- Title: The Lobster's Colin Farrell turns 45 on May 31
- Date: 30th May 2021
- Summary: LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES (FILE - MARCH 11, 2019) (REUTERS) ***WARNING: CONTAINS FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY*** VARIOUS OF IRISH ACTOR, COLIN FARRELL ON RED CARPET POSING FOR PHOTOGRAPHERS AT "DUMBO" PREMIERE LONDON, ENGLAND, UNITED KINGDOM (FILE - MARCH 21, 2019) (REUTERS) "DUMBO" DIRECTOR, TIM BURTON TALKING TO FARRELL ON RED CARPET FARRELL TALKING TO REPORTERS CANNES, FRANCE (FILE - MAY 24, 2017) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF THE CAST OF "THE BEGUILED" POSING FOR PHOTOGRAPHERS. (LEFT TO RIGHT): ACTORS, ANGOURIE RICE, FARRELL, NICOLE KIDMAN, KIRSTEN DUNST, DIRECTOR SOFIA COPPOLA, AND ACTORS, ELLE FANNING AND ADDISON RIECKE CANNES, FRANCE (FILE - MAY 22, 2017) (REUTERS) PHOTOGRAPHERS ON RED CARPET CAST OF "THE KILLING OF A SACRED DEER" KIDMAN AND FARRELL LONDON, ENGLAND, UNITED KINGDOM (FILE - FEBRUARY 13, 2014) (REUTERS) PROMOTIONAL SIGN FOR "A NEW YORK WINTER'S TALE" SHOWING FARRELL AND ACTOR, JESSICA BROWN FINDLAY FARRELL AND BROWN FINDLAY BEING PHOTOGRAPHED ON THE RED CARPET VARIOUS OF FARRELL BEING INTERVIEWED BY MEDIA ON THE RED CARPET FARRELL WITH FANS PARK CITY, UTAH, UNITED STATES (FILE - JANUARY 17, 2008) (ORIGINALLY 4:3) (REUTERS) (LEFT TO RIGHT): FARRELL, DIRECTOR MARTIN MCDONAGH AND ACTOR BRENDAN GLEESON AT PREMIERE OF "IN BRUGES" REPORTERS/CAST AND DIRECTOR FARRELL SPEAKING TO REPORTER (SOUNDBITE) (English) ACTOR, COLIN FARRELL, ON FILMING, SAYING: "I had a great time, I had a really pure experience. It really was a bunch of us getting together for all the right reasons that was more than worthy. Martin is just a wonderful writer." GLEESON AND MCDONAGH SPEAKING TO REPORTERS FARRELL SPEAKING TO REPORTER CAMERAMEN GLEESON SPEAKING TO REPORTER LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES (FILE - AUGUST 1, 2012) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF "TOTAL RECALL" FILM POSTER FARRELL WITH "TOTAL RECALL" DIRECTOR, LEN WISEMAN AND CAST FARRELL SPEAKING WITH REPORTERS FARRELL MEETING WITH FANS
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- Keywords: Colin Farrell In Bruges The Lobster actor
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- Story Text: Irish actor Colin Farrell turns 45 on Monday (May 31).
Born in Castleknock, greater Dublin, Ireland in 1976, Farrell is most recently known for his starring role as the circus elephant handler in the 2019 live-action remake of Disney's "Dumbo".
The Irish actor's screen career has spanned across several film genres, from psychological thriller to romantic fantasy.
In 2009 Farrell won a Golden Globe for best actor in a musical or comedy in Oscar-nominated director Martin McDonagh's "In Bruge". The actor plays hitman Ray who has to lie low from gangsters in the Belgian city after a job goes wrong. Fellow Irishman Brendan Gleeson is another hitman tasked with 'babysitting' the guilt-stricken Ray.
Farrell was nominated in the same Golden Globe category in 2017 for Yorgos Lanthimos' comedy "The Lobster" about singles finding a partner in a specific time period, or face being transformed into a creature of their choice.
The actor reprised Arnold Schwarzenegger's 1990 role in sci-fi action adventure "Total Recall", leading the cast in a 2012 remake as Quaid, a factory worker turned spy.
In 2015 the actor took on the role of romantic protagonist in fantasy film "Winter's Tale", playing a supernatural demon who falls in love a woman intended to be the victim of a planned robbery.
Farrell has worked alongside many of Hollywood's veteran actors, including Nicole Kidman in "The Beguiled" and Lanthimos' "The Killing of a Sacred Deer" in 2017. He also starred with Samuel L. Jackson in 2003 cop thriller "S.W.A.T".
Farrell is set to return to the big screen in the upcoming DC Comics film "The Batman", scheduled for release in 2022, playing supervillain character Penguin, the arch enemy of Batman.
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