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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.

English
Filmography

Joker: Folie à Deux

2024

The Banshees of Inisherin

2022
as Colm Doherty

The Tragedy of Macbeth

2021
as King Duncan

The Comey Rule

2020
as Donald Trump

Frankie

2019
as Jimmy

State of the Union

2019
as Scott

Psychic

2018
as Jeremiah

Captain Morten and the Spider Queen

2018
as (voice)

The Ballad of Buster Scruggs

2018
as Irishman (segment "The Mortal Remains")

Mr. Mercedes

2017
as Bill Hodges

Trespass Against Us

2017
as Colby Culter

Hampstead

2017
as Donald Horner

Paddington 2

2017
as Knuckles McGinty

Assassin's Creed

2016
as Joseph Lynch

Live by Night

2016
as Thomas Coughlin

Alone in Berlin

2016
as Otto Quangel

Suffragette

2015
as Arthur Steed

In the Heart of the Sea

2015
as Old Thomas Nickerson

Stonehearst Asylum

2014
as The Alienist

Edge of Tomorrow

2014
as General Brigham

Song of the Sea

2014
as Conor / Mac Lir (voice)

Calvary

2014
as Father James Lavelle

1916 Seachtar Dearmadta

2013
as Glór

The Grand Seduction

2013
as Murray French

The Smurfs 2

2013
as Victor Doyle

The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists!

2012
as The Pirate with Gout (voice)

So You Want To Be A Pirate!

2012
as The Pirate With Gout

The Raven

2012
as Colonel Hamilton

The Company You Keep

2012
as Henry Osborne

Safe House

2012
as David Barlow

The Cup

2011
as Dermot Weld

The Guard

2011
as Sergeant Gerry Boyle

Albert Nobbs

2011
as Dr. Holloran

Noreen

2010
as Con Keogh

Into the Storm

2010
as Winston Churchill

Green Zone

2010
as Martin Brown

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1

2010
as Alastor Moody

Braveheart: A Look Back

2009
as Brendan Gleeson

Perrier's Bounty

2009
as Darren Perrier

The Secret of Kells

2009
as Abbot Cellach (voice)

In Bruges

2008
as Ken Daley

Black Irish

2007
as Desmond McKay

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

2007
as Alastor Moody

Beowulf

2007
as Wiglaf

The Path to Redemption

2006
as Brendan Gleeson

Studs

2006
as Keegan, Walter

The Tiger's Tail

2006
as Liam O'Leary

Kingdom of Heaven

2005
as Reynald de Chatillon

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

2005
as Alastor Moody

Breakfast on Pluto

2005
as John-Joe

Country of My Skull

2004
as De Jagar

Troy

2004
as Menelaos

Six Shooter

2004
as Donnelly

The Village

2004
as August Nicholson

Cold Mountain

2003
as Stobrod Thewes

Pure Rage: The Making of '28 Days Later'

2002
as Brendan Gleeson

28 Days Later

2002
as Frank

Dark Blue

2002
as Jack van Meter

Gangs of New York

2002
as Walter "Monk" McGinn

A.I. Artificial Intelligence

2001
as Lord Johnson-Johnson

The Tailor of Panama

2001
as Michelangelo " Mickie " Abraxas

Cáca Milis

2001
as Paul

Harrison's Flowers

2000
as Marc Stevenson

Mission: Impossible II

2000
as John C. McCloy

Wild About Harry

2000
as Harry McKee

Saltwater

2000
as Simple Simon

Sweety Barrett

1999
as Sweety Barrett

This Is My Father

1999
as Garda Jim

Lake Placid

1999
as Sheriff Hank Keough

My Life So Far

1999
as Jim Menzies

The General

1998
as Martin Cahill

Turbulence

1997
as Stubbs

I Went Down

1997
as Bunny Kelly

Michael Collins

1996
as Liam Tobin

Trojan Eddie

1996
as Ginger

Braveheart

1995
as Hamish Campbell

The Snapper

1993
as Lester

Into the West

1992
as Inspector Bolger

The Field

1990
as Quarryman

Sexual Healing

as Freddy Cousaert

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