Colm Feore

Colm Feore
Feore and his wife at the 2007 eTalk Star Schmooze party, part of the Toronto International Film Festival.
Years active	Template:Fy–Template:Fy
Spouse(s)	Donna Feore (1994-present) Sidonie Boll (? - ?) (divorced)

Colm Feore (born August 22, 1958) is a Gemini Award-winning American and Canadian stage, film and television actor.

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 and University of Windsor in Windsor, Ontario. He is also fluent in French. Feore lives with his wife, choreographer Donna Feore, and their three children, Jack, Tom and Anna, 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 16 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 and as Fagin in Oliver!. More recently, in 2009 he played the main role of Macbeth in the play "Macbeth", and the main role of Cyrano in "Cyrano de Bergerac" both performed at the the Stratford Festival Theatre.

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 imposter 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. He has portrayed the First Gentleman Henry Taylor on the seventh season of 24. He was the crooked Los Angeles Police Chief James E. Davis of Changeling in 2008. In September 2009, it was reported that Feore has been cast in an unknown role in the upcoming live-action superhero film, Thor.

Filmography

• A Nest of Singing Birds (1987) -- Michael Jimson
• Iron Eagle II (1988) -- Yuri Lebanov
• Beautiful Dreamers (1990) -- Dr. Maurice Bucke
• Bethune: The Making of a Hero (1990) -- Chester Rice
• Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould (1993) -- Glenn Gould
• Truman (TV) (1995) -- Charles Griffith Ross
• The Boor (1996) -- Gruzdev
• Night Falls on Manhattan (1997) -- Harrison
• Liberty! The American Revolution (TV) (1997) -- Alexander Hamilton
• Face/Off (1997) -- Dr. Malcolm Walsh
• Hostile Waters (TV film) (1997) -- Pshenishny
• The Wrong Guy (1997) -- the Killer
• Critical Care (1997) -- Richard Wilson
• City of Angels (1998) -- Jordan
• The Red Violin (1998) -- Auctioneer
• Airborne (1998) -- Ron Simpson
• The Lesser Evil (1998) -- Derek
• The Herd (1998) -- Erling Porsild
• Storm of the Century (TV miniseries) (1999) -- Andre Linoge/Reporter on TV/Minister on TV
• Striking Poses (1999) -- Linus
• The Insider (1999) -- Richard Scruggs
• Titus (1999) -- Marcus Andronicus
• Trapped in a Purple Haze (TV film) (2000) -- Ed Hanson
• 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 film) (2000) -- Rudolf Hoess
• Ignition (2001) -- Gen. Joel MacAteer
• The Caveman's Valentine (2001) -- David Leppenraub
• Pearl Harbor (2001) -- Adm. Husband E. Kimmel
• Century Hotel (2001) -- Sebastian
• Lola (2001) -- Mike
• The Day Reagan Was Shot (2001) (TV film) -- Caspar Weinberger
• Sins of the Father (TV film) (2002) -- Dalton Strong
• Trudeau (2002) (TV miniseries) -- The Right Honourable Pierre Elliott Trudeau
• The Sum of All Fears (2002) -- Olson
• Point of Origin (2002) -- Mike Matassa
• The Baroness and the Pig (2002) -- The Baron
• Chicago (2002) -- Harrison
• Highwaymen (2003) -- Fargo
• National Security (2003) -- Detective Frank McDuff
• And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself (TV film) (2003) -- D.W. Griffith
• Paycheck (2003) -- John Wolfe
• The Chronicles of Riddick (2004) -- Lord Marshall
• Empire (TV miniseries) (2005) -- Julius Caesar the Liberator and Father of the Fatherland
• Slings and Arrows (TV series) (2005) -- Sanjay, the off beat marketing consultant
• Lies My Mother Told Me (2005) -- Lucas Mackenzie
• The Deal (2005) -- Hank Weiss
• 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 (TV film) (2007) -- General William Tecumseh Sherman
• The Poet (2007) -- Colonel Hass
• Intervention (2007) -- Bill
• Killing Zelda Sparks (2007) -- Dr. Leningrad: Self-help speaker
• Serveuses demandées (2008) -- RCMP officier corporal Paradis
• Le piège américain (2008) -- Maurice Bishop
• Changeling (2008) -- Chief James E. Davis
• Inconceivable (2008) -- Dr. Jackson Charles Freeman
• Six Reasons Why (2008) -- The Preacher
• WarGames: The Dead Code (2008) -- T. Kenneth Hassert/Voice of Joshua
• 24: Redemption (TV film) (2008) -- Henry Taylor
• Guns (TV miniseries) (2008) -- Paul Duguid
• Flashpoint (TV) (2009) -- David Graham
• 24 (TV) (2009) -- First Gentleman Henry Taylor
• The Listener (TV) (2009) -- Ray Mercer
• The Trotsky (2009) -- Principal Berkhoff
• Thor (2011) -- unknown

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

External links

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

• Interview with Colm Feore at 2007 Banff World TV Festival