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Gabriel Byrne

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Biography

In 1950, Gabriel Byrne was born in Dublin, Ireland, as the eldest of six children. His father worked for Guinness and built barrels until…more

Born

5/12/1950, Dublin, Ireland

Birth Name

Gabriel Byrne

Gender

Male

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Star (3)

Role
- In Treatment
  Paul Weston
  - S 2: Ep 35 Gina - Week Seven
    5/25/09
  - S 2: Ep 33 Oliver - Week Seven
    5/25/09
  - S 2: Ep 34 Walter - Week Seven
    5/25/09
  - S 2: Ep 31 Mia - Week Seven
    5/24/09
  - S 2: Ep 32 April - Week Seven
    5/24/09
  - + 73 More Credits
- The Tony Awards
  Himself (Presenter)
  - S 1: Ep 62 62nd Annual Tony Awards
    6/15/08
- Madigan Men
  Ben Madigan
  - S 1: Ep 9 Meet the Wolfes (a.k.a. Neighbors)
    12/15/00
  - S 1: Ep 8 The Kid's Alright
    12/8/00
  - S 1: Ep 7 Three Guys, a Girl and a Conversation Nook
    12/1/00
  - S 1: Ep 6 Love's Labor Lost
    11/10/00
  - S 1: Ep 5 Bachelors
    11/3/00
  - + 7 More Credits
Recurring Role (1)

Role
- Late Show with David Letterman
  Guest
  - S 8: Ep 22 Show #1480
    9/26/00
  - S 7: Ep 109 Show #1371
    3/20/00
  - S 5: Ep 183 Show #1045
    7/17/98
  - S 5: Ep 108 Show #0970
    3/3/98
  - S 3: Ep 50 Show #0489
    11/17/95
  - + 2 More Credits
Guest Star (8)

Role
- The Graham Norton Show
  Himself
  - S 2: Ep 2 Episode 21
    10/18/07
- The View
  Himself
  - S 6: Ep 55 November 19, 2002
    11/19/02
- Saturday Night Live
  Father
  - — Best of Molly Shannon
    3/20/01
- Inside the Actors Studio
  Himself
  - S 7: Ep 7 Gabriel Byrne
    3/4/01
- The Rosie O'Donnell Show
  Himself
  - S 4: Ep 125 Show #749
    3/23/00
- Saturday Night Live
  Himself
  - S 21: Ep 4 Gabriel Byrne/Alanis Morissette
    10/28/95
- Late Night With David Letterman
  Guest
  - S 12: Ep 21 Show #1763
    3/16/93
  - S 9: Ep 103 Show #1370
    10/4/90
- Strangers
  Johnny Maguire
  - S 4: Ep 5 The Flowers of Edinburgh
    10/23/81

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- It's true that Gabriel Byrne was trained as a bullfighter in Spain but despite internet rumors, he never came in contact with any bulls. The training entailed classes of ten and he describes the teacher as rather disappointing: "It mostly consisted of him with a pair of fake horns running at us - and we paid a lot of money for this. I was foolish enough to think that you could study bullfighting in 12 weeks with an Englishman who was never in the bullring."
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- Gabriel Byrne has a passion for cinema and was an avid visitor of movie houses as a kid. He always enjoyed the atmosphere, sitting in the dark and following the stories; and he recalls to have seen up to twelve movies in one weekend or up to six movies during the week.
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- At the age of twelve, he left home and went to a Roman Catholic seminary in Birmingham, England, to become an African missionary. He was expelled with 17 since he has only been interested in football and girls, was notoriously late for prayers, and smoked by the cemeteries.
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- Gabriel Byrne: Acting is a very satisfying way to make a living but it's not life. I don't want to spend my life on movie sets and wake up at 70 and say "Where's my life gone?" I know people like that and I don't want to end up like that - the horror of being somebody that the movies sucked dry.
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- Gabriel Byrne: (on the abuse he suffered at 11) I was taken advantage of in a very vulnerable situation where I was being told the facts of life. Physical boundaries were crossed, let's say. (The inappropriate contact involved...) touching and closeness rather than anything more overt than that. I would never have thought to tell my parents because, in the world of a child, I assumed that anything that happened to you was inevitable. What makes this inappropriate behavior so despicable is that the child does not have a choice.
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- Gabriel Byrne: They say that acting is the shy man's revenge and cinema certainly is the refuge for a lot of lonely, shy people. You can be alone and not lonely in a cinema. It's almost like being in church.
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