Brendan Gleeson

Brendan Gleeson

1955-03-29 Dublin, Ireland 95 Credits

Biography

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 Pott...

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Joker: Folie à Deux

Joker: Folie à Deux

2024

as Jackie Sullivan

5.4
Acting

While struggling with his dual identity, Arthur Fleck not only stumbles upon true love, but also finds the music that's always been inside him.

Brendan Gleeson's Farewell to Hughes's

Brendan Gleeson's Farewell to Hughes's

2024

as Self

Acting

In 2021, Hughes’s pub closed its doors for the last time. In January 2022, talented fiddle player, actor, and Hughes regular Brendan Gleeson meets mus...

A Greyhound of a Girl

A Greyhound of a Girl

2023

as Paddy (voice)

7.0
Acting

Mary is a 12-year-old girl with a passion for cooking, absorbing information from her grandmother, who is a wonderful cook. However, Mary and her fami...

On the Red Carpet Presents: The Banshees of Inisherin

On the Red Carpet Presents: The Banshees of Inisherin

2023

as Self

2.0
Acting

On The Red Carpet presents an in-depth look at the making of The Banshees of Inisherin.

The Banshees of Inisherin

The Banshees of Inisherin

2022

as Colm Doherty

7.5
Acting

Two lifelong friends find themselves at an impasse when one abruptly ends their relationship, with alarming consequences for both of them.

The Dead Zoo

2022

as Narrator

Acting

The story, narrated by Brendan Gleeson, of how the curators of the Dead Zoo, Dublin's beloved Natural History Museum, managed to get two enormous whal...

The Tragedy of Macbeth

The Tragedy of Macbeth

2021

as Duncan

6.9
Acting

Macbeth, the Thane of Glamis, receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of Scotland. Consumed by ambition and spurre...

Riverdance: The Animated Adventure

Riverdance: The Animated Adventure

2021

as Huntsman (voice)

6.0
Acting

A young Irish boy named Keegan and Spanish girl named Moya journey into a magical world of the Megaloceros Giganteus who teach them to appreciate Rive...

Lost Lives

Lost Lives

2019

6.0
Acting

This poignant testament to the physical and emotional cost of war, centres on the Troubles in Northern Ireland.

Frankie

Frankie

2019

as Jimmy

4.8
Acting

About three generations of a family grappling with a life-changing experience during one day of a vacation in the historic town of Sintra, Portugal.

The Ballad of Buster Scruggs

The Ballad of Buster Scruggs

2018

as Irishman (segment "The Mortal Remains")

7.1
Acting

Vignettes weaving together the stories of six individuals in the old West at the end of the Civil War. Following the tales of a sharp-shooting songste...

Captain Morten and the Spider Queen

Captain Morten and the Spider Queen

2018

as Captain Vicks (voice)

4.4
Acting

Morten, a ten-year-old boy, is shrunk to the size of an insect due to a magical fog gun. Soon, he finds himself on his makeshift model ship sailing th...

Psychic

Psychic

2018

as Jeremiah

5.0
Acting

A light and dark tale of family, showmanship and the suspension of disbelief.

Psychic

Psychic

2018

Producer, Director

5.0
Producing Directing

A light and dark tale of family, showmanship and the suspension of disbelief.

Paddington 2

Paddington 2

2017

as Knuckles McGinty

7.5
Acting

Paddington, now happily settled with the Browns, picks up a series of odd jobs to buy the perfect present for his Aunt Lucy, but it is stolen.

Hampstead

Hampstead

2017

as Donald Horner

6.0
Acting

Emily Walters is an American widow living a peaceful, uneventful existence in the idyllic Hampstead Village of London, when she meets local recluse, ...

Live by Night

Live by Night

2016

as Thomas Coughlin

6.3
Acting

A group of Boston-bred gangsters set up shop in balmy Florida during the Prohibition era, facing off against the competition and the Ku Klux Klan.

Assassin's Creed

Assassin's Creed

2016

as Joseph Lynch

5.4
Acting

Through a technology that unlocks the generic memories of his ancestor in 15th century Spain, Callum Lynch discovers he is a descendant of an ancient ...

Trespass Against Us

Trespass Against Us

2016

as Colby Culter

5.8
Acting

Three generations of the rowdy Cutler family live as outlaws in some of Britain's richest countryside – hunting hares, ram-raiding stately homes, and ...

Alone in Berlin

Alone in Berlin

2016

as Otto Quangel

6.7
Acting

Berlin in June of 1940. While Nazi propaganda celebrates the regime’s victory over France, a kitchen-cum-living room in Prenzlauer Berg is filled with...

Atlantic

Atlantic

2016

as Narrator

7.0
Acting

Documentary about the two big resources in the North Atlantic, fish and oil, and the impact of their exploitation on the environment in various countr...

In the Heart of the Sea

In the Heart of the Sea

2015

as Old Thomas Nickerson

6.8
Acting

In the winter of 1820, the New England whaling ship Essex is assaulted by something no one could believe—a whale of mammoth size and will, and an almo...

Suffragette

Suffragette

2015

as Arthur Steed

7.2
Acting

Based on true events about the foot soldiers of the early feminist movement, women who were forced underground to pursue a dangerous game of cat and m...

Pursuit

Pursuit

2015

as Searbhán

4.0
Acting

Pursuit is a modern take on Irish mythology, adapting the legend of Diarmuid and Gráinne and transforming it into a road movie and gangster thriller f...

Stonehearst Asylum

Stonehearst Asylum

2014

as The Alienist

6.9
Acting

An Oxford Medical School graduate takes a position at a mental institution and soon becomes obsessed with a female mental patient, but he has no idea ...

Song of the Sea

Song of the Sea

2014

as Conor / Mac Lir (voice)

8.0
Acting

The story of the last Seal Child’s journey home. After their mother’s disappearance, Ben and Saoirse are sent to live with Granny in the city. When th...

The Grand Seduction

The Grand Seduction

2014

as Murray French

6.7
Acting

A small fishing village must procure a local doctor to secure a lucrative business contract. When unlikely candidate and big city doctor Paul Lewis la...

Edge of Tomorrow

Edge of Tomorrow

2014

as General Brigham

7.6
Acting

Major Bill Cage is an officer who has never seen a day of combat when he is unceremoniously demoted and dropped into combat. Cage is killed within min...

Calvary

Calvary

2014

as Father James Lavelle

7.1
Acting

After being threatened during a confession, a good-natured priest must battle the dark forces closing in around him.

The Smurfs 2

The Smurfs 2

2013

as Victor Doyle

5.7
Acting

The evil wizard Gargamel creates a couple of mischievous Smurf-like creatures called the Naughties that he hopes will let him harness the all-powerful...

The Company You Keep

The Company You Keep

2012

as Henry Osborne

6.2
Acting

A former Weather Underground activist goes on the run from a journalist who discovers his identity.

So You Want To Be A Pirate!

So You Want To Be A Pirate!

2012

as The Pirate With Gout

6.3
Acting

With the help of his trusted dodo Polly, the Pirate Captain presents fun-loving and hilarious tips and advice on pirating. Learn how to remember where...

The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists!

The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists!

2012

as The Pirate with Gout (voice)

6.5
Acting

The enthusiastic Pirate Captain, along with his rag-tag crew, sets out to beat his bitter rivals. The chaotic adventure takes them from exotic shores ...

The Raven

The Raven

2012

as Colonel Hamilton

6.3
Acting

A fictionalized account of the last days of Edgar Allan Poe's life, in which the poet is in pursuit of a serial killer whose murders mirror those in t...

Safe House

Safe House

2012

as David Barlow

6.5
Acting

A dangerous CIA renegade resurfaces after a decade on the run. When the safe house he's remanded to is attacked by mercenaries, a rookie operative esc...

Albert Nobbs

Albert Nobbs

2011

as Dr. Holloran

6.3
Acting

Albert Nobbs struggles to survive in late 19th century Ireland, where women aren't encouraged to be independent. Posing as a man, so she can work as a...

The Cup

The Cup

2011

as Dermot Weld

5.4
Acting

At the heart of this true story is Damien Oliver, a young jockey who loses his only brother in a tragic racing accident, hauntingly reflecting of the ...

The Guard

The Guard

2011

as Sergeant Gerry Boyle

7.0
Acting

When a small-town Irish cop with a crass personality is partnered with a straight-laced FBI agent to bust an international drug-trafficking ring, they...

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1

2010

as Alastor "Mad-Eye" Moody

7.7
Acting

Harry, Ron and Hermione walk away from their last year at Hogwarts to find and destroy the remaining Horcruxes, putting an end to Voldemort's bid for ...

Noreen

Noreen

2010

as Con Keogh

7.8
Acting

Two guards are headed to a house where there has been a shot due to a statement of a neighbour who called the police. What can possibly happen there? ...

Green Zone

Green Zone

2010

as Martin Brown

6.5
Acting

During the U.S.-led occupation of Baghdad in 2003, Chief Warrant Officer Roy Miller and his team of Army inspectors are dispatched to find weapons of ...

Perrier's Bounty

Perrier's Bounty

2009

as Darren Perrier

5.8
Acting

A gangster named Perrier looks to exact his revenge on a trio of fugitives responsible for the accidental death of one of his cronies.

Into the Storm

Into the Storm

2009

as Winston Churchill

6.4
Acting

This powerful follow-up to “The Gathering Storm” follows Churchill from 1940 to 1945 as he guided his beleaguered nation through the crucible of the w...

The Secret of Kells

The Secret of Kells

2009

as Abbot Cellach (voice)

7.4
Acting

Adventure awaits 12 year old Brendan who must fight Vikings and a serpent god to find a crystal and complete the legendary Book of Kells. In order to ...

In Bruges

In Bruges

2008

as Ken

7.5
Acting

Ray and Ken, two hit men, are in Bruges, Belgium, waiting for their next mission. While they are there they have time to think and discuss their previ...

Beowulf

Beowulf

2007

as Wiglaf

5.9
Acting

A 6th-century Scandinavian warrior named Beowulf embarks on a mission to slay the man-like ogre, Grendel.

Black Irish

Black Irish

2007

as Desmond McKay

6.5
Acting

In South Boston, where Irish roots run deep and Catholic tradition reigns, two brothers face similar hardships but lead far different lives. While old...

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

2007

as Alastor "Mad-Eye" Moody

7.7
Acting

Returning for his fifth year of study at Hogwarts, Harry is stunned to find that his warnings about the return of Lord Voldemort have been ignored. Le...

The Tiger's Tail

The Tiger's Tail

2006

as Liam O'Leary

5.8
Acting

After a chance encounter, a Dubliner is stalked by a murderous facsimile of himself.

The Path to Redemption

The Path to Redemption

2006

as Self

8.0
Acting

From pre-production to release, we are given an exclusive look into the making of Ridley Scott's Kingdom of Heaven (2005). Interviews with the cast an...

Studs

Studs

2006

as Walter Keegan

5.0
Acting

The hot-tempered, unruly players of this pub league soccer team are in dire straits after having lost everything -- their drive, their skills and soon...

Breakfast on Pluto

Breakfast on Pluto

2005

as John Joe Kenny

7.2
Acting

In the 1970s, a young transgender woman called “Kitten” leaves her small Irish town for London in search of love, acceptance, and her long-lost mother...

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

2005

as Alastor "Mad-Eye" Moody

7.8
Acting

When Harry Potter's name emerges from the Goblet of Fire, he becomes a competitor in a grueling battle for glory among three wizarding schools—the Tri...

Kingdom of Heaven

Kingdom of Heaven

2005

as Reynald de Chatillon

7.0
Acting

After his wife dies, a blacksmith named Balian is thrust into royalty, political intrigue and bloody holy wars during the Crusades.

Deconstructing 'The Village'

Deconstructing 'The Village'

2005

as Self

4.7
Acting

In this making-of documentary, we see movie snippets, shots from the set, and interviews. We get notes from the crew and cast. We learn about the movi...

Six Shooter

Six Shooter

2004

as Donnelly

7.2
Acting

Overwhelmed by grief following the death of his wife, Donnelly shares a train carriage home with a troubled young man identified only as the 'Kid'. As...

The Village

The Village

2004

as August Nicholson

6.5
Acting

When a willful young man tries to venture beyond his sequestered Pennsylvania hamlet, his actions set off a chain of chilling incidents that will alte...

Troy

Troy

2004

as Menelaos

7.2
Acting

In year 1250 B.C. during the late Bronze age, two emerging nations begin to clash. Paris, the Trojan prince, convinces Helen, Queen of Sparta, to leav...

In My Country

In My Country

2004

as De Jagar

6.1
Acting

An American reporter and an Afrikaans poet meet and fall in love while covering South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission hearings.

Cold Mountain

Cold Mountain

2003

as Stobrod Thewes

6.9
Acting

In this classic story of love and devotion set against the backdrop of the American Civil War, a wounded Confederate soldier named W.P. Inman deserts ...

Gangs of New York

Gangs of New York

2002

as Walter "Monk" McGinn

7.3
Acting

In early 1860s New York, Irish immigrant Amsterdam Vallon is released from prison and returns to the Five Points, seeking revenge against his father's...

Dark Blue

Dark Blue

2002

as Jack van Meter

6.2
Acting

Set during the Rodney King riots, a robbery homicide investigation triggers a series of events that will cause a corrupt LAPD officer to question his ...

28 Days Later

28 Days Later

2002

as Frank

7.2
Acting

Twenty-eight days after a killer virus was accidentally unleashed from a British research facility, a small group of London survivors are caught in a ...

A.I. Artificial Intelligence

A.I. Artificial Intelligence

2001

as Lord Johnson-Johnson

7.0
Acting

David, a robotic boy—the first of his kind programmed to love—is adopted as a test case by a Cybertronics employee and his wife. Though he gradually b...

The Tailor of Panama

The Tailor of Panama

2001

as Mickie Abraxas

6.0
Acting

A British spy is banished to Panama after having an affair with an ambassador's mistress. Once there he makes connection with a local tailor with a ne...

Cáca Milis

Cáca Milis

2001

as Paul

5.5
Acting

A chance encounter on a train between a young woman and a blind man.

Wild About Harry

Wild About Harry

2000

as Harry McKee

6.0
Acting

A sleazy chef is forced to face the truth about the man he has become and realizes that he has the chance to begin again.

Saltwater

Saltwater

2000

as Simple Simon

6.9
Acting

An Irish-Italian café owner in a seaside town faces a life crisis, as his wife recently died and he's severely in debt. His oldest son tries to help, ...

Harrison's Flowers

Harrison's Flowers

2000

as Marc Stevenson

6.5
Acting

1991. Harrison Lloyd, a renowned photojournalist covering the war in Yugoslavia, is reported missing. Sarah, his wife, convinced that he is not dead, ...

Mission: Impossible II

Mission: Impossible II

2000

as McCloy

6.1
Acting

With computer genius Luther Stickell at his side and a beautiful thief on his mind, agent Ethan Hunt races across Australia and Spain to stop a former...

My Life So Far

My Life So Far

1999

as Jim Menzies

5.7
Acting

A memoir of the lives of a family growing up on a post World War I British estate headed up by a strong disciplinarian, her daughter, her inventor hus...

Lake Placid

Lake Placid

1999

as Sheriff Hank Keough

5.9
Acting

When a man is eaten alive by an unknown creature, the local Game Warden teams up with a paleontologist from New York to find the beast. Add to the mix...

This Is My Father

This Is My Father

1999

as Garda Jim

5.4
Acting

When schoolteacher Kieran Johnson discovers that his father was not a French sailor (as he had been led to believe) but rather an Irish farmer, he loo...

Sweety Barrett

Sweety Barrett

1999

as Sweety Barrett

5.6
Acting

Sweety Barrett is a giant of a man with the mind of a child. An easy target in a corrupt world, Sweety becomes embroiled in a smuggling operation unle...

The General

The General

1998

as Martin Cahill

6.7
Acting

The real-life story of Dublin folk hero and criminal Martin Cahill, who pulled off two daring robberies in Ireland with his team, but attracted unwant...

The Butcher Boy

The Butcher Boy

1998

as Father Bubbles

6.8
Acting

Francie and Joe live the usual playful, fantasy filled childhoods of normal boys. However, with a violent, alcoholic father and a manic depressive, su...

I Went Down

I Went Down

1997

as Bunny Kelly

6.0
Acting

Fresh out of prison, Git rescues a former best friend (now living with Git's girlfriend) from a beating at the hands of loan sharks. He's now in troub...

Angela Mooney Dies Again

Angela Mooney Dies Again

1997

as Barney Mooney

1.0
Acting

Americans want to take over the Irish creamery Angela Mooney's husband built up. Everybody in town is delighted, with the exception of Mrs Mooney, who...

Turbulence

Turbulence

1997

as Stubbs

5.3
Acting

On a flight transporting dangerous convicts, murderer Ryan Weaver manages to break free and cause complete chaos throughout the plane. As various peop...

A Further Gesture

A Further Gesture

1997

as Richard

4.7
Acting

Dowd, an IRA prisoner in the H-blocks, is gloomily facing his sentence, until he joins a comrade in a risky escape. Dowd begins a new life in New York...

Spaghetti Slow

Spaghetti Slow

1996

as Frank Ferguson

1.0
Acting

A wealthy young Italian man is sent to Ireland to learn English, only to fall in love with the daughter of the host family he is staying with.

Michael Collins

Michael Collins

1996

as Liam Tobin

6.9
Acting

Michael Collins plays a crucial role in the establishment of the Irish Free State in the 1920s, but becomes vilified by those hoping to create a compl...

Trojan Eddie

Trojan Eddie

1996

as Ginger

5.3
Acting

Trojan Eddie sells stolen goods for John Power, aging godfather of a local network of Irish gypsies, known as "travelers." Having done time rather tha...

Braveheart

Braveheart

1995

as Hamish Campbell

7.9
Acting

Enraged at the slaughter of Murron, his new bride and childhood love, Scottish warrior William Wallace slays a platoon of the local English lord's sol...

The Snapper

The Snapper

1993

as Lester

6.4
Acting

Sharon Curley is a 20-year-old living with her parents and many brothers and sisters in Dublin. When she gets pregnant and refuses to name the father,...

Love Lies Bleeding

Love Lies Bleeding

1993

as Thomas Macken

Acting

Conn, a member of the IRA and a former hunger striker, is serving a life sentence for murder. During peace talks, he is released on a 24-hour parole a...

Into the West

Into the West

1992

as Inspector Bolger

6.4
Acting

Accused of a crime they didn't commit, two city kids and a magical horse are about to become the coolest outlaws ever to ride Into The West.

Far and Away

Far and Away

1992

as Social Club Policeman

6.8
Acting

A young couple escapes Ireland, dreaming of a new life during the land giveaway in Oklahoma. As they struggle to survive against betrayal and harsh wi...

The Treaty

The Treaty

1991

as Michael Collins

6.0
Acting

How the Anglo-Irish Treaty between the unrecognised Irish Republic, represented by Michael Collins, and the British government was concluded after hig...

The Field

The Field

1990

as Quarryman

7.1
Acting

"Bull" McCabe's family has farmed a field for generations, sacrificing much in the name of the land. When the widow who owns the field decides to sell...

Dear Sarah

Dear Sarah

1990

as Brendan Dowd

Acting

Giuseppe Conlon and his son Gerry are convicted of an IRA bombing as part of the Maguire Seven in 1976. Giuseppe diligently writes his wife Sarah as s...

H Is for Hawk

H Is for Hawk

N/A

as Alisdair Macdonald

Acting

After losing her beloved father, Helen finds herself saved by an unlikely friendship with a stubbor hawk named Mabel. Through the bond, Helen rediscov...

Sexual Healing

N/A

as Freddy Cousaert

Acting

A look at the last years of Marvin Gaye's life, from his parting ways with Motown and self-imposed exile to Europe, to his relationship with Freddy Co...

The Honey Wars

The Honey Wars

N/A

as (voice)

Acting

Follows Hope, a young girl with a secret ability to see the invisible threads that connect the magical world to our own. Recently uprooted by the loss...

A Hero's Journey: The Making of Beowulf

N/A

as Wiglaf

Acting

A behind the scenes look at the production of Beowulf