Gabriel Byrne

Born 1950 · Irish actor

Gabriel James Byrne is an Irish actor. He has received a Golden Globe Award as well as 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 never to have received an Academy Award nomination.

Gabriel Byrne, in order

1980 Bracken (TV series): acted
1981 Excalibur: acted · directed by John Boorman · critics 72%, audiences 80%
1983 Hanna K.: acted · directed by Costa-Gavras
1983 The Keep: acted · directed by Michael Mann · critics 42%, audiences 43% · streaming on MGM+
1983 Wagner (TV movie): acted · directed by Tony Palmer
1985 Christopher Columbus (TV movie): acted · directed by Alberto Lattuada
1985 Defence of the Realm: acted · directed by David Drury · critics 100%, audiences 68% · streaming on Prime Video, Fawesome, Tubi
1986 Gothic: acted · directed by Ken Russell
1987 Hello Again: acted · directed by Frank Perry
1987 Julia and Julia: acted · directed by Peter Del Monte
1987 Lionheart: acted · directed by Franklin J. Schaffner
1987 Siesta: acted · directed by Mary Lambert
1988 A Soldier's Tale: acted · directed by Larry Parr
1988 The Courier: acted · directed by Frank Deasy
1990 Miller's Crossing: acted · directed by Ethan Coen and Joel Coen
1990 Shipwrecked: acted · directed by Nils Gaup
1992 Cool World: acted · directed by Ralph Bakshi
1992 Into the West: acted · directed by Mike Newell
1993 A Dangerous Woman: acted · directed by Stephen Gyllenhaal
1993 Point of No Return: acted · directed by John Badham
1994 A Simple Twist of Fate: acted · directed by Gillies MacKinnon
1994 Little Women: acted · directed by Gillian Armstrong
1994 Prince of Jutland: acted · directed by Gabriel Axel
1994 Trial by Jury: acted · directed by Heywood Gould · critics 9%, audiences 32% · streaming on Prime Video, Roku Channel, Pluto TV
1995 Buffalo Girls (TV movie): acted · directed by Rod Hardy
1995 Dead Man: acted · directed by Jim Jarmusch · critics 69%, audiences 88% · streaming on fuboTV, HBO Max, Fandango at Home (free)
1995 Frankie Starlight: acted · directed by Michael Lindsay-Hogg
1995 The Usual Suspects: acted · directed by Bryan Singer · critics 86%, audiences 96% · streaming on HBO Max
1996 Mad Dog Time: acted · directed by Larry Bishop · audiences 51% · streaming on Prime Video, fuboTV, MGM+
1996 The Last of the High Kings: wrote, produced, acted · directed by David Keating
1997 Smilla's Sense of Snow: acted · directed by Bille August
1997 The Brylcreem Boys: produced, acted · directed by Terence Ryan
1997 The End of Violence: acted · directed by Wim Wenders · critics 29%, audiences 43% · streaming on fuboTV, MGM+, Philo
1997 This Is the Sea: acted · directed by Mary McGuckian
1997 Weapons of Mass Distraction (TV movie): acted · directed by Stephen Surjik
1998 Enemy of the State: acted · directed by Tony Scott · critics 71%, audiences 78%
1998 Polish Wedding: acted · directed by Theresa Connelly
1998 The Man in the Iron Mask: acted · directed by Randall Wallace · critics 32%, audiences 55%
1999 End of Days: acted · directed by Peter Hyams · critics 11%, audiences 33%
1999 Stigmata: acted · directed by Rupert Wainwright
2000 Canone Inverso: acted · directed by Ricky Tognazzi
2000 Madigan Men (TV series): acted
2002 Ghost Ship: acted · directed by Steve Beck
2002 Spider: acted · directed by David Cronenberg · critics 84%, audiences 68%
2002 Virginia's Run: acted · directed by Peter Markle
2003 Shade: acted · directed by Damian Nieman
2004 P.S.: acted · directed by Dylan Kidd
2004 The Bridge of San Luis Rey: acted · directed by Mary McGuckian · critics 4%, audiences 35% · streaming on Prime Video, Roku Channel, YouTube (free)
2004 Vanity Fair: acted · directed by Mira Nair
2005 Assault on Precinct 13: acted · directed by Jean-François Richet · critics 59%, audiences 48% · streaming on Starz
2005 Wah-Wah: acted · directed by Richard E. Grant
2006 Jindabyne: acted · directed by Ray Lawrence
2006 Played: acted · directed by Sean Stanek
2007 Emotional Arithmetic: acted · directed by Paolo Barzman
2008 In Treatment (TV series): acted
2009 Attack on Leningrad: acted · directed by Aleksandr Buravskiy
2009 Perrier's Bounty: acted · directed by Ian Fitzgibbon
2012 I, Anna: acted · directed by Barnaby Southcombe · critics 54%, audiences 50% · streaming on Kanopy, Hoopla, Pluto TV
2012 Le Capital: acted · directed by Costa-Gavras
2012 Secret State (TV series): acted · directed by Ed Fraiman
2013 All Things to All Men: acted · directed by George Isaac
2013 Just a Sigh: acted · directed by Jérôme Bonnell
2013 Vikings (TV series): acted · directed by Ciaran Donnelly and Daniel Grou
2014 Marco Polo (TV series): acted · directed by Alik Sakharov and Daniel Minahan
2014 The 33: acted · directed by Patricia Riggen
2014 Vampire Academy: Blood Sisters: acted · directed by Mark Waters
2015 Louder Than Bombs: acted · directed by Joachim Trier
2015 Nobody Wants the Night: acted · directed by Isabel Coixet
2016 Carrie Pilby: acted · directed by Susan Johnson
2016 No Pay, Nudity: acted · directed by Lee Wilkof
2018 An L.A. Minute: acted · directed by Daniel Adams
2018 Hereditary: acted · directed by Ari Aster · critics 90%, audiences 72% · streaming on Prime Video, Hulu, Kanopy
2018 In the Cloud: acted · directed by Robert Scott Wildes
2020 Death of a Ladies’ Man: acted · directed by Matt Bissonnette
2020 Lost Girls: acted · directed by Liz Garbus
2022 Lamborghini: The Man Behind the Legend: acted · directed by Robert Moresco
2023 Dance First: acted · directed by James Marsh
2025 Ballerina: acted · directed by Len Wiseman
2025 Four Letters of Love: acted