Though not all of Brendan Gleeson's sons have opted to work in the film industry, all four have dabbled in it to some extent. The Academy Award-nominated actor works with his sons on a couple of projects early in their careers.

The 69-year-old actor, who speaks Irish, has four sons with his wife Mary Waldron, married for over 40 years. Brendan was inspired to act by his choice of Mary as his wife.

The couple has four children: Domhnall, Fergus, Brian, and Rory.

This is all the information you require about the Gleeson family.

Brendan Gleeson is a highly lauded actor in Ireland, with a tally of three IFTA awards, three BAFTA awards, and five Golden Globe awards to his name.

Brendan is known for works such as In Bruges, The Guard, The Banshees of Inisherin, and the Harry Potter film series. He has also portrayed real-life figures, including Winston Churchill and Donald Trump.

Now 69 years old and speaking Irish very well, he also acted in Cáca Milis, a short film that has become popular among students of Irish because it is part of the syllabus.
Brendan is now appearing in cinemas in the new Joker movie, Joker: Folie a Deux, where he plays a prison guard.
He married his wife Mary Weldon in 1982 and they have four sons.

Little information is there about Mary as she prefers to keep out of the limelight. They got married in 1982. Brendan has said it was his partner who encouraged him to act and in the early years of Brendan's career, Mary took a job at the Abbey Theatre to help support the family.

The eldest of the Gleeson siblings, Domhnall, spent his childhood in Malahide with his parents and two younger brothers. He graduated with a BA in Media Arts from the Dublin Institute of Technology and quickly moved into directing and filming for both film and stage.

He made his film debut at 41 years of age in the short film Six Shooter, directed by Martin McDonagh, in 2004, with his father. This was not the only occasion when the actor shared the screen with his father, as they both appeared together in the feature film Studs in 2006.

Domhnall played Bill Weasley in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows; his father had a bigger part as Alastor Moody in the films.

Not long ago, Domhnall was in the music video for Hozier's "De Selby (Part 2)" and acted with Aisling Bea in the Channel 4 show "Alice & Jack," a thing he also helped make.

The 41-year-old will take on upcoming projects, including a part in Guy Ritchie's Fountain of Youth with John Krasinski and Natalie Portman and a role in Peacock's revival of The Office.

Fergus avoids the limelight more than the rest of the family. Unlike his father and both his brothers, he is more reserved when it comes to attention and takes the spotlight less often than anyone else.

Brian was involved in the 2012 movie Immaturity for Charity and also served as the composer for the short film Psychic, which had Brendan, Domhnall, and Brian in it.
At 36, Brian got his first acting role with his father in John Boorman's film The Tiger's Tail. This was the same year he completed his Leaving Certificate.

The Dublin native received a nod for an IFTA (Irish Film and Television Award) in the Best Supporting Role category for his part as Hughie on RTÉ's Love/Hate. He has also appeared in other big TV shows like Peaky Blinders.
The actor has been in a bunch of important films too, like Snow White and the Huntsman and Assassin's Creed.

He had recently been featured in the popular Netflix series Top Boy.

In 2022, Brian achieved his first accolade, the Peabody Award, in the Entertainment category for his role as Thomas Claffin on Bad Sisters which also featured Sharon Horgan.

Rory, the youngest member of the Gleeson family, was born in 1989 and received a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from Trinity College Dublin. Besides this, the novelist and playwright obtained additional degrees from Oxford and The University of Manchester.

Rory's debut novel, Rockadoon Shore, was published by John Murray in January 2017. The following year, his short film Psychic premiered at the Galway Film Fleadh and his first play, Blood in the Dirt, was unveiled at The New Theatre in 2019.

He got a Literature Bursary from Arts Council Ireland in 2020.