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Brendan Gleeson

Brendan Gleeson is an Irish actor and film director. He is the recipient of three IFTA Awards, two British Independent Film Awards, and a Primetime Emmy Award and has been nominated twice for a BAFTA Award and twice for a Golden Globe Award.

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Filmography

1916 Seachtar Dearmadta

2013
as Glór

28 Days Later

2002
as Frank

A.I. Artificial Intelligence

2001
as Lord Johnson-Johnson

Albert Nobbs

2011
as Dr. Holloran

Alone in Berlin

2016
as Otto Quangel

Assassin's Creed

2016
as Joseph Lynch

Beowulf

2007
as Wiglaf

Black Irish

2007
as Desmond McKay

Braveheart

1995
as Hamish Campbell

Braveheart: A Look Back

2009
as Brendan Gleeson

Breakfast on Pluto

2005
as John-Joe

Calvary

2014
as Father James Lavelle

Captain Morten and the Spider Queen

2018
as (voice)

Cold Mountain

2003
as Stobrod Thewes

Country of My Skull

2004
as De Jagar

Cáca Milis

2001
as Paul

Dark Blue

2002
as Jack van Meter

Edge of Tomorrow

2014
as General Brigham

Frankie

2019
as Jimmy

Gangs of New York

2002
as Walter "Monk" McGinn

Green Zone

2010
as Martin Brown

Hampstead

2017
as Donald Horner

Harrison's Flowers

2000
as Marc Stevenson

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1

2010
as Alastor Moody

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

2005
as Alastor Moody

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

2007
as Alastor Moody

I Went Down

1997
as Bunny Kelly

In Bruges

2008
as Ken Daley

In the Heart of the Sea

2015
as Old Thomas Nickerson

Into the Storm

2010
as Winston Churchill

Into the West

1992
as Inspector Bolger

Joker: Folie à Deux

2024

Kingdom of Heaven

2005
as Reynald de Chatillon

Lake Placid

1999
as Sheriff Hank Keough

Live by Night

2016
as Thomas Coughlin

Michael Collins

1996
as Liam Tobin

Mission: Impossible II

2000
as John C. McCloy

Mr. Mercedes

2017
as Bill Hodges

My Life So Far

1999
as Jim Menzies

Noreen

2010
as Con Keogh

Paddington 2

2017
as Knuckles McGinty

Perrier's Bounty

2009
as Darren Perrier

Psychic

2018
as Jeremiah

Pure Rage: The Making of '28 Days Later'

2002
as Brendan Gleeson

Safe House

2012
as David Barlow

Saltwater

2000
as Simple Simon

Sexual Healing

as Freddy Cousaert

Six Shooter

2004
as Donnelly

So You Want To Be A Pirate!

2012
as The Pirate With Gout

Song of the Sea

2014
as Conor / Mac Lir (voice)

State of the Union

2019
as Scott

Stonehearst Asylum

2014
as The Alienist

Studs

2006
as Keegan, Walter

Suffragette

2015
as Arthur Steed

Sweety Barrett

1999
as Sweety Barrett

The Ballad of Buster Scruggs

2018
as Irishman (segment "The Mortal Remains")

The Banshees of Inisherin

2022
as Colm Doherty

The Comey Rule

2020
as Donald Trump

The Company You Keep

2012
as Henry Osborne

The Cup

2011
as Dermot Weld

The Field

1990
as Quarryman

The General

1998
as Martin Cahill

The Grand Seduction

2013
as Murray French

The Guard

2011
as Sergeant Gerry Boyle

The Path to Redemption

2006
as Brendan Gleeson

The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists!

2012
as The Pirate with Gout (voice)

The Raven

2012
as Colonel Hamilton

The Secret of Kells

2009
as Abbot Cellach (voice)

The Smurfs 2

2013
as Victor Doyle

The Snapper

1993
as Lester

The Tailor of Panama

2001
as Michelangelo " Mickie " Abraxas

The Tiger's Tail

2006
as Liam O'Leary

The Tragedy of Macbeth

2021
as King Duncan

The Village

2004
as August Nicholson

This Is My Father

1999
as Garda Jim

Trespass Against Us

2017
as Colby Culter

Trojan Eddie

1996
as Ginger

Troy

2004
as Menelaos

Turbulence

1997
as Stubbs

Wild About Harry

2000
as Harry McKee

Director

Movie Psychic 2018

Host

Episode Saturday Night Live
Brendan Gleeson / Willow 		2022

Guest Star

Episode Late Night with Seth Meyers
Brendan Gleeson & Colin Farrell, Kaitlyn Dever 		2022
Episode The ONE Show
Brendan Gleeson, Christine McVie 		2017
Episode The Graham Norton Show
Episode 3 		2022
Episode The Late Late Show with James Corden
Gordon Ramsay, Brendan Gleeson, Maggie Rogers 		2017
Episode George Stroumboulopoulos Tonight
Jann Arden & Brendan Gleeson 		1970
Episode Today
July 29, 2014 		2014
Episode The Late Late Show with James Corden
Matt Bomer, Niecy Nash, Brendan Gleeson, Julia Michaels 		2017