
Acting
Community Rating
6.5
TMDB estimate
Born
May 31, 1976 (age 49)
Born in
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.

Untitled The Batman Sequel
Oz / The Penguin
2027

The Slightest Touch
Self
2026

Ballad of a Small Player
Lord Doyle
2025

A Big Bold Beautiful Journey
David
2025

On the Red Carpet Presents: The Banshees of Inisherin
Self
2023

The Banshees of Inisherin
Pádraic Súilleabháin
2022

Thirteen Lives
John Volanthen
2022

After Yang
Jake
2022

The Batman
Oz / The Penguin
2022

Voyagers
Richard
2021

Street Leagues
Narrator
2020

Ava
Simon
2020

Artemis Fowl
Artemis Fowl I
2020

The Gentlemen
Coach
2020

Dumbo
Holt Farrier
2019

Gloomy Eyes
(English dubbing)
2019

Widows
Jack Mulligan
2018
An Impossible Conundrum
Self
2018

Roman J. Israel, Esq.
George Pierce
2017

The Killing of a Sacred Deer
Steven Murphy
2017