Gabriel James Byrne (born 12 May 1950) is an Irish actor, film director, film producer, screenwriter, cultural ambassador and audiobook narrator. His acting career began in the Focus Theatre before he joined London’s Royal Court Theatre in 1979. Byrne's screen début came in the Irish soap opera The Riordans and the spin-off show Bracken. The actor has now starred in over 35 feature films, such as The Usual Suspects, Miller's Crossing and Stigmata, in addition to writing two. Byrne's producing credits include the Academy Award-nominated In the Name of the Father. Currently, he is receiving much critical acclaim for his role as Dr. Paul Weston in the HBO drama In Treatment.
Movie | Nothing Is What It Seems: The Making Of 'The Usual Suspects' | self | 2025 |
Movie | From the World of John Wick: Ballerina | The Chancellor | 2025-06-04 |
Movie | Sauver Mozart | Unknown | 2025 |
Movie | Hamlet Revenant | Unknown | 2025 |
Movie | Four Letters of Love | Muiris Gore | 2025-04-25 |
Movie | Blue Road: The Edna O'Brien Story | Self | 2025-01-31 |
Movie | A World War II Fairytale: The Making of Michael Mann's 'The Keep' | Himself (Archive Footage) | 2025-01-01 |
Movie | Dance First | Samuel Beckett | 2023-11-03 |
Movie | Walking with Ghosts | Himself | 2022-02-26 |
Movie | Murder at Yellowstone City | Sheriff Ambrose | 2022-06-24 |
Movie | The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse | The Horse (voice) | 2022-12-25 |
Movie | Lamborghini: The Man Behind the Legend | Enzo Ferrari | 2022-11-17 |
Movie | Death of a Ladies' Man | Samuel O'Shea | 2021-03-12 |
Series | ZeroZeroZero | Edward Lynwood | 2020-02-14 |
Movie | Lost Girls | Richard Dormer | 2020-01-28 |
Movie | Michael Des Barres: Who Do You Want Me To Be? | Self | 2020-07-10 |
Series | War of the Worlds | Bill Ward | 2019-10-28 |
Movie | In the Cloud | Doc Wolff | 2018-02-08 |
Movie | Lies We Tell | Donald | 2018-02-02 |
Movie | Atlantic Salmon: Lost at Sea | Narrator | 2018-02-01 |
Movie | My Astonishing Self: Gabriel Byrne on George Bernard Shaw | Narrator | 2018-03-25 |
Movie | Cursed: The True Nature of Hereditary | Self - Steve | 2018-10-08 |
Movie | Hereditary | Steve Graham | 2018-06-07 |
Series | Maniac | Porter Milgrim | 2018-09-21 |
Movie | An L.A. Minute | Ted Gold | 2018-08-24 |
Movie | Carrie Pilby | Mr. Pilby | 2017-03-31 |
Movie | Into the Night: Portraits of Life and Death | Self | 2017-10-27 |
Movie | Mad to Be Normal | Jim | 2017-04-06 |
Movie | Versus: The Life and Films of Ken Loach | Self - Actor | 2016-06-30 |
Movie | No Pay, Nudity | Lawrence Rose | 2016-11-04 |
Series | Vikings: Athelstan's Journal | Earl Haraldson (archive footage) | 2015-01-30 |
Movie | Endless Night | Bram | 2015-11-27 |
Movie | The 33 | Andre Sougarret | 2015-08-06 |
Movie | Louder Than Bombs | Gene Reed | 2015-10-01 |
Movie | Vampire Academy | Victor Dashkov | 2014-02-07 |
Series | Quirke | Quirke | 2014-02-16 |
Movie | Excalibur: Behind the Movie | Self | 2013-12-20 |
Series | Vikings | Earl Haraldson | 2013-03-03 |
Movie | All Things To All Men | Joseph Corso | 2013-04-05 |
Movie | Just a Sigh | Man | 2013-04-10 |
Movie | I, Anna | D.C.I. Bernie Reid | 2012-03-03 |
Movie | John Ford: Dreaming the Quiet Man | Narrator | 2012-06-15 |
Movie | Capital | Dittmar Rigule | 2012-11-14 |
Series | Secret State | Tom Dawkins | 2012-11-07 |
Movie | A Man's Story | Self | 2011-10-08 |
Movie | The Women of SNL | Priest (archive footage) | 2010-11-01 |
Movie | Perrier's Bounty | Voice of the Grim Reaper (voice) | 2009-09-11 |
Movie | Leningrad | Philip Parker | 2009-01-01 |
Movie | Emotional Arithmetic | Christopher Lewis | 2008-04-18 |
Movie | Camelot: Live from Lincoln Center | King Arthur | 2008-05-08 |
Series | In Treatment | Dr. Paul Weston | 2008-01-28 |
Movie | Gabriel Byrne: Stories from Home | Unknown | 2008-07-12 |
Movie | 2:22 | Detective Swain (uncredited) | 2008-09-24 |
Series | The Graham Norton Show | Self | 2007-02-22 |
Series | Attack on Leningrad | Phillip Parker | 2007-10-19 |
Series | Leningrad | Unknown | 2007-10-19 |
Movie | Played | Eddie | 2006-05-19 |
Movie | Jindabyne | Stewart | 2006-07-20 |
Movie | Wah-Wah | Harry Compton | 2005-08-17 |
Movie | Assault on Precinct 13 | Captain Marcus Duvall | 2005-01-19 |
Movie | Patrick | Patrick | 2004-03-14 |
Movie | Vanity Fair | The Marquess of Steyne | 2004-09-01 |
Movie | The Bridge of San Luis Rey | Brother Juniper | 2004-12-22 |
Movie | P.S. | Peter Harrington | 2004-10-15 |
Movie | Flight from Death: The Quest for Immortality | Narrator | 2003-01-01 |
Movie | Shade | Charlie Miller | 2003-05-18 |
Movie | Keyser Soze, Lie or Legend - Featurette | Self | 2002-04-02 |
Movie | Killing Emmett Young | Jack Marlow / Stephen Bracken | 2002-04-13 |
Movie | Virginia's Run | Ford Lofton | 2002-03-03 |
Movie | Round Up: Deposing 'The Usual Suspects' | Self | 2002-04-02 |
Movie | Horses: The Story of Equus | Narrator | 2002-06-12 |
Movie | Pursuing the Suspects | Himself | 2002-04-29 |
Movie | Spider | Bill Cleg | 2002-11-06 |
Movie | Ghost Ship | Captain Sean Murphy | 2002-10-25 |
Movie | Making Love | il violinista/Jeno Varga adulto | 2000-02-11 |
Movie | When Brendan Met Trudy | Special Appearance | 2000-12-14 |
Series | Madigan Men | Benjamin Madigan | 2000-10-06 |
Movie | Stigmata | Father Andrew Kiernan | 1999-09-02 |
Movie | End of Days | The Man | 1999-11-24 |
Movie | Polish Wedding | Bolek | 1998-01-16 |
Movie | The Man in the Iron Mask | D'Artagnan | 1998-03-12 |
Movie | Pirates | Narrator (voice) | 1998-04-06 |
Movie | Enemy of the State | 'Brill' | 1998-11-20 |
Movie | Quest for Camelot | Lionel (voice) | 1998-05-15 |
Movie | Smilla's Sense of Snow | The Mechanic | 1997-02-28 |
Movie | Weapons of Mass Distraction | Lionel Powers | 1997-05-17 |
Movie | The End of Violence | Ray | 1997-09-12 |
Series | The View | Self | 1997-08-11 |
Movie | This Is the Sea | Rohan | 1997-09-15 |
Movie | Mad Dog Time | Ben London | 1996-11-08 |
Movie | The Brylcreem Boys | Commandant O'Brien | 1996-11-14 |
Movie | The Last of the High Kings | Jack Griffin | 1996-12-06 |
Movie | Somebody Is Waiting | Roger Ellis | 1996-12-19 |
Movie | Buffalo Girls | Teddy Blue | 1995-04-30 |
Movie | The Usual Suspects | Keaton | 1995-07-19 |
Movie | Dead Man | Charlie Dickinson | 1995-12-23 |
Movie | Irish Cinema: Ourselves Alone? | Narrator (voice) | 1995-10-20 |
Movie | Frankie Starlight | Jack Kelly | 1995-11-22 |
Movie | All Things Bright and Beautiful | The Good Thief | 1994-03-16 |
Series | Inside the Actors Studio | Self | 1994-08-14 |
Movie | Royal Deceit | Fenge | 1994-02-23 |
Movie | Out of Ireland: The Story of Irish Emigration to America | Richard O'Gorman (voice) | 1994-01-01 |
Movie | A Simple Twist of Fate | John Newland | 1994-09-02 |
Movie | Little Women | Friedrich Bhaer | 1994-12-21 |
Movie | Trial by Jury | Daniel Graham | 1994-09-09 |
Movie | Point of No Return | Bob | 1993-03-19 |
Movie | A Dangerous Woman | Mackey | 1993-09-10 |
Series | Late Night with Conan O'Brien | Self - Guest | 1993-09-13 |
Movie | Cool World | Jack Deebs | 1992-07-10 |
Movie | Into the West | Papa Reilly | 1992-10-23 |
Movie | Dark Obsession | Hugo | 1990-02-01 |
Movie | Shipwrecked | Lt. John Merrick | 1990-10-03 |
Movie | Miller's Crossing | Tom Reagan | 1990-09-21 |
Movie | The Courier | Val | 1988-02-10 |
Movie | Julia and Julia | Paolo | 1988-02-05 |
Movie | A Soldier's Tale | Saul | 1988-06-16 |
Movie | Lionheart | Black Prince | 1987-08-14 |
Movie | Hello Again | Kevin Scanlon | 1987-11-06 |
Movie | Siesta | Augustine | 1987-11-11 |
Movie | Defence of the Realm | Nicholas 'Nick' Mullen | 1986-05-09 |
Movie | Gothic | Lord Byron | 1986-11-30 |
Series | Christopher Columbus | Christopher Columbus | 1985-03-07 |
Series | Mussolini: The Untold Story | Vittorio Mussolini | 1985-11-24 |
Movie | The Treatment | Father Michael | 1984-03-16 |
Movie | Reflections | William Masters | 1984-04-01 |
Movie | Hanna K. | Joshué Herzog | 1983-09-07 |
Movie | The Keep | Major Kaempffer | 1983-12-16 |
Movie | The Rocking Horse Winner | Bassett | 1982-11-25 |
Movie | Excalibur | Uther | 1981-04-10 |
Movie | The Search for Alexander the Great | Ptolemy | 1981-05-06 |
Series | Bracken | Pat Barry | 1980-01-06 |
Movie | The Outsider | Man in Street | 1980-06-02 |
Series | Strangers | Johnny Maguire | 1978-06-05 |
Series | The Last of Summer | Bishop's secretary | 1978-10-05 |
Movie | On a Paving Stone Mounted | Unknown | 1978-12-12 |
Series | Live from Lincoln Center | King Arthur | 1976-01-30 |
Series | Saturday Night Live | Self - Host | 1975-10-11 |
Series | Tony Awards | Self - Presenter | 1956-04-01 |