As one of the most talked-about figures, Brendan Gleeson has built a significant fortune. In this article, we dive deep into the assets and career highlights.

What Is Brendan Gleeson's Net Worth?

Brendan Gleeson is an Irish actor, director, and producer who has a net worth of $8 million. Gleeson is probably best known for playing Alastor Moody in the "Harry Potter" film series (2005–2010), and he gave an Emmy-winning performance as Winston Churchill in the 2009 HBO movie "Into the Storm."

From 2017 to 2019, he starred as Bill Hodges on theStephen Kingcrime drama "Mr. Mercedes." Brendan has more than 100 acting credits to his name, including the films "Braveheart" (1995), "The General" (1998), "Mission: Impossible 2" (2000), "Gangs of New York" (2002), "Cold Mountain" (2003), "In Bruges" (2008), "The Guard" (2011), and "Calvary" (2014), the television series "The Lifeboat" (1994) and "State of the Union" (2022), and the miniseries "The Comey Rule" (2020). He also directed and produced the 2018 short film "Psychic." In 2020, "The Irish Times" ranked Gleeson #18 on its list of "The 50 greatest Irish film actors of all time – in order."

Early Life

Brendan Gleeson was born on March 29, 1955, in Dublin, Ireland. He is the son of Frank and Pat Gleeson, and his brother, Barry, is a singer. Brendan was an avid reader during his childhood, and he attended St Joseph's CBS, where he joined the school's drama group. Gleeson majored in Irish and English at University College Dublin, and after earning his Bachelor of Arts degree, he taught both languages at Catholic Belcamp College while also working as an actor. In 1991, he gave up teaching in order to focus on acting full-time. In a 2014 NPR interview, Brendan revealed that he was sexually abused by a Christian Brother as a primary school student, stating, "I remember a particular Christian Brother dropped the hand on me at one point. It wasn't very traumatic and it wasn't at all sustained, it was just one of these things where something odd happened." He added, "The same guy was in secondary school and I remember a couple of us starting trading stories and really that he was a bit off wasn't he. But nobody ever thought to tell anybody, nobody ever thought to tell even my parents, who would have been enraged and would not have taken it lightly. I never even thought about telling them."

Career

Gleeson appeared in several plays with the Passion Machine Theatre company, including "Brownbread" and "Home," and he wrote and directed the plays "The Birdtable" and "Breaking Up." His earliest onscreen work was the 1989 TV movie "Dear Sarah," and his first feature film was 1990's "The Field." Brendan then appeared in the TV movies "Saint Oscar" (1991), "The Treaty" (1991), "The Snapper" (1993), and "Kidnapped" (1995) and the films "Far and Away" (1992), "Into the West" (1992), "Michael Collins" (1996), and "Lake Placid" (1999). He starred as Leslie Parry on the 1994 TV series "The Lifeboat," then he played Hamish Campbell in 1995's "Braveheart" and Martin Cahill in 1998's "The General." Gleeson co-starred withTom Cruisein 2000's "Mission: Impossible 2," which grossed $546.4 million at the box office, then he appeared in "The Tailor of Panama" (2001), "A.I. Artificial Intelligence" (2001), "28 Days Later…" (2002), "Dark Blue" (2002), "Troy" (2004), "The Village" (2004), "Kingdom of Heaven" (2005), and "Studs" (2006). He played Walter "Monk" McGinn in 2002's "Gangs of New York" and Stobrod Thewes in 2003's "Cold Mountain," and in 2005, he starred as Alastor "Mad-Eye" Moody in "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire." Brendan reprised the role in 2007's"Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix" and 2010's "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1." The "Harry Potter" series includes eight films and earned $7.7 billion at the box office.

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Ultimately, Brendan Gleeson's financial journey is a testament to their success.

Disclaimer: All net worth figures are estimates based on public data.