Actor
Gabriel Byrne
Biography

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 cr ...

Known For
Acting
2025 -- From the World of John Wick: Ballerina | The Chancellor
2025 -- Four Letters of Love | Muiris Gore
2025 -- Blue Road: The Edna O'Brien Story | Self
2023 -- Dance First | Samuel Beckett
2022 -- The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse | The Horse (voice)
2022 -- Lamborghini: The Man Behind the Legend | Enzo Ferrari
2022 -- Murder at Yellowstone City | Sheriff Ambrose
2022 -- Walking with Ghosts | Himself
2021 -- Death of a Ladies' Man | Samuel O'Shea
2020 -- Michael Des Barres: Who Do You Want Me To Be? | Self
2020 -- Lost Girls | Richard Dormer
2018 -- Cursed: The True Nature of Hereditary | Self - Steve
2018 -- An L.A. Minute | Ted Gold
2018 -- Hereditary | Steve Graham
2018 -- My Astonishing Self: Gabriel Byrne on George Bernard Shaw | Narrator
2018 -- In the Cloud | Doc Wolff
2018 -- Lies We Tell | Donald
2018 -- Atlantic Salmon: Lost at Sea | Narrator
2017 -- Into the Night: Portraits of Life and Death | Self
2017 -- Mad to Be Normal | Jim
2017 -- Carrie Pilby | Mr. Pilby
2016 -- No Pay, Nudity | Lawrence Rose
2016 -- Versus: The Life and Films of Ken Loach | Self - Actor
2015 -- Endless Night | Bram
2015 -- Louder Than Bombs | Gene Reed
2015 -- The 33 | Andre Sougarret
2014 -- Vampire Academy | Victor Dashkov
2013 -- Excalibur: Behind the Movie | Self
2013 -- Just a Sigh | Man
2013 -- All Things To All Men | Joseph Corso
2012 -- Capital | Dittmar Rigule
2012 -- John Ford: Dreaming the Quiet Man | Narrator
2012 -- I, Anna | D.C.I. Bernie Reid
2011 -- A Man's Story | Self
2010 -- The Women of SNL | Priest (archive footage)
2009 -- Perrier's Bounty | Voice of the Grim Reaper (voice)
2009 -- Leningrad | Philip Parker
2008 -- 2:22 | Detective Swain (uncredited)
2008 -- Gabriel Byrne: Stories from Home |
2008 -- Camelot: Live from Lincoln Center | King Arthur
2008 -- Emotional Arithmetic | Christopher Lewis
2006 -- Jindabyne | Stewart
2006 -- Played | Eddie
2005 -- Wah-Wah | Harry Compton
2005 -- Assault on Precinct 13 | Captain Marcus Duvall
2004 -- The Bridge of San Luis Rey | Brother Juniper
2004 -- P.S. | Peter Harrington
2004 -- Vanity Fair | The Marquess of Steyne
2004 -- Patrick | Patrick
2003 -- Shade | Charlie Miller
2003 -- Flight from Death: The Quest for Immortality | Narrator
2002 -- Spider | Bill Cleg
2002 -- Ghost Ship | Captain Sean Murphy
2002 -- Horses: The Story of Equus | Narrator
2002 -- Pursuing the Suspects | Himself
2002 -- Killing Emmett Young | Jack Marlow / Stephen Bracken
2002 -- Round Up: Deposing 'The Usual Suspects' | Self
2002 -- Keyser Soze, Lie or Legend - Featurette | Self
2002 -- Virginia's Run | Ford Lofton
2000 -- When Brendan Met Trudy | Special Appearance
2000 -- Making Love | il violinista/Jeno Varga adulto
1999 -- End of Days | The Man
1999 -- Stigmata | Father Andrew Kiernan
1998 -- Enemy of the State | 'Brill'
1998 -- Quest for Camelot | Lionel (voice)
1998 -- Pirates | Narrator (voice)
1998 -- The Man in the Iron Mask | D'Artagnan
1998 -- Polish Wedding | Bolek
1997 -- This Is the Sea | Rohan
1997 -- The End of Violence | Ray
1997 -- Weapons of Mass Distraction | Lionel Powers
1997 -- Smilla's Sense of Snow | The Mechanic
1996 -- Somebody Is Waiting | Roger Ellis
1996 -- The Last of the High Kings | Jack Griffin
1996 -- The Brylcreem Boys | Commandant O'Brien
1996 -- Mad Dog Time | Ben London
1995 -- Dead Man | Charlie Dickinson
1995 -- Frankie Starlight | Jack Kelly
1995 -- Irish Cinema: Ourselves Alone? | Narrator (voice)
1995 -- The Usual Suspects | Keaton
1995 -- Buffalo Girls | Teddy Blue
1994 -- Little Women | Friedrich Bhaer
1994 -- Trial by Jury | Daniel Graham
1994 -- A Simple Twist of Fate | John Newland
1994 -- All Things Bright and Beautiful | The Good Thief
1994 -- Prince of Jutland | Fenge
1994 -- Out of Ireland: The Story of Irish Emigration to America | Richard O'Gorman (voice)
1993 -- A Dangerous Woman | Mackey
1993 -- Point of No Return | Bob
1992 -- Into the West | Papa Reilly
1992 -- Cool World | Jack Deebs
1990 -- Shipwrecked | Lt. John Merrick
1990 -- Miller's Crossing | Tom Reagan
1990 -- Dark Obsession | Hugo
1988 -- A Soldier's Tale | Saul
1988 -- The Courier | Val
1988 -- Julia and Julia | Paolo
1987 -- Siesta | Augustine
1987 -- Hello Again | Kevin Scanlon
1987 -- Lionheart | Black Prince
1986 -- Gothic | Lord Byron
1986 -- Defence of the Realm | Nicholas 'Nick' Mullen
1984 -- Reflections | William Masters
1984 -- The Treatment | Father Michael
1983 -- The Keep | Major Kaempffer
1983 -- Hanna K. | Joshué Herzog
1982 -- The Rocking Horse Winner | Bassett
1981 -- The Search for Alexander the Great | Ptolemy
1981 -- Excalibur | Uther
1980 -- The Outsider | Man in Street
1978 -- On a Paving Stone Mounted |
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