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Colm Feore

In the last year, Colm Feore has appeared in John Woo's Paycheck, starring opposite Ben Affleck, and in Highwayman, opposite James Caviezel, in addition to his starring role in The Chronicles of Riddick.

His additional credits include starring opposite Antonio Banderas in the HBO Original Movie And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself; with Richard Gere in Chicago, which won the SAG award for best ensemble cast; National Security, with Martin Lawrence; The Sum of All Fears, with Ben Affleck; and in the miniseries Trudeau, which garnered Feore a 2002 Gemini Award for Best Actor in a Miniseries and a 2002 Monte Carlo Television Festival Nomination for Best Actor.

Feore won a Jutra Award for Best Supporting Actor for his work in The Red Violin and earned a Genie Award nomination for his performance as Canada's eccentric music genius in Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould, which won the Genie Award for Best Picture.

Feore first gained prominence as one of Canada's premiere stage actors through 13 seasons with the prestigious Stratford Festival, playing virtually all of Shakespeare's leading men, from Richard III and Iago to Romeo and Hamlet. He was recently onstage as Claudius in the Public Theater production of Hamlet in New York. He will also be making a return to Stratford for its 50th Anniversary season playing Professor Higgins in My Fair Lady.

Major roles in such projects as Michael Bay's Pearl Harbor, with Ben Affleck and Kate Beckinsale; the cable movies The Day Reagan Was Shot, with Richard Dreyfuss, and Sins of the Father, with Tom Sizemore; Point of Origin, with Ray Liotta; Ignition, with Bill Pullman; The Caveman's Valentine, with Samuel L. Jackson; Titus, with Anthony Hopkins; The Insider, with Russell Crowe and Al Pacino; City of Angels, with Meg Ryan; and John Woo's Face/Off, with John Travolta and Nicholas Cage, have made him a familiar face in American motion pictures.

His television work includes starring roles in the movies Trapped in a Purple Haze and Forget Me Never, with Mia Farrow; the miniseries Haven, with Natasha Richardson; Widows; Nuremberg, directed by Yves Simoneau; Stephen King's Storm Of the Century; the Emmy Award-winning telefeature Truman, with Gary Sinise; and The Virginian, starring and directed by Bill Pullman.


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Colm Feore Facts

OccupationActor
BirthdayAugust 22, 1958 (51)
SignLeo
BirthplaceBoston, Massachusetts, USA

Selected Filmography

24: Redemption
Changeling
Chronicles of Riddick
City of Angels
Stephen King's Storm of the Century
Benjamin Franklin
The Insider
Riddick Trilogy
Thomas and the Magic Railroad
Truman
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