Colm Feore

Colm Feore (2013)

Colm Feore at the 2007 Toronto International Film Festival

Colm Feore (born August 22, 1958 in Boston , Massachusetts ) is an American - Canadian actor .

life and work

Feore is a native American of Irish descent. He spent the first three years of his life in Ireland. Afterward, his family moved to Ottawa , and he grew up in what is now his adopted home, Canada. After graduating from Ridley College in St. Catharines , Ontario , he attended the National Theater School in Montréal , Québec . He then appeared for 13 seasons at the Stratford Festival Theater , the theater with the largest repertoire of classical plays in North America. There he played leading roles in the Shakespeare plays Romeo and Juliet , Othello , Hamlet and Richard III. and in many other plays.

In Canada, his best-known role was Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau in the critically acclaimed television miniseries Trudeau from 2002.

Outside of Canada Feore was seen in numerous television but also in some movies. He had his first appearance in front of a camera in 1986 in the television film The Boys from Syracuse . After three further TV productions, the first feature film, The Steel Eagle II, followed in 1988 .

His classical theater background gives his film characters depth. Another bonus is Feore's sword fighting experience. For example, he showed his skills in an episode of the television series Nick Knight in 1995 , in which he and his good friend and Stratford colleague Geraint Wyn Davies made use of their sword handling skills and added an excellent sword fighting scene just for fun. He also used this skill in Riddick: Chronicles of a Warrior .

In the film drama The Red Violin ( The Red Violin ) (1998), which for the original score by John Corigliano with the Oscar Award, he played the leader of an auction in an auction house. In 1999 Feore won the Canadian Prix Jutra for Best Supporting Actor for The Red Violin . In 2000, this was followed by a nomination for the Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor for The Storm of the Century . In 2001 he was nominated for a Genie Award for Best Actor for The Perfect Son .

After nominations in 1989 and 2001, he received a Gemini Award for Best Actor in 2002 for the miniseries Trudeau . In 2003 he won along with the rest of the cast at the Screen Actors Guild Awards for Chicago the award for best ensemble cast . In 2007 he was nominated for Best Actor at the 27th Genie Awards for Good Cop Bad Cop . In this action comedy directed by Eric Canuel , he played a Canadian police officer who, despite differences of opinion , has to work together with his colleague, played by Patrick Huard , to solve a series of murders.