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==Career== 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. He spent 17 seasons at Stratford where he rose from bit parts to leading roles, including [[Romeo Montague|Romeo]],<ref name=star>{{cite magazine|title=Stratford Festival pays tribute to Colm Feore|newspaper=[[Toronto Star]]|url=https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/stage/2015/08/31/stratford-festival-pays-tribute-to-colm-feore.html|access-date=March 21, 2017|archive-date=March 22, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170322203111/https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/stage/2015/08/31/stratford-festival-pays-tribute-to-colm-feore.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> [[Hamlet]],<ref name=star /> [[Richard III (play)|Richard III]],<ref name=star /> and [[Cyrano de Bergerac (play)|Cyrano]].<ref name=star /> He returned in 2006 to star in four productions, including ''[[Don Juan]]'' in both English and French and as [[Fagin]] in ''[[Oliver!]]'' In 2009 he played the main role of [[Macbeth (character)|Macbeth]] in the play ''[[Macbeth]]'', the main role of Cyrano in ''[[Cyrano de Bergerac (play)|Cyrano de Bergerac]]'', and Lear in ''[[King Lear]]'' in 2014,<ref name=gazette>{{cite web|title=Colm Feore is more than the sum of his parts|url=https://montrealgazette.com/entertainment/movies/colm-feore-is-more-than-the-sum-of-his-parts|website=[[Montreal Gazette]]|access-date=March 20, 2017|date=October 20, 2016}}</ref> all performed at the Stratford Festival Theatre.<ref>{{cite web | url =https://archives.stratfordfestival.ca/AIS/Details/people/6488 | title = Colm Feore acting credits | website = Stratford Festival Archives | access-date = June 1, 2019}}</ref> He also has appeared on [[Broadway theatre|Broadway]] as [[Gaius Cassius Longinus|Cassius]] in the production of ''[[Julius Caesar (play)|Julius Caesar]]'' starring [[Denzel Washington]] as [[Marcus Junius Brutus|Brutus]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Colm Feore and Jessica Hecht to Inhabit Denzel's Rome in Julius Caesar {{!}} Playbill|url=http://www.playbill.com/article/colm-feore-and-jessica-hecht-to-inhabit-denzels-rome-in-julius-caesar-com-123393|website=Playbill|access-date=March 21, 2017}}</ref> [[Off-Broadway]], for the [[Public Theater]], he was [[King Claudius|Claudius]] in a ''[[Hamlet]]'' production that starred [[Liev Schreiber]].<ref>{{cite web|last1=Onofri|first1=Adrienne|title=BWW Interview: Colm Feore, Coming to a Movie Theater Near You as King Lear|url=http://www.broadwayworld.com/article/BWW-Interview-Colm-Feore-Coming-to-a-Movie-Theater-Near-You-as-King-Lear-20150223|website=BroadwayWorld.com|access-date=March 21, 2017}}</ref> In Canada, Feore's most famous roles were as Prime Minister [[Pierre Trudeau]] in the critically acclaimed television mini-series ''[[Trudeau (film)|Trudeau]]'',<ref name=post>{{cite web|title='Hey, Are You Someone Famous?'|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2014/07/28/colm-feore-interview-tiff-2014_n_5625021.html|website=The Huffington Post|date=July 28, 2014 |access-date=March 20, 2017}}</ref> 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, as classical pianist [[Glenn Gould]] in the 1993 film ''[[Thirty-Two Short Films About Glenn Gould]]'',<ref name=post /> and as by-the-book [[English Canadian]] detective Martin Ward in the box-office hit ''[[Bon Cop, Bad Cop]]''.<ref name=post /> He also played a crazed marketing executive imposter in the second season of the Canadian TV series, ''[[Slings and Arrows]]'',<ref name=star /> a role that continued for several episodes. The show has run in the United States on the [[Sundance Channel (United States)|Sundance Channel]]. Outside Canada, Feore has appeared in numerous film, theatre and television roles. He is perhaps most famous in the United States for his supporting roles in such [[Hollywood (film industry)|Hollywood]] films as ''[[Chicago (2002 film)|Chicago]]'', ''[[City of Angels (film)|City of Angels]]'', ''[[Pearl Harbor (film)|Pearl Harbor]]'', ''[[The Sum of All Fears (film)|The Sum of All Fears]]'', ''[[Paycheck (film)|Paycheck]]'',<ref name=post /> and ''[[The Chronicles of Riddick]]''.<ref name=star /> In 1999, he appeared in [[Stephen King]]'s ''[[Storm of the Century]]'' as the powerful ancient wizard Andre Linoge. He was the crooked Los Angeles Police Chief James E. Davis in 2008's ''[[Changeling (film)|Changeling]]''.<ref name=gazette /> In 2011, he appeared as [[Laufey (comics)|Laufey]], King of the [[Giants (Marvel Comics)|Frost Giants]], in the live-action [[superhero film]] ''[[Thor (film)|Thor]]''.<ref name="Thor">{{cite news|url=http://www.latinoreview.com/news/thor-iron-man-and-the-fighter-are-facebook-friends-with-david-fincher-8072|title=Thor, Iron Man And The Fighter Are Facebook Friends With David Fincher | author=George 'El Guapo' Roush|publisher=Latino Review|date=September 22, 2009|access-date=September 23, 2009}}</ref> In 2014, he portrayed [[Dollmaker (comics)|Dr. Francis Dulmacher]] in ''[[Gotham (TV series)|Gotham]]''.<ref name=star /> He portrayed the First Gentleman [[Henry Taylor (24 character)|Henry Taylor]] on the seventh season of ''[[24 (TV series)|24]]'',<ref name=star /> appeared as Tad Whitney in ''[[The West Wing]]'' second-season episode titled "[[Galileo (The West Wing)|Galileo]]" and played the billionaire suspect Jordan Hayes in the 2011 ''[[Law & Order: Special Victims Unit]]'' episode "Flight". He played supernatural murderers in two episodes of ''[[Friday the 13th: The Series]]''.<ref>{{cite web|title=Before They Were Stars: Colm Feore in "Friday the 13th: The Series"|url=http://the-back-row.com/blog/2011/05/10/before-they-were-stars-colm-feore-in-friday-the-13th-the-series/|website=The Back Row|access-date=March 21, 2017|date=May 10, 2011}}</ref>
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