Colin Farrell born on May 31, 1976 in Dublin, Ireland. The son of a professional soccer player, Farrell followed his sister to the Gaiety Drama School in Dublin, but eventually dropped out when he landed the role of Danny Byrne on the BBC series Ballykissangel.

Colin made his big Hollywood breakthrough in 2003, sparring with Al Pacino in the CIA flick The Recruit, battling Ben Affleck in the superhero hit Daredevil. Earlier, Farrell won critical raves as Roland Bozz, an unwilling Texas army recruit in the Vietnam-era war drama Tigerland (2000). Farrell attended the Gaiety Drama School in Dublin before winning the role of Danny Byrne in the 1990s BBC TV series Ballykissangel. He makes the gossip columns regularly and has an earned reputation as a bad boy, but Farrell is also a hard-working leading man whose movies include Hart's War (2002, with Bruce Willis), Minority Report (2002), S.W.A.T. (2003, with Samuel L. Jackson) and Alexander (2004, playing Alexander the Great). In 2006 he starred with Jamie Foxx in Miami Vice, a feature film based on the early-1980's TV cop show, with Farrell in the role created by Don Johnson.

Also he starred in The New World (2005) and Ask the Dust (2006). Her future projects include some movie such as Pride and Glory (2008), In Bruges (2008) and The Hurt Locker (2008).

Farrell was briefly married to fellow actress Amelia Warner in 2001. In 2003, he became a father when model Kim Bordenave gave birth to their son.

Filmography

• Dirt Music (2008) 
• The Hurt Locker (2008) 
• In Bruges (2008)
• Pride and Glory (2008)
• Cassandra's Dream (2007) 
• Miami Vice (2006)
• Ask the Dust (2006)
• The New World (2005)
• "Scrubs" (1 episode, 2005)
• Alexander (2004) 
• Home at the End of the World (2004) 
• Intermission (2003)
• S.W.A.T. (2003)
• Veronica Guerin (2003)
• Daredevil (2003)
• The Recruit (2003)
• Phone Booth (2002) 
• Minority Report (2002)
• Hart's War (2002)
• American Outlaws (2001)
• Tigerland (2000)
• Ordinary Decent Criminal (2000)
• "Ballykissangel" (13 episodes, 1998-1999)
• David Copperfield (1999) (TV)
• "Love in the 21st Century" (1999) TV Series 
• The War Zone (1999) 
• Falling for a Dancer (1998) (TV)
• Drinking Crude (1997)
• The Disappearance of Finbar (1996)

Awards

• Boston Society of Film Critics Award Best Actor "Tigerland" 2000