A performer with entrenched stage roots, Colm (pronounced Column) Feore has been an actor with and an associate director of the Stratford, Ontario, Shakespeare Festival since 1981. There he has played a wide-range of roles in the Bard's canon, including the titular parts in "Hamlet" and "Richard III," as well as Oberon in "A Midsummer Night's Dream" and Mercutio in "Romeo and Juliet" . Although born in Boston, he was raised in Canada and studied at the National Theatre School beginning his career immediately after graduating in 1980. It took nearly seven years before Feore branched out to screen roles, beginning with a 1987 TV production of the Rodgers and Hart musical "The Boys From Syracuse". He segued to the big screen in "Iron Eagle II" (1988), and garnered good notices as a doctor who treats the mentally challenged in "Beautiful Dreamers" (1991). But his career in front of the cameras did not really gain heat until he essayed the title role in the independent "Thirty-Two Short Films About Glenn Gould" (1993), Portraying the eccentric concert pianist, the actor was so good that viewers forgot he was playing a role.
With his profile raised significantly, Feore soon appeared in US-produced projects like the made-for-cable biopic "Truman" (HBO, 1995), as the coughing, wheezing press secretary Charlie Ross, and the 1997 CBS miniseries "Night Sins" as an unstable church deacon who may or may not be involved in an abduction. On the big screen, he was Elihu Harrison, one of the heir apparents in the DA's office who tangles with Andy Garcia in Sidney Lumet's "Night Falls on Manhattan" and the doctor who performs the surgery allowing Nicolas Cage and John Travolta to swap identities in John Woo's stylish "Face/Off" (both 1997). Feore honed his villainous chops as a killer in the Dave Foley comedy "The Wrong Guy" (1998) before further embodying evil in the highly-touted 1999 ABC miniseries "Stephen King's Storm of the Century".
Family
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Daughter: Anna Feore.
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Son: Jack Feore.
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Son: Thomas Feore.
Education
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National Theatre School of Canada, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 1980
Milestones
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1980 Acted at National Arts Centre after finishing theatre school
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1981 Joined Stratford Shakespeare Festival, eventually becoming associate director
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1987 Appeared in the Canadian TV-movie A Nest of Singing Birds
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1988 Played a Russian flyer in Iron Eagle II
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1990 Supported Donald Sutherland in Bethune
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1991 Received praise for performance in Beautiful Dreamers
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1993 Breakthrough screen role as title character in the celebrated Thirty-Two Short Films About Glenn Gould
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1995 Played Charlie Ross in Truman (HBO)
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1997 Co-starred in four features, including Night Falls on Manhattan and Face/Off
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1997 Portrayed Alexander Hamilton in the PBS miniseries Liberty! The American Revolution
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1997 Portrayed the mysterious Deacon Fletcher in the CBS miniseries Night Sins
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1998 Appeared as Meg Ryan s doctor boyfriend in City of Angels
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1998 Had featured role in the Canadian-produced The Red Violin
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1999 Co-starred in The Insider
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1999 Played supporting role of Marcus in Julie Taymor s film Titus , adapted from Shakespeare s Titus Andronicus
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1999 Turned in a villainous performance in the ABC miniseries Stephen King s Storm of the Century
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2000 Offered a chilling turn as the commandant of Auschwitz testifying at the trials of Nazi war criminals in Nuremberg
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2001 Cast as a gay photographer (loosely based on Robert Mapplethorpe) in the thriller The Caveman s Valentine
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2001 Co-starred as Caspar Weinberger in The Day Reagan Was Shot (Showtime)
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2002 Portrayed an FBI agent who spent 37 years tracking the man behind the 1964 bombing of a Birmingham, Alabama church in the FX telefilm Sins of the Father
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2003 Cast in the thriller Paycheck, directed by John Woo
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2004 Cast as a merciless, wheelchair-bound pyschopath opposite Jim Caveziel in Highwaymen
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2004 Starred as Lord Marshal in The Chronicles of Riddick
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2005 Portrayed Julius Caesar in the HBO mini series Empire
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Raised in Windsor, Ontario