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
Nicholas Turturro Nicholas Turturro Nicholas Turturro, (born January 29, 1962) is an American actor, known for his role as Sergeant James Martinez on the television series "NYPD Blue". Nicholas is the younger brother of John Turturro and the cousin of Aida Turturro. Turturro was born in Brooklyn, New York. His mother, Katherine Florence (Incerella), was an amateur jazz singer, who worked in a Navy yard during World War II, and was born in the U.S., to Italian parents, with roots in Sicily. His father, Nicholas Turturro, Sr., was a carpenter and shoemaker who emigrated from Giovinazzo, Italy at the age of six