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Gabriel Byrne
Dublin, Ireland
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. B…
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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.
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2025
Richard Burton: Wild Genius
Movie Self
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2025
A World War II Fairy Tale: The Making of Michael Mann's 'The Keep'
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2025
Four Letters of Love
Movie Muiris Gore
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2025
Ballerina
Movie The Chancellor
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2025
Blue Road: The Edna O'Brien Story
Movie Self
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2023
Dance First
Movie Samuel Beckett
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2022
The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse
Movie The Horse (voice)
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2022
Lamborghini: The Man Behind the Legend
Movie Enzo Ferrari
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2022
Murder at Yellowstone City
Movie Sheriff Ambrose
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2022
Walking with Ghosts
Movie Himself
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2021
Death of a Ladies' Man
Movie Samuel O'Shea
- 2020
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2020
ZeroZeroZero
TV show Edward Lynwood
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2020
Lost Girls
Movie Richard Dormer
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2019
War of the Worlds
TV show Bill Ward
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2019
Land Without God
Movie Executive Producer
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2018
Cursed: The True Nature of Hereditary
Movie Self - Steve
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2018
Maniac
TV show Porter Milgrim
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2018
An L.A. Minute
Movie Ted Gold
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2018
Hereditary
Movie Steve Graham
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2018
My Astonishing Self: Gabriel Byrne on George Bernard Shaw
Movie Narrator
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2018
In the Cloud
Movie Doc Wolff
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2018
Lies We Tell
Movie Donald
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2018
Atlantic Salmon: Lost at Sea
Movie Narrator
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2017
Into the Night: Portraits of Life and Death
Movie Self
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2017
Mad to Be Normal
Movie Jim
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2017
Carrie Pilby
Movie Mr. Pilby
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2016
No Pay, Nudity
Movie Lester Rosenthal aka Lawrence Rose
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2016
Versus: The Life and Films of Ken Loach
Movie Self - Actor
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2015
Endless Night
Movie Bram
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2015
Louder Than Bombs
Movie Gene Reed
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2015
The 33
Movie Andre Sougarret
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2015
Vikings: Athelstan's Journal
TV show Earl Haraldson (archive footage)
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2014
Quirke
TV show Quirke
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2014
Vampire Academy
Movie Victor Dashkov
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2013
Excalibur: Behind the Movie
Movie Self
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2013
Just a Sigh
Movie Man
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2013
All Things To All Men
Movie Joseph Corso
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2013
Vikings
TV show Earl Haraldson
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2012
Capital
Movie Dittmar Rigule
