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Colin James Farrell (born 31 May 1976) is an Irish actor. A leading man in blockbusters and independent films since the 2000s, he has received various accolades, including three Golden Globe Awards and a nomination for an Academy Award. The Irish Times named him Ireland's fifth-greatest film actor in 2020, and Time magazine named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2023. Farrell began acting in the BBC drama series Ballykissangel (1998) and made his film debut in the drama The War Zone (1999). His first lead film role was in the war drama Tigerland (2000), and he made his breakthrough in Steven Spielberg's science fiction film Minority Report (2002). He took on high-profile roles such as Bullseye in Daredevil (2003) and as Alexander the Great in Alexander (2004), with further starring roles in Michael Mann's Miami Vice (2006) and Woody Allen's Cassandra's Dream (2007). Farrell earned acclaim for playing a novice hitman in his first film with frequent collaborator Martin McDonagh, the dark comedy In Bruges (2008), winning a Golden Globe Award. He went on to play a variety of leading and character roles in the comedy Horrible Bosses (2011), the science fiction film Total Recall (2012), the drama Saving Mr. Banks (2013), the dark comedies Seven Psychopaths (2012) and The Lobster (2015), the thrillers The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017), The Beguiled (2017), and Widows (2018), and the fantasy films Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016) and Dumbo (2019). He also starred in the second season of HBO's thriller series True Detective (2015). Farrell played Oz Cobb/Penguin in the superhero film The Batman (2022) and the HBO series The Penguin (2024), winning a Golden Globe award for the latter. In 2022, he gained acclaim for his roles in the science fiction drama After Yang, the survival film Thirteen Lives, and McDonagh's drama The Banshees of Inisherin. For playing a naïve Irishman in the lattermost, he won the Volpi Cup for Best Actor and another Golden Globe, in addition to a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor.
Colin Farrell
The Penguin
for The Penguin in The Batman V: The Knight Ends
Suggested by j_bkr
Ninth movie of the Batmanverse: 2 years have passed since Batman defeated the Court of Owls and now Gotham City seems safer, until news breaks out that the Batman is now killing innocent people. Bruce takes up the mantle again and looks for the imposter, but at the same time he has to fight the GCPD that is now against him. In the end Batman finds out that the imposter is a man that has the resemblance of a bat. After a brutal confrontation, Batman takes a sample of his blood and finds out that the man is Dr. Kirk Langstrom, a doctor to whom it has been injected the blood of a bat . Bruce then finds out that behind all of this there is one man, Jonathan Crane, who was a researcher at Wayne Ent. that was fired by Bruce because of his experiments with the fear toxin. Jonathan now calls himself Scarecrow and not only does he know Batman's real identity, but he is also determined to see him fail to save Gotham. As visions of his past haunt him, Batman has to overcome the greatest challenge that he has ever had. But God only knows what's in store for the Dark Knight next.
