Gabriel Byrne
Birthday: 1950-05-12
Place of Birth: Dublin, Ireland
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.
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Miller's Crossing
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Dead Man
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The Usual Suspects
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Leningrad
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Stigmata
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Lamborghini: The Man Behind the Legend
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The Search for Alexander the Great
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Excalibur
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Vanity Fair
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Played
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P.S.
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Assault on Precinct 13
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Into the West
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The Man in the Iron Mask
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End of Days
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Enemy of the State
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The Keep
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Emotional Arithmetic
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Hello Again
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Perrier's Bounty
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Defence of the Realm
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Trial by Jury
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Cool World
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Making Love
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Shade
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Siesta
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Wah-Wah
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A Simple Twist of Fate
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Virginia's Run
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All Things Bright and Beautiful
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The Last of the High Kings
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Hanna K.
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Polish Wedding
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The Bridge of San Luis Rey
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This Is the Sea
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Mad Dog Time
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The End of Violence
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The Courier
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Prince of Jutland
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Quest for Camelot
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Shipwrecked
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Frankie Starlight
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Julia and Julia
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Lionheart
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The Brylcreem Boys
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Walking with Ghosts
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Capital
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Buffalo Girls
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A Dangerous Woman
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Patrick
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The Rocking Horse Winner
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Diamond Skulls
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I, Anna
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John Ford: Dreaming the Quiet Man
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All Things To All Men
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Vampire Academy
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Just a Sigh
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Murder at Yellowstone City
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Dance First
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A Soldier's Tale
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Horses: The Story of Equus
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Reflections
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When Brendan Met Trudy
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Killing Emmett Young
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Flight from Death: The Quest for Immortality
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Weapons of Mass Distraction
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Louder Than Bombs
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The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse
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Endless Night
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Nothing Is What It Seems: The Making Of 'The Usual Suspects'
Documentary about the origins and making of the 1995 Oscar-winning suspense thriller. Includes rare...
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The Treatment
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2:22
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The 33
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Ballerina
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Mad to Be Normal
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Four Letters of Love
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Cursed: The True Nature of Hereditary
A featurette that sheds light on the filmmaker’s approach, and how he turned a character-driven dome...
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Carrie Pilby
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Versus: The Life and Films of Ken Loach
A surprisingly candid behind-the-scenes account of the career of Ken Loach, one of Britain’s most ce...
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Somebody Is Waiting
An alcoholic father must take control of his wayward children when their mother is killed....
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No Pay, Nudity
Aging actor Lester Rosenthal (Gabriel Byrne), who has lost his way with his career, with his family,...
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Pursuing the Suspects
Short documentary featuring footage of the movie, director Bryan Singer talking about the casting an...
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An L.A. Minute
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Into the Night: Portraits of Life and Death
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Lies We Tell
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Hereditary
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In the Cloud
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Camelot: Live from Lincoln Center
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My Astonishing Self: Gabriel Byrne on George Bernard Shaw
Award-winning Irish actor Gabriel Byrne explores the life, works and passions of George Bernard Shaw...
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Lost Girls
When Mari Gilbert's daughter disappears, police inaction drives her own investigation into the gated...
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Atlantic Salmon: Lost at Sea
An epic journey through the oceanic kingdom of the Atlantic Salmon in an attempt to unravel the myst...
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The Outsider
Michael Flaherty (Craig Wasson), an American Vietnam veteran of Irish descent, returns to Belfast to...
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The Women of SNL
A look back at some of the funniest female characters and sketches in SNL's 39-year history....
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On a Paving Stone Mounted
An impressionistic look at Irish emigrants in London, representing the emigrant's journey, a confusi...
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Death of a Ladies' Man
A carousing college professor's life takes a series of unimaginable turns, and all the old stories a...
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Round Up: Deposing 'The Usual Suspects'
Documentary that includes interviews with Singer as well as the rest of the cast - mainly Spacey. Th...
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Keyser Soze, Lie or Legend - Featurette
Featurette in which director Bryan Singer tells more about the mysterious criminal Keyser Soze....
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Michael Des Barres: Who Do You Want Me To Be?
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Pirates
Discovery examines the history of "Golden age of Piracy." The program takes a detailed look at the h...
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Irish Cinema: Ourselves Alone?
The Irish entry in the BFI's "Century of Cinema" documentary series examines Irish filmmaking in a d...
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Excalibur: Behind the Movie
This retrospective documentary looks back on the making of director John Boorman's 1981 movie, Excal...
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Blue Road: The Edna O'Brien Story
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Diary of a Mad Old Man
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Out of Ireland
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A World War II Fairy Tale: The Making of Michael Mann's 'The Keep'
Exploring Michael Mann's 1983 film adapted from the F. Paul Wilson novel and its impact....
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A World War II Fairy Tale: The Making of Michael Mann's 'The Keep'
Exploring Michael Mann's 1983 film adapted from the F. Paul Wilson novel and its impact....
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Richard Burton: Wild Genius
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Saturday Night Live in the '90s: Pop Culture Nation
A retrospective of "Saturday Night Live" during the 1990's. Includes interviews with the cast and cr...
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