Brendan Gleeson

Brendan Gleeson

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).

Known For: Acting

Born: Dublin, Ireland, 1955-03-29

Died: null

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1990	Dear Sarah	Brendan Dowd	0
2	1990	The Field	Quarryman	71
3	1991	The Treaty	Michael Collins	60
4	1992	Far and Away	Social Club Policeman	68
5	1992	Into the West	Inspector Bolger	64
6	1993	Love Lies Bleeding	Thomas Macken	0
7	1993	The Snapper	Lester	64
8	1995	Braveheart	Hamish Campbell	79
9	1996	Trojan Eddie	Ginger	53
10	1996	Michael Collins	Liam Tobin	69
11	1996	Spaghetti Slow	Frank Ferguson	10
12	1997	A Further Gesture	Richard	47
13	1997	Turbulence	Stubbs	53
14	1997	Angela Mooney Dies Again	Barney Mooney	10
15	1997	I Went Down	Bunny Kelly	60
16	1998	The Butcher Boy	Father Bubbles	68
17	1998	The General	Martin Cahill	67
18	1999	Sweety Barrett	Sweety Barrett	56
19	1999	This Is My Father	Garda Jim	54
20	1999	Lake Placid	Sheriff Hank Keough	59
21	1999	My Life So Far	Jim Menzies	57
22	2000	Mission: Impossible II	McCloy	61
23	2000	Harrison's Flowers	Marc Stevenson	65
24	2000	Saltwater	Simple Simon	69
25	2000	Wild About Harry	Harry McKee	60
26	2001	Cáca Milis	Paul	55
27	2001	The Tailor of Panama	Mickie Abraxas	60
28	2001	A.I. Artificial Intelligence	Lord Johnson-Johnson	70
29	2002	28 Days Later	Frank	72
30	2002	Gangs of New York	Walter "Monk" McGinn	73
31	2002	Dark Blue	Jack van Meter	62
32	2003	Cold Mountain	Stobrod Thewes	69
33	2004	In My Country	De Jagar	61
34	2004	Troy	Menelaos	72
35	2004	The Village	August Nicholson	65
36	2004	Six Shooter	Donnelly	72
37	2005	Deconstructing 'The Village'	Self	47
38	2005	Kingdom of Heaven	Reynald de Chatillon	70
39	2005	Breakfast on Pluto	John Joe Kenny	72
40	2005	Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire	Alastor "Mad-Eye" Moody	78
41	2006	Studs	Walter Keegan	50
42	2006	The Path to Redemption	Self	80
43	2006	The Tiger's Tail	Liam O'Leary	58
44	2007	Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix	Alastor "Mad-Eye" Moody	77
45	2007	Black Irish	Desmond McKay	65
46	2007	Beowulf	Wiglaf	59
47	2008	In Bruges	Ken	75
48	2009	The Secret of Kells	Abbot Cellach (voice)	74
49	2009	Into the Storm	Winston Churchill	64
50	2009	Perrier's Bounty	Darren Perrier	58
51	2010	Green Zone	Martin Brown	65
52	2010	Noreen	Con Keogh	78
53	2010	Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1	Alastor "Mad-Eye" Moody	77
54	2011	The Guard	Sergeant Gerry Boyle	70
55	2011	The Cup	Dermot Weld	54
56	2011	Albert Nobbs	Dr. Holloran	63
57	2012	Safe House	David Barlow	65
58	2012	The Raven	Colonel Hamilton	63
59	2012	The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists!	The Pirate with Gout (voice)	65
60	2012	So You Want To Be A Pirate!	The Pirate With Gout	63
61	2012	The Company You Keep	Henry Osborne	62
62	2013	The Smurfs 2	Victor Doyle	57
63	2014	Calvary	Father James Lavelle	71
64	2014	Edge of Tomorrow	General Brigham	76
65	2014	The Grand Seduction	Murray French	67
66	2014	Song of the Sea	Conor / Mac Lir (voice)	80
67	2014	Stonehearst Asylum	The Alienist	69
68	2015	Pursuit	Searbhán	40
69	2015	Suffragette	Arthur Steed	72
70	2015	In the Heart of the Sea	Old Thomas Nickerson	68
71	2016	Atlantic	Narrator	70
72	2016	Alone in Berlin	Otto Quangel	67
73	2016	Trespass Against Us	Colby Culter	58
74	2016	Assassin's Creed	Joseph Lynch	54
75	2016	Live by Night	Thomas Coughlin	63
76	2017	Hampstead	Donald Horner	60
77	2017	Paddington 2	Knuckles McGinty	75
78	2018	The Ballad of Buster Scruggs	Irishman (segment "The Mortal Remains")	71
79	2019	Frankie	Jimmy	48
80	2019	Lost Lives		60
81	2021	Riverdance: The Animated Adventure	Huntsman (voice)	60
82	2021	The Tragedy of Macbeth	Duncan	69
83	2024	Joker: Folie à Deux	Jackie Sullivan	54
84		H Is for Hawk	Alisdair Macdonald	0
85	2022	The Dead Zoo	Narrator	0
86	2024	Brendan Gleeson's Farewell to Hughes's	Self	0
87		Sexual Healing	Freddy Cousaert	0
88	2018	Psychic	Jeremiah	50
89	2018	Captain Morten and the Spider Queen	Captain Vicks (voice)	44
90	2022	The Banshees of Inisherin	Colm Doherty	75
91	2023	On the Red Carpet Presents: The Banshees of Inisherin	Self	20
92		The Honey Wars	(voice)	0
93		A Hero's Journey: The Making of Beowulf	Wiglaf	0
94	2023	A Greyhound of a Girl	Paddy (voice)	70

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1944	Golden Globe Awards	Self - Nominee	72
2	1975	Saturday Night Live	Self - Host	70
3	2003	Jakers! The Adventures of Piggley Winks	Ferny Toro (voice)	59
4	2007	The Graham Norton Show	Self	72
5	2010	1916 Seachtar na Cásca	Self - Narrator (voice)	37
6	2013	1916 Seachtar Dearmadta	Glór	20
7	2014	Late Night with Seth Meyers	Self	53
8	2015	The Late Late Show with James Corden	Self - Guest	53
9	2015	The Late Show with Stephen Colbert	Self	64
10	2017	Mr. Mercedes	Detective Bill Hodges	71
11	2019	State of the Union	Scott	71
12	2020	The Comey Rule	Donald Trump	69
13	2021	The Burren: Heart of Stone	Narrator	0
14	2021	Frank of Ireland	Liam	64
15	2022	The Irish Civil War	Narrator	85
16		Spider-Noir		0
17		The Good Daughter	Rusty	0
18	2025	Kerry: Tides of Time	Narrator	0

Brendan Gleeson

Film

Television