Gabriel Byrne

About

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...

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VikingsSeries • 2013In TreatmentSeries • 2008BallerinaMovie • 2025The Usual SuspectsMovie • 1995The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the HorseMovie • 2022HereditaryMovie • 2018War of the WorldsSeries • 2019Miller's CrossingMovie • 1990Enemy of the StateMovie • 1998ManiacSeries • 2018StrangersSeries • 1978End of DaysMovie • 1999Ghost ShipMovie • 2002ZeroZeroZeroSeries • 2020The Man in the Iron MaskMovie • 1998Little WomenMovie • 1994Live from Lincoln CenterSeries • 1976Quest for CamelotMovie • 1998In the Name of the FatherMovie • 1993ExcaliburMovie • 1981Dead ManMovie • 1995Assault on Precinct 13Movie • 2005Lamborghini: The Man Behind the LegendMovie • 2022Vampire AcademyMovie • 2014