Brendan Gleeson
Birthday: 1955-03-29
Place of Birth: Dublin, Ireland
Biography: Brendan Gleeson (born 29 March 1955) is an Irish actor and film director. He is the recipient of three IFTA Awards, two BIFA's, and a Primetime Emmy Award and has been nominated twice for a BAFTA Award, five times for a Golden Globe Award and once for an Academy Award. In 2020, he was listed at number 18 on The Irish Times list of Ireland's greatest film actors. He is the father of actors Domhnall Gleeson and Brian Gleeson. He is best known for his performance as Alastor Moody in the Harry Potter films (2005–2010). He is also known for his supporting roles in films such as Braveheart (1995), Michael Collins (1996), 28 Days Later (2002), Gangs of New York (2002), Cold Mountain (2003), Troy (2004), Suffragette (2015), Paddington 2 (2017), The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018), and The Tragedy of Macbeth (2021). He is also known for his leading roles in films such as The General (1998), In Bruges (2008), The Guard (2011), Calvary (2014), Frankie (2019), and The Banshees of Inisherin (2022). He received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for the lattermost film. He won an Primetime Emmy Award in 2009 for his portrayal of Winston Churchill in the television film Into the Storm. He also received a Golden Globe Award nomination for his performance as Donald Trump in the Showtime series The Comey Rule (2020). From 2017 to 2019 he starred in the crime series Mr. Mercedes. He received an Emmy Award nomination for Stephen Frears' Sundance TV series State of the Union (2022).
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28 Days Later
Twenty-eight days after a killer virus was accidentally unleashed from a British research facility, ...
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Braveheart
Enraged at the slaughter of Murron, his new bride and childhood love, Scottish warrior William Walla...
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Mission: Impossible II
With computer genius Luther Stickell at his side and a beautiful thief on his mind, agent Ethan Hunt...
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Breakfast on Pluto
In the 1970s, a young transgender woman called “Kitten” leaves her small Irish town for London in se...
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Kingdom of Heaven
After his wife dies, a blacksmith named Balian is thrust into royalty, political intrigue and bloody...
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Troy
In year 1250 B.C. during the late Bronze age, two emerging nations begin to clash. Paris, the Trojan...
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Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
When Harry Potter's name emerges from the Goblet of Fire, he becomes a competitor in a grueling batt...
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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Returning for his fifth year at Hogwarts, Harry is stunned to find that his warnings about the retur...
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Michael Collins
Michael Collins plays a crucial role in the establishment of the Irish Free State in the 1920s, but ...
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Cold Mountain
In this classic story of love and devotion set against the backdrop of the American Civil War, a wou...
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Beowulf
A 6th-century Scandinavian warrior named Beowulf embarks on a mission to slay the man-like ogre, Gre...
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Gangs of New York
In early 1860s New York, Irish immigrant Amsterdam Vallon is released from prison and returns to the...
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The Tiger's Tail
After a chance encounter, a Dubliner is stalked by a murderous facsimile of himself....
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The Tailor of Panama
A British spy is banished to Panama after having an affair with an ambassador's mistress. Once there...
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Dark Blue
Set during the Rodney King riots, a robbery homicide investigation triggers a series of events that ...
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On the Red Carpet Presents: The Banshees of Inisherin
On The Red Carpet presents an in-depth look at the making of The Banshees of Inisherin....
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Green Zone
During the U.S.-led occupation of Baghdad in 2003, Chief Warrant Officer Roy Miller and his team of ...
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The Village
When a willful young man tries to venture beyond his sequestered Pennsylvania hamlet, his actions se...
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The Field
"Bull" McCabe's family has farmed a field for generations, sacrificing much in the name of the land....
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In Bruges
Ray and Ken, two hit men, are in Bruges, Belgium, waiting for their next mission. While they are the...
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Harrison's Flowers
1991. Harrison Lloyd, a renowned photojournalist covering the war in Yugoslavia, is reported missing...
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Six Shooter
Overwhelmed by grief following the death of his wife, Donnelly shares a train carriage home with a t...
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
Harry, Ron and Hermione walk away from their last year at Hogwarts to find and destroy the remaining...
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The Secret of Kells
Adventure awaits 12 year old Brendan who must fight Vikings and a serpent god to find a crystal and ...
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I Went Down
Fresh out of prison, Git rescues a former best friend (now living with Git's girlfriend) from a beat...
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The Snapper
Sharon Curley is a 20-year-old living with her parents and many brothers and sisters in Dublin. When...
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Lake Placid
When a man is eaten alive by an unknown creature, the local Game Warden teams up with a paleontologi...
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Black Irish
In South Boston, where Irish roots run deep and Catholic tradition reigns, two brothers face similar...
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Turbulence
On a flight transporting dangerous convicts, murderer Ryan Weaver manages to break free and cause co...
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Perrier's Bounty
A gangster named Perrier looks to exact his revenge on a trio of fugitives responsible for the accid...
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Into the Storm
This powerful follow-up to “The Gathering Storm” follows Churchill from 1940 to 1945 as he guided hi...
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In My Country
An American reporter and an Afrikaans poet meet and fall in love while covering South Africa's Truth...
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The General
The real-life story of Dublin folk hero and criminal Martin Cahill, who pulled off two daring robber...
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The Guard
When a small-town Irish cop with a crass personality is partnered with a straight-laced FBI agent to...
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The Raven
A fictionalized account of the last days of Edgar Allan Poe's life, in which the poet is in pursuit ...
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Angela Mooney Dies Again
Americans want to take over the Irish creamery Angela Mooney's husband built up. Everybody in town i...
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The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists!
The enthusiastic Pirate Captain, along with his rag-tag crew, sets out to beat his bitter rivals. Th...
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Albert Nobbs
Albert Nobbs struggles to survive in late 19th century Ireland, where women aren't encouraged to be ...
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Safe House
A dangerous CIA renegade resurfaces after a decade on the run. When the safe house he's remanded to ...
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The Cup
At the heart of this true story is Damien Oliver, a young jockey who loses his only brother in a tra...
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The Smurfs 2
The evil wizard Gargamel creates a couple of mischievous Smurf-like creatures called the Naughties t...
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The Company You Keep
A former Weather Underground activist goes on the run from a journalist who discovers his identity....
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Trojan Eddie
Trojan Eddie sells stolen goods for John Power, aging godfather of a local network of Irish gypsies,...
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Calvary
After being threatened during a confession, a good-natured priest must battle the dark forces closin...
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In the Heart of the Sea
In the winter of 1820, the New England whaling ship Essex is assaulted by something no one could bel...
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The Grand Seduction
A small fishing village must procure a local doctor to secure a lucrative business contract. When un...
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Noreen
Two guards are headed to a house where there has been a shot due to a statement of a neighbour who c...
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Lost Lives
This poignant testament to the physical and emotional cost of war, centres on the Troubles in Northe...
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Suffragette
Based on true events about the foot soldiers of the early feminist movement, women who were forced u...
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Spaghetti Slow
A wealthy young Italian man is sent to Ireland to learn English, only to fall in love with the daugh...
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Trespass Against Us
Three generations of the rowdy Cutler family live as outlaws in some of Britain's richest countrysid...
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Song of the Sea
The story of the last Seal Child’s journey home. After their mother’s disappearance, Ben and Saoirse...
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Edge of Tomorrow
Major Bill Cage is an officer who has never seen a day of combat when he is unceremoniously demoted ...
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Stonehearst Asylum
An Oxford Medical School graduate takes a position at a mental institution and soon becomes obsessed...
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Wild About Harry
A sleazy chef is forced to face the truth about the man he has become and realizes that he has the c...
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Joker: Folie à Deux
While struggling with his dual identity, Arthur Fleck not only stumbles upon true love, but also fin...
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This Is My Father
When schoolteacher Kieran Johnson discovers that his father was not a French sailor (as he had been ...
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H Is for Hawk
After losing her beloved father, Helen finds herself saved by an unlikely friendship with a stubborn...
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Alone in Berlin
Berlin in June of 1940. While Nazi propaganda celebrates the regime’s victory over France, a kitchen...
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Brendan Gleeson's Farewell to Hughes's
In 2021, Hughes’s pub closed its doors for the last time. In January 2022, talented fiddle player, a...
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Pursuit
Pursuit is a modern take on Irish mythology, adapting the legend of Diarmuid and Gráinne and transfo...
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Sexual Healing
A look at the last years of Marvin Gaye's life, from his parting ways with Motown and self-imposed e...
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A Further Gesture
Dowd, an IRA prisoner in the H-blocks, is gloomily facing his sentence, until he joins a comrade in ...
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Live by Night
A group of Boston-bred gangsters set up shop in balmy Florida during the Prohibition era, facing off...
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Assassin's Creed
Through a technology that unlocks the genetic memories of his ancestor in 15th century Spain, Callum...
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Saltwater
An Irish-Italian café owner in a seaside town faces a life crisis, as his wife recently died and he'...
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Sweety Barrett
Sweety Barrett is a giant of a man with the mind of a child. An easy target in a corrupt world, Swee...
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The Treaty
How the Anglo-Irish Treaty between the unrecognised Irish Republic, represented by Michael Collins, ...
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Atlantic
Documentary about the two big resources in the North Atlantic, fish and oil, and the impact of their...
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Paddington 2
Paddington, now happily settled with the Browns, picks up a series of odd jobs to buy the perfect pr...
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A.I. Artificial Intelligence
David, a robotic boy—the first of his kind programmed to love—is adopted as a test case by a Cybertr...
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Hampstead
Emily Walters is an American widow living a peaceful, uneventful existence in the idyllic Hampstead ...
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So You Want To Be A Pirate!
With the help of his trusted dodo Polly, the Pirate Captain presents fun-loving and hilarious tips a...
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Love Lies Bleeding
Conn, a member of the IRA and a former hunger striker, is serving a life sentence for murder. During...
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Studs
The hot-tempered, unruly players of this pub league soccer team are in dire straits after having los...
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My Life So Far
A memoir of the lives of a family growing up on a post World War I British estate headed up by a str...
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Captain Morten and the Spider Queen
Morten, a ten-year-old boy, is shrunk to the size of an insect due to a magical fog gun. Soon, he fi...
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Into the West
Accused of a crime they didn't commit, two city kids and a magical horse are about to become the coo...
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The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
Vignettes weaving together the stories of six individuals in the old West at the end of the Civil Wa...
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Frankie
When a terminally ill French actress decides to spend her last vacation with her large family in Sin...
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Far and Away
A young couple escapes Ireland, dreaming of a new life during the land giveaway in Oklahoma. As they...
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The Butcher Boy
Francie and Joe live the usual playful, fantasy filled childhoods of normal boys. However, with a vi...
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Dear Sarah
Giuseppe Conlon and his son Gerry are convicted of an IRA bombing as part of the Maguire Seven in 19...
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The Tragedy of Macbeth
Macbeth, the Thane of Glamis, receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become...
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The Banshees of Inisherin
Two lifelong friends find themselves at an impasse when one abruptly ends their relationship, with a...
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Deconstructing 'The Village'
In this making-of documentary, we see movie snippets, shots from the set, and interviews. We get not...
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Riverdance: The Animated Adventure
A young Irish boy named Keegan and Spanish girl named Moya journey into a magical world of the Megal...
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The Path to Redemption
From pre-production to release, we are given an exclusive look into the making of Ridley Scott's Kin...
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The Dead Zoo
The story, narrated by Brendan Gleeson, of how the curators of the Dead Zoo, Dublin's beloved Natura...
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The Honey Wars
Follows Hope, a young girl with a secret ability to see the invisible threads that connect the magic...
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A Hero's Journey: The Making of Beowulf
A behind the scenes look at the production of Beowulf...
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Before I Sleep
"Before I Sleep" is one man's odyssey through Dublin city. It is a crowded hectic film, unmistakably...
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