Both a strong leading presence and compelling character performer, actor Gabriel Byrne emerged from his native Ireland to become one of the more sought-after talents in the United States. Though he had been acting for over a decade across the Atlantic, Byrne did not begin making a name for himself in America until his dark, brooding performance as an Irish mobster in the Coen Brothers’ deft “Miller’s Crossing” (1990). But it was his turn as a former corrupt cop drawn into a heist-gone-bad in “The Usual Suspects” (1995) that propelled Byrne to stardom. Ever since, he fluctuated with ease
