In 2007, Farrell joined other celebrities to become an official games spokesman for the Special Olympics World Games in Shanghai, China.
Colin James Farrell (born 31 May 1976) is an Irish actor. In 2008 he received a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for his role in In Bruges.
Colin Farrell was born in Dublin, the son of Rita (née Monaghan), a housewife, and Eamon Farrell, a footballer who played for Shamrock Rovers F.C. and owned a company importing and exporting canned goods in Dublin City. He was raised as a Roman Catholic. He was inspired to try acting after being brought to tears while watching E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial. Farrell unsuccessfully auditioned for the Irish group Boyzone when he was still unknown.
Farrell was named one of People magazine’s “50 Most Beautiful People” in 2003. He was also voted sixth in the World’s “Sexiest Man” contest by Company magazine that same year
In December 2005, Farrell voluntarily checked into a rehabilitation treatment center for addictions to recreational drugs and painkillers.His publicist commented that Farrell had started taking painkillers due to a back injury.
In July 2006, Farrell filed a lawsuit suing his former girlfriend, Playboy model Nicole Narain, and the Internet Commerce Group (ICG) over the unauthorised public distribution of a 14-minute sex tape that Farrell made with Narain in 2003. It was leaked to ICG who tried to release it publicly. A Los Angeles judge issued an injunction barring the sale, distribution, or display of the tape.
2013 Winter’s Tale 2013 Dead Man Down 2012 Seven Psychopaths 2012 Total Recall 2011 Fright Night 2011 Horrible Bosses 2011 My Least Favorite Career 2011 Being Mean Is So Much Fun (short) 2010 London Boulevard 2010 The Way Back 2009 Crazy Heart 2009 Ondine 2009 Triage 2009 The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus 2008 Pride and Glory 2008 In Bruges 2007 Cassandra’s Dream 2006 Miami Vice 2006 Ask the Dust 2005 The New World 2004 Alexander 2004 A Home at the End of the World 2003 Intermission 2003 S.W.A.T. 2003 Veronica Guerin 2003 Daredevil 2003 The Recruit 2002 Phone Booth 2002 Minority Report 2002 Hart’s War 2001 American Outlaws 2000 Tigerland 2000 Ordinary Decent Criminal 1999 The War Zone 1998 Falling for a Dancer 1997 Drinking Crude 1996 The Disappearance of Finbar
2008 – Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy 2000 – Boston Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actor 2000 – London Film Critics Award for Newcomer of the Year