26, 2022
Capital
Nov 14, 2012
Buffalo Girls
Apr 30, 1995
A Dangerous Woman
Sep 10, 1993
Patrick
Mar 14, 2004
The Rocking Horse Winner
Nov 25, 1982
Dark Obsession
Feb 01, 1990
I, Anna
Mar 03, 2012
John Ford: Dreaming the Quiet Man
Jun 15, 2012
All Things To All Men
Apr 05, 2013
Vampire Academy
Feb 07, 2014
Just a Sigh
Apr 10, 2013
Murder at Yellowstone City
Jun 24, 2022
Dance First
Nov 03, 2023
A Soldier's Tale
Jun 16, 1988
Horses: The Story of Equus
Jun 12, 2002
Reflections
Apr 01, 1984
Sauver Mozart
When Brendan Met Trudy
Dec 14, 2000
Killing Emmett Young
Apr 13, 2002
Flight from Death: The Quest for Immortality
Jan 01, 2003
Weapons of Mass Distraction
May 17, 1997
Louder Than Bombs
Oct 01, 2015
The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse
Dec 25, 2022
Endless Night
Nov 27, 2015
Nothing Is What It Seems: The Making Of 'The Usual Suspects'
The Treatment
Mar 16, 1984
2:22
Sep 24, 2008
The 33
Aug 06, 2015
Ballerina
Jun 04, 2025
Mad to Be Normal
Apr 06, 2017
Gabriel Byrne: Stories from Home
Jul 12, 2008
Four Letters of Love
Jul 10, 2025
Cursed: The True Nature of Hereditary
Oct 08, 2018
Carrie Pilby
Mar 31, 2017
Out of Ireland: The Story of Irish Emigration to America
Jan 01, 1994
Versus: The Life and Films of Ken Loach
Jun 30, 2016
Somebody Is Waiting
Dec 19, 1996
No Pay, Nudity
Nov 04, 2016
Pursuing the Suspects
Apr 29, 2002
An L.A. Minute
Aug 24, 2018
Into the Night: Portraits of Life and Death
Oct 27, 2017
Lies We Tell
Feb 02, 2018
Hereditary
Jun 07, 2018
In the Cloud
Feb 08, 2018
Camelot: Live from Lincoln Center
May 08, 2008
My Astonishing Self: Gabriel Byrne on George Bernard Shaw
Mar 25, 2018
Lost Girls
Jan 28, 2020
Atlantic Salmon: Lost at Sea
Feb 01, 2018
The Outsider
Nov 26, 1979
The Women of SNL
Nov 01, 2010
On a Paving Stone Mounted
Dec 12, 1978
Death of a Ladies' Man
Mar 12, 2021
Keyser Soze, Lie or Legend - Featurette
Apr 02, 2002
Round Up: Deposing 'The Usual Suspects'
Apr 02, 2002
Michael Des Barres: Who Do You Want Me To Be?
Jul 10, 2020
Pirates
Apr 06, 1998
Irish Cinema: Ourselves Alone?
Oct 20, 1995
Excalibur: Behind the Movie
Dec 20, 2013
Blue Road: The Edna O'Brien Story
Jan 31, 2025
Diary Of A Mad Old Man
Out of Ireland
Jun 09, 1995
A World War II Fairy Tale: The Making of Michael Mann's 'The Keep'
Sep 10, 2025
Inside the Actors Studio
Aug 14, 1994
Strangers
Jun 05, 1978
The View
Aug 11, 1997
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Sep 13, 1993
Madigan Men
Oct 06, 2000
Live from Lincoln Center
Jan 30, 1976
Bracken
Jan 06, 1980
In Treatment
Jan 28, 2008
Attack on Leningrad
Oct 19, 2007
Vikings
Mar 03, 2013
Saturday Night Live
Oct 11, 1975
Secret State
Nov 07, 2012
Quirke
Feb 16, 2014
Tony Awards
Apr 01, 1956
Vikings: Athelstan's Journal
Jan 30, 2015
The Graham Norton Show
Feb 22, 2007
Christopher Columbus
Mar 07, 1985
Mussolini: The Untold Story
Nov 24, 1985
War of the Worlds
Oct 28, 2019
Leningrad
Oct 19, 2007
The Last of Summer
Oct 05, 1978
ZeroZeroZero
Feb 14, 2020
