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Gabriel James Byrne (born 12 May 1950)[1] is an Irish actor, film director, film producer, screenwriter, audiobook narrator, and author. His acting career began in the Focus Theatre before he joined London's Royal Court Theatre in 1979. Byrne's screen debut came in the Irish drama serial The Riordans and the spin-off show Bracken.

Gabriel Byrne
Gabriel Byrne in 2010
Born	Gabriel James Byrne (1950-05-12) 12 May 1950 (age 72) Dublin, Ireland
Occupation	Actor, film director, film producer, screenwriter
Years active	1978–present
Height	1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Spouses	Ellen Barkin ​ ​ (m. 1988; div. 1999)​ Hannah Beth King ​ (m. 2014)​
Children	3

He has starred in more than 70 films for some of cinema's best known directors. For his Broadway work, he has received two Tony nominations for roles in the work of Eugene O'Neill as well as the Outer Critics Circle Award for A Touch of the Poet. For his television work, Byrne has been nominated for three Emmys. For his performance in HBO's American drama In Treatment (2008–2010) in the role of Paul Weston, one of his most identifiable roles, he won a Golden Globe Award and was nominated for two Emmy Awards and two Satellite Awards.

He has starred in many films, including: Excalibur (1981), Miller's Crossing (1990), The Usual Suspects (1995), Stigmata (1999), End of Days (1999), Spider (2002), Jindabyne (2006), Vampire Academy (2014), The 33 (2015), and Hereditary (2018), and co-wrote The Last of the High Kings (1996). Byrne has also produced several films, including the Academy Award–nominated In the Name of the Father (1993). Since 2019, he has starred in a TV series adaptation of War of the Worlds.

In 2018, Byrne was awarded the Irish Film and Television Academy Lifetime Achievement Award for his contribution to Irish cinema. In 2020, he was listed at number 17 on The Irish Times list of Ireland's greatest film actors.[2] The Guardian named him one of the best actors never to have received an Academy Award nomination.[3]

Early life

Gabriel James Byrne was born on 12 May 1950 in Walkinstown, Dublin, Ireland, the son of devoutly Roman Catholic parents. His father Dan was a soldier and cooper, while his mother Eileen (née Gannon), from Elphin, County Roscommon,[4] was a hospital nurse. He has five younger siblings: Donal, Thomas, Breda, Margaret, and a sister who died at an early age, Marian.[5]

Byrne attended Ardscoil Éanna in Crumlin, where he later taught Spanish and history.[6] About his early training to become a priest, he said in an interview, "I spent five years in the seminary and I suppose it was assumed that one had a vocation. I realised subsequently that I didn't."[7] He attended University College Dublin, where he studied archaeology and linguistics,[8] becoming proficient in Irish.

He played football in Dublin with Stella Maris.[9]

In January 2011, he spoke in an interview on The Meaning of Life about being sexually abused by priests during his childhood.[10][11]

Career

Byrne worked in archaeology when he left UCD. He maintained his love of his language, later writing the first television drama in Irish, Draíocht, on Ireland's national Irish-language television station, TG4, when it began broadcasting in 1996.[12]

Before becoming an actor, Byrne had many jobs, including archaeologist, cook, and Spanish and history school teacher at Ardscoil Éanna in Crumlin. He started acting at age 29,[8] and began his career on stage with the Focus Theatre and the Abbey Theatre in Dublin. He later joined the Performing Arts Course at Roslyn Park College in Sandymount. He came to prominence on the final season of the Irish television show The Riordans,[8] subsequently starring in his own spin-off series, Bracken. His first play for television was Michael Feeney Callan's Love Is ... (RTÉ). He made his film debut in 1981, as King Uther Pendragon in John Boorman's King Arthur epic, Excalibur.[8]

In 1983, he appeared with Richard Burton in the miniseries Wagner, co-starring Laurence Olivier, John Gielgud and Ralph Richardson.[13] In 1985, he starred in the acclaimed political thriller Defence of the Realm, though he subsequently claimed he had been upstaged by his co-star, veteran actor Denholm Elliott: "I amended the actor's cliché to 'Never work with children, animals or Denholm Elliott'."[14] In the 90s, his production company Plurabelle Films received a first look deal with Phoenix Pictures.[15]

In 2007, he led the jury of the Kerry Film Festival.[16]

Upon his return to theatre in 2008, he appeared as King Arthur in Camelot with the New York Philharmonic from 7 to 10 May, following the footsteps of veteran actors Richard Burton and Richard Harris. Byrne was cast in a film adaptation of Flann O'Brien's metafictional novel At Swim-Two-Birds, alongside Colin Farrell and Cillian Murphy. Actor Brendan Gleeson was set to direct the film.[17] In October 2009, however, Gleeson expressed fear that, should the Irish Film Board be abolished as planned by the Irish State, the production might fall through.[18]

Byrne starred as therapist Paul Weston in the HBO series In Treatment from 2008 to 2010. He was named as TV's "latest Dr. McDreamy" by The New York Times[19] for this role, and won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Drama Series in 2008. He also received his first Emmy Award nomination (Best Lead Actor in a Drama Series) for the 60th Primetime Emmy Awards that same year.^{[citation needed]}

In 2011, he signed up to appear in a film by director Costa-Gavras, Le Capital,[20] an adaptation of Stéphane Osmont's novel of the same name. In 2013, he starred as Earl Haraldson in the first season of Vikings opposite Travis Fimmel and Clive Standen.^{[citation needed]}

In 2017, he appeared in Mad to Be Normal (previously titled Metanoia), a biopic of the Scottish psychiatrist R. D. Laing, produced by Gizmo Films.[21]

Walking With Ghosts, Byrne's one-man show based on his memoir of the same title (published by Grove Press in January 2021), opened on 26 October, 2022 at the Music Box Theatre on Broadway.[22]

Personal life

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Byrne had a 12-year relationship with television producer and presenter Aine O'Connor, from 1974 to 1986.[23]

He began a relationship with actress Ellen Barkin, and relocated to Manhattan to be with her. A year later, in 1988, he married Barkin, with whom he has two children, John "Jack" Daniel (born 1989) and Romy Marion (born 1992). The couple separated amicably in 1993, and divorced in 1999.[24]

At the fifth Jameson Dublin International Film Festival in 2007, Byrne was presented with the first of the newly created Volta awards, for lifetime achievement in acting. He received the Honorary Patronage of the University Philosophical Society, of Trinity College Dublin on 20 February 2007. In November 2007, he was awarded an honorary degree by the National University of Ireland, Galway; the president of the university, Iognáid Ó Muircheartaigh, said that the award was in recognition of the actor's "outstanding contribution to Irish and international film".[25]

Although Byrne is noted as a fiercely private person, he released a documentary for the 20th Galway Film Fleadh in the summer of 2008 called Stories from Home, an intimate portrait about his life. It premiered in the United States in September 2009 at the Los Angeles Irish Film Festival.[26]

Byrne mentioned in interviews and his 1994 autobiography, Pictures in My Head that he hates being called "brooding". He has been listed by People as one of the "Sexiest Men Alive". Entertainment Weekly has also dubbed Byrne as one of the hottest celebrities over the age of 50.[27]

He married his partner, Hannah Beth King, on 4 August 2014 at Ballymaloe House in County Cork.[28] Their daughter, Maisie James, was born in February 2017.^{[citation needed]} As of 2021, Byrne lives with his family in Rockport, Maine.[29]

Byrne is an atheist, and has been vocally critical of the Catholic Church, which he described in a 2011 interview with The Guardian as "repressive of women and minorities and repressive of its followers." However, in the same interview, he said that he still reads the Bible "for the fables".[30]

He was cultural ambassador for Ireland until he criticised The Gathering, a tourism initiative to encourage tourists of Irish heritage to visit the country, describing it as "a scam" and adding that the majority of Irish people "don't give a shit about the diaspora except to shake them down for a few quid."[31] Byrne also criticised the marketing strategy employed by Guinness known as Arthur's Day as "a cynical piece of exercise in a country which has a huge drinking problem."[32]

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1978	On a Paving Stone Mounted[33]	Unknown
1981	Love Is ...	Larry
1981	Excalibur	Uther Pendragon
1983	Hanna K.	Joshua Herzog
1983	The Keep	Sturmbannfuhrer Erich Kaempffer
1984	Reflections	William Masters
1985	Defence of the Realm	Nick Mullen
1986	Gothic	Lord Byron
1987	Lionheart	The Black Prince
1987	Hello Again	Dr. Kevin Scanlon
1987	Julia and Julia	Paolo Vinci
1987	Siesta	Augustine
1988	The Courier	Val
1989	A Soldier's Tale	Saul
1989	Diamond Skulls	Lord Hugo Bruckton
1990	Miller's Crossing	Tom Reagan
1990	Shipwrecked	Lieutenant John Merrick
1992	Into the West	Papa Reilly	Also associate producer
1992	Cool World	Jack Deebs
1993	Point of No Return (also known as The Assassin)	Bob
1993	A Dangerous Woman	Colin Mackey
1993	In the Name of the Father	Unknown	Executive producer
1994	A Simple Twist of Fate	John Newland
1994	Trial by Jury	Daniel Graham
1994	Little Women	Professor Friedrich Bhaer
1994	Prince of Jutland	Fenge
1995	The Usual Suspects	Dean Keaton / Keyser Söze (flashback)	National Board of Review Award for Best Cast
1995	Dead Man	Charlie Dickinson
1995	Frankie Starlight	Jack Kelly
1996	Mad Dog Time	Ben London
1996	The Last of the High Kings	Jack Griffin	Also writer and executive producer
1996	Somebody Is Waiting	Roger Ellis	Also executive producer
1996	Dr. Hagard's Disease	Unknown	Unreleased; also executive producer
1997	Smilla's Sense of Snow	The Mechanic
1997	The End of Violence	Ray Bering
1997	This Is the Sea	Rohan
1998	Polish Wedding	Bolek
1998	The Man in the Iron Mask	D'Artagnan
1998	The Brylcreem Boys	Sean O'Brien	Also co-producer
1998	Quest for Camelot	Sir Lionel	Voice
1998	Enemy of the State	NSA Agent Fake Brill
1999	Stigmata	Father Andrew Kiernan	Nominated—Blockbuster Entertainment Award for Favorite Supporting Actor – Horror Nominated—Razzie Award for Worst Supporting Actor
1999	End of Days	The Man / Satan	Nominated—Razzie Award for Worst Supporting Actor
2000	Canone inverso	The Violinist ('Jeno Varga')
2000	Mad About Mambo	Unknown	Also executive producer
2002	Virginia's Run	Ford Lofton
2002	Spider	Bill Cleg
2002	Emmett's Mark	Jack Marlow / Stephen Bracken
2002	Horses: The Story of Equus	Narrator (voice)
2002	Ghost Ship	Captain Sean Murphy
2003	Shade	Charlie Miller
2003	Flight from Death	Narrator (voice)
2004	Vanity Fair	The Marquess of Steyne
2004	P.S.	Peter Harrington
2004	The Bridge of San Luis Rey	Brother Juniper
2005	Assault on Precinct 13	Captain Marcus Duvall
2005	Wah-Wah	Harry Compton
2006	Played	Eddie
2006	Jindabyne	Stewart Kane	Nominated—Australian Film Institute Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role
2007	Emotional Arithmetic	Christopher Lewis
2008	2:22	Detective Swain	Uncredited
2009	Butte, America	Narrator	Voice Documentary
2009	Perrier's Bounty	The Reaper	Voice
2009	Leningrad	Phillip Parker
2012	Le Capital	Dittmar Rigule
2012	I, Anna	Detective Bernie Reid
2013	Just a Sigh (Le Temps de l'aventure)	Doug
2013	All Things to All Men	Joseph Corsco
2014	Vampire Academy	Victor Dashkov
2015	The 33	André Sougarret
2015	Louder Than Bombs	Gene Reed
2015	Nobody Wants the Night	Bram Trevor
2016	Carrie Pilby	Mr. Daniel Pilby
2016	No Pay, Nudity	Lawrence Rose
2017	Mad to Be Normal	Jim
2017	Lies We Tell	Donald
2018	In the Cloud	Doc Wolff
2018	An L.A. Minute	Ted Gold
2018	Hereditary	Steve Graham	Also executive producer
2018	Atlantic Salmon: Lost at Sea	Narrator (voice)
2020	Lost Girls	Richard Dormer
2020	Death of a Ladies' Man	Samuel O'Shea
2022	Murder at Yellowstone City	Sheriff James Ambrose
2022	Lamborghini: The Man Behind the Legend	Enzo Ferrari
2022	The Boy, The Mole, The Fox And The Horse	The Horse (voice)	Short film

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1978–1979	The Riordans	Pat Barry	Drama series
1980–1982	Bracken	Pat Barry	Drama series
1981	Strangers	Johnny Maguire	Episode: "The Flowers of Edinburgh"
1981	The Search for Alexander the Great	Ptolemy	4 episodes
1982	Joyce in June	Keogh / Blazes Boylan	Television film
1983	Wagner	Karl Ritter	3 episodes
1985	Christopher Columbus	Christopher Columbus	4 episodes
1985	Mussolini: The Untold Story	Vittorio Mussolini	6 episodes
1993	Intimate Portrait	Narrator (voice)	Episode: "Kim Cattrall"
1994	Screen Two	The Good Thief	Episode: "All Things Bright and Beautiful"
1995	Buffalo Girls	Teddy Blue	Television film
1995	Saturday Night Live	Himself / Various Characters	Episode: "Gabriel Byrne/Alanis Morissette"
1996	Draíocht	Father	Television film
1997	Glenroe	Pat Barry	Episode: "Miley's New Bullock"
1997	Weapons of Mass Distraction	Lionel Powers	Television film Nominated—Satellite Award for Best Actor – Miniseries or Television Film
2000	Madigan Men	Ben Madigan	12 episodes; also co-executive producer
2008–2010	In Treatment	Dr. Paul Weston	106 episodes Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Television Series Drama Nominated—Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series (2008–09) Nominated—Satellite Award for Best Actor – Television Series Drama (2008–09)
2012	Secret State	Tom Dawkins	4 episodes
2013	Vikings	Earl Haraldson	6 episodes
2014	Quirke	Quirke	3 episodes
2016	Marco Polo	Pope Gregory X	Episode: "Let God's Work Begin"
2018	Maniac	Porter Milgrim	5 episodes
2019–2022	The War of the Worlds	Bill Ward	24 episodes
2020	ZeroZeroZero	Edward Lynwood	2 episodes

Stage

Year	Title	Role	Theatre	Notes
2000	A Moon for the Misbegotten	James 'Jim' Tyrone, Jr.	Walter Kerr Theatre (Broadway)	Nominated for a Tony Award (Best Actor in a Play) and Drama Desk Award (Outstanding Actor in a Play); Winner of the Theatre World Award
2002	The Exonerated	Kerry Max Cook	Bleecker Street Theatre (Off-Broadway)	Replacement[34]
2005	A Touch of the Poet	Cornelius Melody	Studio 54 (Broadway)	Winner of the Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Actor in a Play
2008	Camelot	King Arthur	Avery Fisher Hall	Performance for the New York Philharmonic's annual musical event from 7–10 May 2008
2016	Long Day's Journey into Night	James Tyrone	American Airlines Theatre (Broadway)	Nominated for a Tony Award (Best Actor in a Play)

Awards and nominations

Year	Event	Category	Outcome	Notes
1979	Jacob's Awards	Jacob's Award for Best Actor in a TV Series (Drama)	Won	For Bracken
1987	Fantasporto	International Fantasy Film Award for Best Actor	Won	For Gothic and Defence of the Realm
1995	National Board of Review of Motion Pictures	NBR Award for Best Acting by an Ensemble	Won	For The Usual Suspects
1998	Satellite Awards	Golden Satellite Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television	Nominated	For Weapons of Mass Distraction
	Grammy Awards	Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album (Children)	Nominated	For The Star-Child and The Nightingale and the Rose (Oscar Wilde)
1999	Cinequest Film Festival	Maverick Tribute Award	Won
2000	Theatre World Awards	Theatre World Award for Acting	Won	For A Moon for the Misbegotten
	Tony Awards	Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play	Nominated
	Razzie Awards	Razzie Award for Worst Supporting Actor	Nominated	For End of Days and Stigmata
	Blockbuster Entertainment Awards	Blockbuster Entertainment Award for Favourite Actor (Horror)	Nominated	For Stigmata
2005	Irish Film and Television Awards	IFTA Award for Best Lead Actor in a Feature Film	Nominated	For Wah-Wah
2006	Inside Film Awards	IF Award for Best Actor	Nominated	For Jindabyne
	Australian Film Institute Awards	AFI Award for Best Lead Actor	Nominated
	Outer Critics Circle Awards	Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Actor in a Play	Won	For A Touch of the Poet
2007	Jameson Dublin International Film Festival	Volta Award for Lifetime Achievement in Acting	Won	This was the first year for the presentation of the award.
2008	Irish Film and Television Awards	IFTA Award for Best Lead Actor in a Feature Film	Nominated	For Jindabyne
	Primetime Emmy Awards	Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series	Nominated	For In Treatment
	Dingle International Film Festival	Gregory Peck Excellence in the Art of Film Award	Awarded	This is the first year for the presentation of the award, which was named in honour of the late Gregory Peck.
	Golden Globe Awards	Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series – Drama	Won	For In Treatment
	Satellite Awards	Golden Satellite Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series – Drama	Nominated
2009	Primetime Emmy Awards	Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series	Nominated
2016	Tony Awards	Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play	Nominated	For Long Day's Journey into Night
2018	Irish Film and Television Awards	Lifetime Achievement Award	Awarded	For his contribution to cinema
2021		Best Actor in a Leading Role - Film	Won	For Death of a Ladies' Man

Honours

In 2007, NUI Galway awarded him an honorary doctorate for his outstanding contribution to Irish and international film, theatre and the arts.^{[citation needed]}

Books

• Pictures in My Head. Dublin: Wolfhound Press Ltd. 1994. ISBN 978-0-86327-462-6.
• Walking with Ghosts: A Memoir. New York: Grove Press. 2021. ISBN 978-0-8021-5712-6.

In his book 'Walking With Ghosts' Gabriel claims that Margaret Thatcher abolished school milk. But the matter is politically controversial, as Conservatives claim the process was started by the previous P.M., Harold Wilson from Labour.^{[citation needed]}

References

Further reading

• Barton, Ruth (May 2006). Acting Irish in Hollywood: from Fitzgerald to Farrell. Dublin: Irish Academic Press. pp. 163–179. ISBN 978-0-7165-3343-6. OCLC 70173129.
• Byrne, Gabriel (1995). Pictures in My Head. Boulder, Colombia: Roberts Rinehart. ISBN 978-1-57098-046-6. OCLC 33180598.
• Grunert, Andrea (2006). "La lumière derrière le masque : une approche du jeu de Gabriel Byrne". In Starfield, Penny (ed.). Masque et lumière (in French). Corlet: Corlet éditions Diffusion. pp. 222–229. ISBN 978-2-84706-122-2. OCLC 492099503.
• O'Connor, Áine (1996). Leading Hollywood: Gabriel Byrne, Liam Neeson, Aidan Quinn, Stephen Rea, Patrick Bergin, Pierce Brosnan. Dublin: Wolfhound Press. ISBN 978-0-86327-555-5. OCLC 605650228.
• O'Connor, Áine (1997). Hollywood Irish: In Their Own Words; Illustrated Interviews with Gabriel Byrne, Liam Neeson, Pierce Brosnan, Stephen Rea, Aidan Quinn and Patrick Bergin. Boulder, Colombia: Roberts Rinehart. ISBN 978-1-57098-109-8. OCLC 36919802.

External links

• Gabriel Byrne at IMDb
• Gabriel Byrne at the Internet Broadway Database
• Gabriel Byrne at the BFI's Screenonline
• "Star Bio's: Gabriel Byrne". Archived from the original on 13 March 2007.
• Gabriel Byrne profile, artforamnesty.org; accessed 11 August 2017
• Gabriel Byrne video interview, jewreview.net; accessed 11 August 2017
• Gabriel Byrne discusses his role on In Treatment, npr.org, 30 May 2009
• Gabriel Byrne tells of childhood sexual abuse, Guardian.co.uk, 19 January 2010

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[de] Gabriel Byrne

Gabriel Byrne (* 12. Mai 1950 in Dublin, Irland) ist ein irischer Filmschauspieler.

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- [en] Gabriel Byrne

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[es] Gabriel Byrne

Gabriel James Byrne (Dublín; 12 de mayo de 1950) es un actor irlandés.

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[ru] Бирн, Гэбриэл

Гэ́бриэл Джеймс Бирн[4] (англ. Gabriel James Byrne; род. 12 мая 1950 года, Дублин, Ирландия) — ирландский актёр театра, кино и телевидения. Лауреат премии «Золотой глобус»[5].

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