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