1. Colin Farrell took on high-profile roles such as Bullseye in Daredevil and as Alexander the Great in Alexander, with further starring roles in Michael Mann's Miami Vice and Woody Allen's Cassandra's Dream.
65 Facts About Colin Farrell
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Colin Farrell earned acclaim for playing a novice hitman in his first film with frequent collaborator Martin McDonagh, the dark comedy In Bruges, winning a Golden Globe Award.
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Colin Farrell went on to play a variety of leading and character roles in the comedy Horrible Bosses, the science fiction film Total Recall, the drama Saving Mr Banks, the dark comedies Seven Psychopaths and The Lobster, the thrillers The Killing of a Sacred Deer, The Beguiled and Widows, and the fantasy films Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them and Dumbo.
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Colin Farrell starred in the second season of HBO's thriller series True Detective.
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Colin James Farrell was born in Castleknock, a western suburb of Dublin on 31 May 1976, to Rita and Eamon Farrell.
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Colin Farrell's father played football for Shamrock Rovers FC and ran a health food shop.
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Colin Farrell played for Castleknock Celtic FC, and the team was managed by his father.
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Colin Farrell grew up Catholic and went to St Brigid's National School, Castleknock, followed by the exclusive all-boys private school Castleknock College, and then Gormanston College in Gormanston Castle in County Meath.
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Colin Farrell unsuccessfully auditioned for the boy band Boyzone around that time.
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Colin Farrell had roles in television shows and films, including Ballykissangel and Falling for a Dancer in 1998 and 1999.
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Colin Farrell appeared in Ordinary Decent Criminal with Kevin Spacey and Linda Fiorentino, a film loosely based on the life of Martin Cahill.
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In 2000, Colin Farrell was cast in the lead role of Private Roland Bozz in Tigerland, directed by Joel Schumacher.
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Colin Farrell reportedly got the part on the basis of his charm.
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Michael Holden of The Guardian wrote that Colin Farrell was "too much the hero" to fit the classic rebel archetype properly, but he still delivered a good performance.
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Colin Farrell's supporting roles include an ambitious Justice Department agent opposite Tom Cruise as a "potential criminal" in Minority Report, and Bullseye, the villain in Daredevil.
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Colin Farrell said "he had no problem" being the producer's fallback after Damon declined.
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Colin Farrell was signed to the role in December 2001, although he was considered for the lead role of Matt Murdock until Ben Affleck signed.
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Colin Farrell was encouraged to keep his Irish accent, since this version of Bullseye is from Ireland.
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In late 2003 Colin Farrell starred as a criminal who plots a bank robbery with Cillian Murphy in the dark comedy Intermission, which held the record for highest-grossing Irish independent film in Irish box-office history for three years.
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Roger Ebert praised Colin Farrell, saying that he was "astonishing in the movie, not least because the character is such a departure from everything he has done before".
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Colin Farrell played the title role of Alexander the Great in Oliver Stone's 2004 biographical film Alexander, which, while receiving some favourable reviews internationally, was poorly received in the United States.
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Colin Farrell played the lead role of Captain John Smith, the founder of 17th-century colonial Jamestown, Virginia who falls in love with the Native American princess Pocahontas.
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Colin Farrell was more successful in 2006 with his role opposite Jamie Foxx in Michael Mann's action crime drama, Miami Vice.
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Colin Farrell reportedly took a slight pay cut to make friend and recent Oscar winner Jamie Foxx happy; his salary was initially larger than Foxx's.
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Colin Farrell appeared in Woody Allen's drama Cassandra's Dream, which premiered in 2007 and was distributed in the US in early 2008.
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Colin Farrell won his first Golden Globe Award for his performance in the film.
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Colin Farrell appeared on screen and provided the narration, donating his earnings to a homeless shelter in Ireland.
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Colin Farrell received positive reviews for his involvement in the true story.
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Later in 2008, Colin Farrell starred opposite Edward Norton in Pride and Glory, a police drama directed by Gavin O'Connor.
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Colin Farrell was one of three actors, who helped to complete Heath Ledger's role when Ledger died before filming ended.
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Colin Farrell starred that year in Triage, directed by Oscar-winning Bosnian screenwriter and director Danis Tanovic, about the life of a war correspondent.
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Colin Farrell's work was described as "dedicated" by Varietys Todd McCarthy, and Julian Sancton of Vanity Fair wrote that the film was "a hell of a lot more insightful than other movies that deal with a similar topic".
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That year, Colin Farrell played a supporting role in Crazy Heart with Jeff Bridges.
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Mary Pols of Time called the role "tailor-made for Colin Farrell", saying that Colin Farrell gave a "beautifully confident performance".
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Todd McCarthy of Variety singled Colin Farrell out, noting that he worked well as an ensemble actor "graciously allowing [child star Alison Barry] to steal every scene she's in".
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The next year, Colin Farrell starred with Keira Knightley in the crime romance London Boulevard.
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Colin Farrell starred in the 2011 comedy Horrible Bosses, directed by Seth Gordon with Jennifer Aniston, Jason Bateman, Charlie Day, Jason Sudeikis, Kevin Spacey, and his Miami Vice co-star Jamie Foxx in the cast.
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Michael Phillips of the Los Angeles Times wrote that Colin Farrell brought "massive, slobby relish" to his role as Sudeikis' cocaine-fiend boss.
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Later that year, Colin Farrell played the main antagonist in the Fright Night remake, joining Anton Yelchin, David Tennant and Toni Collette in the story of a charismatic vampire who moves next door to a high-school student and his single mother.
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Scott thought that Colin Farrell played his role with "a wink and a snarl and a feline purr".
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Colin Farrell starred with Kate Beckinsale in Columbia Pictures' Total Recall, a 2012 remake of the 1990 film, playing the role originally played by Arnold Schwarzenegger.
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Colin Farrell just has the ability to be trying different things all the time.
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Colin Farrell starred as creatively blocked writer Marty in a black comedy with Sam Rockwell, Woody Harrelson, and Christopher Walken.
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In March 2013, Colin Farrell starred in Dead Man Down, a thriller directed by Niels Arden Oplev, appearing alongside Terrence Howard for the first time since Hart's War 10 years earlier.
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In 2014, Colin Farrell starred in a film adaptation of Mark Helprin's Winter's Tale.
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Colin Farrell won the lead role over younger actors Garrett Hedlund, Tom Hiddleston and Aaron Taylor-Johnson.
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Colin Farrell's turn as John, the serving man to Chastain's character's father, was described by Stephen Holden of The New York Times as the "strongest" of the three performances, though Ullmann's direction was deemed too flat by most reviewers.
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Colin Farrell starred in the second season of the TV series True Detective as Ray Velcoro, alongside Vince Vaughn, Taylor Kitsch, and Rachel McAdams.
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Colin Farrell worked with a dialect coach to adopt a nonstandard Californian accent for his character, which he found challenging.
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Colin Farrell starred in The Lobster, a romantic science fiction thriller which was released in 2015 and directed by Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos in his English-language debut.
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In 2016, Colin Farrell starred in the Harry Potter spin-off film Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them; a traced version of a licensed promotional photo of Colin Farrell from the film was used for the character Nefarian Serpine on the tenth anniversary cover of 2007's Skulduggery Pleasant, the first book in the series of the same name.
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In 2022, Colin Farrell co-starred in the film Thirteen Lives, which chronicles the 2018 Tham Luang cave rescue of a Thai boys' soccer team that was trapped 2.5 miles inside the cave for eighteen days as a result of a flash-flood.
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Also in 2022, Colin Farrell reunited with Martin McDonagh and Brendan Gleeson for The Banshees of Inisherin, which earned Colin Farrell a Volpi Cup for Best Actor from the 79th Venice Film Festival and a Golden Globe, as well as a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor.
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In March 2025, it was announced that Colin Farrell was in talks to star in a film based on Sgt.
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In 2007, Colin Farrell joined other celebrities as a spokesperson for the Special Olympics World Games in Shanghai.
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In 2015, Colin Farrell became an official Ambassador of the Homeless World Cup, which uses street football to inspire homeless people to change their lives.
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Colin Farrell met English actress and singer Amelia Warner at the premiere of Quills in 2000.
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Colin Farrell said of the relationship that they were "too fast, too young".
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Colin Farrell has had relationships with American model Nicole Narain, and actresses Angelina Jolie, Elizabeth Taylor, Maeve Quinlan, and Demi Moore.
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Colin Farrell has a son, James Padraig Farrell, born on 12 September 2003, with American model Kim Bordenave.
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From 2007 to 2008, Colin Farrell dated Irish medical student Muireann McDonnell.
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On 7 October 2009, Colin Farrell's second son, Henry Tadeusz Colin Farrell, was born to Polish actress Alicja Bachleda-Curus.
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Colin Farrell commented on the topic during an interview on Late Show with David Letterman after leaving rehab, and continued later to talk about it.
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Colin Farrell has been sober since leaving the rehab centre in 2006, and has credited his sobriety to his elder son James.
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Colin Farrell said she tried to release it to damage his acting career and "make money out of it", which Narain denied.