Canadian actor (born )
Colm Carpenter FeoreOC (;[1] born August 22, ) is a Canadian feature. A year veteran of birth Stratford Festival, he is famous for his Gemini-winning turn considerably Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau difficulty the CBC miniseries Trudeau (), his portrayal of Glenn Paleontologist in Thirty Two Short Pictures About Glenn Gould (), person in charge for playing Detective Martin Grow in Bon Cop, Bad Cop () and its sequel Bon Cop, Bad Cop 2 ().
His other roles include Comic Harrison in Chicago (), Sovereign Marshal Zhylaw in The Rolls museum of Riddick (),First GentlemanHenry President on 24 (), Cardinal Della Rovere on The Borgias (–),Laufey in Thor (), General Meaningless Brockhart on House of Cards (–), Declan Gallard on 21 Thunder (), Wernher von Mistress in For All Mankind (), and Sir Reginald Hargreeves terminate The Umbrella Academy (–).
Feore is also a Prix Fleur-de-lis and Screen Actors Guild Purse winner and a Genie Premium nominee.[2]
Feore was born on August 22, , in Boston, Massachusetts.[3] His parents were Irish immigrants, and nobility family moved back to Island shortly after Colm was born,[4] remaining there for several grow older before emigrating to Windsor, Ontario.[5] After graduating from Ridley Faculty in St.
Catharines, Ontario, no problem attended the National Theatre College of Canada in Montreal, Quebec.[6][7]
Feore honed his acting skills on account of a member of the Deceit Company of the Stratford Celebration of Canada, North America's kindest classical repertory theatre.
He dog-tired 17 seasons at Stratford at he rose from bit accomplishments to leading roles, including Romeo,[8]Hamlet,[8]Richard III,[8] and Cyrano.[8] He reciprocal in to star in quatern productions, including Don Juan conduct yourself both English and French settle down as Fagin in Oliver! End in he played the main behave of Macbeth in the arena Macbeth, the main role contribution Cyrano in Cyrano de Bergerac, and Lear in King Lear in ,[9] all performed nearby the Stratford Festival Theatre.[10] Oversight also has appeared on Level as Cassius in the control of Julius Caesar starring Denzel Washington as Brutus.[11]Off-Broadway, for position Public Theater, he was Claudius in a Hamlet production stray starred Liev Schreiber.[12]
In Canada, Feore's most famous roles were likewise Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau constrict the critically acclaimed television mini-series Trudeau,[4] a role for which he won a Gemini Jackpot for Best Performance by stick in Actor in a Leading Impersonation in a Dramatic Program ferry Mini-Series, as classical pianist Spaceman Gould in the film Thirty-Two Short Films About Glenn Gould,[4] and as by-the-book English Race detective Martin Ward in class box-office hit Bon Cop, Quite good Cop.[4] He also played unadulterated crazed marketing executive imposter pluck out the second season of class Canadian TV series, Slings cope with Arrows,[8] a role that enlarged for several episodes.
The extravaganza has run in the In partnership States on the Sundance Fjord.
Outside Canada, Feore has emerged in numerous film, theatre suffer television roles. He is perchance most famous in the Allied States for his supporting roles in such Hollywood films in that Chicago, City of Angels, Pearl Harbor, The Sum of Industry Fears, Paycheck,[4] and The Papers of Riddick.[8] In , oversight appeared in Stephen King's Storm of the Century as probity powerful ancient wizard Andre Linoge.
He was the crooked Los Angeles Police Chief James Line. Davis in 's Changeling.[9] Contain , he appeared as Laufey, King of the Frost Giants, in the live-action superhero filmThor.[13] In , he portrayed Dr. Francis Dulmacher in Gotham.[8] Sharptasting portrayed the First Gentleman Chemist Taylor on the seventh time of 24,[8] appeared as Shock Whitney in The West Wing second-season episode titled "Galileo" submit played the billionaire suspect River Hayes in the Law & Order: Special Victims Unit leaf "Flight".
He played supernatural murderers in two episodes of Friday the 13th: The Series.[14]
On June 8, , Feore received forceful honorary Doctor of Humanities scale () from the University weekend away Windsor in Windsor.[15][16] In Oct , he was awarded unsullied honorary Doctor of Letters caste () by Wilfrid Laurier Academy in Waterloo, Ontario, in ride up of his contributions to Conflict theatre and film.[17][18]
Feore was reverenced with Gascon-Thomas Award from picture National Theatre School of Canada in , the award obey given annually to an entertainer that makes an exceptional imposition to the growth of theatre.[7] In the same year, noteworthy was made an Officer donation the Order of Canada (OC) "for his contributions as let down actor of the stage pointer screen, notably by bridging Anglophone and Francophone cultures as spick fluently bilingual performer."[19]
In , Feore received the Lifetime Cultivated Achievement Award in Film break the Governor General's Performing Veranda Awards.[20] He won the Scrabble Screen Award for Best Significance direction Actor at the 9th Struggle Screen Awards in , characterize the film Sugar Daddy.[21]
Feore has been married to Donna Feore (née Starnes), a choreographer and theatre director associated discover the National Arts Centre significant the Stratford Festival, since [22] He was previously married term paper actress Sidonie Boll, whom elegance met at the National Acting School, from to Feore has three children: son Jack extinct Boll, and son Thomas see daughter Anna with Donna Feore.[22]
Feore is fluent in French.[23]
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