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 | John Wick Presents: Ballerina | Unknown | 2025-06-06 |
Movie | Hamlet Revenant | Unknown | 2025 |
Movie | Sauver Mozart | 2025 | |
Movie | Nothing Is What It Seems: The Making Of 'The Usual Suspects' | self | 2025 |
Movie | Dance First | Samuel Beckett | 2023-11-03 |
Movie | The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse | The Horse (voice) | 2022-12-25 |
Movie | Murder at Yellowstone City | Sheriff Ambrose | 2022-06-24 |
Movie | Lamborghini: The Man Behind the Legend | Enzo Ferrari | 2022-11-18 |
Movie | Walking with Ghosts | Himself | 2022-02-26 |
Movie | Death of a Ladies' Man | Samuel O'Shea | 2021-03-12 |
Movie | Michael Des Barres: Who Do You Want Me To Be? | Self | 2020-07-10 |
Movie | Lost Girls | Richard Dormer | 2020-01-28 |
Movie | A World War II Fairytale: The Making of Michael Mann's 'The Keep' | Himself (Archive Footage) | 2020-01-01 |
Series | ZeroZeroZero | Edward Lynwood | 2020-02-14 |
Series | War of the Worlds | Bill Ward | 2019-10-28 |
Movie | Atlantic Salmon: Lost at Sea | Narrator | 2018-02-01 |
Movie | Lies We Tell | Donald | 2018-02-02 |
Movie | In the Cloud | Doc Wolff | 2018-02-08 |
Movie | My Astonishing Self: Gabriel Byrne on George Bernard Shaw | Narrator | 2018-03-25 |
Movie | Hereditary | Steve Graham | 2018-06-07 |
Movie | An L.A. Minute | Ted Gold | 2018-08-24 |
Series | Maniac | Porter Milgrim | 2018-09-21 |
Movie | Mad to Be Normal | Jim | 2017-04-06 |
Movie | Carrie Pilby | Mr. Pilby | 2017-03-31 |
Movie | Into the Night: Portraits of Life and Death | Self | 2017-10-27 |
Movie | No Pay, Nudity | Lawrence Rose | 2016-11-04 |
Movie | Versus: The Life and Films of Ken Loach | Himself | 2016-06-30 |
Movie | Endless Night | Bram | 2015-11-27 |
Movie | Louder Than Bombs | Gene Reed | 2015-10-01 |
Movie | The 33 | Andre Sougarret | 2015-08-06 |
Series | Vikings: Athelstan's Journal | Earl Haraldson (archive footage) | 2015-01-30 |
Series | Quirke | Quirke | 2014-02-16 |
Movie | Vampire Academy | Victor Dashkov | 2014-02-07 |
Series | Vikings | Earl Haraldson | 2013-03-03 |
Movie | All Things To All Men | Joseph Corso | 2013-04-05 |
Movie | Just a Sigh | L'homme | 2013-04-10 |
Movie | Excalibur: Behind the Movie | Himself | 2013-12-20 |
Series | Secret State | Tom Dawkins | 2012-11-07 |
Movie | John Ford: Dreaming the Quiet Man | Narrator | 2012-06-15 |
Movie | I, Anna | D.C.I. Bernie Reid | 2012-03-03 |
Movie | Capital | Dittmar Rigule | 2012-11-14 |
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 | 2:22 | Detective Swain (uncredited) | 2008-09-24 |
Movie | Gabriel Byrne: Stories from Home | 2008-07-12 | |
Movie | Camelot: Live from Lincoln Center | King Arthur | 2008-05-08 |
Movie | Emotional arithmetic | Christopher Lewis | 2008-04-18 |
Series | In Treatment | Dr. Paul Weston | 2008-01-28 |
Series | Leningrad | 2007-10-19 | |
Series | The Graham Norton Show | Himself | 2007-02-22 |
Series | Attack on Leningrad | Phillip Parker | 2007-10-19 |
Movie | Played | Eddie | 2006-10-20 |
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 | The Bridge of San Luis Rey | Brother Juniper | 2004-12-22 |
Movie | P.S. | Peter Harrington | 2004-10-15 |
Movie | Vanity Fair | The Marquess of Steyne | 2004-09-01 |
Movie | Patrick | Patrick | 2004-03-14 |
Movie | Shade | Charlie Miller | 2003-05-18 |
Movie | Flight from Death: The Quest for Immortality | Narrator | 2003-01-01 |
Movie | Round Up: Deposing 'The Usual Suspects' | Self | 2002-04-02 |
Movie | Virginia's Run | Ford Lofton | 2002-03-03 |
Movie | Killing Emmett Young | Jack Marlow / Stephen Bracken | 2002-04-13 |
Movie | Pursuing the Suspects | Himself | 2002-04-29 |
Movie | Spider | Bill Cleg | 2002-11-06 |
Movie | Keyser Soze, Lie or Legend - Featurette | Self | 2002-04-02 |
Movie | Horses: The Story of Equus | Narrator | 2002-06-12 |
Movie | Ghost Ship | Captain Sean Murphy | 2002-10-25 |
Series | Madigan Men | Benjamin Madigan | 2000-10-06 |
Movie | When Brendan Met Trudy | Special Appearance | 2000-12-14 |
Movie | Making Love | il violinista/Jeno Varga adulto | 2000-02-11 |
Movie | Stigmata | Father Andrew Kiernan | 1999-09-02 |
Movie | End of Days | The Man | 1999-11-24 |
Movie | Enemy of the State | 'Brill' | 1998-11-20 |
Movie | Quest for Camelot | Lionel (voice) | 1998-05-15 |
Movie | Pirates | Narrator (voice) | 1998-04-06 |
Movie | The Man in the Iron Mask | D'Artagnan | 1998-03-12 |
Movie | Polish Wedding | Bolek | 1998-01-16 |
Movie | Weapons of Mass Distraction | Lionel Powers | 1997-11-10 |
Movie | This Is the Sea | Rohan | 1997-09-15 |
Series | The View | Self | 1997-08-11 |
Movie | The End of Violence | Ray | 1997-05-11 |
Movie | Smilla's Sense of Snow | The Mechanic | 1997-02-28 |
Movie | Mad Dog Time | Ben London | 1996-11-08 |
Movie | Somebody Is Waiting | Roger Ellis | 1996-12-19 |
Movie | The Brylcreem Boys | Commandant O'Brien | 1996-11-14 |
Movie | The Last of the High Kings | Jack Griffin | 1996-12-06 |
Movie | Dead Man | Charlie Dickinson | 1995-12-23 |
Movie | Frankie Starlight | Jack Kelly | 1995-11-22 |
Movie | Irish Cinema: Ourselves Alone? | Narrator | 1995-10-20 |
Movie | The Usual Suspects | Dean Keaton | 1995-07-19 |
Movie | Buffalo Girls | Teddy Blue | 1995-04-30 |
Movie | Little Women | Friedrich Bhaer | 1994-12-21 |
Movie | Trial by Jury | Daniel Graham | 1994-09-09 |
Movie | A Simple Twist of Fate | John Newland | 1994-09-02 |
Series | Inside the Actors Studio | Self | 1994-08-14 |
Movie | All Things Bright and Beautiful | The Good Thief | 1994-03-16 |
Movie | Royal Deceit | Fenge | 1994-02-23 |
Movie | Point of No Return | Bob | 1993-03-19 |
Series | Late Night with Conan O'Brien | Self - Guest | 1993-09-13 |
Movie | A Dangerous Woman | Mackey | 1993-09-10 |
Movie | Cool World | Jack Deebs | 1992-07-10 |
Movie | Into the West | Papa Reilly | 1992-10-23 |
Movie | Dark Obsession | Hugo | 1990-06-08 |
Movie | Miller's Crossing | Tom Reagan | 1990-09-21 |
Movie | Shipwrecked | Lt. John Merrick | 1990-10-03 |
Movie | A Soldier's Tale | Saul | 1988-06-16 |
Movie | The Courier | Val | 1988-02-10 |
Movie | Julia and Julia | Paolo | 1988-02-05 |
Movie | Siesta | Augustine | 1987-11-11 |
Movie | Hello Again | Kevin Scanlon | 1987-11-06 |
Movie | Lionheart | Black Prince | 1987-08-14 |
Movie | Gothic | Lord Byron | 1986-11-30 |
Movie | Defence of the Realm | Nicholas 'Nick' Mullen | 1986-09-06 |
Series | Mussolini: The Untold Story | Vittorio Mussolini | 1985-11-24 |
Series | Christopher Columbus | Christopher Columbus | 1985-03-07 |
Movie | Reflections | William Masters | 1984-04-01 |
Movie | The Treatment | Father Michael | 1984-03-16 |
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 | The Search for Alexander the Great | Ptolemy | 1981-05-06 |
Movie | Excalibur | Uther Pendragon | 1981-04-10 |
Movie | The Outsider | Man in Street | 1980-06-02 |
Series | Bracken | Pat Barry | 1980-01-06 |
Movie | On a Paving Stone Mounted | 1978-12-12 | |
Series | Strangers | Johnny Maguire | 1978-06-05 |
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 |