Gabriel Byrne in Walking with Ghosts
(Picture: Ros Kavanagh)When Gabriel Byrne was an out-of-work actor in London in the early Eighties, he used to wander up and down Shaftesbury Avenue marvelling at the names up in lights on the theatres. Finally, at the age of 72, he is joining them.
“It became an ambition to be in the West End and it means a huge amount to me emotionally,” he says of making his debut in Theatreland. “It’s a marker for my career – unemployed, unable to get a job, then America and back, doing this.”
