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Name: Gabriel Byrne
Birthplace: Dublin, Ireland
Birthdate: May 12, 1950
Eyes: Blue
Hair: Black
Height: 5'11"

Best Known as: Dean Keaton in The Usual Suspects

This handsome, brooding actor originally considered becoming a missionary when he was just a boy, but after some time in a seminary he was thrown out for smoking. Gabriel Byrne 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.

Filmography:
Played (2007) (filming)
Leningrad (2006) (filming) Phillip Parker
Jindabyne (2005) (filming)
The Namesake (2006) (post-production)
Wah-Wah (2005) (completed) Harry Compton
Assault on Precinct 13 (2005) Marcus Duvall
The Bridge of San Luis Rey (2004) Brother Juniper
P.S. (2004) Peter Harrington
Vanity Fair (2004) The Marquess of Steyne
Shade (2003) Charlie Miller
Ghost Ship (2002) Captain Sean Murphy
Emmett's Mark (2002) Jack Marlow/Stephen Bracken
... aka Killing Emmett Young (USA: video title)
Spider (2002) Bill Cleg
Virginia's Run (2002) Ford Lofton
"Madigan Men" (2000) TV Series Benjamin Madigan
When Brendan Met Trudy (2000) Special Appearance
Canone inverso - making love (2000) The Violinist
End of Days (1999) The Man/Satan
Stigmata (1999) Father Andrew Kiernan
Enemy of the State (1998) Fake Brill
Quest for Camelot (1998) (voice) Sir Lionel
The Brylcreem Boys (1998) Sean O'Brien
The Man in the Iron Mask (1998) Capt. D'Artagnan
Polish Wedding (1998) Bolek
This Is the Sea (1997) Rohan
Weapons of Mass Distraction (1997) (TV) Lionel Powers
The End of Violence (1997) Ray Bering
Irish Cinema: Ourselves Alone? (1997) (voice) Narrator
Smilla's Sense of Snow (1997) The Mechanic
Somebody Is Waiting (1996) Roger Ellis
The Last of the High Kings (1996) Jack Griffin
... aka Summer Fling (USA: video title)
Mad Dog Time (1996) Ben London
... aka Trigger Happy (video title)
Draiocht (1996) (TV)
Dr Hagard's Disease (1996)
Frankie Starlight (1995) Jack Kelly
The Usual Suspects (1995) Dean Keaton
Dead Man (1995) Charles Ludlow 'Charlie' Dickinson
Buffalo Girls (1995) (TV) Teddy Blue
Little Women (1994) Friedrich Bhaer
Trial by Jury (1994) Daniel Graham
A Simple Twist of Fate (1994) John Newland
Prince of Jutland (1994) Fenge
... aka Royal Deceit (USA)
All Things Bright and Beautiful (1994) The Good Thief
A Dangerous Woman (1993) Mackey
Point of No Return (1993) Bob
Cool World (1992) Jack Deebs
Into the West (1992) Papa Reilly
Haakon Haakonsen (1990) Lt. John Merrick
... aka Shipwrecked (International: English title)
Miller's Crossing (1990) Tom Reagan
Diamond Skulls (1989) Hugo
... aka Dark Obsession (USA)
A Soldier's Tale (1988) Saul
The Courier (1988) Val
Siesta (1987) Augustine
Hello Again (1987) Kevin Scanlon
Giulia e Giulia (1987) Paolo Vinci
... aka Julia and Julia (USA)
Lionheart (1987) Black Prince
Gothic (1986) Byron
"Mussolini: The Untold Story" (1985) (mini) TV Series Vittorio Mussolini
"Christopher Columbus" (1985) (mini) TV Series Christopher Columbus
Defence of the Realm (1985) Nicholas 'Nick' Mullen
Reflections (1984) William Masters
"Wagner" (1983) (mini) TV Series Karl Ritter
The Keep (1983) Major Kaempffer
Hanna K. (1983) Joshua Herzog
The Rocking Horse Winner (1983) Bassett
Joyce in June (1982) (TV) Keogh/Blazes Boylan
"The Search for Alexander the Great" (1981) (mini) TV Series Ptolemy
Excalibur (1981) Uther Pendragon
Treatment (1981) (TV)
"Bracken" (1978) TV Series Pat Barry
"The Riordans" (1965) TV Series Pat Barry

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