List of Colin Farrell performances

Colin Farrell is an Irish actor. He first appeared in the BBC drama series Ballykissangel (1998) before making his film debut in the drama film The War Zone (1999). He broke out into Hollywood as the lead in Tigerland (2000). He would go on to star in Phone Booth (2002), S.W.A.T., and The Recruit (both 2003), establishing himself as a box office draw. Additionally, he also appeared in Steven Spielberg's science-fiction thriller Minority Report (2002) and as the supervillain Bullseye in the film Daredevil (2003). His role in the black comedy film In Bruges (2008) earned him the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy. Other notable film roles include The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009), Fright Night (2011), Total Recall, Saving Mr. Banks (2013), The Lobster (2015), Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016), The Batman (2022) and Thirteen Lives (2022). For his role in The Banshees of Inisherin (2022), Farrell won the Volpi Cup for Best Actor at the Venice International Film Festival, and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor.

Farrell at the 2007 Toronto International Film Festival

On television, he starred in the second season of HBO's True Detective, and starred in the BBC miniseries The North Water.

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref.
1995	Frankie Starlight	Young Man in Cinema No.2
1996	The Disappearance of Finbar	Simon	Uncredited
1999	The War Zone	Nick
2000	Ordinary Decent Criminal	Alec
	Tigerland	Private Roland Bozz		[1]
2001	American Outlaws	Jesse James		[2]
2002	Hart's War	Lt. Thomas W. Hart		[3]
	Minority Report	Agt. Danny Witwer		[4]
	Phone Booth	Stu Shepard		[3]
2003	The Recruit	James Douglas Clayton		[5]
	Daredevil	Bullseye		[6]
	Veronica Guerin	Tattooed Boy	Cameo	[7]
	S.W.A.T.	Officer III Jim Street		[8]
	Intermission	Lehiff
2004	A Home at the End of the World	Bobby Morrow (1982)
	Alexander	Alexander		[9]
2005	The New World	Captain John Smith		[10]
2006	Miami Vice	Detective James "Sonny" Crockett		[11]
	Ask the Dust	Arturo Bandini
2007	Cassandra's Dream	Terry Blaine		[12]
2008	Kicking It	Narrator	Documentary; also executive producer
	Pride and Glory	Sgt. Jimmy Egan		[13]
	In Bruges	Ray		[14]
2009	Ondine	Syracuse / Circus		[15]
	Triage	Mark Walsh	Also executive producer	[16]
	Crazy Heart	Tommy Sweet		[17]
	The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus	Imaginarium Tony (3rd transformation)		[18]
2010	The Way Back	Valka		[19]
	London Boulevard	Harry Mitchel		[20]
2011	Horrible Bosses	Bobby Pellitt		[21]
	Fright Night	Jerry Dandrige		[21]
2012	Total Recall	Douglas Quaid / Agent Carl Hauser		[22]
	Seven Psychopaths	Marty Faranan		[23]
2013	Dead Man Down	Victor / Laszlo Kerick		[24]
	Epic	Ronin	Voice role	[25]
	Saving Mr. Banks	Travers Robert Goff		[26]
2014	Winter's Tale	Peter Lake		[27]
	Miss Julie	John		[28]
2015	The Lobster	David		[29]
	Solace	Charles Ambrose		[30]
2016	Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them	Percival Graves / Gellert Grindelwald		[31]
2017	The Killing of a Sacred Deer	Steven Murphy		[32]
	The Beguiled	John McBurney		[33]
	Roman J. Israel, Esq.	George Pierce		[34]
2018	Widows	Jack Mulligan		[35]
2019	Dumbo	Holt Farrier		[36]
	The Gentlemen	Coach		[37]
2020	Artemis Fowl	Artemis Fowl I		[38]
	Ava	Simon		[39]
2021	Voyagers	Richard Alling		[40]
	After Yang	Jake		[41][42]
2022	The Batman	Oswald "Oz" Cobb / The Penguin		[43][44]
	Thirteen Lives	John Volanthen		[45]
	The Banshees of Inisherin	Pádraic Súilleabháin		[46]
2025	A Big Bold Beautiful Journey †	David	Post-production	[47]
TBA	The Ballad of a Small Player †	TBA		[48]

Key

†	Denotes film or TV productions that have not yet been released

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref.
1998–1999	Ballykissangel	Danny Byrne	18 episodes	[49]
1998	Falling for a Dancer	Daniel McCarthey	4 episodes
2004	Saturday Night Live	Himself (host)	Episode: "Colin Farrell/Scissor Sisters"	[50]
2005	Scrubs	Billy Callahan	Episode: "My Lucky Charm"	[51]
2010	Sesame Street	Himself	Episode: "The Whoosh & Vanish Mystery"	[52]
2015	True Detective	Detective Ray Velcoro	8 episodes	[53]
2021	The North Water	Henry Drax	5 episodes	[54]
2024–present	Sugar	John Sugar	8 episodes; also executive producer	[55]
2024	The Penguin	Oswald "Oz" Cobb / The Penguin	Miniseries; also executive producer	[56][44]

See also

• List of awards and nominations received by Colin Farrell