20 Facts About Colin McFarlane

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Colin Andrew Ignatius Peter McFarlane was born on 15 September 1961 and is a British actor, narrator and voice actor.

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Colin McFarlane is known for his roles in film and television including Gillian B Loeb in two films of Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight Trilogy and Ulysses in the STARZ television drama series Outlander.

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Colin McFarlane was the voice of The Cube in the ITV game show.

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Colin McFarlane was born on 15 September 1961 in Upper Clapton, London, to Jamaican parents.

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Colin McFarlane's father was awarded the MBE in 1999 for voluntary service to the community and for service with the Ministry of Defence.

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Colin McFarlane attended the Perse School, Cambridge, and later read drama at Loughborough University, graduating in 1983.

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In 1988, Colin McFarlane guest starred in a season two episode of ITV's drama Bust, which followed a man in the wake of bankruptcy.

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Colin McFarlane would go on, in 1996, to feature in an episode of BBC's Rowan Atkinson led police comedy The Thin Blue Line, Channel 4's made-for-TV film The Final Passage, and the finale of ITV's four part thriller series Circles of Deceit.

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Colin McFarlane has appeared in two of the UK's most-watched soap operas.

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Colin McFarlane played Inspector Norris in the Black Books episode The Blackout, Inspector Terrence Brown in the first episode of Dirk Gently and voiced the Judge in the 2016 revival of the sitcom Porridge.

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Colin McFarlane portrayed Police Commissioner Gillian B Loeb in the critically acclaimed films Batman Begins and The Dark Knight.

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Colin McFarlane appeared alongside Matt Smith and Natalie Dormer in the action horror film Patient Zero.

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Colin McFarlane then appeared as the governor in the 2019 thriller film Crawl, featuring Kaya Scodelario and Barry Pepper.

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In 1996, Colin McFarlane voiced two characters, God and Goliath, in the Emmy winning animated series Testament: The Bible in Animation.

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Colin McFarlane played US General Trent Stone in the 2014 original audio drama Osiris by Everybodyelse Productions.

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Colin McFarlane has lent his voice to numerous video games, the earliest being 1996's Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars.

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Colin McFarlane would go on to voice characters in G-Police, Codename: Tenka, and The City of Lost Children in 1997.

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Colin McFarlane played "The Forgotten One", the central villain of the two downloadable content packs for Castlevania: Lords of Shadow.

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In 2013, Colin McFarlane appeared with Lenny Henry in a critically acclaimed revival of August Wilson's Fences at the Duchess Theatre in London's West End.

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On 12 July 1993, Colin McFarlane married his wife, Kate, with whom he has one son, Josh.