Gabriel Byrne

Gabriel Byrne

Acting
Born 1950-05-12 Dublin, Ireland 8 credit(s) Popularity 1.7
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 w...
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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).

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ZeroZeroZero poster
ZeroZeroZero
as Edward Lynwood
2020-02-14
War of the Worlds poster
War of the Worlds
as Bill Ward
2019-10-28
Vikings: Athelstan's Journal poster
Vikings: Athelstan's Journal
as Earl Haraldson (archive footage)
2015-01-30
Quirke poster
Quirke
as Quirke
2014-02-16
Vikings poster
Vikings
as Earl Haraldson
2013-03-03
Secret State poster
Secret State
as Tom Dawkins
2012-11-07
The Meaning of Life poster
The Meaning of Life
as Self
2009-04-19
The Graham Norton Show poster
The Graham Norton Show
as Self
2007-02-22

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