Brendan Gleeson
Acting
Brendan Gleeson (born 29 March 1955) is an Irish actor and film director. He is the recipient of three IFTA Awards, two BIFA's, and a Primetime Emmy Award and has been nominated twice for a BAFTA Award, five times for a Golden Globe Award and once for an Academy Award. In 2020, he was listed at number 18 on The Irish Times list of Ireland's greatest film actors. He is the father of actors Domhnall Gleeson and Brian Gleeson. He is best known for his performance as Alastor Moody in the Harry Potter films (2005–2010). He is also known for his supporting roles in films such as Braveheart (1995), Michael Collins (1996), 28 Days Later (2002), Gangs of New York (2002), Cold Mountain (2003), Troy (2004), Suffragette (2015), Paddington 2 (2017), The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018), and The Tragedy of Macbeth (2021). He is also known for his leading roles in films such as The General (1998), In Bruges (2008), The Guard (2011), Calvary (2014), Frankie (2019), and The Banshees of Inisherin (2022). He received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for the lattermost film. He won an Primetime Emmy Award in 2009 for his portrayal of Winston Churchill in the television film Into the Storm. He also received a Golden Globe Award nomination for his performance as Donald Trump in the Showtime series The Comey Rule (2020). From 2017 to 2019 he starred in the crime series Mr. Mercedes. He received an Emmy Award nomination for Stephen Frears' Sundance TV series State of the Union (2022).
H Is for Hawk
Alisdair Macdonald
Joker: Folie à Deux
Jackie Sullivan
Brendan Gleeson's Farewell to Hughes's
Self
A Greyhound of a Girl
Paddy (voice)
On the Red Carpet Presents: The Banshees of Inisherin
Self
The Banshees of Inisherin
Colm Doherty
The Dead Zoo
Narrator
The Tragedy of Macbeth
Duncan
Riverdance: The Animated Adventure
Huntsman (voice)
Lost Lives
Frankie
Jimmy
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
Irishman (segment "The Mortal Remains")
Captain Morten and the Spider Queen
Captain Vicks (voice)
Psychic
Jeremiah
Paddington 2
Knuckles McGinty
Hampstead
Donald Horner
Live by Night
Thomas Coughlin
Assassin's Creed
Joseph Lynch
Trespass Against Us
Colby Culter
Alone in Berlin
Otto Quangel
Atlantic
Narrator
In the Heart of the Sea
Old Thomas Nickerson
Suffragette
Arthur Steed
Pursuit
Searbhán
Stonehearst Asylum
The Alienist
Song of the Sea
Conor / Mac Lir (voice)
The Grand Seduction
Murray French
Edge of Tomorrow
General Brigham
Calvary
Father James Lavelle
The Smurfs 2
Victor Doyle
The Company You Keep
Henry Osborne
So You Want To Be A Pirate!
The Pirate With Gout
The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists!
The Pirate with Gout (voice)
The Raven
Colonel Hamilton
Safe House
David Barlow
Albert Nobbs
Dr. Holloran
The Cup
Dermot Weld
The Guard
Sergeant Gerry Boyle
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
Alastor 'Mad-Eye' Moody
Noreen
Con Keogh
Green Zone
Martin Brown
Perrier's Bounty
Darren Perrier
Into the Storm
Winston Churchill
The Secret of Kells
Abbot Cellach (voice)
In Bruges
Ken
Beowulf
Wiglaf
Black Irish
Desmond McKay
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Alastor 'Mad-Eye' Moody
The Tiger's Tail
Liam O'Leary
The Path to Redemption
Self
Studs
Walter Keegan
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Alastor 'Mad-Eye' Moody
Breakfast on Pluto
John Joe Kenny
Kingdom of Heaven
Reynald de Chatillon
Deconstructing 'The Village'
Self
Six Shooter
Donnelly
The Village
August Nicholson
Troy
Menelaos
In My Country
De Jagar
Cold Mountain
Stobrod Thewes
Dark Blue
Jack van Meter
Gangs of New York
Walter 'Monk' McGinn
28 Days Later
Frank
A.I. Artificial Intelligence
Lord Johnson-Johnson
Cáca Milis
Paul
The Tailor of Panama
Mickie Abraxas
Wild About Harry
Harry McKee
Saltwater
Simple Simon
Harrison's Flowers
Marc Stevenson
Mission: Impossible II
McCloy
My Life So Far
Jim Menzies
Lake Placid
Sheriff Hank Keough
This Is My Father
Garda Jim
Sweety Barrett
Sweety Barrett
The General
Martin Cahill
The Butcher Boy
Father Bubbles
Before I Sleep
John Harte
I Went Down
Bunny Kelly
Angela Mooney Dies Again
Barney Mooney
Turbulence
Stubbs
A Further Gesture
Richard
Spaghetti Slow
Frank Ferguson
Michael Collins
Liam Tobin
Trojan Eddie
Ginger
Braveheart
Hamish Campbell
The Snapper
Lester
Love Lies Bleeding
Thomas Macken
Into the West
Inspector Bolger
Far and Away
Social Club Policeman
The Treaty
Michael Collins
The Field
Quarryman
Dear Sarah
Brendan Dowd