Gabriel Byrne

Acting · Born 1950-05-12 in Dublin, Ireland

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…

Filmography

• Miller's Crossing as Tom Reagan
• Dead Man as Charlie Dickinson
• The Usual Suspects as Keaton
• Excalibur as Uther
• Little Women as Friedrich Bhaer
• Enemy of the State as 'Brill'
• The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse as The Horse (voice)
• Ballerina as The Chancellor
• Hereditary as Steve Graham
• Leningrad as Philip Parker

TV

• In Treatment as Dr. Paul Weston
• Vikings as Earl Haraldson
• ZeroZeroZero as Edward Lynwood
• Inside the Actors Studio as Self
• The View as Self
• Late Night with Conan O'Brien as Self - Guest
• Madigan Men as Benjamin Madigan
• Live from Lincoln Center as King Arthur
• Attack on Leningrad as Phillip Parker
• Saturday Night Live as Self - Host