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He made his feature film debut in John Boorman's Excalibur, and in 1990, made his American film debut in the Coen brothers' movie Miller's Crossing. Since that time, Byrne has appeared in leading roles in such award-winning films as Into the West, The Usual Suspects, Little Women, in which he played opposite Winona Ryder, Smilla's Sense of Snow, Polish Wedding, and his just-released End of Days, in which he plays Satan opposite Arnold Schwarzenegger.
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Happy? "Happy, yeah." Certainly, Gabriel Bryne has arrived
at some kind of professional and personal peak with Moon. It was a gamble,
even for this veteran of the famed Abbey Theatre in Dublin. He hadn't
been on the stage in decades, and in Moon, his Broadway and North American
stage bow, he was tackling Byrne says that it's "something like you have to climb
this mountain and it's really dark and you have no flashlight and the
wind is too strong for a candle and a storm is going to break in an
hour's time. But you have to walk up that mountain and do it in bare
feet. I don't want to sound too dramatic, but every time I come to the
stage, it's with a sense that I look up the mountain and wonder, He says that before he started, he called Kevin Spacey,
who had done The Iceman Cometh, and Brian Dennehy (Long Day's Journey
Into Night), "and both laughed at me and said, 'I understand what this
phone call is about.' "Kevin said, 'Always trust the play - if you fall
back, Eugene O'Neill will catch you.' It was a great piece of advice.
Dennehy was a little more stern. by Stephen Schaefer, excerpted from USA TODAY
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Gabriel
Byrne will appear in the Goodman's
production of A Moon for the Misbegotten as Jim Tyrone. Byrne began
his acting career with Dublin's Project Theatre, later joining the Abbey
Theatre and London's Royal Court Theatre. 
