Colin Farrell
Movie Actor — born 1976
Colin Farrell was from the shores of Ireland to Hollywood, actor Collin Farrell’s journey to stardom and fame was a quick rise both on and off screen.
Colin Farrell is an Irish actor whose three-decade career has produced multiple defining American film roles — particularly his 2008 lead role in Martin McDonagh's In Bruges (which won him the 2009 Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Comedy or Musical Film) and his 2022 lead role as Banshees of Inisherin protagonist Pádraic Súilleabháin in Martin McDonagh's The Banshees of Inisherin. He was born Colin James Farrell on May 31, 1976, in Castleknock, Dublin, Ireland, into an Irish working-class family. His father Eamon Farrell was a Dublin-area former League of Ireland football player for the Shamrock Rovers, and his mother Rita Monaghan was a homemaker.
His education at the Gaiety School of Acting in Dublin (1996–1997; without earning a degree) launched his early-career path. His 1998 first Irish TV appearance in BBC One's TV series Ballykissangel (in which he played Danny Byrne across 1998–1999) launched his late-1990s Irish TV public profile.
His 1999 first Irish feature-film appearance in Tim Loane's The War Zone (alongside Tilda Swinton and Ray Winstone) and his 2000 first major American film appearance in Joel Schumacher's Tigerland (in which he played the Vietnam War-trainee Roland Bozz) launched his early-2000s American film public profile.
His subsequent early-2000s American film career has produced multiple American films — particularly Steven Spielberg's Minority Report (2002, opposite Tom Cruise), Joel Schumacher's Phone Booth (2002), Oliver Stone's Alexander (2004, in which he played Alexander the Great), Terrence Malick's The New World (2005, opposite Q'orianka Kilcher), and Michael Mann's Miami Vice (2006).
His 2008 lead role as hitman Ray in Martin McDonagh's In Bruges (alongside Brendan Gleeson and Ralph Fiennes) won him the 2009 Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Comedy or Musical Film. His 2022 lead role as Pádraic Súilleabháin in Martin McDonagh's The Banshees of Inisherin (alongside Brendan Gleeson) earned him his first Best Actor Academy Award nomination at the 2023 Academy Awards. His parallel 2017–2024 lead role as Oz Cobb / The Penguin in Matt Reeves's The Batman (2022) and the subsequent 2024 HBO TV series The Penguin produced his later American superhero-genre public profile. He has been continuously single across his career, although he has two sons.
His name Colin derives from the medieval English diminutive of Nicholas (from the Greek Nikolaos meaning "victory of the people"). Colin has been continuously among the most-popular American boys' names since the 1980s.
About the name Colin
Gender: Male · Origin: Gaelic
Virile