Colm Feore Biography

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

Early life

Feore was born in Boston, Massachusetts, to Irish parents who lived in Ireland for several years during his early life. The family subsequently moved 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 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 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, as classical pianist Glenn Gould in the 1993 film Thirty-Two Short Films About Glenn Gould, 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, theatre and television roles. He is perhaps most famous in the United States for his supporting roles in such Hollywood films as Pearl Harbor, The Sum of All Fears, Paycheck, and The Chronicles of Riddick. He was the crooked Los Angeles Police Chief James E. Davis in 2008's Changeling. In 2011, he appeared as Laufey, King of the Frost Giants, in the live-action superhero film, Thor.

He also has appeared on Broadway as Cassius in the production of Julius Caesar starring Denzel Washington as Brutus. Off-Broadway, for the Public Theater, he was Claudius in a Hamlet production that starred Liev Schreiber. He portrayed the First Gentleman Henry Taylor on the seventh season of 24, appeared as Tad Whitney in The West Wing second-season episode titled "Galileo" and also played the billionaire suspect Jordan Hayes in the 2011 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episode "Flight".

Personal life

Feore, his second wife, choreographer Donna Feore, and three children, Jack, Tom and Anna, live in Stratford, Ontario. Jack is his son from his first marriage.

As witnessed in the 2006 comedy-thriller Bon Cop, Bad Cop, Feore is fluent in French.

In October 2012, Feore was awarded an honorary doctorate degree by Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario, in recognition of his contributions to Canadian theater and film.

Filmography

• A Nest of Singing Birds (1987), Michael Jimson
• Iron Eagle II (1988), Yuri Lebanov
• Beautiful Dreamers (1990), Dr. Maurice Bucke
• Beyond Reality (1992), voice of The Sorcerer " episode: "Master of Darkness"
• Bethune: The Making of a Hero (1990), Chester Rice
• Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould (1993), Glenn Gould
• Truman (1995), Charles Griffith Ross " TV film
• Friends At Last (1995), Phillip Connelyn " TV Film
• The Boor (1996), Gruzdev
• Due South (1996), Charles Carver " TV series, 1 episode
• Night Falls on Manhattan (1997), Harrison
• Liberty! The American Revolution (1997), Alexander Hamilton " TV miniseries
• Face/Off (1997), Dr. Malcolm Walsh
• Hostile Waters (1997), Pshenishny " TV film
• 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 (1999), Andre Linoge " TV miniseries
• Striking Poses (1999), Linus
• The Insider (1999), Richard Scruggs
• Titus (1999), Marcus Andronicus
• Trapped in a Purple Haze (2000), Ed Hanson " TV film
• La Femme Nikita (2000), Leon " TV series, episode: "Hell Hath No Fury"
• Thomas and the Magic Railroad (2000), Toby the Tram Engine (voice)
• The Perfect Son (2000), Ryan Taylor
• Nuremberg (2000), Rudolf Hoess " TV film
• 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), Caspar Weinberger " TV film
• Sins of the Father (2002), Dalton Strong " TV film
• Trudeau (2002), The Right Honourable Pierre Elliott Trudeau " TV miniseries
• 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 (2003), D.W. Griffith " TV film
• Paycheck (2003), John Wolfe
• The Chronicles of Riddick (2004), Lord Marshall
• Empire (2005), Julius Caesar the Liberator and Father of the Fatherland " TV miniseries
• Slings and Arrows (2005), Sanjay, the off beat marketing consultant " TV series
• Lies My Mother Told Me (2005), Lucas Mackenzie
• The Deal (2005), Hank Weiss
• The Exorcism of Emily Rose (2005), Karl Gunderson
• Battlestar Galactica (2006), President Richard Adar " TV series, episode: "Epiphanies"
• Bon Cop, Bad Cop (2006), Martin Ward
• Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (2007), General William Tecumseh Sherman " TV film
• 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
• ' (2008), Henry Taylor " TV film
• Guns (2008), Paul Duguid " TV miniseries
• Flashpoint (2009), David Graham " TV series
• 24 (2009), First Gentleman Henry Taylor " TV series, 12 episodes
• The Listener (2009), Ray Mercer " TV series
• The Trotsky (2009), Principal Berkhoff
• The Borgias (2011"present), Cardinal della Rovere " TV series
• Thor (2011), Laufey
• French Immersion (2011)
• The Brother (2011)
• Revolution (2012), Randall - TV series, recurring role
• The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014), Unknown role

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