Movie: My Astonishing Self: Gabriel Byrne on George Bernard Shaw

Top 6 Billed Cast

Gabriel Byrne
Gabriel Byrne

Narrator

George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw

Himself (repertorio)

Ralph Fiennes
Ralph Fiennes

Himself

Gemma Arterton
Gemma Arterton

Herself

Dara Ó Briain
Dara Ó Briain

Himself

Michael D. Higgins
Michael D. Higgins

Himself

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    Award-winning Irish actor Gabriel Byrne explores the life, works and passions of George Bernard Shaw, a giant of world literature, and - like Byrne - an emigrant Irishman with the outsider's ability to observe, needle and puncture.

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    2018-03-25

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