Segueing into feature films, Gabriel Byrne made
his screen debut in John Boorman's Excalibur. Gabriel Byrne's
many subsequent features include Costa-Gavras' Hanna K., Ken
Russell's Gothic, Mary Lambert's Siesta, Joel and Ethan Coen's
Miller's Crossing, Stephen Gyllenhaal's A Dangerous Woman, Gillian
Armstrong's Little Women, Bryan Singer's Academy Award-winning
The Usual Suspects, Jim Jarmusch's Dead Man, Larry Bishop's
Mad Dog Time (a.k.a. Trigger Happy), Stephen Surjik's HBO film
Weapons of Mass Distraction, Mary McGuckian's
In addition to his work in front of the camera,
Gabriel Byrne has been a producer on several movies. Among these
are Mike Newell's Into the West (in which he also starred),
Jim Sheridan's Academy Award-nominated In the Name of the Father,
David Keating's The Last of the High Kings (which he also wrote
and starred in), Martin Donovan's Somebody is Waiting (in which
Gabriel Byrne also starred), Terence Ryan's The Brylcreem Boys
(in which Gabriel Byrne also starred), and John Forte's Mad
About Mambo. Returning to the stage, Gabriel Byrne earned a
Tony Award nomination for his performance as James Tyrone, Jr.
in the 2000 Broadway revival of Eugene O'Neill's A Moon for
the Misbegotten (directed by Daniel Sullivan). His autobiography,
Pictures in My Head, was published in 2001.
