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->''"I would like to break out of this dark, brooding image, cause I'm actually not like that at all."''

Gabriel James Byrne (born May 12, 1950 in Dublin, Ireland) is an Irish actor, film producer, writer, cultural ambassador and audiobook narrator.

He has also been an archaeologist, a cook, a bullfighter, and a Spanish schoolteacher.

Byrne's known television work included the HBO drama ''Series/InTreatment'', for which he was nominated for two Emmys, and won a Golden Globe.

He was married to Ellen Barkin from 1988 to 1996. He speaks fluent French and Spanish.

He can qualify as either the modern day Creator/RoddyMcDowall or Creator/DavidWarner due to Byrne's CelebrityResemblance to the two actors from the previous generation of actors before him and the similar roles they play such as Byrne's hammy role as Satan in ''Film/EndOfDays'' being a reminiscent of the villains played by Warner and [=McDowall=], his Nazi character of Major Kaempffer in ''Film/TheKeep'' being seen as an {{Expy}} of Warner's portrayal of UsefulNotes/ReinhardHeydrich from ''Series/{{Holocaust}}'' and ''Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil'' and his most recent role as Steve Graham in ''Film/{{Hereditary}}'' being something of a SpiritualAntithesis AgentScully {{Foil}} to Warner's AgentMulder role as Keith Jennings in another supernatural horror/family tragedy film ''Film/TheOmen1976'', not to mention both Byrne and [=McDowall=] being both of Irish descent.

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!!Notable roles with pages on TV Tropes

!!!Film:

* ''Film/{{Ballerina|2025}}'' -- TBA
* ''Film/MurderAtYellowstoneCity'' (2022) -- Sheriff Jim Ambrose
* ''Film/{{Hereditary}}'' (2018) -- Steve Graham
* ''Film/VampireAcademy'' (2014) -- Victor Dashkov
* ''Film/{{Leningrad}}'' (2009) -- Peter
* ''[[Film/AssaultOnPrecinct132005 Assault on Precinct 13]]'' (2005) -- Capt. Marcus Duvall
* ''Film/{{Shade|2003}}'' (2003) -- Charlie Miller
* ''Film/GhostShip'' (2002) -- Murphy
* ''Film/Spider2002'' -- Bill Cleg
* ''Film/EndOfDays'' (1999) -- Satan
* ''Film/{{Stigmata}}'' (1999) -- Father Andrew Kiernan
* ''Film/EnemyOfTheState'' (1998) -- Brill
* ''Film/TheManInTheIronMask'' (1998) -- D'Artagnan
* ''Film/SmillasSenseOfSnow'' (1997) -- The Mechanic
* ''Film/DeadMan'' (1995) -- Charlie Dickinson
* ''Film/TheUsualSuspects'' (1995) -- Dean Keaton
* ''Film/LittleWomen1994'' -- Friedrich Bhaer
* ''Film/PointOfNoReturn'' (1993) -- Bob
* ''Film/CoolWorld'' (1992) -- Jack Deebs
* ''Film/MillersCrossing'' (1990) -- Tom Reagan
* ''Film/DefenceOfTheRealm'' (1986) -- Nick Mullen
* ''Film/TheKeep'' (1983) -- Major Kaempffer
* ''Film/{{Excalibur}}'' (1981) -- Uther Pendragon

!!!Television:

* ''Series/{{Vikings}}'' (2013) -- Earl Haraldsson
* ''Series/SecretState'' (2012) -- Deputy PM Tom Dawkins
* ''Series/InTreatment'' (2008-2010) -- Dr. Paul Weston
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