Brían F. O'Byrne
Date of birth: 1967-05-16
Place of birth: Mullagh, County Cavan, Ireland
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Brían Flynn O'Byrne, Brian O'Byrne, Brían O'Byrne, Брайан Ф. О’Бирн
Biography
Brían Francis O'Byrne (born 16 May 1967) is an Irish actor who works mostly in the United States. He was born in Mullagh, County Cavan. O'Byrne first attracted notice for his performances in the Martin McDonagh plays The Beauty Queen of Leenane (1996) as Pato Dooley (for which he received a Tony Award nomination for Best Featured Actor in a Play) and The Lonesome West (1997). He is known for taking on serious and dramatic roles, such as a serial killer in Frozen (1998) (for which he won a Tony Award) and a priest accused of child molestation in Doubt (2004), for which he received a Tony nomination. O'Byrne also appeared as a priest in the 2004 film Million Dollar Baby. In May 2007, O'Byrne was nominated for a Tony Award for his performance as Alexander Herzen in Tom Stoppard's 2002 trilogy The Coast of Utopia. In 2011, he was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie for his performance in Mildred Pierce as Bert Pierce.
Movie Credits
Million Dollar Baby
2004-12-05
Despondent over a painful estrangement from his daughter, trainer Frankie Dunn isn't prepared for bo
Bandits
2001-10-12
After escaping from prison, Joe and Terry go on a crime spree, robbing banks through Oregon and Cali
No Reservations
2007-06-15
Master chef Kate Armstrong runs her life and her kitchen with intimidating intensity. However, a rec
The International
2009-02-03
An interpol agent and an attorney are determined to bring one of the world's most powerful banks to
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
2007-09-26
When two brothers organize the robbery of their parents' jewelry store, the job goes horribly wrong,
Brooklyn's Finest
2010-03-04
Enforcing the law within the notoriously rough Brownsville section of the city and especially within
Disco Pigs
2001-10-05
Pig and Runt born on the same day, in the same hospital, moments apart. Twins, all but by bloodline.
Bug
2007-02-21
In Oklahoma, Agnes, a lonely waitress living in an isolated and dilapidated roadside motel, meets Pe
An Everlasting Piece
2000-12-22
Colin is a Catholic and George is a poetry-loving Protestant. In Belfast in the 1980s, they could ha
Easy
2003-09-10
Quirky Jamie Harris is a magnet for less-than-kind men as she hops beds. But things start to look up
Intermission
2003-08-29
A raucous story of the interweaving lives and loves of small-town delinquents, shady cops, pretty go
The Grey Zone
2001-09-13
The story of Auschwitz's twelfth Sonderkommando — one of the thirteen consecutive "Special Squads" o
The New World
2005-12-25
A drama about explorer John Smith and the clash between Native Americans and English settlers in the
Jimmy's Hall
2014-05-30
Jimmy Gralton returns from New York and reopens his beloved community hall, only to meet opposition
Queen & Country
2015-01-07
In this sequel to Hope and Glory (1987), Bill Rohan has grown up and is drafted into the army, where
Twig
2024-06-21
Twig dreams of escape from a divided Dublin. Her brother's gangland feud traps the people in a cultu
Medeas
2013-09-01
An intimate portrait of a rural family's inner lives and their relationship to a harsh and shifting
Gilded Lilys
2013-05-02
Set in 1895, show revolves around the opening of the first luxury hotel in New York City and all the
The Last Bus Home
1997-10-17
Though it is late in the punk rock movement, four Dublin youths get together in 1979 to form their o
Alexander Hamilton
2007-05-14
One of the most controversial men of his age, Alexander Hamilton was a gifted statesman brought down
Mapmaker
2001-12-01
Hired to draw a map of tourist sites in a small Northern Ireland town, cartographer Richie Markey (B
Sergio
2020-01-28
A sweeping drama set in the chaotic aftermath of the US invasion of Iraq, where the life of top UN d
My Salinger Year
2020-02-20
A college grad takes a clerical job working for the literary agent of the renowned, reclusive writer
The Fifth Province
1997-12-12
Timmy Sugrue is a persecuted guesthouse keeper and writer who lives with his mad mother in a very ra
The Wonder
2022-11-02
Haunted by her past, a nurse travels from England to a remote Irish village in 1862 to investigate a
The Blackwater Lightship
2004-02-04
A man in the final stages of AIDS is cared for by his sister and mother and grandmother.
Conclave
2024-10-25
After the unexpected death of the Pope, Cardinal Lawrence is tasked with managing the covert and anc
Dead of Winter
2025-09-23
A widowed fisherwoman, travelling alone through snowbound northern Minnesota, interrupts the kidnapp