Brendan Gleeson - Milestones

• 2005: Cast opposite Orlando Bloom in Ridley Scott's "Kingdom of Heaven"
• 2005: Starred with Samuel L. Jackson and Juliette Binoche in "Country of My Skull"
• 2004: Cast as Spartan king Menelaus in director Wolfgang Petersen's epic "Troy"
• 2004: Starred in M. Night Shyamalan's "The Village"
• 2003: Cast in director Anthony Minghella's film adaptation of the novel "Cold Mountain"
• 2003: Played a corrupt police official in the Los Angeles cop drama "Dark Blue"
• 2003: Appeared in director Danny Boyle's post-modern zombie thriller "28 Days Later"
• 2002: Cast in Martin Scorsese's "Gangs of New York"
• 2001: Co-starred in "A.I. Artificial Intelligence", helmed by Steven Spielberg
• 2001: Reunited with Boorman playing a drunken revolutionary in "The Tailor of Panama"
• 2000: Co-starred with Brian Cox and Peter McDonald in McPherson's "Salt Water", adapted from McPherson's play "This Lime Tree Bower"
• 2000: Had featured role in the sequel to "Mission: Impossible", starring Tom Cruise
• 1998: Had title role of Irish criminal Martin Cahill in John Boorman's "The General"
• 1997: Portrayed a dimwitted. low-level criminal in "I Went Down", directed by Paddy Breathnach and scripted by Conor McPherson
• 1995: Played the sidekick to Mel Gibson's William Wallace in "Braveheart"
• 1995: Acted in the TNT adaptation of "Kidnapped"
• 1990: Feature film acting debut in bit part in "The Field", directed by Jim Sheridan
• Worked as a schoolteacher for nearly ten years while acting in semi-professional and professional productions`