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Acting

Brendan Gleeson

Career: Active from 1990 to 2026, with up to 5 main titles a year.

Leading roles: 57
top three billing

Average score: 61/100

Highest rated: Song of the Sea
88/100

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 80 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

Brendan Gleeson Catalog average

Rarely in their work

Pop Culture
1.1, average 2.2
Showbiz
0.4, average 1.2

Main genres

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Recurring tags

Character-Driven 9
Character Study 8
Political Intrigue 6
Historical Drama 6
Irish History 6
Social Commentary 5
Gritty Realism 4
Existential Dread 3
Educational & Informative 3
Dark Humor 3
Tragic Heroism 3
World War II 2

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

109

Type

Role

Score

Decade

Genre

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6 titles

Blood Runs Coal

as Joseph Yablonski

as Freddy Cousaert

as Jack

Far Cry

TV show

A Hero's Journey: The Making of Beowulf

as Wiglaf

The Honey Wars

as (voice)

2020s

14 titles · average score 68

Spider-Noir

81

TV show · as Finn 'Silvermane' Byrne

H Is for Hawk

70

as Dad

Kerry: Tides of Time

TV show · as Narrator

Joker: Folie à Deux

42

as Jackie Sullivan

The Banshees of Inisherin

83

as Colm Doherty

The Irish Civil War

TV show · as Narrator

as Narrator

The Tragedy of Macbeth

80

as Duncan

The Burren: Heart of Stone

TV show · as Narrator

Frank of Ireland

56

TV show · as Liam

Riverdance: The Animated Adventure

56

as Huntsman (voice)

The Comey Rule

65

TV show · as Donald Trump

2010s

35 titles · average score 62

State of the Union

80

TV show · as Scott

Mr. Mercedes

77

TV show · as Bill Hodges

Trespass Against Us

51

as Colby Culter

Alone in Berlin

58

as Otto Quangel

Suffragette

68

as Arthur Steed

In the Heart of the Sea

54

as Old Thomas Nickerson

Edge of Tomorrow

80

as General Brigham

Song of the Sea

88

as Conor / Mac Lir (voice)

Calvary

78

as Father James Lavelle

The Grand Seduction

63

as Murray French

The Guard

80

as Sergeant Gerry Boyle

Green Zone

60

as Martin Brown

2000s

27 titles · average score 63

The Secret of Kells

81

as Abbot Cellach (voice)

Into the Storm

65

as Winston Churchill

In Bruges

78

as Ken

Beowulf

61

as Wiglaf (Voice)

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

80

as Alastor 'Mad-Eye' Moody

Breakfast on Pluto

65

as John Joe Kenny

Kingdom of Heaven

62

as Reynald de Chatillon

Troy

63

as Menelaus

The Village

53

as August Nicholson

28 Days Later

78

as Frank

Mission: Impossible II

56

as McCloy

Harrison's Flowers

58

as Marc Stevenson

1990s

23 titles · average score 62

Lake Placid

47

as Sheriff Hank Keough

Sweety Barrett

61

as Sweety Barrett

The General

74

as Martin Cahill

Turbulence

30

as Stubbs

I Went Down

65

as Bunny Kelly

Angela Mooney Dies Again

as Barney Mooney

Michael Collins

70

as Liam Tobin

Spaghetti Slow

as Frank Ferguson

Braveheart

76

as Hamish Campbell

The Lifeboat

TV show · as Leslie Parry

The Treaty

72

as Michael Collins

The Field

59

as Quarryman

1980s

4 titles · average score 76

The Simpsons

83

TV show · as Joe Quimby Sr. (voice)

TV show · as Farmer

ScreenPlay

TV show · as Thomas Macken

Screen Two

68

TV show · as Lester