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
Time to Pretend (song) "Rolling Stone"s list of "The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time". "NME" ranked "Time to Pretend" as the 2nd best song of the 2000s. In October 2011, "NME" placed it at number 12 on its list "150 Best Tracks of the Past 15 Years". MGMT performed the song "Time to Pretend" in a 3.5 minute slot on "Late Show with David Letterman" on January 8, 2008, ending the performance with a nod to The Doors' "Light My Fire". The song subsequently hit #19 on the Mediabase U.S. Alternative chart. They later performed the song on "Late Night with Conan O'Brien"