Birthday: May 12, 1950
Place of Birth: Dublin, Ireland

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.

Filmography

Movie	Cast	Year
Miller's Crossing	Tom Reagan	1990
Dead Man	Charlie Dickinson	1995
The Usual Suspects	Keaton	1995
Leningrad	Philip Parker	2009
Stigmata	Father Andrew Kiernan	1999
Lamborghini: The Man Behind the Legend	Enzo Ferrari	2022
Point of No Return	Bob	1993
Jindabyne	Stewart	2006
The Search for Alexander the Great	Ptolemy	1981
Excalibur	Uther	1981
Vanity Fair	The Marquess of Steyne	2004
Played	Eddie	2006
P.S.	Peter Harrington	2004
Assault on Precinct 13	Captain Marcus Duvall	2005
Gothic	Lord Byron	1986
Into the West	Papa Reilly	1992
Smilla's Sense of Snow	The Mechanic	1997
The Man in the Iron Mask	D'Artagnan	1998
Little Women	Friedrich Bhaer	1994
End of Days	The Man	1999
Enemy of the State	'Brill'	1998
Spider	Bill Cleg	2002
Ghost Ship	Captain Sean Murphy	2002
The Keep	Major Kaempffer	1983
Emotional Arithmetic	Christopher Lewis	2008
Hello Again	Kevin Scanlon	1987
Perrier's Bounty	Voice of the Grim Reaper (voice)	2009
Defence of the Realm	Nicholas 'Nick' Mullen	1986
Trial by Jury	Daniel Graham	1994
Cool World	Jack Deebs	1992
Making Love	il violinista/Jeno Varga adulto	2000
Shade	Charlie Miller	2003
Siesta	Augustine	1987
Wah-Wah	Harry Compton	2005
A Simple Twist of Fate	John Newland	1994
Virginia's Run	Ford Lofton	2002
All Things Bright and Beautiful	The Good Thief	1994
The Last of the High Kings	Jack Griffin	1996
Hanna K.	Joshué Herzog	1983
Polish Wedding	Bolek	1998
The Bridge of San Luis Rey	Brother Juniper	2004
This Is the Sea	Rohan	1997
Mad Dog Time	Ben London	1996
The End of Violence	Ray	1997
The Courier	Val	1988
Royal Deceit	Fenge	1994
Quest for Camelot	Lionel (voice)	1998
Shipwrecked	Lt. John Merrick	1990
Frankie Starlight	Jack Kelly	1995
Julia and Julia	Paolo	1988
A Man's Story	Self	2011
Lionheart	Black Prince	1987
The Brylcreem Boys	Commandant O'Brien	1996
Walking with Ghosts	Himself	2022
Capital	Dittmar Rigule	2012
Buffalo Girls	Teddy Blue	1995
A Dangerous Woman	Mackey	1993
Patrick	Patrick	2004
The Rocking Horse Winner	Bassett	1982
Dark Obsession	Hugo	1990
I, Anna	D.C.I. Bernie Reid	2012
John Ford: Dreaming the Quiet Man	Narrator	2012
All Things To All Men	Joseph Corso	2013
Vampire Academy	Victor Dashkov	2014
Just a Sigh	Man	2013
Murder at Yellowstone City	Sheriff Ambrose	2022
Dance First	Samuel Beckett	2023
A Soldier's Tale	Saul	1988
Horses: The Story of Equus	Narrator	2002
Reflections	William Masters	1984
Sauver Mozart		1970
When Brendan Met Trudy	Special Appearance	2000
Killing Emmett Young	Jack Marlow / Stephen Bracken	2002
Flight from Death: The Quest for Immortality	Narrator	2003
Weapons of Mass Distraction	Lionel Powers	1997
Louder Than Bombs	Gene Reed	2015
The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse	The Horse (voice)	2022
Endless Night	Bram	2015
Nothing Is What It Seems: The Making Of 'The Usual Suspects'	self	1970
The Treatment	Father Michael	1984
2:22	Detective Swain (uncredited)	2008
The 33	Andre Sougarret	2015
From the World of John Wick: Ballerina	The Chancellor	2025
Mad to Be Normal	Jim	2017
Gabriel Byrne: Stories from Home		2008
Four Letters of Love	Muiris Gore	2025
Cursed: The True Nature of Hereditary	Self - Steve	2018
Carrie Pilby	Mr. Pilby	2017
Out of Ireland: The Story of Irish Emigration to America	Richard O'Gorman (voice)	1994
Versus: The Life and Films of Ken Loach	Self - Actor	2016
Somebody Is Waiting	Roger Ellis	1996
No Pay, Nudity	Lawrence Rose	2016
Pursuing the Suspects	Himself	2002
An L.A. Minute	Ted Gold	2018
A World War II Fairytale: The Making of Michael Mann's 'The Keep'	Himself (Archive Footage)	1970
Into the Night: Portraits of Life and Death	Self	2017
Lies We Tell	Donald	2018
Hereditary	Steve Graham	2018
In the Cloud	Doc Wolff	2018
Camelot: Live from Lincoln Center	King Arthur	2008
My Astonishing Self: Gabriel Byrne on George Bernard Shaw	Narrator	2018
Lost Girls	Richard Dormer	2020
Atlantic Salmon: Lost at Sea	Narrator	2018
The Outsider	Man in Street	1980
The Women of SNL	Priest (archive footage)	2010
On a Paving Stone Mounted		1978
Death of a Ladies' Man	Samuel O'Shea	2021
Keyser Soze, Lie or Legend - Featurette	Self	2002
Round Up: Deposing 'The Usual Suspects'	Self	2002
Michael Des Barres: Who Do You Want Me To Be?	Self	2020
Pirates	Narrator (voice)	1998
Irish Cinema: Ourselves Alone?	Narrator (voice)	1995
Excalibur: Behind the Movie	Self	2013
Blue Road: The Edna O'Brien Story	Self	2025
Series	Cast	Year
Inside the Actors Studio	Self	1994
Strangers	Johnny Maguire	1978
The View	Self	1997
Late Night with Conan O'Brien	Self - Guest	1993
Madigan Men	Benjamin Madigan	2000
Live from Lincoln Center	King Arthur	1976
Bracken	Pat Barry	1980
In Treatment	Dr. Paul Weston	2008
Attack on Leningrad	Phillip Parker	2007
Vikings	Earl Haraldson	2013
Saturday Night Live	Self - Host	1975
Secret State	Tom Dawkins	2012
Quirke	Quirke	2014
Tony Awards	Self - Presenter	1956
Vikings: Athelstan's Journal	Earl Haraldson (archive footage)	2015
The Graham Norton Show	Self	2007
Christopher Columbus	Christopher Columbus	1985
Mussolini: The Untold Story	Vittorio Mussolini	1985
War of the Worlds	Bill Ward	2019
Leningrad		2007
The Last of Summer	Bishop's secretary	1978
ZeroZeroZero	Edward Lynwood	2020
Maniac	Porter Milgrim	2018

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