Brían F. O'Byrne
Biography: 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.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: May 16, 1967
Deathday: N/A
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Million Dollar Baby
2004-12-15
Million Dollar Baby
Overview: Despondent over a painful estrangement from his daughter, trainer Frankie Dunn isn't prepared for boxer Maggie Fitzgerald to enter his life. But Maggie's determined to go pro and to convince Dunn and his cohort to help her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-12-15
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Bandits
2001-10-12
Bandits
Overview: 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 life south of the border. Unfortunately, things get more complicated when they meet Kate, who runs into them with her car. She joins the bandits on their cross-country spree, and eventually she steals something, too: their hearts.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-10-12
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No Reservations
2007-06-15
No Reservations
Overview: 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 becomes the guardian of her young niece while crossing forks with the brash sous-chef who just joined her staff. Though romance blooms in the face of rivalry, Kate needs to look outside the kitchen to find true happiness.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-06-15
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The International
2009-02-03
The International
Overview: An interpol agent and an attorney are determined to bring one of the world's most powerful banks to justice. Uncovering money laundering, arms trading, and conspiracy to destabilize world governments, their investigation takes them from Berlin, Milan, New York and Istanbul. Finding themselves in a chase across the globe, their relentless tenacity puts their own lives at risk.
Genres: Action Thriller Drama Crime Adventure Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-02-03
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Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
2007-09-26
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
Overview: 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 their family hurtling towards a shattering climax.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-09-26
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Brooklyn's Finest
2010-03-04
Brooklyn's Finest
Overview: Enforcing the law within the notoriously rough Brownsville section of the city and especially within the Van Dyke housing projects is the NYPD's sixty-fifth precinct. Three police officers struggle with the sometimes fine line between right and wrong.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-03-04
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Disco Pigs
2001-10-05
Disco Pigs
Overview: 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 telepathic. They are one, needing no one else, inhabiting a delicate, insular and dangerous world where they make their own rules and have their own language. But days before their 17th birthday the balance of their world begins to shift. Pig's sexual awakening and jealousy begins to threaten their private universe.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-10-05
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Bug
2007-02-21
Bug
Overview: In Oklahoma, Agnes, a lonely waitress living in an isolated and dilapidated roadside motel, meets Peter, a quiet and mysterious man with whom she establishes a peculiar relationship.
Genres: Drama Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-02-21
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An Everlasting Piece
2000-12-22
An Everlasting Piece
Overview: 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 partners. After persuading a mad wig salesman, known as the Scalper, to sell them his leads, the two embark on a series of house calls
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-12-22
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Easy
2003-09-10
Easy
Overview: 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 seemingly normal men. Unfortunately, there's the immense problem of her self-imposed 90-day moratorium on sex.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-09-10
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Intermission
2003-08-29
Intermission
Overview: 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 grit, lives collide, preconceptions shatter and romance is tested to the extreme. An ill-timed and poorly executed couple's break-up sets off a chain of events affecting everyone in town.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-08-29
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The Grey Zone
2001-09-13
The Grey Zone
Overview: The story of Auschwitz's twelfth Sonderkommando — one of the thirteen consecutive "Special Squads" of Jewish prisoners placed by the Nazis in the excruciating moral dilemma of assisting in the extermination of fellow Jews in exchange for a few more months of life.
Genres: Drama War History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-09-13
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The New World
2005-12-25
The New World
Overview: A drama about explorer John Smith and the clash between Native Americans and English settlers in the 17th century.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-12-25
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Jimmy's Hall
2014-05-30
Jimmy's Hall
Overview: Jimmy Gralton returns from New York and reopens his beloved community hall, only to meet opposition from the local parish.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-05-30
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Queen & Country
2014-09-14
Queen & Country
Overview: 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 their snooty superiors on the base and look for love in town.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-09-14
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Twig
2024-06-21
Twig
Overview: 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 tragedy strikes, Twig seeks to do the right thing, stand up to King Leon and face her fate.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-06-21
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Medeas
2013-09-01
Medeas
Overview: An intimate portrait of a rural family's inner lives and their relationship to a harsh and shifting landscape.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-09-01
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Gilded Lilys
2013-05-02
Gilded Lilys
Overview: 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 between the classes set against a backdrop of vicious family rivalries, scandalous secrets, and conflict and co-mingling of classes.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-05-02
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The Last Bus Home
1997-10-17
The Last Bus Home
Overview: 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 rawness of the era, this drama follows their tumultuous and ill-fated journey on the rocky road to success. It takes three long years of unpaid performing for Reena, her lover Jessop, bassist Joe and drummer Petie to make a name for The Dead Patriots. Just as they are about to find real success, internal difficulties arise that leave each of them suspicious and mistrustful of the other.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-10-17
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Alexander Hamilton
2007-05-14
Alexander Hamilton
Overview: One of the most controversial men of his age, Alexander Hamilton was a gifted statesman brought down by the fatal flaws of stubbornness, extreme candor and arrogance. His life and career were marked by a stunning rise to power, scandal and tragedy. But his contributions survive. As Secretary of the Treasury during the tumultuous early years of the republic, Hamilton led the transformation of the young country into industrial powerhouse.
Genres: History Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-05-14
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Mapmaker
2001-12-01
Mapmaker
Overview: 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 realizes that his map may hold the key to the mysterious disappearance of another surveyor. The missing man had been accused of informing on two IRA soldiers, and when Markey discovers his body, it doesn't take long for him to draw the conclusion that he may be next on the group's list.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-12-01
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Sergio
2020-01-28
Sergio
Overview: 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 hangs in the balance during the most treacherous mission of his career.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-01-28
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My Salinger Year
2020-02-20
My Salinger Year
Overview: A college grad takes a clerical job working for the literary agent of the renowned, reclusive writer J.D. Salinger.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-02-20
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The Fifth Province
1997-12-12
The Fifth Province
Overview: 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 consolation are his visits to Dr. Drudy, a psychiatrist whom he can tell about the love of his life - the President of Ireland. A new motorway puts Timmy's guesthouse off the map. A strange Spanish pilot named Marcel comes to visit and create havoc in the guesthouse. Timmy goes to a scriptwriters' conference where only fast, urban and up-beat stories are expected, nothing like Timmy's own story. Uneasy in any of the four provinces of Ireland, he desperately tries to reach the Fifth Province, the province of magic, of passion, of possibility.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-12-12
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The Wonder
2022-11-02
The Wonder
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-11-02
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The Blackwater Lightship
2004-02-04
The Blackwater Lightship
Overview: A man in the final stages of AIDS is cared for by his sister and mother and grandmother.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-02-04
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Conclave
2024-10-25
Conclave
Overview: 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 the Vatican with the Catholic Church’s most powerful leaders until the process is complete, Lawrence finds himself at the center of a conspiracy that could lead to its downfall.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-10-25
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