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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1950
- Works
- 5
Top works
- Walking with ghosts
- Spider
- Myths & Tales of Ancient Ireland
- Pictures UN My Head
- Pictures in my head
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Film & TV
Dublin, Ireland
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…
Known for
- Ballerina — The Chancellor2025
- Four Letters of Love — Muiris Gore2025
- Blue Road: The Edna O'Brien Story — Self2025
- A World War II Fairy Tale: The Making of Michael Mann's 'The Keep' — Self (archive footage)2025
- A World War II Fairy Tale: The Making of Michael Mann's 'The Keep' — Self2025
- Richard Burton: Wild Genius — Self2025
- Dance First — Samuel Beckett2023
- Lamborghini: The Man Behind the Legend — Enzo Ferrari2022
- Walking with Ghosts — Himself2022
- Murder at Yellowstone City — Sheriff Ambrose2022
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Key facts
- Born
- Gabriel James Byrne , ( 1950-05-12 ) 12 May 1950 (age 76) , Dublin , Ireland
- Alma mater
- University College Dublin
- Occupation
- Actor
- Years active
- 1978–present
- Spouses
- Ellen Barkin ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1988 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 1999 ) Hannah Beth King ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 2014 )
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Gabriel
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Republic of Ireland
- Place of birth
- Dublin
- Occupation
- television actor
- Position held
- UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Religion
- Catholicism
- Image
- Gabriel Byrne 2010.jpg
- Number of children
- 2
- Residence
- Dublin
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- Gabriel Byrne
- date of birth
- 1950-05-12
- start of work period
- 1978-00-00
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Encyclopedic overview
Gabriel James Byrne (born 12 May 1950) 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.
Byrne's acting career began at the Focus Theatre in Dublin before he joined London's Royal Court Theatre in 1974. His screen debut came in the Irish drama serial The Riordans and the spin-off show Bracken. He went on to star in such films as Defence of the Realm (1986), Lionheart (1987), Miller's Crossing (1990), Little Women (1994), Dead Man (1995), The Usual Suspects (1995), The Man in the Iron Mask (1998), Enemy of the State (1998), End of Days (1999), Stigmata (1999), Vanity Fair (2004), The 33 (2015), and Hereditary (2018). He co-wrote The Last of the High Kings (1996) and also produced In the Name of the Father (1993).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Gabriel Byrne” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.