Gabriel Byrne

Biography

Byrne was the first of six children, born in Dublin, Ireland.

His father was a cooper and his mother a hospital worker.

He was raised Catholic and educated by the Irish Christian Brothers.

He spent five years of his childhood in a seminary training to be a Catholic priest.

He later said, "I spent five years in the seminary and I suppose it was assumed that you had a vocation.

I have realized subsequently that I didn't have one at all.

I don't believe in God.

But I did believe at the time in this notion that you were being called.

" He attended University College Dublin, where he studied archeology and linguistics, and became proficient in Irish.

He played football.

In his return to theater in 2008, he appeared as King Arthur in Lerner and Loewe's Camelot with the New York Philharmonic which was featured in a PBS broadcast in the Live From Lincoln Center series in May of 2008.

Byrne did not visit America until he was 37.

In 1988, Byrne married actress Ellen Barkin with whom he has two children.

The couple separated amicably in 1993 and divorced in 1999.

Byrne resides in Brooklyn, New York.

In November 2004, Byrne was appointed a UNICEF Ireland Ambassador.

In 2007 Byrne was presented with the first of the newly created Volta awards at the 5th Jameson Dublin International Film Festival.

This was for lifetime achievement in acting.

He also received the Honorary Patronage of the University Philosophical Society, of Trinity College, Dublin on February 20, 2007.

He was awarded an honorary degree in late 2007 by the National University of Ireland, Galway, in recognition of Byrne's "outstanding contribution to Irish and international film".

Country: Ireland
Gender: Male
Education: University College Dublin
Place of birth: Dublin
Birth date: 12 May 1950
Member of: Stella Maris F.C.
Nationality: Irish

Theatre World Award

Has a son, Jack Daniel, born 1989; and a daughter, Romy Marion, born 1992.
Started acting at the age of 29 and he went to America for the first time when he was 37.
Before becoming an actor, he was an archaelogist, a schoolteacher, a short-order cook, and a bullfighter.
In a November 1999 interview with the New York Post, he claimed to have been molested by his Latin teacher while at an English seminary preparing for priesthood.
He went from a priest in Stigmata to Satan in End of Days .
Educated by the Christian Brothers in Dublin.
Was nominated for Broadways 2000 Tony Award as Best Actor (Play) for a revival of Eugene ONeill s "A Moon for the Misbegotten.
Although he separated from Ellen Barkin in 1993, he did not file for divorce until May 1999.
Has appeared in 3 roles romantically opposite Laura Linney, "A Simple Twist of Fate," "P.S.
Older brother of Donal, Thomas, Breda, Margaret and Marian (deceased).

[on dealing with depression] - A single negative thought begins in your,head. That single negative thought interacts with another negative,thought and becomes a reality.
[on being beaten in school, specifically in math class] - I feared being,beaten, and I was beaten very regularly. It did affect my sense of,myself.

Movies

Hamlet Revenant
2020
A modern-day version of Shakespeare's 'Hamlet', which explores a young man's psyche as he contemplates avenging his father's death..
Death of a Ladies' Man
2020
An L.A. Minute
2018
Best-selling author Ted Gold faces a moral dilemma when Velocity, an avant-garde performance artist and the living embodiment of integrity, rocks his 1% world..
In the Cloud
2018
To stop a terrorist bomber, two estranged tech geniuses (Justin Chatwin, Tomiwa Edun) reunite after the death of their mentor (Gabriel Byrne) to devise a VR technology to extract the terrorist’s memories.
Hereditary
2018
Hereditary is a 2018 American supernatural horror tragedy film written and directed by Ari Aster, in his feature film directorial debut.
Atlantic Salmon: Lost at Sea
2018
An epic journey through the oceanic kingdom of the Atlantic Salmon in an attempt to unravel the mystery of their life at sea.
Lies We Tell
2016
A trusted driver must deal with his dead boss's Muslim mistress, her dark past pulling him into a life-and-death showdown with her notorious gangster cousin/ex-husband..
Metanoia
2016
The story of Scottish psychiatrist RD Laing and his unique community at Kingsley Hall, East London in the 1960s..
Louder Than Bombs
2015
An upcoming exhibition celebrating photographer Isabelle Reed three years after her untimely death, brings her eldest son Jonah back to the family house - forcing him to spend more time with his father Gene and withdrawn younger brother Conrad than he has in years.
Nobody Wants the Night
2015
Josephine (Binoche) travels to the hostile icy landscape of the remote North in search of her explorer husband.
No Pay, Nudity
2015
Aging actor Lester Rosenthal (Gabriel Byrne), who has lost his way with his career, with his family, and with his friends (Nathan Lane, Frances Conroy, & Boyd Gaines) finds out that the way out is through..
Oak
2015
Two kids in a small town use music to overcome their predetermined paths..
Vampire Academy
2014
Vampire Academy (also known as Vampire Academy: Blood Sisters) is a 2014 American satirical fantasy horror film based on Richelle Mead's 2007 best-selling novel of the same name, directed by Mark Waters, and scripted by Daniel Waters.
Behind the Sword in the Stone
2014
A documentary about the making of John Boorman's epic film 'Excalibur'..
Michael Des Barres: Who Do You Want Me to Be?
2014
The son of a junkie aristocrat and a schizophrenic showgirl becomes a master of reinvention on a 50+ year journey through rock and roll, TV, and movies..
All Things to All Men
2013
A thief is caught up in a deadly game of cat-and-mouse between a maverick cop and London crime boss..
Just a Sigh
2013
Alix and Doug were not supposed to meet, but they did.
Danny Boy: The Ballad That Bewitched the World
2013
An examination on the enduring appeal of the Irish ballad "Danny Boy" on the 100th anniversary of its publication..
I, Anna
2012
A noir thriller told from the point of view of a femme fatale, who falls for the detective in charge of a murder case..
Capital
2012
When the CEO of France's Phenix Bank collapses on the golf course, Machiavellian young executive Marc Tourneuil is crowned as his replacement.
Dreaming the Quiet Man
2010
Dreaming the Quiet Man’ includes interviews with aficionados of Ford like, Martin, Scorsese, Peter Bogdanovicz, Jim Sheridan, William Dowling, and Joe McBride.
Leningrad
2009
When in 1941 Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union, their troops quickly besieged Leningrad.
Perrier's Bounty
2009
Michael McCrea (Cillian Murphy), a perpetual waster, has passed out during the afternoon.
Gabriel Byrne: Stories from Home
2008
Still Birth Chicken
2008
A starving artist struggles to not eat the subject of his still life..
Emotional Arithmetic
2007
Semi-retired university professor David Winters and his wife and former student Melanie Winters née Lansing live on a hobby farm in the Eastern Townships of Quebec with their adult son Benjamin Winters and Benjamin's son, Timothy Winters.
Played
2006
An examination of the malevolent London underworld with its despicable criminal underground.
Assault on Precinct 13
2005
Assault on Precinct 13 is a 2005 action thriller film directed by Jean-François Richet, starring Ethan Hawke and Laurence Fishburne.
Wah-Wah
2005
Wah-Wah is a 2005 drama film, written and directed by British actor Richard E.
Riverdance: The Ten Years
2005
Vanity Fair
2004
The British Empire flowers; exotic India colors English imaginations.
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
2004
In early 19th Century Peru an old Inca rope bridge collapses, plunging five travelers to their deaths in the Andean chasm below.
P.S.
2004
Louise Harrington, a divorced, thirty-something admissions officer at Columbia University's School of Fine Arts is intelligent, pretty, and successful, yet unfulfilled.
Patrick
2004
A fascinating story of the truth behind the legend and history of St Patrick.
Flight from Death: The Quest for Immortality
2003
Narrated by Gabriel Byrne (Usual Suspects, Vanity Fair, Miller's Crossing), this seven-time Best Documentary award-winning film (Silver Lake Film Festival, Beverly Hills Film Festival) is the most comprehensive and mind-blowing investigation of humankind's relationship with death ever captured on film.
Spider
2002
Dennis Clegg is in his thirties and lives in a halfway house for the mentally ill in London.
Ghost Ship
2002
After discovering a passenger ship missing since 1962 floating adrift on the Bering Sea, salvagers claim the vessel as their own.
Virginia's Run
2002
Canadian lobster fisher Ford Lofton's wife Deborah dies from a fall riding neighbor Blake Raines's horse Twister.
Horses: The Story of Equus
2002
This is the story of three horses born on the same night and charts their life stories.
Keyser Söze: Lie or Legend?
2002
Featurette in which director Bryan Singer tells more about the mysterious criminal Keyser Soze..
Round Up: Deposing 'The Usual Suspects'
2002
Canone inverso - Making Love
2000
Costanza is drinking a beer in a Prague pub, a summer night in 1968, while a violinist enters and starts playing a "canone inverso" for her.
End of Days: The Beginning
2000
A promotional making-of documentary for the film End of Days (1999).
Stigmata
1999
A priest from the Vatican is sent to Sao Paulo, Brazil to investigate the appearance of the face of the Virgin Mary on the side of a building.
End of Days
1999
On December 28th, 1999, the citizens of New York City are getting ready for the turn of the millennium.
Divine Rites: The Story of Stigmata
1999
A promotional documentary on the movie Stigmata (1999) which, apart from the usual cast and crew interviews, includes info on real cases of stigmata, such like the one of Padre Pio di Pietrelcina..
The Brylcreem Boys
1998
During World War II, all Allied and Axis service personnel that end up in Ireland are to be interned for the duration of the conflict.
Pirates
1998
Discovery examines the history of "Golden age of Piracy.
This Is the Sea
1997
The film is set in Northern Ireland shortly after 1994 cease-fire.
Weapons of Mass Distraction
1997
Two media moguls vie for ownership of a pro football team, at first they play by their own rules of fair game but then it gets dirty.
Dr Hagard's Disease
1996
Draiocht
1996
The Last of the High Kings
1996
It is 1977, Dublin rocks to the music of Thin Lizzy and the world is stunned by the death of Elvis Presley.
Mad Dog Time
1996
With his boss in the madhouse, a mobster is temporary boss of the criminal empire just as vicious rivals threaten the control of the empire..
Somebody Is Waiting
1996
An alcoholic father must take control of his wayward children when their mother is killed..
Past Into Present
1996
The 18th Annual CableACE Awards
1996
Out of Ireland
1995
Traces the history of Irish immigration to the United States, following the stories of several families and their journeys to America, including where they ended up..
Buffalo Girls
1995
Wild.
Frankie Starlight
1995
This is a story of a man (Walker), suffering from dwarfism, who writes an autobiographical account of his life.

TV

Quirke
2013
A chief pathologist in the Dublin city morgue investigates sudden death victims in the 1950s..
Secret State
2012
Secret State explores the relationship between a democratically elected government, big business and the banks..
In Treatment
2008
A psychotherapist questions his abilities and gets help by reuniting with his old therapist, whom he has not seen for ten years..
Madigan Men
2000
Irishman Benjamin Madigan is a successful New York architect, recently divorced, who tries to get back into the dating scene with help from teenage son Luke.
Christopher Columbus
1985
The epic mini-series tells the story of the legendary Italian-born explorer Diego de Geona Taino, later known as Christopher Columbus, from his birth in c.
Bracken
1980

Books

Walking with Ghosts
Gabriel Byrne
A highly anticipated memoir by gabriel byrne, the award-winning star of over 80 films, walking with ghosts is an exquisite portrait of an irish childhood and a remarkable journey to hollywood and broadway success.
Walking with Ghosts
Gabriel Byrne
A highly anticipated memoir by gabriel byrne, the award-winning star of over 80 films, walking with ghosts is an exquisite portrait of an irish childhood and a remarkable journey to hollywood and broadway success.
Walking with Ghosts
Gabriel Byrne
A highly anticipated memoir by gabriel byrne, the award-winning star of over 80 films, walking with ghosts is an exquisite portrait of an irish childhood and a remarkable journey to hollywood and broadway success.
Spider
Gabriel Byrne
I cut into my potato, and dead in the middle of the halved potato there was a .
Pictures in My Head
Gabriel Byrne
Pictures UN My Head
Gabriel Byrne
An intimate account of the life of the dublin-born actor, byrne leads the listener from his youth in dublin, through his career on stage and screen, to his current work as producer and actor.
The New Yorker
Gabriel Byrne
Myths & Tales of Ancient Ireland
Gabriel Byrne
Pictures in my head
Gabriel Byrne
An intimate account of the life of the dublin-born actor, byrne leads the listener from his youth in dublin, through his career on stage and screen, to his current work as producer and actor.
Pictures in my head
Gabriel Byrne
An intimate account of the life of the dublin-born actor, byrne leads the listener from his youth in dublin, through his career on stage and screen, to his current work as producer and actor.
Pictures in my head
Gabriel Byrne
An intimate account of the life of the dublin-born actor, byrne leads the listener from his youth in dublin, through his career on stage and screen, to his current work as producer and actor.
The Edge of Strange Hollow
Gabrielle K. Byrne
Welcome to strange hollow.
Edge of Strange Hollow
Gabrielle K. Byrne
Rise of the Dragon Moon
Gabrielle K. Byrne
The ice never forgives.
Rise of the Dragon Moon
Gabrielle K. Byrne
The ice never forgives.

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