Biography
Irish actor Gabriel Byrne is now well known to the audience due to the fact that his creative career was connected with Arthaus Cinema. For dozens of years spent on the shooting, a man appeared in a number of Hollywood films, as well as a popular television TV series, broadcasting on the HBO channel.Childhood and youth
Gabriel Byrne was born on May 12, 1950 and became the firstborn for Dan and Isline, later the parents of six children. His childhood passed in the harsh environment related to studying in a Catholic board, where the monks from the community of Christian brothers punished boys with a weave.
Despite this approach to education, the future actor wanted to become a priest and entered the seminary in the age of 12, but he was expelled from there because of a number of problems. The beginning of the fruitful missionary activity, to which the Irishman sought in his youth, prevented the passion for classic football, as well as women and alcohol.
Embed from getty imagesMother and father, nurse and handyman, worried about the future of the Son, and only thanks to their efforts he was able to enter the Dublin University. There he participated in sports competitions and was a member of the Stella Maris team, and also studied history and literature and eventually graduated from the Faculty of Philology.
Having a bachelor's degree in his arms, the young graduate craved new impressions and went to Spain in 1973 in order to teach English. After a couple of years, he returned to his homeland and became a teacher in the women's gymnasium, and then he worked as an assistant archaeologists who participated in a series of Caid excavations.
During this period, which fell to the mid-1970, Byrne got into a creative society and, having acquainted with a number of actors, decided to get a service at the theater. Playing in amateur stage performances under the direction of the director Jim Sheridan, he studied the art of reincarnation and at the same time managed to receive a fee.
Personal life
In an interview with British and American publications, Byrne rarely talks about personal life, but journalists know that Ein O'Connor was his girlfriend for many years. And in 1988, Irishman married Ellen Barkin, who gave birth after the wedding, Romi and Son's daughter, who was called Jack.Embed from getty imagesTogether with his wife, the actor starred in a number of serials and feature films, such as the adventure tape "To West" and the tragicomedy "time of rabid dogs". And after the divorce, he began a relationship with Hannai Beth King, who worked by the producer, and thanks to her he became an ambassador of the culture of Ireland at the very beginning of the 2010th.
Films
In 1978, Gabriel's biography changed coolly, and he got into a professional troupe, where he began to act as a permanent actor. Soon they received proposals from the TV series "Outsider" and "Riordanov Family", which became the beginning of the film engineers and helped get into the film "Eccalibur".
However, the first serious works that were shown in the UK did not bring the scurvy of popularity and success, and he again laid hopes for the theater. Then the director David Drudy conceived the film "Defense of the State" and invited Irish for the role of the main character in this receipt of the triller.
For this work, awarded award, a number of historical projects were followed, where the actor appeared in front of the audience as Byron, Vittorio Mussolini and Christopher Columbus, and then there was an image of cruel mafios in the "Crossroads of Miller" Brothers Cohen, who deserved the confession of critics and was regarded as a real triumph .
Embed from getty imagesFrom this point on, the career of Byrne began rapidly to go uphill, and he replenished with projects filmography, in the blink of an eye who fed Hollywood. Among the most outstanding paintings with his participation were the "dead", "suspicious persons", "in the name of the Father" and "End of Violence", as well as the "Snowy feeling of Smilla," where Julia was starred.
In the 2000s, after the release of the film "End of Light" and "Man in the Iron Mask", Gabriel began to perform on Broadway and received the theater WORLD Award. In parallel, he collaborated with directors involved in experimental dramas, and unexpectedly for many appeared in the Russian TV series, published on television called "Leningrad".
Then Byrne received a major role in the Drama of the HBO "Patients" channel and for three seasons there was a lead actor there. In 2008-2009, he received a number of nominations and won the Golden Globe prize, and then appeared in the Irish project "Vikings" in the image of the leader named Haraldson.
Gabriel Byrne now
Due to the lack of an account in "Instagram", where most actors publish fresh photos, Byrne does not indulge their own fans with an abundance of announcements and news. At the end of October 2019, the premiere of the series "War of the Worlds" was held with his participation, filmed by the Brigade of French Cinematographers headed by the Helmet Clare.Filmography
- 1981 - "Eccalibur"
- 1986 - "Gothic"
- 1986 - "State Protection"
- 1990 - "Crossroads of Miller"
- 1992 - "To West"
- 1994 - "Prince of Jutland"
- 1995 - "Dead"
- 1995 - "Suspicious faces"
- 1996 - "Time of rabid dogs"
- 2004 - "Vanity Fair"
- 2007 - "Leningrad"
- 2013 - "Vikings"
- 2008-2010 - "Patients"
- 2016 - "Marco Polo"
- 2018 - "Reincarnation"
- 2019 - "War of the Worlds"