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The Greatest Character Actors of All Time

From [link=/name/nm6180088/]Young Mazino[/link] in "[link=/title/tt3581920]The Last of Us[/link]" to [link=/name/nm12043107]Sarah Bock[/link] in "[link=/title/tt11280740]Severance[/link]," check out these popular and up-and-coming stars who are taking Hollywood by storm.

Asian Hollywood Stars to Watch

From <a class="ipc-md-link" href="/name/nm6180088/?ref_=nmmi_eds_right-7_lk">Young Mazino</a> in &quot;<a class="ipc-md-link" href="/title/tt3581920?ref_=nmmi_eds_right-7_lk">The Last of Us</a>&quot; to <a class="ipc-md-link" href="/name/nm12043107?ref_=nmmi_eds_right-7_lk">Sarah Bock</a> in &quot;<a class="ipc-md-link" href="/title/tt11280740?ref_=nmmi_eds_right-7_lk">Severance</a>,&quot; check out these popular and up-and-coming stars who are taking Hollywood by storm.

Gabriel Byrne in The Usual Suspects (1995)

Gabriel Byrne in War of the Worlds (2019)

Gabriel Byrne and Dane DeHaan in ZeroZeroZero (2019)

Gabriel Byrne and Andrea Riseborough in ZeroZeroZero (2019)

Gabriel Byrne, Elizabeth McGovern, Natasha Little, Aaron Heffernan, Bayo Gbadamosi, Ty Tennant, and Daisy Edgar-Jones in War of the Worlds (2019)

Gabriel Byrne and Elizabeth McGovern in War of the Worlds (2019)

Gabriel Byrne and Stian Smestad in Shipwrecked (1990)

Gabriel Byrne, Stian Smestad, and Trond Peter Stamsø Munch in Shipwrecked (1990)

Gabriel Byrne, Toni Collette, Alex Wolff, and Milly Shapiro in Hereditary (2018)

Gabriel Byrne, Sylvestra Le Touzel, and Lia Williams in Secret State (2012)

Gabriel Byrne and Lucy Fry in Vampire Academy (2014)

Gabriel Byrne, Jürgen Prochnow, Ian McKellen, and Alberta Watson in The Keep (1983)

Gabriel Byrne and Rodrigo Santoro in The 33 (2015)

Gabriel Byrne and Devin Druid in Louder Than Bombs (2015)

Gabriel Byrne and Amy Ryan in Louder Than Bombs (2015)

Gabriel Byrne and Isabelle Huppert in Louder Than Bombs (2015)

Gabriel Byrne and Travis Fimmel in Burial of the Dead (2013)

Gabriel Byrne and Mae Whitman in In Treatment (2008)

Gabriel Byrne and Alex Wolff in In Treatment (2008)

Byrne was the eldest of six children born to a family in Dublin, Ireland. His father was a cooper and his mother a hospital worker. He was raised Catholic and educated by the Irish Christian Brothers. He spent five years of his childhood in a seminary training to be a Catholic priest. He later said, "I spent five years in the seminary and I suppose it was assumed that you had a vocation. I have realized subsequently that I didn't have one at all. I don't believe in God. But I did believe at the time in this notion that you were being called." He attended University College Dublin, where he studied archaeology and linguistics, and became proficient in Irish. He played football (soccer) in Dublin with the Stella Maris Football Club.

Byrne worked in archaeology after he left UCD but maintained his love of the Irish language, eventually writing Draíocht (Magic), the first drama in Irish on Ireland's national Irish television station, TG4, in 1996.

He discovered his acting ability as a young adult. Before that he worked at several occupations: archaeologist, cook, bullfighter, schoolteacher of Spanish. He began acting when he was 29 - at first on stage at the Focus Theatre and the Abbey Theatre in Dublin, later joining the Royal Court Theatre and the Royal National Theatre in London.

Byrne came to prominence in the final season of the Irish television show The Riordans, later starring in the spin-off series, Bracken. He made his film debut in 1981 as Lord Uther Pendragon in John Boorman's King Arthur epic, Excalibur.

Byrne was featured as therapist Dr. Paul Weston in the critically acclaimed HBO series In Treatment (2008).

In his return to theater in 2008, he appeared as King Arthur in Lerner and Loewe's Camelot with the New York Philharmonic, which was featured in a PBS broadcast in the Live From Lincoln Center series in May of 2008.

Byrne did not visit America until he was 37. In 1988, Byrne married actress Ellen Barkin with whom he has two children. The couple separated amicably in 1993 and divorced in 1999. Byrne resides in Brooklyn, New York.

In November 2004, Byrne was appointed a UNICEF Ireland Ambassador.

In 2007 Byrne was presented with the first of the newly created Volta awards at the 5th Jameson Dublin International Film Festival. This was for lifetime achievement in acting. He also received the Honorary Patronage of the University Philosophical Society, of Trinity College, Dublin, on February 20, 2007. He was awarded an honorary degree in late 2007 by the National University of Ireland, Galway, in recognition of his "outstanding contribution to Irish and international film".

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