Raised in Castleknock, Ireland

Lived in Australia for one year

Feature acting debut in "Drinking Crude"; premiered at the Dublin Film Festival

Acted in the British miniseries "Falling for a Dancer"; aired in the USA on Romance Classics

Had regular role of Danny Byrne in the popular Irish TV series "Ballykissangel" (billed as Col Farrell)

London stage acting debut at the Donmar Warehouse, played a semi-autistic teenager in "In a Little World of Our Own"

Breakthrough screen role, the cocky recruit Bozz in Joel Schumacher's "Tigerland"

Portrayed Jesse James in "American Outlaws"

Cast as a WWII soldier captured by the Germans who must defend a fellow prisoner accused of murder in "Hart's War"

Acted with Tom Cruise in "Minority Report"

Reteamed with Schumacher for "Phone Booth"

Co-starred with Al Pacino in "The Recruit"

Along with Samuel L. Jackson, co-starred in the action feature "S.W.A.T."

Cast as Bullseye opposite Ben Affleck in "Daredevil"

Cast as a work obsessed thug in the feature "Intermission"

Co-starred with Robin Wright Penn in "A Home at the End of the World"; based on the novel by Michael Cunningham

Cast as Alexander the Great opposite Angelina Jolie and Anthony Hopkins in Oliver Stones' "Alexander"

Starred in Terrence Malick's "The New World" as English explorer John Smith

Co-starred with Salma Hayek in the Robert Towne-directed "Ask the Dust"

Co-stars with Edward Norton in the drama, "Pride and Glory" about a family of police officers (lensed 2006)

Portrayed Det. James "Sonny" Crockett in Michael Mann's "Miami Vice," a feature based on the popular '80s cop show

Co-starred with Ewan McGregor as down on their luck brothers in Woody Allen's "Cassandra's Dream"

Co-starred with Brendan Gleeson as Irish contract killers in "In Bruges"

Replaced the deceased Heath Ledger's character in, "The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus" (lensed 2008)