Colm Feore

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Colm Feore

Feore and his wife at a 2007 Toronto International Film Festival party
Born August 22, 1958 (1958-08-22) (age 49)
Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.

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

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[edit] Biography

[edit] 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.[1] After graduating from Ridley College in St. Catharines, Ontario, he attended the National Theatre School in Montreal, Quebec. He is also fluent in French. Feore lives with his wife, choreographer Donna Feore, and their three children, in Stratford, Ontario.

[edit] 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, located in Stratford. 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.

[edit] Filmography

[edit] 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 --

[edit] References

  1. ^ Colm Feore - Northern Stars
  2. ^ Kit, Borys. "3 join Jolie for 'Changeling'", The Hollywood Reporter, October 16, 2007. Retrieved on 2007-11-25. 

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