Gabriel James Byrne\u00a0(born 12 May 1950)\u00a0is an Irish actor. He has received a\u00a0Golden Globe Award and nominations for a\u00a0Grammy Award, two\u00a0Primetime Emmy Awards\u00a0and two\u00a0Tony Awards. Byrne was awarded the\u00a0Irish Film and Television Academy\u00a0Lifetime Achievement Award in 2018 and was listed at number 17 on\u00a0The Irish Times\u00a0list of Ireland’s greatest film actors in 2020.\u00a0In 2009,\u00a0The Guardian\u00a0named him one of the best actors who never received an\u00a0Academy Award\u00a0nomination.<\/p>\n
Byrne’s acting career began at the\u00a0Focus Theatre in Dublin before he joined London’s\u00a0Royal Court Theatre\u00a0in 1974. His screen debut came in the Irish drama serial\u00a0The Riordans\u00a0and the spin-off show\u00a0Bracken. He went on to star in such films as\u00a0Defence of the Realm\u00a0(1986),\u00a0Lionheart\u00a0(1987),\u00a0Miller’s Crossing\u00a0(1990),\u00a0Little Women\u00a0(1994),\u00a0Dead Man\u00a0(1995),\u00a0The Usual Suspects\u00a0(1995),\u00a0The Man in the Iron Mask\u00a0(1998),\u00a0Enemy of the State (1998),\u00a0Vanity Fair\u00a0(2004),\u00a0The 33\u00a0(2015), and\u00a0Hereditary\u00a0(2018). He co-wrote\u00a0The Last of the High Kings\u00a0(1996) and produced\u00a0In the Name of the Father\u00a0(1993).\u00a0<\/p>\n
For his\u00a0Broadway\u00a0work, Byrne has received two nominations for the\u00a0Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play\u00a0for his roles in the\u00a0Eugene O’Neill\u00a0plays\u00a0A Moon for the Misbegotten\u00a0(2000) and\u00a0Long Day’s Journey into Night\u00a0(2016). For his television work, Byrne has received two nominations for the\u00a0Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series\u00a0for his role as\u00a0Paul Weston\u00a0in the\u00a0HBO\u00a0drama series\u00a0In Treatment\u00a0(2008\u20132010). He also received a\u00a0Golden Globe Award. His other notable television roles include\u00a0Vikings\u00a0(2013),\u00a0Maniac\u00a0(2018), and\u00a0War of the Worlds\u00a0(2019\u20132022).<\/p>\n
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Gabriel James Byrne\u00a0(born 12 May 1950)\u00a0is an Irish actor. He has received a\u00a0Golden Globe Award and nominations for a\u00a0Grammy Award, two\u00a0Primetime Emmy Awards\u00a0and two\u00a0Tony Awards. Byrne was awarded the\u00a0Irish Film and Television Academy\u00a0Lifetime Achievement Award in 2018 and was listed at number 17 on\u00a0The Irish Times\u00a0list of Ireland’s greatest film actors in 2020.\u00a0In 2009,\u00a0The Guardian\u00a0named […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-26679","movie_engine_person","type-movie_engine_person","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"\n