| Raised in Castleknock, Ireland |
1993 | Lived in Australia for one year |
1997 | Made feature acting debut in "Drinking Crude"; premiered at the Dublin Film Festival |
1998 | Acted in the British miniseries "Falling for a Dancer"; aired in the U.S. on Romance Classics |
1998 | Landed regular role of Danny Byrne on popular Irish TV series "Ballykissangel" (billed as Colin Farrel) |
1998 | Made London stage acting debut at the Donmar Warehouse, playing a semi-autistic teenager in "In a Little World of Our Own" |
2000 | Breakthrough screen role, the cocky recruit Bozz in Joel Schumacher's "Tigerland" |
2001 | Portrayed Jesse James in "American Outlaws" |
2002 | Acted with Tom Cruise in Steven Spielberg's "Minority Report" |
2002 | Cast as a WWII soldier captured by the Germans who must defend a fellow prisoner accused of murder in "Hart's War" |
2003 | Along with Samuel L. Jackson, co-starred in the action feature "S.W.A.T." |
2003 | Cast as the villain Bullseye opposite Ben Affleck in "Daredevil" |
2003 | Co-starred with Al Pacino in "The Recruit" |
2003 | Reteamed with Schumacher for "Phone Booth" |
2004 | Cast as Alexander the Great opposite Angelina Jolie and Anthony Hopkins in Oliver Stone's epic "Alexander" |
2004 | Cast as a work obsessed thug in the feature "Intermission" |
2004 | Co-starred with Robin Wright Penn in "A Home at the End of the World," based on the novel by Michael Cunningham |
2005 | Starred in Terrence Malick's "The New World" as English explorer John Smith |
2006 | Co-starred with Salma Hayek in the Robert Towne directed "Ask the Dust" |
2006 | Portrayed Det. James "Sonny" Crockett opposite Jamie Foxx in Michael Mann's "Miami Vice," a feature based on the popular 1980s cop show |
2008 | Co-starred with Ewan McGregor as down-on-their-luck brothers in Woody Allen's "Cassandra's Dream" |
2008 | Played an Irish contract killer opposite Brendan Gleeson in Martin McDonagh directed "In Bruges" |
2009 | Replaced the deceased Heath Ledger, portraying transformations of Ledger's character in Terry Gilliam's "The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus" |
2010 | Played a tough Russian inmate in Peter Weir's "The Way Back" |
2010 | Starred as an Irish fisherman who discovers a woman in his fishing net who he believes to be a mermaid in Neil Jordan's fantasy drama "Ondine" |
2011 | Co-starred as Jason Sudeikis' boss in the comedy "Horrible Bosses" |
2011 | Played a vampire in the remake of "Fright Night" |
2012 | Cast in ensemble crime comedy "Seven Psychopaths," directed by Martin McDonagh |
2012 | Starred in Len Wiseman's remake of the sci-fi classic "Total Recall" |
