Gabriel Byrne
Gabriel James Byrne (born 12 May 1950) is an Irish actor, film director, film producer, screenwriter, cultural ambassador and audiobook narrator. His acting career began in the Focus Theatre before he joined London’s Royal Court Theatre in 1979. Byrne's screen début came in the Irish soap opera The Riordans and the spin-off show Bracken. The actor has now starred in over 35 feature films, such as The Usual Suspects, Miller's Crossing and Stigmata, in addition to writing two. Byrne's producing credits include the Academy Award-nominated In the Name of the Father. Currently, he is receiving much critical acclaim for his role as Dr. Paul Weston in the HBO drama In Treatment.
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- Born:
- May 12, 1950 In Dublin, Ireland
- Movie/TV Credits:
- 138
- First Appeared:
- In the movie Nothing Is What It Seems: The Making Of 'The Usual Suspects'
- Latest Project:
- Movie From the World of John Wick: Ballerina 2025-06-04
Known For
Filmography
| Movie | Hamlet Revenant | 2025 | |
| Movie | Nothing Is What It Seems: The Making Of 'The Usual Suspects' | self | 2025 |
| Movie | From the World of John Wick: Ballerina | The Chancellor | 2025-06-04 |
| Movie | Four Letters of Love | Muiris Gore | 2025-04-25 |
| Movie | Sauver Mozart | 2025 | |
| Movie | A World War II Fairytale: The Making of Michael Mann's 'The Keep' | Himself (Archive Footage) | 2024-01-01 |
| Movie | Blue Road - The Edna O'Brien Story | Self | 2024-09-05 |
| Movie | Dance First | Samuel Beckett | 2023-11-03 |
| Movie | The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse | The Horse (voice) | 2022-12-25 |
| Movie | Lamborghini: The Man Behind the Legend | Enzo Ferrari | 2022-11-17 |
| Movie | Murder at Yellowstone City | Sheriff Ambrose | 2022-06-24 |
| Movie | Walking with Ghosts | Himself | 2022-02-26 |
| Movie | Death of a Ladies' Man | Samuel O'Shea | 2021-03-12 |
| Movie | Michael Des Barres: Who Do You Want Me To Be? | Self | 2020-07-10 |
| Series | ZeroZeroZero | Edward Lynwood | 2020-02-14 |
| Movie | Lost Girls | Richard Dormer | 2020-01-28 |
| Series | War of the Worlds | Bill Ward | 2019-10-28 |
| Movie | Atlantic Salmon: Lost at Sea | Narrator | 2018-02-01 |
| Movie | Lies We Tell | Donald | 2018-02-02 |
| Movie | Hereditary | Steve Graham | 2018-06-07 |
| Movie | An L.A. Minute | Ted Gold | 2018-08-24 |
| Movie | Cursed: The True Nature of Hereditary | Self - Steve | 2018-10-08 |
| Series | Maniac | Porter Milgrim | 2018-09-21 |
| Movie | My Astonishing Self: Gabriel Byrne on George Bernard Shaw | Narrator | 2018-03-25 |
| Movie | In the Cloud | Doc Wolff | 2018-02-08 |
| Movie | Carrie Pilby | Mr. Pilby | 2017-03-31 |
| Movie | Into the Night: Portraits of Life and Death | Self | 2017-10-27 |
| Movie | Mad to Be Normal | Jim | 2017-04-06 |
| Movie | No Pay, Nudity | Lawrence Rose | 2016-11-04 |
| Movie | Versus: The Life and Films of Ken Loach | Self - Actor | 2016-06-30 |
| Movie | Endless Night | Bram | 2015-11-27 |
| Movie | Louder Than Bombs | Gene Reed | 2015-10-01 |
| Movie | The 33 | Andre Sougarret | 2015-08-06 |
| Series | Vikings: Athelstan's Journal | Earl Haraldson (archive footage) | 2015-01-30 |
| Movie | Vampire Academy | Victor Dashkov | 2014-02-07 |
| Series | Quirke | Quirke | 2014-02-16 |
| Movie | Excalibur: Behind the Movie | Self | 2013-12-20 |
| Movie | All Things To All Men | Joseph Corso | 2013-04-05 |
| Movie | Just a Sigh | Man | 2013-04-10 |
| Series | Vikings | Earl Haraldson | 2013-03-03 |
| Movie | Capital | Dittmar Rigule | 2012-11-14 |
| Movie | I, Anna | D.C.I. Bernie Reid | 2012-03-03 |
| Series | Secret State | Tom Dawkins | 2012-11-07 |
| Movie | John Ford: Dreaming the Quiet Man | Narrator | 2012-06-15 |
| Movie | A Man's Story | Self | 2011-10-08 |
| Movie | The Women of SNL | Priest (archive footage) | 2010-11-01 |
| Movie | Leningrad | Philip Parker | 2009-01-01 |
| Movie | Perrier's Bounty | Voice of the Grim Reaper (voice) | 2009-09-11 |
| Movie | 2:22 | Detective Swain (uncredited) | 2008-09-24 |
| Movie | Gabriel Byrne: Stories from Home | 2008-07-12 | |
| Series | In Treatment | Dr. Paul Weston | 2008-01-28 |
| Movie | Emotional Arithmetic | Christopher Lewis | 2008-04-18 |
| Movie | Camelot: Live from Lincoln Center | King Arthur | 2008-05-08 |
| Series | The Graham Norton Show | Self | 2007-02-22 |
| Series | Leningrad | 2007-10-19 | |
| Series | Attack on Leningrad | Phillip Parker | 2007-10-19 |
| Movie | Jindabyne | Stewart | 2006-07-20 |
| Movie | Played | Eddie | 2006-05-19 |
| Movie | Assault on Precinct 13 | Captain Marcus Duvall | 2005-01-19 |
| Movie | Wah-Wah | Harry Compton | 2005-08-17 |
| Movie | Patrick | Patrick | 2004-03-14 |
| Movie | The Bridge of San Luis Rey | Brother Juniper | 2004-12-22 |
| Movie | Vanity Fair | The Marquess of Steyne | 2004-09-01 |
| Movie | P.S. | Peter Harrington | 2004-10-15 |
| Movie | Shade | Charlie Miller | 2003-05-18 |
| Movie | Flight from Death: The Quest for Immortality | Narrator | 2003-01-01 |
| Movie | Round Up: Deposing 'The Usual Suspects' | Self | 2002-04-02 |
| Movie | Virginia's Run | Ford Lofton | 2002-03-03 |
| Movie | Keyser Soze, Lie or Legend - Featurette | Self | 2002-04-02 |
| Movie | Spider | Bill Cleg | 2002-11-06 |
| Movie | Ghost Ship | Captain Sean Murphy | 2002-10-25 |
| Movie | Killing Emmett Young | Jack Marlow / Stephen Bracken | 2002-04-13 |
| Movie | Pursuing the Suspects | Himself | 2002-04-29 |
| Movie | Horses: The Story of Equus | Narrator | 2002-06-12 |
| Series | Madigan Men | Benjamin Madigan | 2000-10-06 |
| Movie | When Brendan Met Trudy | Special Appearance | 2000-12-14 |
| Movie | Making Love | il violinista/Jeno Varga adulto | 2000-02-11 |
| Movie | End of Days | The Man | 1999-11-24 |
| Movie | Stigmata | Father Andrew Kiernan | 1999-09-02 |
| Movie | Polish Wedding | Bolek | 1998-01-16 |
| Movie | Pirates | Narrator (voice) | 1998-04-06 |
| Movie | The Man in the Iron Mask | D'Artagnan | 1998-03-12 |
| Movie | Quest for Camelot | Lionel (voice) | 1998-05-15 |
| Movie | Enemy of the State | 'Brill' | 1998-11-20 |
| Movie | Smilla's Sense of Snow | The Mechanic | 1997-02-28 |
| Movie | Weapons of Mass Distraction | Lionel Powers | 1997-05-17 |
| Movie | The End of Violence | Ray | 1997-09-12 |
| Series | The View | Self | 1997-08-11 |
| Movie | This Is the Sea | Rohan | 1997-09-15 |
| Movie | Somebody Is Waiting | Roger Ellis | 1996-12-19 |
| Movie | The Brylcreem Boys | Commandant O'Brien | 1996-11-14 |
| Movie | Mad Dog Time | Ben London | 1996-11-08 |
| Movie | The Last of the High Kings | Jack Griffin | 1996-12-06 |
| Movie | Dead Man | Charlie Dickinson | 1995-12-23 |
| Movie | Buffalo Girls | Teddy Blue | 1995-04-30 |
| Movie | Frankie Starlight | Jack Kelly | 1995-11-22 |
| Movie | Irish Cinema: Ourselves Alone? | Narrator (voice) | 1995-10-20 |
| Movie | The Usual Suspects | Keaton | 1995-07-19 |
| Movie | Out of Ireland: The Story of Irish Emigration to America | Richard O'Gorman (voice) | 1994-01-01 |
| Movie | Royal Deceit | Fenge | 1994-02-23 |
| Movie | A Simple Twist of Fate | John Newland | 1994-09-02 |
| Movie | Little Women | Friedrich Bhaer | 1994-12-21 |
| Movie | Trial by Jury | Daniel Graham | 1994-09-09 |
| Series | Inside the Actors Studio | Self | 1994-08-14 |
| Movie | All Things Bright and Beautiful | The Good Thief | 1994-03-16 |
| Movie | A Dangerous Woman | Mackey | 1993-09-10 |
| Series | Late Night with Conan O'Brien | Self - Guest | 1993-09-13 |
| Movie | Point of No Return | Bob | 1993-03-19 |
| Movie | Into the West | Papa Reilly | 1992-10-23 |
| Movie | Cool World | Jack Deebs | 1992-07-10 |
| Movie | Dark Obsession | Hugo | 1990-02-01 |
| Movie | Shipwrecked | Lt. John Merrick | 1990-10-03 |
| Movie | Miller's Crossing | Tom Reagan | 1990-09-21 |
| Movie | A Soldier's Tale | Saul | 1988-06-16 |
| Movie | The Courier | Val | 1988-02-10 |
| Movie | Julia and Julia | Paolo | 1988-02-05 |
| Movie | Hello Again | Kevin Scanlon | 1987-11-06 |
| Movie | Lionheart | Black Prince | 1987-08-14 |
| Movie | Siesta | Augustine | 1987-11-11 |
| Movie | Gothic | Lord Byron | 1986-11-30 |
| Movie | Defence of the Realm | Nicholas 'Nick' Mullen | 1986-05-09 |
| Series | Christopher Columbus | Christopher Columbus | 1985-03-07 |
| Series | Mussolini: The Untold Story | Vittorio Mussolini | 1985-11-24 |
| Movie | The Treatment | Father Michael | 1984-03-16 |
| Movie | Reflections | William Masters | 1984-04-01 |
| Movie | The Keep | Major Kaempffer | 1983-12-16 |
| Movie | Hanna K. | Joshué Herzog | 1983-09-07 |
| Movie | The Rocking Horse Winner | Bassett | 1982-11-25 |
| Movie | Excalibur | Uther | 1981-04-10 |
| Movie | The Search for Alexander the Great | Ptolemy | 1981-05-06 |
| Movie | The Outsider | Man in Street | 1980-06-02 |
| Series | Bracken | Pat Barry | 1980-01-06 |
| Series | The Last of Summer | Bishop's secretary | 1978-10-05 |
| Movie | On a Paving Stone Mounted | 1978-12-12 | |
| Series | Strangers | Johnny Maguire | 1978-06-05 |
| Series | Live from Lincoln Center | King Arthur | 1976-01-30 |
| Series | Saturday Night Live | Self - Host | 1975-10-11 |
| Series | Tony Awards | Self - Presenter | 1956-04-01 |