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Gabriel Byrne
Gabriel James Byrne (born 12 May 1950) is an Irish actor who began his acting journey in the Focus Theatre before joining London's Royal Court Theatre in 1974. Byrne's screen debut was in the Irish drama serial The Riordans and the spin-off show Bracken. His film repertoire includes Excalibur (1981), Lionheart (1987), Miller's Crossing (1990), Little Women (1994), and Dead Man (1995). He co-wrote The Last of the High Kings (1996) and produced In the Name of the Father (1993). He exhibit passion for Broadway work, earning two nominations for the Tony Award for lead role in the plays A Moon for the Misbegotten (2000), and Long Day's Journey into Night (2016).
In TV, he received nominations for the Primetime Emmy Award for his role as Paul Weston in the HBO drama series In Treatment (2008–2010), for which he also received a Golden Globe Award. He maintained interest in his language by writing the first television drama in Irish, Draíocht, when Ireland's national Irish-language station started broadcasting in 1996. Away from acting, Byrne has worked in archaeology and had taught Spanish and history at Ardscoil Éanna in Crumlin. He later joined the Performing Arts Course at Roslyn Park College in Sandymount. Byrne is vocal about the life abuses he experienced from priests during his childhood. He recently published a memoir, Walking with Ghosts, and continues to act, even venturing into a one-man show based on his memoir.
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Given Name: Gabriel James Byrne
Born: Dublin, Ireland
Citizenship: Ireland
Birthday: May 12, 1950
Occupations: Actor, Producer, Writer
Years Active: 1974-present
Children: 3
Spouses: Ellen Barkin, Hannah Beth King
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Movies Featuring Gabriel Byrne
Spider
Lost Girls
Louder Than Bombs
End of Days
The Usual Suspects
The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse
Miller's Crossing
Capital
Hereditary
Into the West
Jindabyne
Lamborghini: The Man Behind the Legend
Vanity Fair
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
The Man in the Iron Mask
Stigmata
Point of No Return
Cool World
Vampire Academy
Ghost Ship
Murder at Yellowstone City
Lies We Tell
An L.A. Minute
Dance First
Ballerina
Four Letters of Love
I, Anna
Secret State
All Things To All Men
Quirke
John Ford: Dreaming the Quiet Man
Endless Night
No Pay, Nudity
Into the Night: Portraits of Life and Death
My Astonishing Self: Gabriel Byrne on George Bernard Shaw
Cursed: The True Nature of Hereditary
Mad to Be Normal
Versus: The Life and Films of Ken Loach
Round Up: Deposing ‘The Usual Suspects’
Killing Emmett Young
Making Love
Virginia’s Run
Flight from Death: The Quest for Immortality
Leningrad
Played
Shipwrecked
Emotional Arithmetic
Hanna K.
Christopher Columbus
Defence of the Realm
Julia and Julia
Siesta
A Soldier’s Tale
Dark Obsession
Michael Des Barres: Who Do You Want Me To Be?
Death of a Ladies’ Man
Lionheart
Hello Again
The Courier
Mussolini: The Untold Story
Gothic
Lionheart
Hello Again
The Courier
Mussolini: The Untold Story
A Dangerous Woman
The Outsider
The End of Violence
Prince of Jutland
Mad Dog Time
Weapons of Mass Distraction
The Brylcreem Boys
Polish Wedding
Buffalo Girls
A Simple Twist of Fate
2:22
This Is the Sea
Frankie Starlight
Irish Cinema: Ourselves Alone?
Trial by Jury
The Last of the High Kings
Career Timeline
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2022
The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse
The Horse
Lamborghini: The Man Behind the Legend
Enzo Ferrari
Murder at Yellowstone City
Sheriff Jim Ambrose
2020
Lost Girls
Richard Dormer
Michael Des Barres: Who Do You Want Me To Be?
Self
Death of a Ladies’ Man
Samuel O'Shea
2018
Hereditary
Steve
Lies We Tell
Donald
An L.A. Minute
Ted Gold
Cursed: The True Nature of Hereditary
Self - Steve
2017
Into the Night: Portraits of Life and Death
Self
My Astonishing Self: Gabriel Byrne on George Bernard Shaw
Narrator
Mad to Be Normal
Jim
2016
Louder Than Bombs
No Pay, Nudity
Lester Rosenthal aka Lawrence Rose
Versus: The Life and Films of Ken Loach
Self - Actor
2002
Spider
Ghost Ship
Round Up: Deposing ‘The Usual Suspects’
Self
Killing Emmett Young
Jack Marlow / Stephen Bracken
Virginia’s Run
Ford Lofton
1996
Mad Dog Time
Ben London
The Brylcreem Boys
Commandant O'Brien
The Last of the High Kings
Jack Griffin
1995
The Usual Suspects
Buffalo Girls
Teddy Blue
Frankie Starlight
Jack Kelly
Irish Cinema: Ourselves Alone?
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