D'entre a suya filmografía, cal destacar os suyos papels en cintas como My Beautiful Laundrette (1985, Stephen Frears), A Room with a View (1985, James Ivory), My Left Foot (1989, Jim Sheridan), The Last of the Mohicans (1992, Michael Mann), In the Name of the Father (1994, Jim Sheridan), The Boxer (1997, Jim Sheridan), Gangs of New York (2002, Martin Scorsese), There Will Be Blood (2007, Paul Thomas Anderson), Nine (2009, Rob Marshall) y Lincoln (2012, Steven Spielberg)