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Pictures in My Head

By: Gabriel Byrne
Narrated by: Gabriel Byrne
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Summary

Dublin-born actor Gabriel Byrne shares his life in this frank and absorbing collection of memories and episodes. He leads you from his youth through his career on stage and screen and his current work as a producer and actor. Along the way, he gives his impression of Hollywood, New York, and his native Ireland, and provides insights on famous actors such as Richard Burton. His unique narrative style, a blend of colloquial dialogue with evocative descriptions, provides an intimate account of the man - and the writer - behind the actor's many faces.
©1994 by Gabriel Byrne (P)1995 Dove Audio, Inc.
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About the Creator and Performer - Gabriel Byrne

About the Creator and Performer

Gabriel Byrne has starred in more than 80 feature films and has worked with some of cinema's leading directors.
Movies include Excalibur, Miller's Crossing, Into the West, The Point of No Return, Little Women, Spider, The Usual Suspects, Dead Man, The End of Violence, Louder than Bombs, The Man in the Iron Mask, Vanity Fair and Death of a Ladies’ Man.
Next he stars as Samuel Beckett in the upcoming film Dance First, directed by James Marsh. On Broadway, he received a Tony Award nomination for his performance as James Tyrone Jr opposite Cherry Jones in A Moon for the Misbegotten, directed by Daniel Sullivan. He won the Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Actor for A Touch of the Poet, directed by Doug Hughes.
In 2016, he starred as James Tyrone opposite Jessica Lange in Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey Into Night, directed by Jonathan Kent, for which he received nominations from the Tony Awards and Outer Critics Circle.
TV includes Vikings, Maniac, Zero Zero Zero and Secret State. He won the Golden Globe in 2008 for his role in the HBO series In Treatment. In 2019, Byrne was honoured by the Irish Film and Television Academy with a Lifetime Achievement Award for contribution to cinema. His critically acclaimed memoir upon which Walking with Ghosts is based has been longlisted for the 2022 French Prix Femina.
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"[With] sharp wit he tells hilarious stories about acting and displays a wicked facility for mimicking Irish speech....A fine reminiscence that will have the reader calling for more." ( Publishers Weekly)

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Wonderful story telling

Loved this book and the wide range of stories. Gabriel’s voice is wonderful and soothing to hear

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A wonderful memoir from a great Irish actor

A beautiful memoir, the first of two written and narrated by Gabriel Byrne. His voice is mesmerising and the stories and memories shared are both funny and moving. I would also recommend Walking with Ghosts which is his more recent memoir.

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Interesting read

Loved everything about this book... Great detail, lovely poems. Of course his beautiful Irish accent. Thankyou G.

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brilliant but get real

Gabriel needs to update his views on knackers, who are now flooding the country with drugs, take off the beer googles Gabriel.

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