When the Irish actor Gabriel Byrne was first approached to play the role of Samuel Beckett, one of Ireland’s greatest literary heroes, he hesitated. “I wrestled with the idea,” Byrne says on a recent ...

Capturing the essence of Samuel Beckett—the comedian from the void, the dour absurdist—is the challenge director James Marsh sets for himself in “Dance First,” in which Gabriel Byrne stars as the ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Irish actor Gabriel Byrne is going into battle as an 8th century Viking chieftain in History Channel's new nine-part scripted TV series "Vikings", starting on Sunday. Byrne's ...

Ana de Armas twirls into the franchise as a ballerina-assassin with vengeance on her mind in this by-the-numbers cash grab. By Jeannette Catsoulis Samuel Beckett’s life is reduced to mommy and daddy ...

Gabriel Byrne has signed on to star in the History channel's upcoming series Vikings. Deadline reports that Byrne will play a villainous Norse warrior during the Medieval era. The drama, conceived by ...

The transition from page to stage feels undermotivated, incomplete. The lively language shifts easily enough from prose to monologue, and Byrne - with his wide, serious face, his bright, worried eyes, ...

Teri Hayden, a trailblazing talent agent whose work in early 1980s Ireland helped launch the onscreen careers of Gabriel Byrne and Brendan Gleeson, as well as his son Domhnall Gleeson, died April 18 ...

Actor Gabriel Byrne may play a therapist on TV, but he's never actually been to therapy himself. Instead, he prepared for his role on HBO's In Treatment by drawing on his experience as an observer.

Gabriel Byrne is to take the lead role in forthcoming Channel 4 drama Coup. The conspiracy thriller - based on former Labour MP Chris Mullin's novel A Very British Coup - will see Byrne play reluctant ...