Colin James Farrell (born May 31, 1976) is an Irish
actor born in Castleknock, Dublin. He was educated at
Castleknock College and Gormanstown College.
Back in the late 1980s and early 1990s,
he was also a promising young soccer player for Dublin
side Castleknock Celtic, even spending stints in goal.
Colin's father Eamonn, an Irish Cup
winner with Shamrock Rovers, managed the team.
Colin Farrell attended The Gaiety
School of Acting, but dropped out and snagged the
part of Danny Bryne on Ballykissangel, a popular BBC
television drama set in Ireland. It ran from 1996
til 2001 with Colin's part running from 1998 to 1999.
He then had a number of small roles
in various TV shows and movies until he played the
part of Private Roland Bozz in Tigerland in 2000.
Since then, he's been one of Ireland's rising stars
in Hollywood, acting alongside some of Hollywood's
finest including Bruce Willis in Hart's War, Tom Cruise
in Minority Report, Al Pacino in The Recruit and Samuel
L. Jackson in S.W.A.T..
Farrell was married to Amelia Warner
from July to November 2001. He later had a son, James
(born September 12, 2003), with Los Angeles resident
Kim Bordenave.
Al Pacino, his original acting idol,
has described Colin as the greatest actor of his generation.
Farrell is known for his lighthearted approach to
living, hard drinking, chain smoking, and heavy profanity
which is often edited during his talk show appearances.
He was reportedly smoking six packs of cigarettes
or more a day during the filming of Phone Booth in
2002.
In 2004, audiences at screening of
the film A Home at the End of the World were alleged
by press to have been visibly distracted (with audible
gasps) due to a brief frontal nude scene by Farrell
during which he walked naked down a hallway. The film's
producers claimed to have deleted this scene due to
the threat that it might distract viewers from the
real content of the film. Farrell responded by saying
it was "ridiculous" and when asked if the
cut scene might be included in a DVD release responded:
"That would really make me put me fists up. What
would it be? Deleted scene: cock?" The removed
clip later leaked to the internet.
In December 2005, Farrell voluntarily
checked into a treatment center for dependency to
prescription painkillers. His publicist said he was
originally given pills for dealing with back injury
pain. He was released in January 2006.
Sex tape dispute
In July 2005, Farrell sued his former girlfriend,
Playboy Playmate Nicole Narain, and porn producer
David Hans Schmidt over the rights of a 13-minute
sex tape he made with Narain in 2003. The tape was
made at Narain's apartment and features the two engaged
in intercource and oral sex. Farrell claims he understood
the tape as being "strictly private and confidential
between them," but it was somehow leaked to Schmidt
and others who tried to release it publicly. A judge
in Los Angeles issued a temporary restraining order
to prevent them from selling, distributing or showing
the tape to anyone. In the past, Schmidt had distributed
or tried to distribute nude material of other celebrities,
including Tonya Harding, Paula Jones, and Fred Durst.
Narain claimed she didn't give the
tape to anyone and wasn't sure if or how copies were
taken from her. She originally said that she would
work with Farrell to ensure that it remained private,
but Farrell claimed the opposite. He said Narain was
trying to release it along with Schmidt, but Narain
said she had nothing to do with him. Part of the conflict
may have also come when Narain refused to grant full
ownership of the tape to Farrell. Later in an appearance
on MSNBC, Narain said that she and Farrell should
commercially release the tape together themselves
so that they could profit instead of others who had
copies.
On January 10, 2006, the tape surfaced
on a website called dirtycolin.com. The site was shut
down on the same day because of server overload, but
reopened a week later. The tape was then pirated through
bittorrent and other file-sharing systems. Both Farrell's
and Narain's lawyers denounced the site. While dirtycolin.com
was shutdown again a few days later for unknown reasons,
Farrell's legal team added it and other sites that
hosted parts of the tape as defendants in the lawsuit.
A trial date was set for July 17, 2006. The judge
allowed lawyers for Farrell and Narain to mediate
the dispute until April 20.
Filmography
The Disappearance of Finbar (1996)
Drinking Crude (1997)
The War Zone (1999)
Ordinary Decent Criminal (2000)
Tigerland (2000)
American Outlaws (2001)
Hart's War (2002)
Minority Report (2002)
Phone Booth (2002)
The Recruit (2003)
Daredevil (2003)
Veronica Guerin (2003)
S.W.A.T. (2003)
Intermission (2003)
A Home at the End of the World (2004)
Alexander (2004)
The New World (2005)
Ask the Dust (2005) (currently in post-production)
Miami Vice (2006)
What's Love and What's It All About (2006) (currently
announced start of production)
Tree of Life
Borgia (2006) - Cesare Borgia
Tales from Earthsea (anime)
Pride And Glory (2007)
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