Gabriel Byrne

Gabriel Byrne

Birthday: 1950-05-12

Place of birth: Dublin, Ireland

Also known as: Gabriel James Byrne, Гэбриэл Бирн, Гэбриел Бирн, Гэбриел Бёрн, Гебріел Бірн, گابریل بایرن

imdb_id: nm0000321

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.

Played in movies:

Cursed: The True Nature of Hereditary

Score: 8.7

The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse

Score: 8.2

The Usual Suspects

Score: 8.2

Atlantic Salmon: Lost at Sea

Score: 8.0

Into the Night: Portraits of Life and Death

Score: 8.0

All Things Bright and Beautiful

Score: 8.0

John Ford: Dreaming the Quiet Man

Score: 7.8

Blue Road: The Edna O'Brien Story

Score: 7.5

Miller's Crossing

Score: 7.5

Ballerina

Score: 7.4

Dead Man

Score: 7.3

Hereditary

Score: 7.3

Little Women

Score: 7.3

Virginia's Run

Score: 7.2

Enemy of the State

Score: 7.1

Round Up: Deposing 'The Usual Suspects'

Score: 7.0

Flight from Death: The Quest for Immortality

Score: 7.0

Dance First

Score: 7.0

Excalibur

Score: 7.0

A Man's Story

Score: 6.9

Making Love

Score: 6.9

Carrie Pilby

Score: 6.9

Quest for Camelot

Score: 6.8

Pursuing the Suspects

Score: 6.7

Spider

Score: 6.6

The Man in the Iron Mask

Score: 6.6

Buffalo Girls

Score: 6.6

Shipwrecked

Score: 6.6

Versus: The Life and Films of Ken Loach

Score: 6.6

Keyser Soze, Lie or Legend - Featurette

Score: 6.5

Louder Than Bombs

Score: 6.5

Into the West

Score: 6.4

The 33

Score: 6.4

Lamborghini: The Man Behind the Legend

Score: 6.4

Defence of the Realm

Score: 6.3

Vampire Academy

Score: 6.3

Four Letters of Love

Score: 6.3

Smilla's Sense of Snow

Score: 6.3

Stigmata

Score: 6.3

Just a Sigh

Score: 6.2

Point of No Return

Score: 6.2

Assault on Precinct 13

Score: 6.2

Shade

Score: 6.2

Capital

Score: 6.1

Hanna K.

Score: 6.1

A Simple Twist of Fate

Score: 6.1

End of Days

Score: 6.1

Lost Girls

Score: 6.1

Out of Ireland

Score: 6.0

Pirates

Score: 6.0

The Women of SNL

Score: 6.0

My Astonishing Self: Gabriel Byrne on George Bernard Shaw

Score: 6.0

Endless Night

Score: 6.0

Ghost Ship

Score: 6.0

Wah-Wah

Score: 6.0

Mad to Be Normal

Score: 5.9

Perrier's Bounty

Score: 5.8

Hello Again

Score: 5.8

Vanity Fair

Score: 5.8

Gothic

Score: 5.7

This Is the Sea

Score: 5.7

The Last of the High Kings

Score: 5.7

Cool World

Score: 5.6

The Outsider

Score: 5.6

The Keep

Score: 5.6

P.S.

Score: 5.6

Death of a Ladies' Man

Score: 5.5

Killing Emmett Young

Score: 5.5

Prince of Jutland

Score: 5.5

Jindabyne

Score: 5.5

Murder at Yellowstone City

Score: 5.5

Lionheart

Score: 5.5

A Dangerous Woman

Score: 5.5

Leningrad

Score: 5.4

Trial by Jury

Score: 5.4

Emotional Arithmetic

Score: 5.4

Lies We Tell

Score: 5.3

I, Anna

Score: 5.3

The End of Violence

Score: 5.3

Mad Dog Time

Score: 5.3

Frankie Starlight

Score: 5.3

2:22

Score: 5.2

Siesta

Score: 5.2

Weapons of Mass Distraction

Score: 5.1

The Bridge of San Luis Rey

Score: 5.1

Polish Wedding

Score: 5.1

Irish Cinema: Ourselves Alone?

Score: 5.0

In the Cloud

Score: 5.0

Julia and Julia

Score: 5.0

Reflections

Score: 4.5

All Things To All Men

Score: 4.3

No Pay, Nudity

Score: 4.0

When Brendan Met Trudy

Score: 4.0

A Soldier's Tale

Score: 4.0

The Brylcreem Boys

Score: 3.9

Played

Score: 3.6

Dark Obsession

Score: 3.3

Michael Des Barres: Who Do You Want Me To Be?

Score: 2.0

Camelot: Live from Lincoln Center

Score: 2.0

An L.A. Minute

Score: 2.0

Somebody Is Waiting

Score: 2.0

Patrick

Score: 1.0

A World War II Fairy Tale: The Making of Michael Mann's 'The Keep'

Score: 0.0

Diary Of A Mad Old Man

Score: 0.0

Excalibur: Behind the Movie

Score: 0.0

On a Paving Stone Mounted

Score: 0.0

Out of Ireland: The Story of Irish Emigration to America

Score: 0.0

Gabriel Byrne: Stories from Home

Score: 0.0

The Treatment

Score: 0.0

Nothing Is What It Seems: The Making Of 'The Usual Suspects'

Score: 0.0

Sauver Mozart

Score: 0.0

Horses: The Story of Equus

Score: 0.0

The Rocking Horse Winner

Score: 0.0

Walking with Ghosts

Score: 0.0

The Courier

Score: 0.0

The Search for Alexander the Great

Score: 0.0

Played in tv shows:

Live from Lincoln Center

Score: 8.6

Vikings

Score: 8.1

ZeroZeroZero

Score: 7.8

In Treatment

Score: 7.6

Inside the Actors Studio

Score: 7.5

Maniac

Score: 7.3

War of the Worlds

Score: 7.3

Late Night with Conan O'Brien

Score: 7.2

The Graham Norton Show

Score: 7.2

Secret State

Score: 7.1

Strangers

Score: 7.0

Vikings: Athelstan's Journal

Score: 7.0

Saturday Night Live

Score: 7.0

Christopher Columbus

Score: 6.5

Tony Awards

Score: 5.9

Quirke

Score: 5.9

Attack on Leningrad

Score: 5.5

Mussolini: The Untold Story

Score: 5.3

The View

Score: 4.3

Vikings

Score: 0.0

The Last of Summer

Score: 0.0

Leningrad

Score: 0.0

Bracken

Score: 0.0

Madigan Men

Score: 0.0