Canadian Theatre Encyclopedia
Feore, Colm
Multi-talented actor born in 1960 in Boston to Irish parents. He is a graduate of the National Theatre School of Canada , and star of the Stratford Festival almost from the time he began working there in 1981.
He has played in over forty of the company's productions, having appeared as lead in many of Shakespeare 's most difficult plays including Romeo and Juliet (Romeo and Mercutio), Othello (Iago), The Taming of the Shrew (Petruchio), Richard III (Richard), Much Ado About Nothing (Benedick), Hamlet (Hamlet), Coriolanus (Coriolanus, 2006), Macbeth (Macbeth, 2009), as well as as Cyrano in Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac, the Pirate King in Gilbert and Sullivan's The Pirates of Penzance, Henry Higgins in My Fair Lady (2002), Fagin in Oliver! (2006), and Don Juan in Moliere's play.
Colm Feore also frequently acts on television and in film and is especially well-known for his performance in the title role of Thirty-Two Short Films About Glenn Gould. He was also seen in Julie Taymor's film adaptation of Titus Andronicus, as Marcus opposite Anthony Hopkins' Titus. In 2002, he appeared as Pierre Trudeau in the mini-series about the late prime minister, and 2006 he was the Anglo half of the twosome in the Canadian film Bon Cop, Bad Cop. In 2010 he played a school principal as a Lenin figure in the Canadian comedy The Trotsky.
He has three children, Jack, Thomas and Anna and lives in Stratford.
Viewings: Behind the Scenes at the National Theatre School, Groupe Mediavision Inc., dir: Luc Bourdon, 1997 in which Colm Feore speaks of his time at the School.
Among Sources: Tony Atherton. "Playing the part," The Montreal Gazette/The Ottawa Citizen, 30 March 2002. Additional information provided by Rob McKenzie.
Last updated 2010-05-19
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