Colin Farrell

Colin Farrell is one of those actors who had to earn his second act the hard way, and I respect him enormously for it. He burst onto Hollywood in the early 2000s with this irresistible bad-boy Irish charm — In Bruges showed he could be genuinely devastating when given the right material — but for a while the tabloid noise threatened to swallow the talent. Then he quietly cleaned himself up, got serious, and the work started speaking for itself. His Golden Globe wins, first for In Bruges and then for The Banshees of Inisherin in 2023 (where he also took the Volpi Cup at Venice), feel like the industry finally catching up to what good-faith viewers already knew: this guy is a real actor, not just a pretty face with an accent.

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Name (English)

Colin Farrell

Name (Japanese)

コリン・ファレル

Reading

こりん・ふぁれる

Born

May 31, 1976 (age 50)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Gemini / Dragon

Origin

Castleknock, Ireland

Occupation

actor / character actor / film actor / stage actor / television actor

University

Castleknock College

Awards & achievements

• 2009 Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy
• 2023 Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy
• 2022 Volpi Cup for Best Actor

• Official sitehttp://www.colinfarrell.org/
• Xhttps://x.com/colinfarrell10
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin%20Farrell
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B3%E3%83%AA%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%95%E3%82%A1%E3%83%AC%E3%83%AB
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q172035

Tags

• actor
• character actor
• film actor

Last updated

2026-06-02

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