COLM FEORE

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

Contents

Biography

Personal life

Career

Filmography

Stratford Festival Theatre credits

References

External links

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.^[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.

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 role was 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. More recently he 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 States on the Sundance Channel.
Outside Canada, Feore has appeared in numerous film and television roles.

Filmography

★ ''Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould'' (1993) -- Glenn Gould

★ ''Night Falls on Manhattan'' (1997) -- Harrison

★ ''Face/Off'' (1997) -- Dr. Malcolm Walsh

★ ''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) -- Edward the Blue Engine (despite absence)/Toby the Tram Engine

★ ''The Perfect Son'' (2000) -- Ryan Taylor

★ ''Nuremberg (TV movie)'' (2000) -- Rudolf Hoess

★ ''Pearl Harbor'' (2001) -- Adm. Husband E. Kimmel

★ ''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

★ ''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)

★ ''24'' (TV) (2008) -- First Gentleman Henry Taylor

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

★ ''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

References

1. http://www.northernstars.ca/actorsdef/feore_colmbio.html

External links

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

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