Colin Farrell
Colin James Farrell (born 31 May 1976) is an Irish actor. A leading man in blockbusters and independent films since the 2000s, he has received various accolades, including three Golden Globe Awards and a nomination for an Academy Award. The Irish Times named him Ireland's fifth-greatest film actor in 2020, and Time magazine named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2023. Farrell began acting in the BBC drama series Ballykissangel (1998) and made his film debut in the drama The War Zone (1999). His first lead film role was in the war drama Tigerland (2000), and he made his breakthrough in Steven Spielberg's science fiction film Minority Report (2002). He took on high-profile roles such as Bullseye in Daredevil (2003) and as Alexander the Great in Alexander (2004), with further starring roles in Michael Mann's Miami Vice (2006) and Woody Allen's Cassandra's Dream (2007). Farrell earned acclaim for playing a novice hitman in his first film with frequent collaborator Martin McDonagh, the dark comedy In Bruges (2008), winning a Golden Globe Award. He went on to play a variety of leading and character roles in the comedy Horrible Bosses (2011), the science fiction film Total Recall (2012), the drama Saving Mr. Banks (2013), the dark comedies Seven Psychopaths (2012) and The Lobster (2015), the thrillers The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017), The Beguiled (2017), and Widows (2018), and the fantasy films Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016) and Dumbo (2019). He also starred in the second season of HBO's thriller series True Detective (2015). Farrell played Oz Cobb/Penguin in the superhero film The Batman (2022) and the HBO series The Penguin (2024), winning a Golden Globe award for the latter. In 2022, he gained acclaim for his roles in the science fiction drama After Yang, the survival film Thirteen Lives, and McDonagh's drama The Banshees of Inisherin. For playing a naïve Irishman in the lattermost, he won the Volpi Cup for Best Actor and another Golden Globe, in addition to a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor.
Born: 31 May 1976
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The Batman: Part II
Oz / The Penguin
The Slightest Touch
Self
Variety & CNN Actors on Actors
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Ballad of a Small Player
Lord Doyle
A Big Bold Beautiful Journey
David
From that Small Island
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From that Small Island
Narrator
The Penguin
Oz 'The Penguin' Cobb
Sugar
John Sugar
On the Red Carpet Presents: The Banshees of Inisherin
Self
The Banshees of Inisherin
Pádraic Súilleabháin
Thirteen Lives
John Volanthen
After Yang
Jake
The Batman
Oz / The Penguin
The North Water
Henry Drax
Voyagers
Richard
Street Leagues
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Ava
Simon
Artemis Fowl
Artemis Fowl I
The Gentlemen
Coach
The Kelly Clarkson Show
Self - Guest
Dumbo
Holt Farrier
Gloomy Eyes
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Widows
Jack Mulligan
An Impossible Conundrum
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Roman J. Israel, Esq.
George Pierce
The Killing of a Sacred Deer
Steven Murphy
The Beguiled
Corporal McBurney
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
Percival Graves
It's Not Yet Dark
Narrator (Voice)
The Lobster
David
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
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Solace
Charles Ambrose
The Late Late Show with James Corden
Self - Guest
Hot Ones
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Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
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Miss Julie
John
Late Night with Seth Meyers
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Late Night with Seth Meyers
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The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
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Winter's Tale
Peter Lake
True Detective
Ray Velcoro
Saving Mr. Banks
Travers Robert Goff
Epic
Ronin (voice)
Dead Man Down
Victor
Seven Psychopaths
Marty Faranan
Total Recall
Douglas Quaid / Hauser
Muide Éire
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Fright Night
Jerry Dandrige
Horrible Bosses
Bobby Pellitt
The Way Back
Valka
London Boulevard
Harry Mitchel
Conan
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Burma Soldier
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Ondine
Syracuse
Crazy Heart
Tommy Sweet
Triage
Mark Walsh
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
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Live from Studio Five
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The Meaning of Life
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Pride and Glory
Jimmy Eagan
Kicking It
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In Bruges
Ray
Cassandra's Dream
Terry Blaine
The Graham Norton Show
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Miami Vice
Det. James 'Sonny' Crockett
Ask the Dust
Arturo Bandini
Becoming Alexander
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The New World
Captain Smith
Nos Bastidores de Hollywood
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Alexander
Alexander
Sarah Kuttner – Die Show
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A Home at the End of the World
Bobby Morrow (1982)
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
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S.W.A.T.
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Making of Phone Booth
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Daredevil
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The Recruit
James Clayton
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
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Jimmy Kimmel Live!
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Phone Booth
Stu Shepard
Minority Report
Danny Witwer
Hart's War
Lt. Thomas W. Hart
Scrubs
Billy
American Outlaws
Jesse James
Tigerland
Pvt. Roland Bozz
Ordinary Decent Criminal
Alec
Love in the 21st Century
Mattie
The War Zone
Nick
Falling for a Dancer
Daniel McCarthey
The View
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The View
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The Disappearance of Finbar
Simon
Drinking Crude
Click
The Daily Show
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Ballykissangel
Danny Byrne
Frankie Starlight
Young Man In Cinema No. 2 (uncredited)
Inside the Actors Studio
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Late Night with Conan O'Brien
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HBO First Look
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MTV Movie & TV Awards
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The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
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LIVE with Kelly and Mark
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Goldene Kamera
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Wetten, dass..?
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Saturday Night Live
Self - Host
Saturday Night Live
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The Late Late Show
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The Oscars
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The Emmy Awards
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Golden Globe Awards
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Golden Globe Awards
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Golden Globe Awards
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Belly of the Beast
Jack Henry Abbott
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Father Roy Craig
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