Personal Info
Gabriel James Byrne
Gabriel Byrne
Acting
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 c…
Known For
Filmography
Movies
Ballerina
as The Chancellor
Four Letters of Love
as Muiris Gore
Richard Burton: Wild Genius
as Self
Blue Road: The Edna O'Brien Story
as Self
A World War II Fairy Tale: The Making of Michael Mann's 'The Keep'
as Self
Dance First
as Samuel Beckett
Lamborghini: The Man Behind the Legend
as Enzo Ferrari
The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse
as The Horse (voice)
Murder at Yellowstone City
as Sheriff Ambrose
Walking with Ghosts
as Himself
TV Shows
ZeroZeroZero
as Edward Lynwood · 2 ep.
War of the Worlds
as Bill Ward · 24 ep.
Maniac
as Porter Milgrim · 5 ep.
Vikings: Athelstan's Journal
as Earl Haraldson (archive footage) · 3 ep.
Quirke
as Quirke · 3 ep.
Vikings
as Earl Haraldson · 9 ep.
Secret State
as Tom Dawkins · 4 ep.
In Treatment
as Dr. Paul Weston · 106 ep.
The Graham Norton Show
as Self · 1 ep.
Leningrad
4 ep.
