Who is Colin Farrell and does he have a wife?
COLIN Farrell was once a tabloid darling who was sometimes in the spotlight for alleged romantic links to other stars.
But after so many years in the spotlight, he tends to keep a lower profile on his love life. Here's what we know.
Who is Colin Farrell?
Colin Farrell is an Irish actor born on May 31, 1976, in Dublin, to footballer father Eamon and mother Rita.
Both his dad and uncle, Tommy Farrell, played for the Shamrock Rovers.
Colin has an older brother, Eamon Jr, and two sisters, Catherine and Claudine, who are his personal assistants.
While attending Gormanston College he auditioned to be in the boyband Boyzone but didn't make the cut.
Colin claims that Henry Thomas' performance in ET touched him so much that it inspired him to become an actor.
Starting his career in the 1990s TV drama Ballykissangel, Colin went on to star in various films, starting with his breakthrough in Minority Report.
He then went on to have high-profile roles in Daredevil (2003) and as Alexander the Great in Alexander (2004), as well as Michael Mann's Miami Vice (2006) and Woody Allen's Cassandra's Dream (2007).
He played Percival Graves in the 2016 film Fantastic Beasts And Where to Find Them and Penguin in the 2022 superhero film The Batman.
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He received high praise for his part in 2022 flick The Banshees Of Inisherin and bagged the Best Actor gong for the film at the 2023 Golden Globe Awards.
He said in his acceptance speech: “I never expect films to work and find an audience and when they do it's shocking to me.
“So I am horrified by what’s happened around Banshees over the last couple of months in a thrilling kind of way.”
Who is Kelly Macnamara and when did she and Colin Farrell split?
On March 24, 2023, it was revealed that Kelly Macnamara and Colin had split.
The couple are thought to have been driven apart due to hectic work schedules.
A source told The Sun: "Colin is the man of the moment in film thanks to his role in The Banshees Of Inisherin.
"He spent months working on that along with the last Batman blockbuster, where he played Penguin."
They added: "Colin’s schedule took its toll on his relationship with Kelly and they quietly called it quits.
“There is no bad feeling between them but upholding a romantic relationship when your work schedule is so demanding became difficult to juggle.”
Colin started dating PA Kelly in 2017, with her working for U2 guitarist, The Edge.
He touched on their romance during an appearance on The Ellen DeGeneres show in 2017 when he said: "My girlfriend travels a lot as well with work so oftentimes we're two ships passing in the night but we make sure to find a port that we can, you know, rendezvous at."
Who has the star dated?
The playboy dated Amelia Warner - who's now married to Jamie Dornan- and they were even rumoured to have got married in 2001.
Though she later clarified with The Sun that: "We had a ceremony on a beach in Tahiti that was by no means legal and we knew it wasn't...
"It was just a thing we did on holiday.
"We went shark feeding and then we did that. We booked them both on the activities desk at the hotel."
He's also been linked to Britney Spears, Angelina Jolie and Demi Moore to name a few.
He was even rumoured to have had a flirty fling with Bajan beauty and icon Rihanna after meeting on the Graham Norton Show.
A source at the time said: “Colin was taken aback by some of the texts. He reckons he might well be in there. They’re both single, so why not?”
How many children does Colin have?
Colin and model Kim Bordenave welcomed their son James Padraig in 2003.
In 2007 he revealed that James has a rare genetic disorder called Angelman Syndrome which can cause intellectual delay.
Colin's second child, Henry Tadeusz, was born on October 9, 2009 - he shares him with Polish actress Alicja Bachleda-Curuś.