Gabriel Byrne

Gabriel Byrne

Actor (b. 1950)
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The ThumbScore for Gabriel Byrne (73.3%) is the average audience approval rating across 29 films. Each movie's ThumbScore represents the percentage of real audiences who rated it positively. A higher score means more of Gabriel's films are well-received by everyday viewers.

29
Movies
73.3%
Avg ThumbScore
Thriller
Top Genre

Audiences rate Gabriel Byrne’s films higher than 65% of the 3,467 people with 10 or more films on ThumbScore. See the full ranking

Free to watch now (26 Oct): Dead Man (Fandango at Home, Shout! TV, Plex, Tubi) · Excalibur (YouTube) · Stigmata (Plex, Tubi, Hoopla) · Point of No Return (YouTube) · Hereditary (YouTube, Fandango at Home, Xumo Play, Tubi, Kanopy, Hoopla) · Cool World (YouTube, Hoopla) and 5 more.

Frequent Collaborators

Kevin Pollak (2)John Neville (2)Mira Sorvino (2)Stephen Baldwin (1)Benicio del Toro (1)

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 of the best actors who never 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), Vanity Fair (2004), The 33 (2015), and Hereditary (2018). He co-wrote The Last of the High Kings (1996) and produced In the Name of the Father (1993). For his Broadway work, Byrne has received two nominations for the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play for his roles in the Eugene O'Neill plays A Moon for the Misbegotten (2000) and Long Day's Journey into Night (2016). For his television work, Byrne has received two nominations for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series for his role as Paul Weston in the HBO drama series In Treatment (2008–2010). He also received a Golden Globe Award. His other notable television roles include Vikings (2013), Maniac (2018), and War of the Worlds (2019–2022).

Born 1950-05-12 in Dublin, Ireland.

On ThumbScore, Gabriel Byrne appears in 29 films with an average audience score of 73.3%, most frequently in the Thriller genre.

Sources: TMDB

Every Gabriel Byrne movie, ranked by audience score

Ghost Ship
Ghost Ship
2002
👍 89%
End of Days
End of Days
1999
👍 88%
The Usual Suspects
The Usual Suspects
1995
👍 87%
The Man in the Iron Mask
The Man in the Iron Mask
1998
👍 85%
Enemy of the State
Enemy of the State
1998
👍 84%
Dead Man
Dead Man
1995
👍 84%
Excalibur
Excalibur
1981
👍 82%
Hello Again
Hello Again
1987
👍 79%
Little Women
Little Women
1994
👍 78%
Stigmata
Stigmata
1999
👍 76%
Point of No Return
Point of No Return
1993
👍 76%
Hereditary
Hereditary
2018
👍 75%
Cool World
Cool World
1992
👍 75%
Spider
Spider
2002
👍 74%
Ballerina
Ballerina
2025
👍 73%
Assault on Precinct 13
Assault on Precinct 13
2005
👍 72%
The Keep
The Keep
1983
👍 71%
Gothic
Gothic
1987
👍 70%
A Simple Twist of Fate
A Simple Twist of Fate
1994
👍 70%
Vampire Academy
Vampire Academy
2014
👍 69%
Lamborghini: The Man Behind the Legend
Lamborghini: The Man Behind the Legend
2022
👍 69%
Carrie Pilby
Carrie Pilby
2017
👍 69%
Smilla's Sense of Snow
Smilla's Sense of Snow
1997
👍 68%
Miller's Crossing
Miller's Crossing
1990
👍 67%
Shade
Shade
2003
👍 67%
Louder Than Bombs
Louder Than Bombs
2015
👍 66%
Vanity Fair
Vanity Fair
2004
👍 63%
Leningrad
Leningrad
2009
👍 54%
Lost Girls
Lost Girls
2020
👍 45%