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Brendan Gleeson

Brendan Gleeson

Birthday: 1955-03-29 | Place of Birth: Dublin, Ireland

Brendan Gleeson (born 29 March 1955) 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 four times for a Golden Globe Award. He is best known for his performance as Alastor Moody in the Harry Potter films (2005–2010), as Pól in Cáca Milis (2001) and for his supporting roles in films such as Braveheart (1995), Michael Collins (1996), A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001), Gangs of New York (2002), Kingdom of Heaven (2005), Cold Mountain (2003), Troy (2004), The Smurfs 2 (2013), Suffragette (2015), Paddington 2 (2017), and The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018), as well as leading roles in films such as 28 Days Later (2002), In Bruges (2008), The Guard (2011), The Grand Seduction (2013), and Calvary (2014). He starred as detective Bill Hodges in the television adaptation of Stephen King's Mr. Mercedes, Finders Keepers and End of Watch. He also starred as US President Donald Trump in the miniseries The Comey Rule (2020). He won an Emmy Award in 2009 for his portrayal of Winston Churchill in the television film Into the Storm. 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.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2022
2021
The Tragedy of Macbeth

as    Duncan

2021
Riverdance: The Animated Adventure

as    Huntsman (voice)

2021
The Burren: Heart of Stone

as    Narrator

2020
The Comey Rule

as    Donald Trump

2019
Hampstead

as    Donald Horner

2019
Frankie

as    Jimmy

2019
State of the Union

as    Scott

2018
Captain Morten and the Spider Queen

as    Captain Vicks (voice)

2018
Paddington 2

as    Knuckles McGinty

2017
Trespass Against Us

as    Colby Culter

2017
Mr. Mercedes

as    Detective Bill Hodges

2017
Alone in Berlin

as    Otto Quangel

2016
Assassin's Creed

as    Joseph Lynch

2016
Live by Night

as    Thomas Coughlin

2015
Suffragette

as    Arthur Steed

2015
In the Heart of the Sea

as    Old Thomas Nickerson

2015
Pursuit

as    Searbhán

2014
Song of the Sea

as    Conor / Mac Lir (voice)

2014
Calvary

as    Father James Lavelle

2014
Edge of Tomorrow

as    General Brigham

2014
The Grand Seduction

as    Murray French

2014
Stonehearst Asylum

as    The Alienist

2013
The Company You Keep

as    Henry Osborne

2013
The Smurfs 2

as    Victor Doyle

2012
The Raven

as    Colonel Hamilton

2012
Safe House

as    David Barlow

2012
The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists!

as    Pirate with Gout (voice)

2012
So You Want To Be A Pirate!

as    The Pirate With Gout