Celebrity Biographies
Colin Farrel
If we had to define his personality with a single sentence, we would say something like that he is an Irish “l’enfant terrible”. One of the most “expensive” actors in Hollywood, one of those who has topped the most handsome ranking the most times and one of the most stylish pimps of his generation.
Colin James Farrell was born in Castlenock, Ireland, in 1976. Although he was very passionate about football as a child, it would not take him long to realize that his true calling was to be an actor. Indeed, he enrolled in the Gaiety School of Dramatic Art, from where he was expelled after a few months. The rebellious Colin, however, rather than close doors with his behavior, immediately landed a role in the Ballykissangel series , a comedy that aired on the BBC in the mid-nineties.
In 1999, Tim Roth offered him a role in his directorial debut in The Dark Zone , a drama that was generally well liked, and which won the Silver Spike at Seminci in Valladolid. In the year 2000 Joel Schumacher trusted him for his first big appearance. It was in Tigerland , where he played Recruit Bozz, a stubborn young man who is called up against his tenets about war, a role for which he was awarded by the Boston Film Critics Society and the Boston Film Critics Circle. London.
After this great debut, he went through a season in which he would participate in productions of intermittent quality, such as Minority Report , Daredevil , The Test or SWAT: Harrelson’s Men .
But it was above all Schumacher who dared to make the most of Colin Farrell’s talent, since in 2002 he repeated with the Irishman for the leading role in Last Call ; here he confirmed his talent by exhibiting the multitude of registers that he was capable of displaying on a stage of just one square meter.
Oliver Stone took notice of him shortly after to play the legendary Alexander the Great , however he stayed in an expensive and ambitious blockbuster that received rather weak reviews, some of which questioned Farrell’s performance.
After some blunders, he was placed under the orders of Michael Mann to reinvent Sonny Crockett in the film adaptation of a television series, Miami Vice . In 2007, he returned to show his qualities in Woody Allen ‘s drama , Cassandra’s Dream , where he brilliantly played a poor unhappy slave to alcohol and gambling, and his relationship with his brother, a role that allowed him to finally unclassify himself. from his previous self-sufficient pimp roles. In his last film, In Bruges , where the playwright Martin McDonaghMaking his directorial debut, Farrell plays a hitman consumed by guilt, a role, by the way, with which he exhausts the expressive repertoire of surprised.
Next year the actor will premiere four films: Ondine , a fantasy story in which he plays a fisherman; Triage , a mystery drama; A Matter of Honor , with Edward Norton ; and The Imaginary of Doctor Parnassus , by director Terry Gilliam .