Gabriel Byrne

Overview

Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
May 12, 1950 (75 years old)

Gabriel Byrne

Known For

Four Letters of Love
2h 5m
Movie 2025

Four Letters of Love

Nicholas and Isabel were made for each other but how will they ever know it? As ghosts, fate and the sheer power of true love pull them together, so too does life threaten to tear them apart.

From the World of John Wick: Ballerina
1h 49m
Movie 2025

From the World of John Wick: Ballerina

Taking place during the events of John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum, Eve Macarro begins her training in the assassin traditions of the Ruska Roma.

Blue Road: The Edna O'Brien Story
1h 40m
Movie 2025

Blue Road: The Edna O'Brien Story

Emerging from rural Ireland, Edna O’Brien broke multiple taboos with her sexually provocative literature and equally adventurous love life. Here, she opens up about her past with additional perspectives offered by Gabriel Byrne, Walter Mosely, and others.

Dance First
1h 40m
Movie 2023

Dance First

Parisian bon vivant, World War II Resistance fighter, Nobel Prize-winning playwright, philandering husband and recluse…Samuel Beckett lived a life of many parts. Titled after Beckett’s famous ethos “Dance first, think later”, the film is a sweeping account of the life of this 20th-century icon.

The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse
0h 35m
Movie 2022

The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse

The unlikely friendship of a boy, a mole, a fox and a horse traveling together in the boy's search for home.

Lamborghini: The Man Behind the Legend
1h 37m
Movie 2022

Lamborghini: The Man Behind the Legend

Follow the launch of Lamborghini’s career as a manufacturer of tractors, a creator of military vehicles during World War II, and the designer of Lamborghini cars, which he launched in 1963 as the high-end sports car company Automobili Lamborghini.

Murder at Yellowstone City
2h 6m
Movie 2022

Murder at Yellowstone City

A former slave who arrives in Yellowstone City, Montana, a desolate former boomtown now on the decline, looking for a place to call home. On that same day, a local prospector discovers gold - and is murdered.

Walking with Ghosts
2h 19m
Movie 2022

Walking with Ghosts

A stage adaptation of Gabriel Byrne's 2020 memoir of the same name

Death of a Ladies' Man
1h 44m
Movie 2021

Death of a Ladies' Man

A carousing college professor's life takes a series of unimaginable turns, and all the old stories are given a new twist, when he begins to have surreal hallucinations and learns he may not be long for this world.

Michael Des Barres: Who Do You Want Me To Be?
1h 22m
Movie 2020

Michael Des Barres: Who Do You Want Me To Be?

The son of a junkie aristocrat and a schizophrenic showgirl becomes a master of reinvention on a 50+ year journey through rock and roll, TV, and movies.

Biography

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.

Acting

2025
Four Letters of Love
2025
From the World of John Wick: Ballerina
2025
Blue Road: The Edna O'Brien Story
2023
Dance First
2022
The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse
2022
Lamborghini: The Man Behind the Legend
2022
Murder at Yellowstone City
2022
Walking with Ghosts
2021
Death of a Ladies' Man
2020
Michael Des Barres: Who Do You Want Me To Be?
2020
Lost Girls
2019
War of the Worlds
2018
Cursed: The True Nature of Hereditary
2018
An L.A. Minute
2018
Hereditary
2018
My Astonishing Self: Gabriel Byrne on George Bernard Shaw
2018
In the Cloud
2018
Lies We Tell
2018
Atlantic Salmon: Lost at Sea
2017
Into the Night: Portraits of Life and Death
2017
Mad to Be Normal
2017
Carrie Pilby
2016
No Pay, Nudity
2016
Versus: The Life and Films of Ken Loach
2015
Endless Night
2015
The 33
2014
Quirke
2013
Excalibur: Behind the Movie
2013
Just a Sigh
2013
All Things To All Men
2012
Secret State
2012
I, Anna
2008
Gabriel Byrne: Stories from Home
2008
Emotional Arithmetic
2007
Attack on Leningrad
2007
Leningrad
2000
Madigan Men
1997
This Is the Sea
1997
The End of Violence
1996
Somebody Is Waiting
1996
The Last of the High Kings
1996
The Brylcreem Boys
1995
Frankie Starlight
1995
Irish Cinema: Ourselves Alone?
1995
Out of Ireland
1994
Little Women
1994
Trial by Jury
1994
A Simple Twist of Fate
1994
All Things Bright and Beautiful
1994
Prince of Jutland
1994
Out of Ireland: The Story of Irish Emigration to America
1993
A Dangerous Woman
1992
Into the West
1990
Shipwrecked
1990
Miller's Crossing
1990
Dark Obsession
1988
The Courier
1988
Julia and Julia
1987
Hello Again
1987
Gothic
1986
Defence of the Realm
1985
Mussolini: The Untold Story
1985
Christopher Columbus

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