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 | Sauver Mozart | 2025 | |
Movie | Ballerina | 2025-06-06 | |
Movie | Nothing Is What It Seems: The Making Of 'The Usual Suspects' | self | 2025 |
Movie | Hamlet Revenant | Unknown | 2025 |
Movie | Dance First | Samuel Beckett | 2023-11-03 |
Movie | Walking with Ghosts | Himself | 2022-02-26 |
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 | 2022-11-18 |
Movie | Murder at Yellowstone City | Sheriff Ambrose | 2022-06-24 |
Movie | Death of a Ladies' Man | Samuel O'Shea | 2021-03-12 |
Series | ZeroZeroZero | Edward Lynwood | 2020-02-14 |
Movie | A World War II Fairytale: The Making of Michael Mann's 'The Keep' | Himself (Archive Footage) | 2020-01-01 |
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 | Lies We Tell | Donald | 2018-02-02 |
Movie | Atlantic Salmon: Lost at Sea | Narrator | 2018-02-01 |
Movie | In the Cloud | Doc Wolff | 2018-02-08 |
Movie | An L.A. Minute | Ted Gold | 2018-08-24 |
Movie | My Astonishing Self: Gabriel Byrne on George Bernard Shaw | Narrator | 2018-03-25 |
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 |
Series | Vikings: Athelstan's Journal | Earl Haraldson (archive footage) | 2015-01-30 |
Movie | The 33 | Andre Sougarret | 2015-08-06 |
Movie | Louder Than Bombs | Gene Reed | 2015-10-01 |
Movie | Endless Night | Bram | 2015-11-27 |
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 | All Things To All Men | Joseph Corso | 2013-04-05 |
Movie | Just a Sigh | L'homme | 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 |
Series | Secret State | Tom Dawkins | 2012-11-07 |
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 | Emotional Arithmetic | Christopher Lewis | 2008-04-18 |
Series | In Treatment | Dr. Paul Weston | 2008-01-28 |
Movie | 2:22 | Detective Swain (uncredited) | 2008-09-24 |
Movie | Camelot: Live from Lincoln Center | King Arthur | 2008-05-08 |
Series | Attack on Leningrad | Phillip Parker | 2007-10-19 |
Series | The Graham Norton Show | Himself | 2007-02-22 |
Movie | Jindabyne | Stewart | 2006-07-20 |
Movie | Played | Eddie | 2006-10-20 |
Movie | Assault on Precinct 13 | Captain Marcus Duvall | 2005-01-19 |
Movie | Wah-Wah | Harry Compton | 2005-08-17 |
Movie | Patrick | Patrick | 2004-03-14 |
Movie | P.S. | Peter Harrington | 2004-10-15 |
Movie | The Bridge of San Luis Rey | Brother Juniper | 2004-12-22 |
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 | Round Up: Deposing 'The Usual Suspects' | 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 | Keyser Soze, Lie or Legend - Featurette | Self | 2002-04-02 |
Movie | Spider | Bill Cleg | 2002-11-06 |
Movie | Pursuing the Suspects | Himself | 2002-04-29 |
Movie | Ghost Ship | Captain Sean Murphy | 2002-10-25 |
Movie | Horses: The Story of Equus | Narrator | 2002-06-12 |
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 | Enemy of the State | 'Brill' | 1998-11-20 |
Movie | The Man in the Iron Mask | D'Artagnan | 1998-03-12 |
Movie | Quest for Camelot | Lionel (voice) | 1998-05-15 |
Movie | Pirates | Narrator (voice) | 1998-04-06 |
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 |
Movie | Weapons of Mass Distraction | Lionel Powers | 1997-11-10 |
Series | The View | Self | 1997-08-11 |
Movie | Mad Dog Time | Ben London | 1996-11-08 |
Movie | The Brylcreem Boys | Commandant O'Brien | 1996-11-14 |
Movie | Somebody Is Waiting | Roger Ellis | 1996-12-19 |
Movie | The Last of the High Kings | Jack Griffin | 1996-12-06 |
Movie | Buffalo Girls | Teddy Blue | 1995-04-30 |
Movie | The Usual Suspects | Dean Keaton | 1995-07-19 |
Movie | Frankie Starlight | Jack Kelly | 1995-11-22 |
Movie | Dead Man | Charlie Dickinson | 1995-12-23 |
Movie | Irish Cinema: Ourselves Alone? | Narrator | 1995-10-20 |
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 | A Simple Twist of Fate | John Newland | 1994-09-02 |
Movie | Trial by Jury | Daniel Graham | 1994-09-09 |
Movie | Little Women | Friedrich Bhaer | 1994-12-21 |
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 | Julia and Julia | Paolo | 1988-02-05 |
Movie | The Courier | Val | 1988-02-10 |
Movie | Lionheart | Black Prince | 1987-08-14 |
Movie | Siesta | Augustine | 1987-11-11 |
Movie | Hello Again | Kevin Scanlon | 1987-11-06 |
Movie | Defence of the Realm | Nicholas 'Nick' Mullen | 1986-09-06 |
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 Pendragon | 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 |
Movie | On a Paving Stone Mounted | 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 |