Brendan Gleeson
Brendan Gleeson will next be seen in H is for Hawk opposite Claire Foy for Plan B, Amazon’s Spider-Noir series starring Nicolas Cage and The Good Daughter limited series on Peacock, opposite Rose Byrne. On stage he recently starred in Conor McPherson’s The Weir at the 3Olympia Theatre in Dublin and London’s West End and subsequently filmed the movie version of the play.
Receiving career best reviews for his performance in Martin McDonagh’s Banshees of Inisherin, Brendan Gleeson was Oscar, Golden Globe and BAFTA nominated for reuniting with Colin Farrell. For that role, he also won the prestigious National Board of Review, the Australian Oscar (AACTA) and the Cinema Vanguard Award from the Santa Barbara Film Festival. He will next appear opposite Joaquim Phoenix and Lady Gaga in Todd Phillip’s The Joker sequel for WB.
Recently, Mr. Gleeson earned an Emmy nomination for Season 2 of the AMC series State of the Union opposite Patricia Clarkson; starred in 3 seasons of the Direct TV/Audience Network hit series Mr. Mercedes based on Stephen King's book by the same name; earned a Golden Globe nomination for portraying Donald Trump in the CBS series A Higher Loyalty and appeared opposite Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand in Joel Coen’s Apple film The Tragedy of Macbeth, and starred as Winston Churchill in Thaddeus O'Sullivan's telefilm Into the Storm (Emmy winner, Golden Globe and BAFTA Awards nominations, in addition to winning an IFTA as well as a Satellite Award).
He starred for writer/director Martin McDonagh in Six Shooter, which won the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film. Reteaming with the filmmaker for Focus Features' In Bruges, Mr. Gleeson earned Golden Globe, British Independent Film, Satellite, IFTA, and BAFTA Award nominations for his memorable performance opposite Colin Farrell.
Moviegoers also know him from three Harry Potter movies, directed by Mike Newell and David Yates, respectively; Mr. Boorman's The Tailor of Panama, In My Country, and The Tiger's Tail; Neil Jordan's Michael Collins, The Butcher Boy, and Breakfast on Pluto; John Woo's Mission: Impossible II; Steven Spielberg's AI; Danny Boyle's 28 Days Later...; Martin Scorsese's Gangs of New York; Wolfgang Petersen's Troy; Ridley Scott's Kingdom of Heaven; Robert Zemeckis' Beowulf; Paul Greengrass' Green Zone; Rodrigo García's Albert Nobbs; Daniel Espinosa's Safe House; Robert Redford's The Company You Keep; Doug Liman's Edge of Tomorrow; and John Michael McDonagh's The Guard, for which he was again a Golden Globe, IFTA, and British Independent Film Award (BIFA) nominee, and Cavalry, for which he was named Best Actor by both IFTA and BIFA.
Other recent films include: The Coen Brothers The Ballad of Buster Scruggs for Netflix, Hampstead, opposite Diane Keaton; Paddington 2 also starring Hugh Grant, Sally Hawkins and Julie Walters; Trespass Against Us opposite Michael Fassbender; Vincent Perez's Alone in Berlin opposite Emma Thompson; Assassin's Creed once again with Michael Fassbender; the WB Ben Affleck starrer Live By Night; and Ron Howard's In the Heart of the Sea and Suffragette opposite Carey Mulligan and Meryl Streep, once again winning the BIFA Award for Best Supporting Actor.
Following small roles in such movies as Jim Sheridan's The Field, Mike Newell's Into the West, Jonathan Lewis' telefilm The Treaty, and Ron Howard's Far and Away, he landed his breakout role in Mel Gibson's Braveheart, which won five Academy Awards including Best Picture. His portrayal of real-life criminal Martin Cahill in John Boorman's The General, in tandem with his performance in Paddy Breathnach's I Went Down, brought Mr. Gleeson Best Actor honors from the Boston Society of Film Critics. The General also earned him the Irish Film & Television Award (IFTA) and the London Critics' Circle Film Award for Best Actor.
His distinctive voice has been heard as narrator of the Irish-language documentary series 1916 Seachtar na Cásca, as well as in roles in three Academy Award-nominated animated features: The Secret of Kells, directed by Tomm Moore and Nora Twomey, The Pirates! Band of Misfits, directed by Peter Lord and Jeff Newitt, and Mr. Moore's Song of the Sea.