Colm Feore

Colm Feore (born August 22, 1958) is an American-Canadian stage, film and television actor.

Biography

Personal life

Feore was born in Boston, Massachusetts to Irish parents who lived in Ireland for several years during Feore's early life, subsequently moving to Windsor, Ontario, where Feore grew up. After graduating from Ridley College in St. Catharines, Ontario, he attended the National Theatre School of Canada in Montreal, Quebec. He is also fluent in French. Feore lives with his wife, choreographer Donna Feore, and their three children, in Stratford, Ontario.

Career

Feore honed his acting skills as a member of the Acting Company of the Stratford Festival of Canada, North America’s largest classical repertory theatre. He spent 14 seasons at Stratford where he rose from bit parts to leading roles, including Romeo, Hamlet, Richard III, and Cyrano. He returned in 2006 to star in four productions, including Don Juan in both English and French.

In Canada, Feore’s most famous roles were as Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau in the critically-acclaimed television mini-series Trudeau, a role for which he won a Gemini Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Dramatic Program or Mini-Series, and as by-the-book anglophone detective Martin Ward in the box-office hit Bon Cop, Bad Cop. He also played a crazed marketing executive in the second season of the popular Canadian TV series, Slings and Arrows, a role that continued for several episodes. The show has run in The United States on the Sundance Channel.

Outside Canada, Feore has appeared in numerous film and television roles. He is perhaps most famous in the United States for his supporting roles in such Hollywood films as Paycheck, National Security and The Chronicles of Riddick. He also appeared on Broadway as Cassius in the production of Julius Caesar starring Denzel Washington as Brutus. Off-Broadway, for the Public Theatre, he was Claudius in a Hamlet that starred Liev Schreiber. Schreiber's character has killed a character played by Feore twice; once in this Hamlet, and once in the film The Sum of All Fears. He will portray the First Gentleman Henry Taylor on the seventh season of 24.

Filmography

• Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould (1993) -- Glenn Gould
• Night Falls on Manhattan (1997) -- Harrison
• Face/Off (1997) -- Dr. Malcolm Walsh
• The Wrong Guy (1997) -- the killer
• City of Angels (1998) -- Jordan
• The Red Violin (1998) -- Auctioneer
• Storm of the Century (TV miniseries) (1999) -- Andre Linoge/Reporter on TV/Minister on TV
• The Insider (1999) -- Richard Scruggs
• Titus (1999) -- Marcus Andronicus
• La Femme Nikita (TV) (2000) -- Leon (episode: "Hell Hath No Fury")
• Thomas and the Magic Railroad (2000) -- Toby the Tram Engine
• The Perfect Son (2000) -- Ryan Taylor
• Nuremberg (TV movie) (2000) -- Rudolf Hoess
• Pearl Harbor (2001) -- Adm. Husband E. Kimmel
• Century Hotel (2001) -- Sebastian
• Lola (2001) -- Mike
• Trudeau (2002) (TV miniseries) -- The Right Honourable Pierre Elliott Trudeau
• The Sum of All Fears (2002) -- Olson
• Chicago (2002) -- Harrison
• National Security (2003) -- Detective Frank McDuff
• Paycheck (2003) -- John Wolfe
• The Chronicles of Riddick (2004) -- Lord Marshall
• Empire (TV series) (2005) -- Julius Caesar the Liberator and Father of the Fatherland
• Slings and Arrows (TV series) (2005) -- Sanjay Off beat marketing consultant
• Lies My Mother Told Me (2005) -- Lucas Mackenzie
• The Exorcism of Emily Rose (2005) -- Karl Gunderson
• Battlestar Galactica (TV) (2006) -- President Richard Adar (episode: "Epiphanies")
• Bon Cop, Bad Cop (2006) -- Martin Ward
• ''Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (2007)
• Thomas' Big Adventures --Edward the Blue Engine/Toby the Tram Engine/Duke
• Six Reasons Why (2008) -- "The Preacher"
• 24 (TV) (2008) -- First Gentleman Henry Taylor
• Changeling (2008) -- Chief of Police
• Guns (2008) - Paul Duguid

Stratford Festival Theatre credits

• Romeo and Juliet, 1984 -- Romeo
• The Boys from Syracuse, 1986 -- Antipholus
• Cymbeline, 1986 -- Iachimo
• Othello, 1987 -- Iago
• Richard III, 1988 -- King Richard III
• The Taming of the Shrew, 1988 -- Petruchio
• The Three Musketeers, 1988 -- Athos
• Julius Caesar, 1990 -- Cassius
• Romeo and Juliet, 1991 -- Mercutio
• Hamlet, 1991 -- Hamlet
• Measure for Measure, 1992 -- Angelo
• A Midsummer Night's Dream, 1993 -- Oberon
• The Pirates of Penzance, 1994 -- Pirate King
• Cyrano de Bergerac, 1994 -- Cyrano
• My Fair Lady, 2002 -- Henry Higgins
• Don Juan, 2006 -- Don Juan
• Oliver!, 2006 -- Fagin
• Coriolanus, 2006 -- Coriolanus
• Intervention, 2007 --
• Macbeth, 2009 -- Macbeth
• Cyrano de Bergerac, 2009 -- Cyrano

References

External links

• Canadian Film Encyclopedia [A publication of The Film Reference Library/a division of the Toronto International Film Festival Group]

Videos

• Interview with Colm Feore at 2007 Banff World TV Festival