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Colm Feore (born August 22, 1958) is a Canadian-American stage, film and television actor. 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" . Feore was born in Boston, Massachusetts to Irish parents who lived in Ireland for several years during Feore's early life, subsequently moving to Windsor, Ontario, where Feore grew up. After graduating from Ridley College in St. Catharines, Ontario, he attended the National Theatre School in Montreal, Quebec. He is also fluent in French. Feore lives with his wife, choreographer Donna Feore, and their three children, in Stratford, Ontario. 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" (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". 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, located in Stratford. He spent 14 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. 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, 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 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 and television roles. He is perhaps most famous in the United States for his supporting roles in such Hollywood films as Paycheck, National Security and The Chronicles of Riddick. He also appeared on Broadway as Cassius in the production of Julius Caesar starring Denzel Washington as Brutus. Off-Broadway, for the Public Theatre, he was Claudius in a Hamlet that starred Liev Schreiber. Schreiber's character has killed a character played by Feore twice; once in this Hamlet, and once in the film The Sum of All Fears. |
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