Gabriel Byrne

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1950-05-12 (75 years old)

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...

Acting

1990

Miller's Crossing

as Tom Reagan

1995

Dead Man

as Charlie Dickinson

1995

2009

Leningrad

as Philip Parker

1999

Stigmata

as Father Andrew Kiernan

2006

Jindabyne

as Stewart

1981

Excalibur

as Uther

2004

Vanity Fair

as The Marquess of Steyne

2006

Played

as Eddie

2004

P.S.

as Peter Harrington

2005

Assault on Precinct 13

as Captain Marcus Duvall

1987

Gothic

as Lord Byron

1992

Into the West

as Papa Reilly

1997

Smilla's Sense of Snow

as The Mechanic

1998

1994

Little Women

as Friedrich Bhaer

1999

End of Days

as The Man

1998

2002

Spider

as Bill Cleg

2002

Ghost Ship

as Captain Sean Murphy

1983

The Keep

as Major Kaempffer

2008

Emotional Arithmetic

as Christopher Lewis

1987

Hello Again

as Kevin Scanlon

2009

Perrier's Bounty

as Voice of the Grim Reaper (voice)

1986

Defence of the Realm

as Nicholas 'Nick' Mullen

1994

Trial by Jury

as Daniel Graham

1992

Cool World

as Jack Deebs

2000

Making Love

as il violinista/Jeno Varga adulto

2003

Shade

as Charlie Miller

1987

Siesta

as Augustine

2005

Wah-Wah

as Harry Compton

1994

A Simple Twist of Fate

as John Newland

2002

Virginia's Run

as Ford Lofton

1994

1996

1983

Hanna K.

as Joshué Herzog

1998

2004

The Bridge of San Luis Rey

as Brother Juniper

1997

1996

Mad Dog Time

as Ben London

1988

1994

1998

Quest for Camelot

as Lionel (voice)

1990

Shipwrecked

as Lt. John Merrick

1995

Frankie Starlight

as Jack Kelly

1988

2011

1987

Lionheart

as Black Prince

1996

The Brylcreem Boys

as Commandant O'Brien

2022

2012

Capital

as Dittmar Rigule

1995

Buffalo Girls

as Teddy Blue

1993

2004

Patrick

as Patrick

1990

2012

I, Anna

as D.C.I. Bernie Reid

2013

All Things To All Men

as Joseph Corso

2014

Vampire Academy

as Victor Dashkov

2013

2022

Murder at Yellowstone City

as Sheriff Ambrose

2023

Dance First

as Samuel Beckett

1988

1984

Reflections

as William Masters

2000

When Brendan Met Trudy

as Special Appearance

2002

Killing Emmett Young

as Jack Marlow / Stephen Bracken

1997

2015

Louder Than Bombs

as Gene Reed

2015

1984

The Treatment

as Father Michael

2008

2:22

as Detective Swain (uncredited)

2015

The 33

as Andre Sougarret

2025

Ballerina

as The Chancellor

2025

Four Letters of Love

as Muiris Gore

2017

Carrie Pilby

as Mr. Pilby

1996

Somebody Is Waiting

as Roger Ellis

2016

No Pay, Nudity

as Lester Rosenthal aka Lawrence Rose

2002

2018

An L.A. Minute

as Ted Gold

2018

Lies We Tell

as Donald

2018

Hereditary

as Steve Graham

2018

In the Cloud

as Doc Wolff

2020

Lost Girls

as Richard Dormer

1979

The Outsider

as Man in Street

2010

The Women of SNL

as Priest (archive footage)

2021

Death of a Ladies' Man

as Samuel O'Shea

1998

Pirates

as Narrator (voice)

1995

1995

Out of Ireland

as Richard O'Gorman (voice)

Production

1996

2012

Tent City, U.S.A

as Executive Producer

1993

In the Name of the Father

as Executive Producer

2000

Mad About Mambo

as Executive Producer

1996

Somebody Is Waiting

as Co-Producer

2018

Hereditary

as Executive Producer

1996

The Last of the High Kings

as Co-Executive Producer

1992

Into the West

as Associate Producer

2019

Land Without God

as Executive Producer

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