Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
5/12/1950
Place of Birth
Dublin, Ireland
Also Known As
Gabriel James ByrneГэбриэл БирнГэбриел Бирн
Gabriel Byrne
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
Ballerina
as The Chancellor
The Keep
as Major Kaempffer
Stigmata
as Father Andrew Kiernan
The Usual Suspects
as Keaton
Leningrad
as Philip Parker
Little Women
as Friedrich Bhaer
Hereditary
as Steve Graham
The Man in the Iron Mask
as D'Artagnan
Cool World
as Jack Deebs
Emotional Arithmetic
as Christopher Lewis
The 33
as Andre Sougarret
The Outsider
as Man in Street
End of Days
as The Man
Spider
as Bill Cleg
Smilla's Sense of Snow
as The Mechanic
Siesta
as Augustine
All Things To All Men
as Joseph Corso
Hanna K.
as Joshué Herzog
Shade
as Charlie Miller
Carrie Pilby
as Mr. Pilby
Career Timeline
2025
Richard Burton: Wild Genius
as Self
A World War II Fairy Tale: The Making of Michael Mann's 'The Keep'
as Himself (archive footage)
A World War II Fairy Tale: The Making of Michael Mann's 'The Keep'
as Himself
Four Letters of Love
as Muiris Gore
Ballerina
as The Chancellor
Blue Road: The Edna O'Brien Story
as Self
2022
2020
2018
Cursed: The True Nature of Hereditary
as Self - Steve
Maniac
as Porter Milgrim
An L.A. Minute
as Ted Gold
Hereditary
as Steve Graham
My Astonishing Self: Gabriel Byrne on George Bernard Shaw
as Narrator
In the Cloud
as Doc Wolff
Lies We Tell
as Donald
Atlantic Salmon: Lost at Sea
as Narrator
2017
2016
2015
2013
2012
2008
2004
2002
Spider
as Bill Cleg
Ghost Ship
as Captain Sean Murphy
Horses: The Story of Equus
as Narrator
Pursuing the Suspects
as Himself
Killing Emmett Young
as Jack Marlow / Stephen Bracken
Keyser Soze, Lie or Legend - Featurette
as Self
Round Up: Deposing 'The Usual Suspects'
as Self
Virginia's Run
as Ford Lofton