Colin Farrell

Known for ActingBorn 1976-05-31 (age 50)Castleknock, Dublin, Ireland

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.Read more

Movies & web series

Variety & CNN Actors on Actors

An Impossible Conundrum

Becoming Alexander

Nos Bastidores de Hollywood

The Penguin

True Detective

From that Small Island

Scrubs

Making of Phone Booth

Thirteen Lives

MTV Movie & TV Awards

The Batman

The Gentlemen

Kicking It

It's Not Yet Dark

Sarah Kuttner – Die Show

The Banshees of Inisherin

The North Water

In Bruges

Inside the Actors Studio

Sugar

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

Saving Mr. Banks

Minority Report

The Emmy Awards

Conan

The Graham Norton Show

Hot Ones

Late Night with Conan O'Brien

The Lobster

The Killing of a Sacred Deer

Ballykissangel

The Way Back

The Meaning of Life

Crazy Heart

Falling for a Dancer

Seven Psychopaths

Room Taken

The Disappearance of Finbar

Phone Booth

The War Zone

Dumbo

Horrible Bosses

Veronica Guerin

Saturday Night Live

Epic

Widows

Golden Globe Awards