Brendan Gleeson

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1955-03-29 (70 years old)

Place of Birth

Dublin, Ireland

Brendan Gleeson

Biography

Brendan Gleeson (born 29 March 1955) is an Irish actor and film director. He is the recipient of three IFTA Awards, two BIFA's, and a Primetime Emmy Award and has been nominated twice for a BAFTA Award, five times for a Golden Globe Award and once for an Academy Award. In 2020, he was listed at number 18 on The Irish Times list of Ireland's greatest film actors. He is the father of actors Domhnall Gleeson and Brian Gleeson. He is best known for his performance as Alastor Moody in the Harry Potter films (2005–2010). He is also known for his supporting roles in films such as Braveheart (1995), Michael Collins (1996), 28 Days Later (2002), Gang...

Acting

2002

1995

Braveheart

as Hamish Campbell

2005

Breakfast on Pluto

as John Joe Kenny

2005

Kingdom of Heaven

as Reynald de Chatillon

2004

Troy

as Menelaos

2005

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

as Alastor "Mad-Eye" Moody

2007

2003

Cold Mountain

as Stobrod Thewes

1996

Michael Collins

as Liam Tobin

2007

Beowulf

as Wiglaf

2002

Gangs of New York

as Walter "Monk" McGinn

2006

The Tiger's Tail

as Liam O'Leary

2001

The Tailor of Panama

as Mickie Abraxas

2002

Dark Blue

as Jack van Meter

2010

Green Zone

as Martin Brown

2004

The Village

as August Nicholson

1990

The Field

as Quarryman

2008

In Bruges

as Ken

2000

Harrison's Flowers

as Marc Stevenson

2004

Six Shooter

as Donnelly

2010

2009

The Secret of Kells

as Abbot Cellach (voice)

1997

I Went Down

as Bunny Kelly

1993

The Snapper

as Lester

1999

Lake Placid

as Sheriff Hank Keough

2007

Black Irish

as Desmond McKay

1997

Turbulence

as Stubbs

2009

Perrier's Bounty

as Darren Perrier

2009

Into the Storm

as Winston Churchill

2004

In My Country

as De Jagar

1998

The General

as Martin Cahill

2011

The Guard

as Sergeant Gerry Boyle

2012

The Raven

as Colonel Hamilton

1997

Angela Mooney Dies Again

as Barney Mooney

2012

The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists!

as The Pirate with Gout (voice)

2011

Albert Nobbs

as Dr. Holloran

2012

Safe House

as David Barlow

2011

The Cup

as Dermot Weld

2013

The Smurfs 2

as Victor Doyle

2012

The Company You Keep

as Henry Osborne

1996

Trojan Eddie

as Ginger

2014

Calvary

as Father James Lavelle

2015

In the Heart of the Sea

as Old Thomas Nickerson

2014

The Grand Seduction

as Murray French

2010

Noreen

as Con Keogh

2015

Suffragette

as Arthur Steed

1996

Spaghetti Slow

as Frank Ferguson

2016

Trespass Against Us

as Colby Culter

2014

Song of the Sea

as Conor / Mac Lir (voice)

2014

Edge of Tomorrow

as General Brigham

2014

Stonehearst Asylum

as The Alienist

2000

Wild About Harry

as Harry McKee

2024

Joker: Folie à Deux

as Jackie Sullivan

1999

This Is My Father

as Garda Jim

-

H Is for Hawk

as Alisdair Macdonald

2016

Alone in Berlin

as Otto Quangel

2015

Pursuit

as Searbhán

-

Sexual Healing

as Freddy Cousaert

1997

2016

Live by Night

as Thomas Coughlin

2016

Assassin's Creed

as Joseph Lynch

2000

Saltwater

as Simple Simon

1999

Sweety Barrett

as Sweety Barrett

1991

The Treaty

as Michael Collins

2016

Atlantic

as Narrator

2017

Paddington 2

as Knuckles McGinty

2001

2001

A.I. Artificial Intelligence

as Lord Johnson-Johnson

2017

Hampstead

as Donald Horner

2012

So You Want To Be A Pirate!

as The Pirate With Gout

1993

Love Lies Bleeding

as Thomas Macken

2018

Psychic

as Jeremiah

2006

Studs

as Walter Keegan

1999

My Life So Far

as Jim Menzies

2018

Captain Morten and the Spider Queen

as Captain Vicks (voice)

1992

Into the West

as Inspector Bolger

2018

The Ballad of Buster Scruggs

as Irishman (segment "The Mortal Remains")

2019

Frankie

as Jimmy

1992

Far and Away

as Social Club Policeman

1998

The Butcher Boy

as Father Bubbles

1990

Dear Sarah

as Brendan Dowd

2022

2021

2022

The Dead Zoo

as Narrator

-

The Honey Wars

as (voice)

2023

A Greyhound of a Girl

as Paddy (voice)

Production

2018

Psychic

as Producer

2018

Psychic

as Director

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