Colin Farrell, who for years was known as the "bad face" and rebel of Hollywood, is in one of the best stages of his life, both personally and professionally. Currently, he is one of the most recognized and prestigious actors worldwide, after having overcome a period of drugs and alcohol that plunged him into hell. The actor has seen the fruits of it when he received his first Oscar nomination for best leading actor for the film Almas en pena by Inisherin, after a 20-year career.
For a long time, his controversial life has been the cover of magazines and the main theme of television shows. His addictions, his relationship with some of the biggest stars in the industry, and his role in some of the most recognizable movies and series, made Farrell the perfect actor for the media eye.
Colin Farrell was born in Castleknock, Ireland, in 1976, and had the dream of being a footballer, like his father Eamon Farrell, an Irish player from the 1960s-70s. However, the world of acting knocked on his door with his brother, Eamonn, who instilled that idea in his head. But before embarking on this adventure, he toured Australia with a dance company, pursuing another of his passions: dancing. Eventually, he enrolled at the Gaiety School of Drama in Dublin to study acting with his sister Claudine, and after traveling to London he started it all.
At 46, the Irish actor already has more than 60 films and series behind him. Since his first appearances on screen in 1997, with a very young Farrell shown in films like Drinking Crude and series like Ballykissangel, the actor already promised to become a movie star of the moment.
Colin Farrell, who began his journey in the world of cinema at just 21 years old, has grown and evolved, both physically and personally, along with his fans and with the people who have seen him appear in movies and television series. television. Shortly after his first films, he achieved his long-awaited leap into Hollywood, starring in the movie Tigerland in 2000. True Detective, The Batman, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, Minority Report and Miami Vice, among other productions, came later. .
But, without a doubt, the physical change that the actor has undergone in the filming of his latest series The Penguin, is especially notorious. If it is true that it is a characterization, the protagonist of this new spin-off of the dark knight has been seen in the first images of the set with a bald head, scars on his face and with a few extra kilos. All this makes Farrell move away from his comfort zone, since he had never undergone such a radical change before.
In Farrell's lifetime, his rise as an actor and billionaire was inversely proportional to his fall into the world of excess. His problem with drugs and alcohol came to negatively affect his life, both professionally and personally.
"Twenty ecstasy pills, four grams of cocaine, three bottles of whiskey, twelve of wine and 30 liters of beer and 280 cigarettes", is the amount that the actor consumed in two weeks, according to People magazine.
In 2005, Farrell entered a detox clinic after making a tough decision: "I remember thinking that one day I would go to New York, buy 2,000 euros of heroin and inject myself until I died. The other option was to change. I chose the right one," he explained during an interview in 2013, according to the Irish Mirror.
A dark past from which he managed to get out thanks to his first son, James Padraig, the result of his relationship with the model Kim Bordenave in 2003, who was diagnosed with Angelman syndrome at four years of age. This rare neurogenetic disorder suffered by the person he loved the most, made Colin Farrell move away from the low life and rehabilitate himself so he could focus on his children.
The actor is characterized by having an extensive love curriculum. Amelia Warner, British pianist and composer, was the only one who got the star of Miami Vice to walk down the aisle, though not officially, during a vacation in Tahiti. An idyll that lasted only four months.
During his life, the Irishman has been linked to actresses such as Angelina Jolie, Demi Moore, Lake Bell, Michelle Rodriguez and Carmen Electra. Although he has also gone through the world of music with Britney Spears and the world of socialites with Paris Hilton.
Farrell began dating Polish actress Alicja Bachleda in 2009, with whom he met on the set of the film Ondine, the legend of the sea. A year before breaking up their relationship in 2010, the actor's second son, Henry Tadeusz, was born. The 13-year-old will be in charge of accompanying Farrell on one of the most important nights of his life, the night of the Oscars, in which he will try to win his long-awaited statuette.
But, without a doubt, one of the relationships that the actor would like to forget and that almost ended his career is the one he had with the Playboy actress Nicole Narain. Farrell sued the model for the leak of a home video in which they had sex. Consequently, the judge gave the order to stop its dissemination, but little could be done to prevent it from being distributed on the Internet.
Colin Farrell confessed in 2013 that he had a two-year "romantic" relationship with the late actress Elizabeth Taylor, after meeting her at a hospital. "It was the last type of sentimental relationship I had, which was never consummated. She didn't sleep a lot at night, like me, so I would call her at two in the morning," the actor said.
The protagonist of Alexander the Great currently lives enjoying a quiet single life, focused on caring for his children and his professional life, far from the excesses that characterized him. In the next few hours he is going to face one of the most decisive moments of his career: his possible Oscar for best actor.
