Colm Feore

Colm Feore (born August 22, 1958) is a Canadian theatre, film and television actor. He is known in Canada for his long career in classical theater and his interpretation of Pierre Trudeau, and internationally for productions such as The Umbrella Academy, Thor and 24.

He was born in Boston, USA, to an Irish family. His family lived briefly in Ireland and then settled in Canada; He spent his childhood in Ottawa and Windsor, Ontario. St. After graduating from Ridley College in St. Catharines, he studied at the National Theater School of Canada in Montreal, graduating in 1980.

Theater and screen

He laid the foundations of his career at the Stratford Festival. He appeared in more than forty plays over fifteen seasons; Hamlet, Romeo and III. He took on Shakespeare's heavy leading roles, such as Richard.

He made his big screen debut in Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould (1993), in which he played pianist Glenn Gould. He won a Gemini Award for playing former prime minister Pierre Trudeau in CBC's 2002 miniseries Trudeau. He was detective Martin Ward in the cop comedy Bon Cop, Bad Cop (2006) and its sequel, about Canada's bilingual culture.

In international productions, he played Henry Taylor in 24, Lord Marshal in The Chronicles of Riddick, and Laufey, the king of frost giants, in Thor (2011). In The Umbrella Academy, which was released between 2019 and 2024, he played the role of Sir Reginald Hargreeves, a harsh scientist who adopted children.

Fluent in French, Feore received an honorary doctorate from Wilfrid Laurier University in 2012; In 2013 he was awarded the Gascon-Thomas Award of the National Theater School of Canada and was appointed Officer of the Order of Canada in the same year. In the reason for his engagement, his ability to act bilingually and to build a bridge between English and French-speaking cultures was highlighted.