---
name: "Anthony Byrne"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/anthony-byrne"
fi1m_id: "anthony-byrne"
imdb_id: "nm1396104"
tmdb_id: 233263
wikidata_id: "Q95246331"
roles: ["Director","Producer"]
born: "9 September 1975"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 5
average_fi1m_score: 73
average_as: "director"
average_over: 5
updated: "2026-10-07T16:03:49.777557+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Anthony Byrne

## Identity

Anthony Byrne

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/anthony-byrne
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** anthony-byrne
- **IMDb ID:** nm1396104
- **TMDB ID:** 233263
- **Wikidata ID:** Q95246331
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q95246331, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1396104/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/233263

Director and producer. Born 9 September 1975 in Dublin, Ireland.

## Details

- **Work:** Director, Producer
- **Born:** 9 September 1975, Dublin, Ireland
- **Active:** 2012–present
- **Frequently works with:** [Colm McCarthy](https://film.one/person/colm-mccarthy.md), [Jamie Crichton](https://film.one/person/jamie-crichton.md), [Toby Finlay](https://film.one/person/toby-finlay.md)
- **Average Fi1m score:** 73, as director, over 5 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2010s 74 (3), 2020s 70 (2)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 73 to 69 across 5 titles
- **Score spread:** 0 at 80+, 5 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Genres:** Drama 5, Crime 4, Action & Adventure 1, Mystery 1, War & Politics 1
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q95246331, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1396104/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/233263

## Streaming the US now

- **Netflix:** [*Peaky Blinders*](https://film.one/tv/peaky-blinders.md) (77), [*The Last Kingdom*](https://film.one/tv/the-last-kingdom.md) (72)
- **Apple TV:** [*Ripper Street*](https://film.one/tv/ripper-street.md) (74), [*MobLand*](https://film.one/tv/mobland.md) (63)
- **Disney+:** [*Say Nothing*](https://film.one/tv/say-nothing.md) (77)

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## Fi1m on Anthony Byrne

> Anthony Byrne favours carefully composed images and gives actors room to work. We find him a capable director of crime and suspense, though *MobLand* makes the limits of relying on star presence difficult to ignore.

Sharp suits, violence and black humour set the terms in *MobLand* (2025), where Tom Hardy’s fixer gives us a reason to stay. The gangster business is familiar, but Hardy makes it entertaining. Anthony Byrne is well suited to this material, with his interest in compromised leads and carefully composed frames. We rate his visual discipline, though the drama needs more than a persuasive leading actor.

His route into long-form drama ran from the features *Short Order* (2005) and *How About You* (2007) to television, including *Love/Hate* (2010). On *Peaky Blinders* (2019–2022), he directed 12 episodes across the fifth and sixth series. The visual consistency of that run is a strength. It is a better place to assess his habits than a programme where he shares the directing with several others.

Byrne favours a small number of purposeful shots and works scenes out with actors rather than relying on extensive storyboards. That leaves room for performance within those controlled pictures, a useful combination. His collaborators include cinematographer Si Bell and Natalie Dormer, with whom he co-wrote *In Darkness* (2018). Sound and shadow create effective suspense in that thriller. The increasingly convoluted plotting is less assured.

*MobLand* brings a different difficulty: separating one director’s work from a programme made by several. Byrne shares directing duties with Guy Ritchie, Daniel Syrkin and Lawrence Gough, so we cannot attribute every stalled scene to him. We grew impatient when the pace dropped and the weaker supporting characters had too little to offer. Hardy remained good company, but relying on him to carry those stretches made the thin writing harder to overlook. For a fuller view of Byrne’s direction, start with his two series of *Peaky Blinders*; choose *MobLand* chiefly for Hardy, with patience for the slow start.

## Biography

Anthony Byrne is an Irish director, producer and writer. He was born on 9 September 1975 in Dublin.

Byrne has directed episodes of several television series, including *Peaky Blinders* (2019–2022), *The Last Kingdom* (2015), *Lioness* (2023), *Nine Perfect Strangers* (2021 and 2025), *Say Nothing* (2024) and *MobLand* (2025). He also directed and wrote the feature film *In Darkness* (2018).

*Sources: imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org, tvmaze.com.*

## On Fi1m (5)

- *MobLand* (2025), Fi1m 63, Executive Producer, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/mobland.md)
- *Say Nothing* (2024), Fi1m 77, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/say-nothing.md)
- *The Last Kingdom* (2015), Fi1m 72, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-last-kingdom.md)
- *Peaky Blinders* (2013), Fi1m 77, Director, Executive Producer — [page](https://film.one/tv/peaky-blinders.md)
- *Ripper Street* (2012), Fi1m 74, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/ripper-street.md)

## Complete filmography (19)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *MobLand* (2025), series, Executive Producer, Director — Fi1m 63, [page](https://film.one/tv/mobland.md)
- *Say Nothing* (2024), series, Director — Fi1m 77, [page](https://film.one/tv/say-nothing.md)
- *Lioness* (2023), series, Director
- *Nine Perfect Strangers* (2021), series, Director
- *I'm the Man* (2019), Director
- *Butterfly* (2018), series, Director
- *In Darkness* (2018), Writer, Director, Producer
- *The Last Kingdom* (2015), series, Director — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-last-kingdom.md)
- *Peaky Blinders* (2013), series, Director, Executive Producer — Fi1m 77, [page](https://film.one/tv/peaky-blinders.md)
- *Mr Selfridge* (2013), series, Director
- *Ripper Street* (2012), series, Director — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/tv/ripper-street.md)
- *Upstairs Downstairs* (2010), series, Director
- *Love/Hate* (2010), series, Director
- *Wild Decembers* (2009), Director
- *How About You...* (2007), Director
- *Single-Handed* (2007), series, Director
- *Short Order* (2005), Director, Writer
- *Meeting Che Guevara & the Man from Maybury Hill* (2003), Director, Writer
- *Silent Witness* (1996), series, Director

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