Gabriel Byrne Movies & Biography

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FOUR LETTERS OF LOVE (2025)

Starring Pierce Brosnan, Helena Bonham Carter, Gabriel Byrne, Dónal Finn, Olwen Fouéré, Michelle Lucy, Imelda May, Pat Shortt, Norma Sheahan and Brid Ní Chumhaill. Directed by Polly Steele.

FROM THE WORLD OF JOHN WICK: BALLERINA (2025)

Starring Ana De Armas, Keanu Reeves, Ian McShane, Anjelica Huston, Gabriel Byrne, Catalina Sandino Moreno, Ava Joyce McCarthy, Juliet Doherty, Norman Reedus and Lance Reddick. Directed by Len Wiseman.

REVIEWS From the World of John Wick: Ballerina - Spin-off is a pirouette in the right direction

DEATH OF A LADIES' MAN (2021)

Starring Gabriel Byrne, Jessica Paré, Brian Gleeson, Antoine-Olivier Pilon, Suzanne Clément, Karelle Tremblay, Raphael Grosz-Harvey, Carolina Bartczak, Joel Bissonnette and Pascale Bussières. Directed by Matt Bissonnette.

IInspired by the work of Leonard Cohen, and set to some of his most beloved music, Death of a Ladies' Man tells the story of a carousing college professor whose life takes a series of unimaginable turns, and all the old stories are given a new twist, when he begins to have surreal hallucinations and learns he may not be long for this world.

HEREDITARY (2018)

Starring Toni Collette, Gabriel Byrne, Alex Wolff, Milly Shapiro, Ann Dowd, Mallory Bechtel, Brock McKinney, Zachary Arthur, Austin R. Grant and Gabriel Monroe Eckert. Directed by Ari Aster.

When Ellen, the matriarch of the Graham family, passes away, her daughter's family begins to unravel cryptic and increasingly terrifying secrets about their ancestry. The more they discover, the more they find themselves trying to outrun the sinister fate they seem to have inherited. Making his feature debut, writer-director Ari Aster unleashes a nightmare vision of a domestic breakdown that exhibits the craft and precision of a nascent auteur, transforming a familial tragedy into something ominous and deeply disquieting, and pushing the horror movie into chilling new terrain with its shattering portrait of heritage gone to hell.

REVIEWS Hereditary - An infernal masterclass in the art of trauma
Hereditary - Nothing stays buried

LOUDER THAN BOMBS (2016)

Starring Gabriel Byrne, Isabelle Huppert, Jesse Eisenberg and Devin Druid.

On the eve of an exhibition honouring noted war photographer Isabelle Reed, whose career was cut short in the wake of her untimely death, a father and two sons grapple with her domestic and professional legacy. Flashbacks of Isabelle's conflated role of wife, mother and photojournalist intermingle with the present-day attempts of the Reeds to manage their grief amid combat of a different kind. Family patriarch Gene discovers secrets about his late spouse while pursuing a new romance and struggling to connect with teenage son Conrad, who hides in video games and introspection. Adult son Jonah takes leave from academic and married life to organize his mother's archive, only to slip into reckless behaviour. Past and present coalesce in sharp focus as the surviving Reeds come to terms with love and loss, locating in memories both painful and joyous the skills they need to soldier on.