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.
Series | Glenroe | Pat Barry | 2025 |
Series | The Riordans | Pat Barry | 2025 |
Movie | Sauver Mozart | 2025 | |
Movie | Nothing Is What It Seems: The Making Of 'The Usual Suspects' | self | 2025 |
Movie | Hamlet Revenant | Unknown | 2025 |
Movie | Ballerina | 2025-06-06 | |
Movie | Dance First | Samuel Beckett | 2023-11-03 |
Movie | Lamborghini: The Man Behind the Legend | Enzo Ferrari | 2022-11-18 |
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 | 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 |
Series | ZeroZeroZero | Edward Lynwood | 2020-02-14 |
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 | 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 | My Astonishing Self: Gabriel Byrne on George Bernard Shaw | Narrator | 2018-03-25 |
Movie | In the Cloud | Doc Wolff | 2018-02-08 |
Movie | An L.A. Minute | Ted Gold | 2018-08-24 |
Series | Maniac | Porter Milgrim | 2018-09-21 |
Movie | Hereditary | Steve Graham | 2018-06-07 |
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 | No Pay, Nudity | Lawrence Rose | 2016-11-04 |
Movie | Versus: The Life and Films of Ken Loach | Himself | 2016-06-30 |
Movie | Louder Than Bombs | Gene Reed | 2015-10-01 |
Movie | Endless Night | Bram | 2015-11-27 |
Movie | The 33 | Andre Sougarret | 2015-08-06 |
Series | Vikings: Athelstan's Journal | Earl Haraldson (archive footage) | 2015-01-30 |
Movie | Vampire Academy | Victor Dashkov | 2014-02-07 |
Series | Quirke | Quirke | 2014-02-16 |
Movie | Excalibur: Behind the Movie | Himself | 2013-12-20 |
Series | Vikings | Earl Haraldson | 2013-03-03 |
Movie | Just a Sigh | L'homme | 2013-04-10 |
Movie | All Things To All Men | Joseph Corso | 2013-04-05 |
Movie | Capital | Dittmar Rigule | 2012-11-14 |
Movie | I, Anna | D.C.I. Bernie Reid | 2012-03-03 |
Series | Secret State | Tom Dawkins | 2012-11-07 |
Movie | John Ford: Dreaming the Quiet Man | Narrator | 2012-06-15 |
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 | 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 | 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 | Patrick | Patrick | 2004-03-14 |
Movie | P.S. | Peter Harrington | 2004-10-15 |
Movie | Vanity Fair | The Marquess of Steyne | 2004-09-01 |
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 | Virginia's Run | Ford Lofton | 2002-03-03 |
Movie | Round Up: Deposing 'The Usual Suspects' | Self | 2002-04-02 |
Movie | Spider | Bill Cleg | 2002-11-06 |
Movie | Ghost Ship | Captain Sean Murphy | 2002-10-25 |
Movie | Killing Emmett Young | Jack Marlow / Stephen Bracken | 2002-04-13 |
Movie | Pursuing the Suspects | Himself | 2002-04-29 |
Movie | Horses: The Story of Equus | Narrator | 2002-06-12 |
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 | End of Days | The Man | 1999-11-24 |
Movie | Stigmata | Father Andrew Kiernan | 1999-09-02 |
Movie | Polish Wedding | Bolek | 1998-01-16 |
Movie | Pirates | Narrator (voice) | 1998-04-06 |
Movie | The Man in the Iron Mask | D'Artagnan | 1998-03-12 |
Movie | Quest for Camelot | Lionel (voice) | 1998-05-15 |
Movie | Enemy of the State | 'Brill' | 1998-11-20 |
Movie | Smilla's Sense of Snow | The Mechanic | 1997-02-28 |
Movie | The End of Violence | Ray | 1997-05-11 |
Movie | This Is the Sea | Rohan | 1997-09-15 |
Series | The View | Self | 1997-08-11 |
Movie | Weapons of Mass Distraction | Lionel Powers | 1997-11-10 |
Movie | Somebody Is Waiting | Roger Ellis | 1996-12-19 |
Movie | The Brylcreem Boys | Commandant O'Brien | 1996-11-14 |
Movie | Mad Dog Time | Ben London | 1996-11-08 |
Movie | The Last of the High Kings | Jack Griffin | 1996-12-06 |
Movie | Dead Man | Charlie Dickinson | 1995-12-23 |
Movie | Buffalo Girls | Teddy Blue | 1995-04-30 |
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 | Royal Deceit | Fenge | 1994-02-23 |
Movie | Trial by Jury | Daniel Graham | 1994-09-09 |
Movie | Little Women | Friedrich Bhaer | 1994-12-21 |
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 | A Dangerous Woman | Mackey | 1993-09-10 |
Series | Late Night with Conan O'Brien | Self - Guest | 1993-09-13 |
Movie | Point of No Return | Bob | 1993-03-19 |
Movie | Into the West | Papa Reilly | 1992-10-23 |
Movie | Cool World | Jack Deebs | 1992-07-10 |
Movie | Dark Obsession | Hugo | 1990-06-08 |
Movie | Shipwrecked | Lt. John Merrick | 1990-10-03 |
Movie | Miller's Crossing | Tom Reagan | 1990-09-21 |
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 | Hello Again | Kevin Scanlon | 1987-11-06 |
Movie | Lionheart | Black Prince | 1987-08-14 |
Movie | Siesta | Augustine | 1987-11-11 |
Movie | Gothic | Lord Byron | 1986-11-30 |
Movie | Defence of the Realm | Nicholas 'Nick' Mullen | 1986-09-06 |
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 |
Series | Wagner | Karl Ritter | 1983-10-03 |
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 Pendragon | 1981-04-10 |
Movie | The Search for Alexander the Great | Ptolemy | 1981-05-06 |
Movie | The Outsider | Man in Street | 1980-06-02 |
Series | Bracken | Pat Barry | 1980-01-06 |
Movie | On a Paving Stone Mounted | Unknown | 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 |