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...

Known For

Cast Credits

H Is for Hawk

as Alisdair Macdonald

Joker: Folie à Deux

as Jackie Sullivan

A Greyhound of a Girl

as Paddy (voice)

Frankie

as Jimmy

The Ballad of Buster Scruggs

as Irishman (segment "The Mortal Remains")

Captain Morten and the Spider Queen

as Captain Vicks (voice)

Psychic

as Jeremiah

Paddington 2

as Knuckles McGinty

Hampstead

as Donald Horner

Live by Night

as Thomas Coughlin

Assassin's Creed

as Joseph Lynch

Trespass Against Us

as Colby Culter

Alone in Berlin

as Otto Quangel

In the Heart of the Sea

as Old Thomas Nickerson

Suffragette

as Arthur Steed

Pursuit

as Searbhán

Stonehearst Asylum

as The Alienist

Song of the Sea

as Conor / Mac Lir (voice)

The Grand Seduction

as Murray French

Edge of Tomorrow

as General Brigham

Calvary

as Father James Lavelle

The Smurfs 2

as Victor Doyle

The Company You Keep

as Henry Osborne

So You Want To Be A Pirate!

as The Pirate With Gout

The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists!

as The Pirate with Gout (voice)

The Raven

as Colonel Hamilton

Safe House

as David Barlow

Crew Credits

Psychic

Director