Colin Farell (1976-) is an Oscar® nominated Irish actor. He has been appearing in movies since 1997. In the early 2000s, Farrell was the hot new star. Today, he goes from starring in small independent movies to supporting roles in big budget movies. His IMDb page shows over 70 acting credits since 1999. In the table below, Ultimate Movie Rankings ranks his movies in 6 different sortable columns. Television roles, cameos, shorts and straight to DVD movies were not included in the rankings on the table.
Colin Farrell Movies Ranked In Chronological Order With Ultimate Movie Rankings Score (1 to 5 UMR Tickets) *Best combo of box office, reviews and awards.
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Possibly Interesting Facts About Colin Farrell
1. Colin James Farrell was born in Castleknock, Dublin, Ireland, in 1976.
2. Colin Farrell’s dad, Eamon Farrell, was a professional football player for the Shamrock Rovers FC.
3. Henry Thomas’ performance in E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) inspired Colin Farrell to try acting.
4. Colin Farrell’s acting idols are Al Pacino, Steve McQueen, Paul Newman, Clint Eastwood, James Caan and Marlon Brando.
5. Colin Farrell was able, for the first time, to use his own Irish accent in an American movie in 2003’s Daredevil.
6. Colin Farrell has never been married. He does have two children.
7. Colin Farrell took the role of Percival Graves in Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016) because he loves the Harry Potter franchise and wanted to be a part of it.
8. Colin Farrell has acted alongside four actors who’ve played the role of Bruce Wayne/Batman: Ben Affleck in 2003’s Daredevil , Val Kilmer in 2004’s Alexander, Christian Bale in 2005’s The New World , and Michael Keaton in 2019’s Dumbo.
9. Colin Farrell won a Best Actor Golden Globe® for 2008’s In Bruges.
10. Check out Colin Farrell’s movie career compared to current and classic stars on our Most 100 Million Dollar Movies of All-Time page.
HI STEVE:
Thanks for the thoughtful feedback; for the explanations of your scoring and of your video/stills history; as well as for the quotes you have provided.
For your quick scrutiny I herewith reproduce one of WH’s Possibly Interesting Facts above
“4. Colin Farrell’s acting idols are Al Pacino, Steve McQueen, Paul Newman, Clint Eastwood, James Caan and Marlon Brando.”
Notice there are none of the pre-1950 hollywood legends like Al Leach and The Duke in Colin’s list; and an Irishman who likes Brando – now have viewers ever come across one of THOSE before on this site?!!!
I enjoyed the Farrell video to the tune of a basic personal satisfaction rating of 98% but added 0.2% because of my pleasure in seeing a fellow citizen of mine profiled – so overall rating 98.2%! You and The Big Boy agree on 2 of Colin’s Top 5 best reviewed movies: Minority Report and Crazy Heart. I applaud you for including In Bruges in your 5 and at No 2; but thumbs down to the WH for not including it in his 5.
BEST STILLS IN MY OPINION: There were gaps at times in the provision of stills but the 14 sets that I have selected across 11 separate entries are top notch.
1/two for Alexander
2/two for Daredevil
3/Miami Vice
4/The Recruit – that one has a good surprise ending.
5/Hart’s War
6/Fright night
7/Tigerland
8/Saving Mr Banks
9/Crazy Heart
10/two for In Bruges
11/Minority Report – I forgot Colin was in that one.
BEST POSTER SETS IN FARRELL VIDEO
1/Miss Julie
2/American Outlaws
3/Foreign language one for Solace
4/Miami Vice
5/first one for Dumbo
6/first one for Total Recall – raunchy!
7/Triage
8/second one for Fright Night
9/first one for Epic
10/first one for Dead Man Down
11/first one for 7 Psychos
12/first one for Horrible Bosses
13/Ondine
14/entire set for New World
15/The Lobster
16/first one for Fantastic Beasts
17/The Gentlemen
18/Crazy Heart
19/In Bruges
20/3rd one for Minority Report – I never liked that film
Hi Bob, thanks for the review, generous rating, info, trivia and quote, always appreciated. Glad you liked the posters and stills.
I did a box office video for Colin Farrell about 5 years ago, I only included 15 movies. There was a still for each film along with the poster. Back then every film I used in my box office videos had to be accompanied by a still from the film.
When I started on my ‘ratings’ videos stills were optional, poster art was the main attraction. One of the reasons was that the ratings videos were double the length of the box office videos and I wanted to keep the running time down.
The only film scoring 10 out of 10, from one of my sources, was Saving Mr. Banks. One film scored 9 – Minority Report and several scored 8 including In Bruges and Crazy Heart.
The Gentlemen tops IMDB charts followed by In Bruges, no.1 at Rotten Tomatoes is Minority Report with In Bruges at no.2.
“I work my arse off. I’m never late, ask anyone. I’m only 27. I don’t feel like a big star. I feel neither the pressure nor the grandeur of my situation, you know. I think I’m still trying to find my feet as an actor. And I know it ain’t brain surgery, but it confuses me and it comes between me and my sleep a lot.”
“I’m just a true Irish boy at heart. I’m just myself, I stick by my guns and I treat people the way I think they should be treated, regardless of their status. And I just have a laugh.”
Farrell on In Bruges – “When I read it, I said to Martin McDonagh, the director, “I don’t think you should hire me.” I said I come with a certain amount of baggage that has been well-earned through the years and this piece is so pure, I would love the audience to not have too much of a relationship with any of the actors. Thankfully, he didn’t listen to me.”