“I went down to London during a break and we got on the bus and I walked up the stairs behind two girls in miniskirts and that was the end of it for me,”
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Gabriel Byrne
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…
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entertainment · Irish actor (born 1950) · film director · film producer · screenwriter · stage actor · film actor · author · writer · actor · television actor · also Gabriel Byrne, Gabriel James Byrne, Byrne
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There is this plague of binge drinking, where the idea is to get as out of it as you possibly can, as quick as you can. That
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2026· 3 entries
“There is this plague of binge drinking, where the idea is to get as out of it as you possibly can, as quick as you can. That”
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The Guardian: 45 Years review – Gabriel Byrne and Geraldine James mark an anniversary for the ages
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2023· 3 entries
The Guardian: Dance First review – the two faces of Samuel Beckett with Gabriel Byrne
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The Guardian: ‘A lot of biopics depend on likeness – this is braver’: Gabriel Byrne on playing Samuel Beckett
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The Guardian: Julian Sands had the heart of a child-man in which scorpions and bluebirds nested | Gabriel Byrne
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2022· 3 entries
The Guardian: Death of a Ladies’ Man review – Gabriel Byrne charms in Philip Roth style dramedy
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The Guardian: Gabriel Byrne ‘I was never not conscious of being Irish’
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The Guardian: Walking With Ghosts review – Gabriel Byrne’s trip down Dublin’s memory lanes
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2021· 2 entries
The Guardian: Gabriel Byrne: ‘I’ve never played Hamlet, but in many ways I am him’
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As of 2021, Byrne lives with his family in Rockport, Maine.
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2020· 2 entries
The Guardian: Walking With Ghosts by Gabriel Byrne review – an elegy for Ireland
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The Guardian: Gabriel Byrne: 'There’s a shame about men speaking out. A sense that if you were abused, it was your fault'
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2018· 2 entries
And was listed at number 17 on The Irish Times list of Ireland's greatest film actors in 2020
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Byrne starred in filmmaker Ari Aster's feature debut Hereditary as Steve, the husband and father in a family experiencing occult disturbances following the death of his mother-in-law
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2017· 1 entry
Byrne appeared in Mad to Be Normal (previously titled Metanoia), a biopic of the Scottish psychiatrist R
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2011· 1 entry
Byrne signed up to appear in a film by director Costa-Gavras, Le Capital, an adaptation of Stéphane Osmont's novel of the same name
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2009· 1 entry
The Guardian named him one of the best actors never to have received an Academy Award nomination
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2008· 1 entry
Byrne 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
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2007· 3 entries
Byrne was presented with the first of the new Volta awards, for lifetime achievement in acting
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Byrne led the jury of the Kerry Film Festival
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NUI Galway awarded him an honorary doctorate for his outstanding contribution to Irish and international film, theatre and the arts
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2002· 1 entry
Released album “’Twas the Night Before Christmas”.
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2000· 1 entry
Awarded Theatre World Award (2000).
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1995· 1 entry
Byrne starred as one of the main characters, Dean Keaton, in the crime thriller The Usual Suspects, written by Christopher McQuarrie and directed by Bryan Singer
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1990· 1 entry
Byrne starred as the protagonist Tom Reagan in the Coen Brothers 1929-set film Miller's Crossing, in which his character serves as an advisor to a crime boss while trying to keep the peace between the Irish and Italian m
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1988· 1 entry
Married Barkin, with whom he has two children
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1985· 1 entry
Starred in the acclaimed political thriller Defence of the Realm, though he subsequently said he had been upstaged by his co-star, veteran actor Denholm Elliott: "I amended the actor's cliché to 'Never work with child
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1983· 1 entry
Byrne appeared with Richard Burton in the miniseries Wagner, co-starring Laurence Olivier, John Gielgud and Ralph Richardson
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1981· 1 entry
As King Uther Pendragon in John Boorman's King Arthur epic, Excalibur
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1974· 1 entry
Byrne had a 12-year relationship with television producer and presenter Aine O'Connor, from 1974 to 1986.
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1973· 1 entry
“I spent five years in the seminary and I suppose it was assumed that one had a vocation. I realised subsequently that I didn”
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1972· 1 entry
Becoming proficient in the Irish language
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1950· 1 entry
Born 1950-05-12.
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