Colin Farrell 1976 49
Colin Farrell 1976 49
Colin James Farrell (/ˈfærəl/; 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.
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2027 Untitled The Batman Sequel as Oz / The Penguin
2025 A Big Bold Beautiful Journey as David
2025 Belly of the Beast as Jack Henry Abbott Producer
2025 The Ballad of a Small Player as Lord Doyle
2025 Sgt. Rock as Sgt. Franklin John Rock
2025 Sgt. Rock as Sergeant Franklin John Rock
2024 The Penguin as Oz 'The Penguin' Cobb Executive Producer
2023 On the Red Carpet Presents: The Banshees of Inisherin as Self
2022 The Banshees of Inisherin as Pádraic Súilleabháin
2022 Thirteen Lives as John Volanthen
2022 After Yang as Jake
2022 The Batman as Oz / The Penguin
2021 Voyagers as Richard
2020 Street Leagues as Narrator
2020 Ava as Simon
2020 Artemis Fowl as Artemis Fowl I
2020 The Gentlemen as Coach
2019 Dumbo as Holt Farrier
2019 Gloomy Eyes as (English dubbing)
2018 Widows as Jack Mulligan
2017 Roman J. Israel, Esq. as George Pierce
2017 The Killing of a Sacred Deer as Steven Murphy
2017 The Beguiled as Corporal McBurney
2016 Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them as Percival Graves
2016 It's Not Yet Dark as Narrator (Voice)
2015 The Lobster as David
2015 Solace as Charles Ambrose
2014 Miss Julie as John
2014 Winter's Tale as Peter Lake
2013 Saving Mr. Banks as Travers Robert Goff
2013 Epic as Ronin (voice)
2013 Dead Man Down as Victor
2012 Seven Psychopaths as Marty Faranan
2012 Total Recall as Douglas Quaid / Hauser
2011 Fright Night as Jerry Dandrige
2011 Horrible Bosses as Bobby Pellitt
2010 The Way Back as Valka
2010 London Boulevard as Harry Mitchel
2010 Burma Soldier as Narrator (Voice)
2010 Ondine as Syracuse
2009 Crazy Heart as Tommy Sweet
2009 Triage as Mark Walsh Executive Producer
2009 The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus as Imaginarium Tony 3
2008 Pride and Glory as Jimmy Eagan
2008 Kicking It as Narrator (voice) Executive Producer
2008 In Bruges as Ray
2007 Cassandra's Dream as Terry Blaine
2006 Miami Vice as Det. James 'Sonny' Crockett
2006 Ask the Dust as Arturo Bandini
2005 Becoming Alexander as Self
2005 The New World as Captain Smith
2005 Nos Bastidores de Hollywood as Self
2004 Alexander as Alexander
2004 Biography: Val Kilmer as Self (archive footage)
2004 A Home at the End of the World as Bobby Morrow (1982)
2003 Intermission as Lehiff
2003 S.W.A.T. as Jim Street
2003 Beyond Hell's Kitchen: Making 'Daredevil'
2003 Veronica Guerin as Tattooed Boy
2003 Phone Booth as Stu Shepard
2003 Making of Phone Booth as Self
2003 Daredevil as Bullseye
2003 The Recruit as James Clayton
2002 Minority Report as Danny Witwer
2002 Hart's War as Lt. Thomas W. Hart
2001 American Outlaws as Jesse James
2000 Tigerland as Pvt. Roland Bozz
2000 Ordinary Decent Criminal as Alec
1999 The War Zone as Nick
1998 Falling for a Dancer as Daniel McCarthey
1997 The Disappearance of Finbar as Simon
1997 Drinking Crude as Click
1995 Frankie Starlight as Young Man In Cinema No. 2 (uncredited)
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