Brían F. O'Byrne

Brían F. O'Byrne

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.

  • Title: Brían F. O'Byrne
  • Popularity: 8.293
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1967-05-16
  • Place of Birth: Mullagh, County Cavan, Ireland
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  • Also Known As: Brían Flynn O'Byrne, Brian O'Byrne, Brían O'Byrne
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Brían F. O'Byrne Movies

  • 2004
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    Million Dollar Baby
    Million Dollar Baby

    7.957 2004 HD

    Despondent over a painful estrangement from his daughter, trainer Frankie Dunn isn't prepared for boxer Maggie Fitzgerald to enter his life. But...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Clint Eastwood

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  • 2001
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    Bandits
    Bandits

    6.3 2001 HD

    After escaping from prison, Joe and Terry go on a crime spree, robbing banks through Oregon and California in order to finance their scheme for a new...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Bruce Willis

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  • 2007
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    No Reservations
    No Reservations

    6.659 2007 HD

    Master chef Kate Armstrong runs her life and her kitchen with intimidating intensity. However, a recipe for disaster may be in the works when she...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Catherine Zeta-Jones

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  • 2009
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    The International
    The International

    6.25 2009 HD

    An interpol agent and an attorney are determined to bring one of the world's most powerful banks to justice. Uncovering money laundering, arms...

    Genre: Action

    Cast: Clive Owen

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  • 2007
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    Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
    Before the Devil Knows You're Dead

    7.1 2007 HD

    When two brothers organize the robbery of their parents' jewelry store, the job goes horribly wrong, triggering a series of events that send them and...

    Genre: Crime

    Cast: Philip Seymour Hoffman

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  • 2010
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    Brooklyn's Finest
    Brooklyn's Finest

    6.295 2010 HD

    Enforcing the law within the notoriously rough Brownsville section of the city and especially within the Van Dyke housing projects is the NYPD's...

    Genre: Crime

    Cast: Richard Gere

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  • 2001
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    Disco Pigs
    Disco Pigs

    5.7 2001 HD

    Pig and Runt born on the same day, in the same hospital, moments apart. Twins, all but by bloodline. Inseparable from birth, they are almost...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Elaine Cassidy

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  • 2007
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    Bug
    Bug

    6.1 2007 HD

    In Oklahoma, Agnes, a lonely waitress living in an isolated and dilapidated roadside motel, meets Peter, a quiet and mysterious man with whom she...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Ashley Judd

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  • 2000
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    An Everlasting Piece
    An Everlasting Piece

    5.9 2000 HD

    Colin is a Catholic and George is a poetry-loving Protestant. In Belfast in the 1980s, they could have been enemies, but instead they became business...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Barry McEvoy

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  • 2003
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    Easy
    Easy

    5.8 2003 HD

    Quirky Jamie Harris is a magnet for less-than-kind men as she hops beds. But things start to look up when she becomes the object of affection of two...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Marguerite Moreau

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  • 2003
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    Intermission
    Intermission

    6.2 2003 HD

    A raucous story of the interweaving lives and loves of small-town delinquents, shady cops, pretty good girls and very bad boys. With Irish guts and...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Colin Farrell

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  • 2001
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    The Grey Zone
    The Grey Zone

    6.6 2001 HD

    The story of Auschwitz's twelfth Sonderkommando — one of the thirteen consecutive "Special Squads" of Jewish prisoners placed by the Nazis in...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: David Arquette

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  • 2005
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    The New World
    The New World

    6.5 2005 HD

    A drama about explorer John Smith and the clash between Native Americans and English settlers in the 17th century.

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Colin Farrell

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  • 2014
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    Jimmy's Hall
    Jimmy's Hall

    6.7 2014 HD

    Jimmy Gralton returns from New York and reopens his beloved community hall, only to meet opposition from the local parish.

    Genre: History

    Cast: Barry Ward

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  • 2015
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    Queen & Country
    Queen & Country

    6 2015 HD

    In this sequel to Hope and Glory (1987), Bill Rohan has grown up and is drafted into the army, where he and his eccentric best mate, Percy, battle...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Callum Turner

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  • 2024
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    Twig
    Twig

    1 2024 HD

    Twig dreams of escape from a divided Dublin. Her brother's gangland feud traps the people in a culture of fear, surveillance and containment. When...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Sade Malone

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  • 2013
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    Medeas
    Medeas

    5.9 2013 HD

    An intimate portrait of a rural family's inner lives and their relationship to a harsh and shifting landscape.

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Catalina Sandino Moreno

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  • 2013
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    Gilded Lilys
    Gilded Lilys

    1 2013 HD

    Set in 1895, show revolves around the opening of the first luxury hotel in New York City and all the intermingling of love, treachery, and disdain...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Sarah Bolger

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  • 1997
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    The Last Bus Home
    The Last Bus Home

    1 1997 HD

    Though it is late in the punk rock movement, four Dublin youths get together in 1979 to form their own band. Accurately recounting the energy and...

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    Cast: Annie Ryan

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  • 2007
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    Alexander Hamilton
    Alexander Hamilton

    6.8 2007 HD

    One of the most controversial men of his age, Alexander Hamilton was a gifted statesman brought down by the fatal flaws of stubbornness, extreme...

    Genre: History

    Cast: Colm Feore

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  • 2001
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    Mapmaker
    Mapmaker

    1 2001 HD

    Hired to draw a map of tourist sites in a small Northern Ireland town, cartographer Richie Markey (Brian F. O'Byrne) uncovers a dark secret and...

    Genre: Thriller

    Cast: Brían F. O'Byrne

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  • 2020
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    Sergio
    Sergio

    6.583 2020 HD

    A sweeping drama set in the chaotic aftermath of the US invasion of Iraq, where the life of top UN diplomat Brazilian Sérgio Vieira de Mello...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Wagner Moura

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  • 2020
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    My Salinger Year
    My Salinger Year

    6.3 2020 HD

    A college grad takes a clerical job working for the literary agent of the renowned, reclusive writer J.D. Salinger.

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Margaret Qualley

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  • 1997
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    The Fifth Province
    The Fifth Province

    6 1997 HD

    Timmy Sugrue is a persecuted guesthouse keeper and writer who lives with his mad mother in a very rainy part of the Irish midlands. His only...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Lia Williams

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  • 2022
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    The Wonder
    The Wonder

    6.608 2022 HD

    Haunted by her past, a nurse travels from England to a remote Irish village in 1862 to investigate a young girl's supposedly miraculous fast.

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Florence Pugh

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  • 2004
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    The Blackwater Lightship
    The Blackwater Lightship

    6.3 2004 HD

    A man in the final stages of AIDS is cared for by his sister and mother and grandmother.

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Dianne Wiest

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  • 2024
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    Conclave
    Conclave

    7.113 2024 HD

    After the unexpected death of the Pope, Cardinal Lawrence is tasked with managing the covert and ancient ritual of electing a new one. Sequestered in...

    Genre: Thriller

    Cast: Ralph Fiennes

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  • 2008
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    Brotherhood
    Brotherhood

    6.9 2008 HD

    A working-class Irish family rules a city built on loyalty and corruption. The Caffee brothers, Tommy, a rising politician desperate for reelection,...

    Genre: Crime

    Cast: Jason Isaacs

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  • 2024
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    Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
    Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

    7.935 2024 HD

    In the criminal justice system, sexually-based offenses are considered especially heinous. In New York City, the dedicated detectives who investigate...

    Genre: Crime

    Cast: Mariska Hargitay

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  • 2003
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    Oz
    Oz

    8.012 2003 HD

    The daily lives of prisoners in Emerald City, an experimental unit of the Oswald Maximum Security Prison where ingroups - Muslims, Latinos, Italians,...

    Genre: Crime

    Cast: Lee Tergesen

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  • 2011
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    Hallmark Hall of Fame
    Hallmark Hall of Fame

    8.667 2011 HD

    Hallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark Cards, a Kansas City based greeting card company. The...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast:

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  • 2010
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    FlashForward
    FlashForward

    7 2010 HD

    When the entire world blacks out for two minutes and seventeen seconds, everyone sees a flash of their own future 6 months from the present. For...

    Genre: Sci-Fi & Fantasy

    Cast: Joseph Fiennes

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  • 2011
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    Mildred Pierce
    Mildred Pierce

    7 2011 HD

    Mildred Pierce depicts an overprotective, self-sacrificing mother during the Great Depression who finds herself separated from her husband, opening a...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Kate Winslet

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  • 2012
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    Prime Suspect
    Prime Suspect

    6.568 2012 HD

    Detective Jane Timoney finds that being a homicide detective in New York City is tough enough and having to contend with a male-dominated police...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Maria Bello

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  • 2016
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    Aquarius
    Aquarius

    6.5 2016 HD

    In the late 1960s, a Los Angeles police sergeant with a complicated personal life starts tracking a small-time criminal and budding cult leader...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: David Duchovny

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  • 2015
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    Saints & Strangers
    Saints & Strangers

    6.4 2015 HD

    The trials and tribulations of the Mayflower Pilgrims in the New World; men, women and children who sailed on a chartered ship for a place they had...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Natascha McElhone

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  • 2015
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    The Bastard Executioner
    The Bastard Executioner

    5.767 2015 HD

    A blood-soaked, medieval epic that tells the story of Wilkin Brattle, a 14th century warrior, whose life is forever changed when a divine messenger...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Lee Jones

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  • 2014
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    Love/Hate
    Love/Hate

    7.5 2014 HD

    Modern-day underworld characters Nidge and John Boy wrestle for control of Dublin's illicit drug trade in this forceful crime drama.

    Genre: Crime

    Cast: Tom Vaughan-Lawlor

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  • 2017
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    Little Boy Blue
    Little Boy Blue

    7.8 2017 HD

    Based on a true story, this four-part drama tells the story of the murder of 11-year-old Rhys Jones in Croxteth, Liverpool, in 2007. It explores...

    Genre: Crime

    Cast: Stephen Graham

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  • 2020
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    The Magicians
    The Magicians

    7.6 2020 HD

    Brakebills University is a secret institution specializing in magic. There, amidst an unorthodox education of spellcasting, a group of...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Olivia Taylor Dudley

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  • 2018
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    Nightflyers
    Nightflyers

    5.7 2018 HD

    In the year 2093, a team of scientists aboard the Nightflyer, the most advanced ship ever built, embarks on a journey to find other life forms. Their...

    Genre: Sci-Fi & Fantasy

    Cast: Brían F. O'Byrne

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  • 1998
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    Amongst Women
    Amongst Women

    6 1998 HD

    Based on the novel by John McGahern and set in Ireland in the 1950s, the series tells the story of Moran and his children. Especially the girls find...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Tony Doyle

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  • 2019
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    Hatton Garden
    Hatton Garden

    5.8 2019 HD

    The story of the audacious jewellery, gold and cash burglary at the heart of London's diamond district executed by an elderly gang of career...

    Genre: Crime

    Cast: Timothy Spall

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  • 2020
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    Manhunt
    Manhunt

    7.58 2020 HD

    Inspired by actual events, this true crime anthology series takes a deep dive into the dark, twisted minds of terrorists and follows the brave souls...

    Genre: Crime

    Cast: Cameron Britton

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  • 2020
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    Lincoln Rhyme: Hunt for the Bone Collector
    Lincoln Rhyme: Hunt for the Bone Collector

    7.6 2020 HD

    Former NYPD detective and forensic genius Lincoln Rhyme was at the top of his game until a serious accident at the hands of a notorious serial killer...

    Genre: Crime

    Cast: Russell Hornsby

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  • 2024
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    American Experience
    American Experience

    7.5 2024 HD

    TV's most-watched history series brings to life the compelling stories from our past that inform our understanding of the world today.

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast:

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