Colin Farrell - Everything you should know about the Irish bad boy

Hybrid-Angel · 11-05-2004, 06:10 AM

Colin Farrell is a superstar, anti-hollywood, "**** you, i'll do what i want" hot, irish actor that we all can't help but fall in love with.

So heres some facts about the irish, crude speaking heartthorb.

Name: Colin James Farrell.

Birth date: May 31, 1976.

Height: 6ft

Birthplace: Castleknock, Dublin, Ireland.

Resides: Castleknock, Dublin, Ireland.

Occupation: Actor

Siginifcant others:

Wife: Amelia Warner, actress; married July 2001; Divorced 2001

Mother of his child: Kim Bordenave, model

Children: Son, James, born Sept 12, 2003.

Father: Eamon Farrell Sr., Irish football player ( Owns resturant in Dublin)

Mother: Rita Farrell

Siblings: Eamon Jr., Catherine and Claudine (both sisters been his personal assistant, currently it Clandine)

Uncle: Jim Farrell ( also Irish football player)

His Favorite:

Ciggettes: Camel Light

Drink: Carlsberg beer

His ideal girl:

-Loves all kinda woman

-Layed back girls, and that he likes girls in peddle pushers, indian-cut shirts, and leather hip-hugger pants

-confident, strong girl with a good heart and good sense of humor.

- Said he loves a nice stomach and neck on girls.

Courtesy of CFF:

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Early Career:

Farrell's life in Sydney 7th July, 2003 - News.com.au network

He may be one of Hollywood's hottest stars but when Colin Farrell was in Sydney in 1995, he was just like thousands of other Irish backpackers who blow through town. He waited on tables, crashed on people's couches, spent a lot of time at Bondi Beach and toyed with the idea of trying to break into acting. Now with the moniker of "the lusty leprechaun", Farrell is a highly sought-after actor - both on and off the screen.

Farrell came to Sydney in 1995 and it was here that he made his stage debut, and a highly forgettable one at that. But those who remember him as a 19-year-old tourist are not surprised at his success.

Photographer Stuart Campbell met Farrell through a mutual friend and ended up giving him a place to stay when he first arrived in Sydney.

"He slept on my couch in Bondi for a few nights," Mr Campbell recalled. "Colin mentioned that he wanted to be an actor so I offered to take his pictures. "He was totally, absolutely charming."

While shooting the snaps at the old Colgate Palmolive factory in Balmain, Campbell introduced Farrell to NIDA head of acting Tony Knight, who pointed him in the direction of Performance Space.

He landed the role of Steve Hart in Kelly's Reign, a play about the life and times of Ned Kelly and his gang.

Girls who had the pleasure of being served by Farrell when he was waiting tables still treasure some very fond memories.

"I knew from the day I met him that he was different from the rest," one girl said.

"He just oozes with sexuality for a guy who was only 18 or 19 years old. A few girls from work went ga-ga over him - and ladies as well."

Filmography: Courtesy of imdb.com

Miami Vice (2006) (announced) .... Det. James "Sonny" Crockett

New World, The (2005) (filming) .... John Smith

Ask the Dust (2005) (post-production) .... Arturo Bandini

Alexander (2004) (completed) .... Alexander

Home at the End of the World, A (2004) .... Bobby Morrow (1982)

Intermission (2003) .... Lehiff

S.W.A.T. (2003) .... Jim Street

Veronica Guerin (2003) .... Tattooed Boy

Daredevil (2003) .... Bullseye (2003)

Recruit, The (2003) .... James Clayton

Phone Booth (2002) .... Stu Shepard

Minority Report (2002) .... Det. Danny Witwer

Hart's War (2002) .... Lt. Thomas W. Hart

American Outlaws (2001) .... Jesse James

Tigerland (2000) .... Pvt. Roland Bozz

Ordinary Decent Criminal (2000) (as Colin Farrel) .... Alec
... aka Ganz gewöhnlicher Dieb, Ein (2000) (Germany)

David Copperfield (1999) (TV) (scenes deleted) .... Milkman

"Love in the 21st Century" (1999) TV Series .... Mattie

War Zone, The (1999) (as Colin J. Farrell) .... Nick
... aka Tim Roth's The War Zone (1999) (USA: poster title)
... aka Zona di guerra (1999) (Italy)

"Ballykissangel" (1996) TV Series (as Col Farrell) .... Danny Byrne (1998-1999)

Falling for a Dancer (1998) (TV) .... Daniel McCarthey

Drinking Crude (1997) .... Click

Disappearance of Finbar, The (1996) (uncredited) .... Extra
... aka När Finbar försvann (1996) (Sweden)

Fun Facts:

-Colin has suffered Chronic Insomia since he was 12. His father told him he would be a Night Watch man.

-Not being able to sleep as a kid, Colin would walk downstairs while everyone was asleep, turn off the alarm and go walking around Dublin at night taking in the beauty of the world so still. He'd some times jump peoples fence and observe them while they watched TV.

-Colin dropped out of the Gaiety Drama School ( He enrolled in 1996) in Dublin and a few months later auditioned for a part in Ballykissangel and was successful. Got the part of Danny Bryan.

-When dropping out of school and doing the odd jobs Colin thought he'd try and start fresh and go to Australia. He made his stage debut in a play about the outlaw Ned Kelly on the Performance Place in Sydney's Cleveland Street.

-He made his European stage debut playing a teenage autistic boy in Gary Mitchell's In a Little World of Our Own at London's Donmar Warehouse. This is where he was spotted by Kevin Spacey who got him the small role in Ordinary Decent Criminal.
Colin on Kevin meeting him backstage: 'It was mad,' Farrell tells me, shaking his head as is still in shock. 'One morning I'm buying my popcorn and being blown away by The Usual Suspects, and the next I've got Kevin Spacey in my dressing-room, complimenting me on my performance!' (Telegraph mag 4/28/01 )

- Spacy said that Colin had this "certain present" on stage.

- Colin audition for Boyzone when he was 19, but was total he was "tone deaf".

- Colin's claim to fame is thanks to both Kevin Spacey and Joel Schumarcher he gave him the lead role of Bozz in Tigerland. Colin very much loves and admires Joel and vise versa.

-Until he was 15 he thought he was going to be a footballer like his Dad, but his love of booze got in the way

- Colin loved working with Al Panico and said he get a "boner" every time Panico would call him "Kid".

-Colin was so nerve in his first scene for 'Minority report' he had 36 takes in one day when trying to say "You're all aware of fundenmental paradox that is pre-crime methodology."

-During the filming of one scene in 'The Recruit' Colin had to stand up and walk away from his desk, he dropped his pants and then stood up and walked away with his pants around his ankles. "You some time it gets a bit stail onset."- Colin as said in 'The Recruit' commentry.

-Colin's a totally Class Clown on set.

-Admits his a totally Mama's boy.

Cute!

- His sister Claudine (girl in the blue top) and his best mate Ruairi ( next to Claud), nicknamed Ru, can be seen in the backgrond of DareDevil when Colin's playing Bulleyes and throwing the darts.

-Claudine also was the voice on Matt Mardock's (Ben Afleck ) answering machine in DareDevil.

-Colin loves kids and always couldn't wait to be a father. Lucky he had that fling with Kim then

-Colin did all his stunt in his upcoming epic flick 'Alexander'

- Colin lost his viginity to a 34 year old Aussie woman at 14!

She pulled out a box of 400 condoms and ask him to pick one, he says the thought going through his mind at the time "I'm in ****ing trouble."

- Colin Ex wife Amelia Warner was only 19 when then got married. He was 26.

- Out of his siblings he was the "mad one".

Quotes: courtesy of colinfarrell.net

-(On his childhood) ''I got away with murder. I pulled off the smoking thing for years. When they finally caught me with cigarettes I told them I was holding them for a friend.''

-"After I go to work you think I'm at home learning my lines or something. Na, you work hard and play hard and you always get six weeks off between jobs and that's great. I have no politics except to enjoy every second of my life as much as possible."

-"Being Irish is very much a part of who I am. I take it everywhere with me."

-(On people who drink tequila) "I tell them, 'When you're at home puking your guts out, I'll be here drinking my Amstel Light.'"

-(On appearing nude in Tigerland) "I couldn't care less about who sees my bits ... My friends asked how I could do scenes like that and not get excited, but it wasn't like that. My bits looked the size of a cashew nut!"

-(On acting)"The reason why I can do what I do and I'm not talking about acting, I'm talking about being away from home for long periods of time is because I have such a ****in' great thing to come back to. If I wasn't as lucky as I am, in respect to the family that I have and how much they are my friends, I would be coked out of my ****in' head in L.A. I'm telling you, I know my ****in' demons. I'd be coked out of my knot every night in L.A. I'd be banging more hookers that you could shake a ****in' stick at. If I didn't have the family that I have, hat's what I'd be doing. I'd be lost, you know? I'd be lost."

-(On marriage with Amelia Warner) (The pair married in July 2001 on the island paradise of French Polynesia.) " I've been in love twice in my life. That was the second time, and it was the true ****in' thing. We met just before Quills came out, and I can tell you the exact moment I fell in love with her. Holy ****, she's beautiful. It was at the premiere, on the red carpet, and I stepped back because it wasn't my night. It was hers. So I step back, and she steps forward, looks at all the light and cameras, then looks back at me with the killer ****in' help-me look on her face. She reached out for me and that was it. Right through the heart. But the marriage was too fast, too young. Ah, love. We wanted a holiday to get married, so we decided to kill two birds with one stone. It didn't work out, it lasted four months and I couldn't give a ****. Through the laughter and the tears I would do it all again in a flash. We loved hard for a year: met each other, fell madly in love; and than fall out of love, as people do."

-"I'm not nearly that tough. In the end, I'm a mama's boy."

-(On the word '****') "It's just cursing, that's all. Everyday Dublin lingo. If you read something I say and it's got all these words in there as it tends to you could think I come across like some ****ing wanker. But if you're talking to me now, you know it's just habit. It's just the way I speak. It's an English and Irish slang. 'Shaddup, ya ****!' You use it with your friends. And it's not exactly referencing what it is. It is not like, 'Shaddup, you vagina!' **** that, doesn't mean 'Sexual intercourse that!' But **** is a great word."

Links to awsome Colin sites:

IrishBadboy.com

Colin Farrell Fansite - best site EVER!

ColinFarrell.net

Fallin' for Colin

Feel free to add anything you might know about Colin!

LostinKP · 11-05-2004, 07:01 AM

Great draw-up of the profile of Colin!

And i'm going to add a couple more facts

- Colin joined a line dancing troupe that toured Ireland in a minibus. Naturally, the teenagers had to wear stetsons and neckerchiefs.

- Colin comes from a previleged middle-class background and he now commands at least $8 million dollars a film.

- Colin used to model and he was told by the modelling agency that line-dancing was a way of keeping fit and staying in shape.

Hybrid-Angel · 11-05-2004, 07:17 AM

Thanks hun

More Fun facts

-His mother, Rita, forced him to take dancing lessons once his brother, Eamon Farrell Jr., started them. Eamon Jr. also got him into acting by attending an acting school and later recommending it to Colin.

-His family says that every time Colin flies over the green hills of Ireland he cries. When he lands he kisses the ground.

-His brother Eamon says that Colin "used to speak like me until he got to America. He has this Irish brogue of an accent. Every timeI go over to the States, it's stronger. I can hardly understand him sometimes."

-Colin's cottage in Irishtown has 2 bedrooms, a living room, a kitchen, and a bathroom.

-Colin got his start in a country western dance troupe, he says "I looked like what the Village People's idea of what a cowboy is."

-He always has one or more family members with him when he leaves Ireland.

-He is the youngest of 4 children.

-Colin describes himself as a "fairly lazy bastard"

Courtesy of fallin for Colin

LostinKP · 11-05-2004, 11:09 AM

Seems like I have something in common with Colin - I'm a lazy ass too.

And I'm the youngest in my family hee.

*Krissy* · 11-05-2004, 02:16 PM

Thanks for posting that. Fun stuff to read.

Jo, I'm lazy too!

However, I'm the oldest child in my family.

Hybrid-Angel · 11-06-2004, 12:00 AM

Thank guyz, i acutally want to do something like this ages ago. So i was bored as hell yesterday and did it.

Were all lazy bastards! But i'm an only child.

S.A.S.H.A. · 11-06-2004, 04:35 AM

Fun facts!

Sasha

LostinKP · 11-06-2004, 09:04 AM

A pic profile

S.A.S.H.A. · 11-06-2004, 06:43 PM

For some reason he reminds me of Anthony LaPaglia in that pic.

Sasha

Hybrid-Angel · 11-07-2004, 03:39 AM

Thats awsome! Where did ya get that, Jo?

LostinKP · 11-07-2004, 05:38 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by S.A.S.H.A.
For some reason he reminds me of Anthony LaPaglia in that pic.

Hmm maybe because he looks suave there and I do kind of see a young AP in him now that you mention it, especially in the new batch of pics posted at the Pic Thread. One sure thing in common between them is that they both can act.

Hybrid-Angel · 11-07-2004, 10:53 PM

Yeah i see Anthony in him too.

And thats a very true point there, Jo.

LostinKP · 11-08-2004, 08:06 AM

I do think the both of them should act or work together now.

*Krissy* · 11-09-2004, 05:57 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by S.A.S.H.A.
For some reason he reminds me of Anthony LaPaglia in that pic.

At first I went "ew, no!" But then I looked at the pic again and I totally see it!

S.A.S.H.A. · 11-10-2004, 12:49 AM

Ha! So I'm not crazy!

Sasha