Colm Feore

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::summary Canadian actor (born 1958) ::

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Field	Value
name	Colm Feore
honorific_suffix
image	Colm Feore 2013 (cropped).jpg
caption	Feore at the 2013 Canadian Film Centre annual gala and auction
birth_name	Colm Joseph Feore
birth_date
birth_place	Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
citizenship
education	Ridley College
alma_mater	National Theatre School of Canada
occupation	Actor
years_active	1981–present
spouse
children	3
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| name = Colm Feore | honorific_suffix = | image = Colm Feore 2013 (cropped).jpg | caption = Feore at the 2013 Canadian Film Centre annual gala and auction | birth_name = Colm Joseph Feore | birth_date = | birth_place = Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. | nationality = | citizenship = | education = Ridley College | alma_mater = National Theatre School of Canada | occupation = Actor | years_active = 1981–present | spouse = | children = 3 Colm Joseph Feore (; born August 22, 1958) is a Canadian actor. A 15-year veteran of the Stratford Festival, he is known in Canada for his Gemini-winning turn as Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau in the CBC miniseries Trudeau (2002), his portrayal of Glenn Gould in Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould (1993), and for playing Detective Martin Ward in Bon Cop, Bad Cop (2006) and its sequel Bon Cop, Bad Cop 2 (2017).

Feore is known for his mainstream roles in film on television. These include Dr. Malcolm Walsh in Face/Off (1997), Adm. Husband E. Kimmel in Pearl Harbor (2001), Martin Harrison in Chicago (2002), Olson in The Sum of All Fears (2002), Lord Marshal Zhylaw in The Chronicles of Riddick (2004), First Gentleman Henry Taylor on 24 (2009), Cardinal Della Rovere on The Borgias (2011–2013), Laufey in Thor (2011), General Ted Brockhart on House of Cards (2016–2017), Declan Gallard on 21 Thunder (2017), Wernher von Braun in For All Mankind (2019), and Sir Reginald Hargreeves on The Umbrella Academy (2019–2024). Feore is also a Prix Iris and Screen Actors Guild Award winner and a Genie Award nominee.

Early life and education

Feore was born on August 22, 1958, in Boston, Massachusetts. His parents, Dr Dermot Feore and Elaine Taylor, were Irish, and the family moved back to Ireland shortly after Colm was born, remaining there for several years before emigrating to Canada, landing in Ottawa in 1961 before moving to Windsor, Ontario. After graduating from Ridley College in St. Catharines, Ontario, he attended the National Theatre School of Canada in Montreal, Quebec.

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 17 seasons at Stratford where he rose from bit parts to leading roles, including Romeo, Hamlet, all performed at the Stratford Festival Theatre. 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.

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 English Canadian 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 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 Chicago, City of Angels, Pearl Harbor, The Sum of All Fears, Paycheck, In 2014, he portrayed Dr. Francis Dulmacher in Gotham.

Honours

On June 8, 2002, Feore received an honorary Doctor of Humanities degree (D.Hum.) from the University of Windsor in Windsor. In October 2012, he was awarded an honorary Doctor of Letters degree (D.Litt.) by Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario, in recognition of his contributions to Canadian theatre and film.

Feore was honoured with Gascon-Thomas Award from the National Theatre School of Canada in 2013, the award is given annually to an actor that makes an exceptional contribution to the growth of theatre. In the same year, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada (OC) "for his contributions as an actor of the stage and screen, notably by bridging Anglophone and Francophone cultures as a fluently bilingual performer."

In 2019, Feore received the Lifetime Artistic Achievement Award in Film from the Governor General's Performing Arts Awards. He won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Supporting Actor at the 9th Canadian Screen Awards in 2021, for the film Sugar Daddy. ::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8b/Robin_Wong_TIFF_Schmooze_Colm_Feore_2007.jpg" caption="TIFF]] 2007"] ::

Personal life

Feore has been married to Donna Feore (née Starnes), a choreographer and theatre director associated with the National Arts Centre and the Stratford Festival, since 1994. He was previously married to actress Sidonie Boll, whom he met at the National Theatre School, from 1983 to 1994. Feore has three children: son Jack with Boll, and son Thomas and daughter Anna with Donna Feore.

Feore is fluent in French.

Filmography

Film

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Year	Title	Role	Notes
1988	Iron Eagle II	Yuri Lebanov
1990	Beautiful Dreamers	Dr. Maurice Bucke
Bethune: The Making of a Hero	Chester Rice
1993	Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould	Glenn Gould
1996	The Boor	Gruzdev	Short film
1997	Night Falls on Manhattan	Elihu Harrison
Face/Off	Dr. Malcolm Walsh
The Wrong Guy	The Killer
Critical Care	Richard Wilson
1998	City of Angels	Jordan
The Red Violin	Auctioneer
Airborne	Ron Simpson
The Lesser Evil	Derek
The Herd	Erling Porsild
1999	Striking Poses	Linus
Storm of the Century	Andre Linoge
The Insider	Richard Scruggs
Titus	Marcus Andronicus
2000	Thomas and the Magic Railroad	Toby the Tram Engine (voice)
The Perfect Son	Ryan Taylor
2001	Ignition	Gen. Joel MacAteer
The Caveman's Valentine	David Leppenraub
Pearl Harbor	Adm. Husband E. Kimmel
Century Hotel	Sebastian
Lola	Mike
2002	The Sum of All Fears	Olson
Point of Origin	Mike Matassa
The Baroness and the Pig	The Baron
Chicago	Martin Harrison
2003	Highwaymen	Fargo
National Security	Detective Frank McDuff
Paycheck	John Wolfe
2004	The Chronicles of Riddick	Lord Marshal Zhylaw
2005	Lies My Mother Told Me	Lucas Mackenzie
The Deal	Hank Weiss
Heidi	Mr. Sesseman (voice)
The Exorcism of Emily Rose	Karl Gunderson
2006	Bon Cop, Bad Cop	Detective Martin Ward
2007	The Poet	Colonel Hass
Intervention	Bill
Killing Zelda Sparks	Dr. Leningrad
2008	Waitresses Wanted	RCMP Cpl. Paradis
The American Trap	Maurice Bishop
Changeling	Chief James E. Davis
Inconceivable	Dr. Jackson Charles Freeman
Six Reasons Why	The Preacher
WarGames: The Dead Code	T. Kenneth Hassert / Joshua (voice)
2009	The Trotsky	Principal Berkhoff
2010	Voodoo	Narrator	Short film
Interregnum	King Ubu / Klaus
2011	Thor	Laufey
French Immersion	Michael Pontifikator
2014	Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit	Rob Behringer
The Amazing Spider-Man 2	Donald Menken
Elephant Song	Lawrence
2015	King Lear	King Lear
Reversion	Jack Clé
Painkillers	Dr. Troutman
2016	Mean Dreams	The Chief
2017	Bon Cop, Bad Cop 2	Martin Ward
The Curse of Buckout Road	Reverend Mike Reagan
2018	Greta	Chris McCullen
Anon	Charles Gattis
Higher Power	Control
2019	The Prodigy	Arthur Jacobson
Astronaut	Marcus
2020	My Salinger Year	Daniel
Sugar Daddy	Gordon
2021	Trigger Point	Elias Kane
My Soul to Take	Fred	Short film
2023	My Mother's Men (Les Hommes de ma mère)	Neal
2025	The Girl Who Cried Pearls (La jeune fille qui pleurait des perles)	Narrator
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Television

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Year	Title	Role	Notes
1981	The Running Man	Rick	Television film
1982	The Great Detective	Talbot	Episode: "Death Circuit"
1987	Blades of Courage	Bruce Gainor	Television film
A Nest of Singing Birds	Michael Jimson
1989–1990	Friday the 13th: The Series	Alex Dent / Anton Pascola	2 episodes
War of the Worlds	Nikita / Leonid Argochev
1991	Heritage Minutes	Colonel
John McCrae	Episode: "John McCrae"
1992	Street Legal	Kyle Thompson	Episode: "November"
1992–1993	Beyond Reality	Mason Driscoll / Sorcerer
(voice)	2 episodes
1993	Romeo & Juliet	Mercutio	Television film
Dig & Dug with Daisy	Narrator (voice)	Canadian dub only
1995	Forever Knight	Walken	Episode: "Blood Money"
Friends at Last	Phillip Connelyn	Television film
Truman	Charles Griffith Ross
Where's the Money, Noreen?	Kevin Hanover
1995–1996	Kung Fu: The Legend Continues	Selinger	2 episodes
1996	Due South	Charles Carver	Episode: "The Duel"
The Outer Limits	Major Mackie	Episode: "The Heist"
1997	Night Sins	Deacon Albert Fletcher	Television film
Liberty! The American Revolution	Alexander Hamilton	Miniseries
Hostile Waters	Pshenishny	Television film
1998	The Escape	Hickman
Creature	Adm. Aaron Richland	Miniseries
1998–2000	La Femme Nikita	Leon / Brutus (voice)	2 episodes
1999	Storm of the Century	Andre Linoge	Miniseries
2000	Trapped in a Purple Haze	Ed Hanson	Television film
The West Wing	Tad Whitney	Episode: "Galileo"
Boston Public	George Guber	Episode: "Chapter Seven"
Nuremberg	Rudolf Hoess	Television film
2001	Foreign Objects	Tibor	5 episodes
Haven	Bruno	Television film
Final Jeopardy	Paul Battaglia
The Day Reagan Was Shot	Caspar Weinberger
2002	Benjamin Franklin	Narrator (voice)	Miniseries
Sins of the Father	Dalton Strong	Television film
Trudeau	Pierre Trudeau
Widows	Stein	Miniseries
Point of Origin	Mike Matassa	Television film
2003	And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself	D.W. Griffith	Television film
2004	The Newsroom	David	Episode: "Reality Strikes"
The Eleventh Hour	Owen Sawyer	Episode: "Eden"
2005	Lies My Mother Told Me	Lucas Mackenzie	Television film
Empire	Julius Caesar	3 episodes
Slings & Arrows	Sanjay	5 episodes
Burnt Toast	Dave	Television film
2006	Secret Files of the Inquisition	Narrator	Miniseries
Battlestar Galactica	President Richard Adar	Episode: "Epiphanies"
2007	Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee	General William Tecumseh Sherman	Television film
American Experience	Narrator	Episode: "Alexander Hamilton"
2008	24: Redemption	Henry Taylor	Television film
Guns	Paul Duguid	Miniseries
2009	Flashpoint	David Graham	Episode: "Eagle Two"
24	Henry Taylor	12 episodes
The Listener	Ray Mercer	7 episodes
2011	Law & Order: Special Victims Unit	Jordan Hayes	Episode: "Flight"
2011–2013	The Borgias	Giuliano della Rovere	20 episodes
2012	Saving Hope	Mac	Episodes: "The Great Randall", "Bea, Again"
2012–2013	Revolution	Randall Flynn	9 episodes
2013	The Good Wife	Brad Lund	Episode: "Red Team, Blue Team"
House of Versace	Santo Versace	Television film
2014	Beauty & the Beast	Frank Darnell	Episode: "Recipe for Disaster"
2014–2016	Sensitive Skin	Roger	7 episodes
2015	Pirate's Passage	Corporal Robin Hawkins
(voice)	Television film
Gotham	Dr. Francis Dulmacher	2 episodes
2016–2017	House of Cards	Ted Brockhart	12 episodes
2017	Lore	Dr. Walter Freeman	Episode: "Echoes"
2018	The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair	Elijah Stern	5 episodes
2019–2024	The Umbrella Academy	Sir Reginald Hargreeves/The Monocle	Main cast
2019; 2024	Murdoch Mysteries	George Crabtree Sr.	Episodes: "Prodigal Father" & "Train to Nowhere"
2019	For All Mankind	Wernher von Braun	3 episodes
2020	Project Blue Book	Admiral	Episode: "Operation Mainbrace"
2024	Landman	Nathan	Recurring cast
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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
• The Merry Wives of Windsor (1990), Frank Ford
• Hamlet (1991), Hamlet
• Romeo and Juliet (1992), Mercutio
• 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
• King Lear (2014), King Lear
• The Beaux' Stratagem (2014), Archer
• Richard III (2022), Richard III
• The Miser (2022), Harper

References

References

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2. Encyclopedia, Canadian Theatre. "Canadian Theatre Encyclopedia - Feore, Colm".
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4. "Dermot FEORE Obituary | 1928 - 2017 | Windsor Star".
5. "Colm Feore biography and filmography | Colm Feore movies".
6. [http://www.northernstars.ca/feore_colm_bio/ Colm Feore - Northern Stars] {{webarchive. link. (June 10, 2007)
7. "Ridley College {{!}} Feore, Colm OR'77".
8. "Stratford Festival pays tribute to Colm Feore". [[Toronto Star]].
9. (October 20, 2016). "Colm Feore is more than the sum of his parts".
10. "Colm Feore acting credits".
11. "Colm Feore and Jessica Hecht to Inhabit Denzel's Rome in Julius Caesar {{!}} Playbill".
12. "BWW Interview: Colm Feore, Coming to a Movie Theater Near You as King Lear".
13. (July 28, 2014). "'Hey, Are You Someone Famous?'".
14. George 'El Guapo' Roush. (September 22, 2009). "Thor, Iron Man And The Fighter Are Facebook Friends With David Fincher". Latino Review.
15. [https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/honorary-degree-for-actor-colm-feore/article4135923/ Honorary degree for actor Colm Feore] - website of [[The Globe and Mail]]
16. [https://www.uwindsor.ca/secretariat/sites/uwindsor.ca.secretariat/files/honorary_degree_by_convocation_1.pdf Honorary Degrees Conferred (Chronological)] - website of the [[University of Windsor]]
17. "134-2012 : Laurier honours actor Colm Feore and pollster Darrell Bricker at fall convocation".
18. [https://www.wlu.ca/about/governance/senate/honorary-degrees.html#PAST_RECIPIENTS Honorary Degrees and Order of Wilfrid Laurier University: PAST_RECIPIENTS] - website of the [[Wilfrid Laurier University]]
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20. (December 30, 2013). "Governor General Announces 90 New Appointments to the Order of Canada".
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22. Zach Harper, [https://ca.hellomagazine.com/celebrities/02021052160352/schitts-creek-kims-convenience-2021-canadian-screen-awards-winners "'Schitt's Creek' and 'Kim's Convenience' win big at 2021 Canadian Screen Awards"]. ''[[Hello! Canada]]'', May 21, 2021.
23. [http://nuvomagazine.com/magazine/spring-2006/colm-and-donna-feore "Colm and Donna Feore: A most contemporary couple"]. ''NUVO'', Spring 2006.
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25. Weintraub, Steve. (December 10, 2010). "Colm Feore On Set Interview THOR; The King of the Frost Giants Reveals All!".
26. (November 16, 2023). "Dig & Dug with Daisy Canadian dub".
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