Gabriel Byrne Gabriel Byrne Gabriel James Byrne (born 12 May 1950) is an Irish actor, film director, film producer, writer, cultural ambassador and audiobook narrator. His acting career began in the Focus Theatre before he joined London's Royal Court Theatre in 1979. Byrne's screen debut came in the Irish soap opera "The Riordans" and the spin-off show "Bracken". He has appeared in over 35 feature films, including "Excalibur" (1981), "Miller's Crossing" (1990), "The Usual Suspects" (1995), "Stigmata" (1999), "End of Days" (1999), "Spider" (2002), "Jindabyne" (2006), "Vampire Academy" (2014), "The 33" (2015), and "Hereditary" (2018), and co-wrote "The Last of the High
John Byrne (comics) in 2004, co-writing and illustrating the "Tenth Circle" story arc, reuniting with his "Uncanny X-Men" writer Chris Claremont and with Jerry Ordway as inker), "Doom Patrol", "Blood of the Demon", a five-issue arc of "JLA Classified". He penciled an issue of "Hawkman" (vol. 4) #26 in May 2004. "" was a collaboration with former Monty Python member John Cleese and Kim Johnson, with art by Byrne and inker Mark Farmer. Byrne returned to draw Superman in "Action Comics" #827–835, working with writer Gail Simone, from 2005-2006. Afterward, Simone and Byrne reteamed to launch "The All-New Atom" series in 2006, with