How Many Children Does Colin Farrell Have?

“The Banshees of Inisherin” star Colin Farrell has performed a couple of brash characters over time, however there’s one position the place he is a complete softie: being a dad to his two sons, James and Henry. The Irish star is generally non-public about his children, however he gave his sons a candy shout-out when he received the 2023 Golden Globe award for finest efficiency by an actor in a movement image, musical or comedy. On the finish of his speech, Colin thanked “my children at dwelling who’re watching this.” “James and Henry, the loves of my life. I really like you a lot,” he mentioned.

In October 2022, Colin informed The Guardian whereas discussing the emotional “The Banshees of Inisherin” that he spent the pandemic lockdown along with his sons and made certain to ask about how they had been doing emotionally. “They usually’re like, ‘Would you simply f*ck off?’ However fellas like us like to speak about our emotions,” he mentioned. “We do not must be waxing lyrical about each f*cking factor, however we attempt to discover a stability.” He added that work, fatherhood, and artwork are all methods to make sense of the mysteries of life.

Colin additionally talked briefly about being a guardian throughout a dialog with Emma Thompson, printed on Jan. 4 in Vanity Fair. When requested if he worries about his legacy in movie, Colin mentioned, “My legacy is sort of clearly the 2 sons that I have been elevating, one for 19 years and one other for 13 years, and the present that they’re in my life. Really. Excuse the quaintness of that.”

Forward, get to know Colin’s sons and see a number of the candy issues the dad of two has mentioned about them in interviews.

James Padraig Farrell

James Padraig Farrell was born in 2003. He’s Colin’s oldest son along with his earlier girlfriend Kim Bordenave. James was born in Los Angeles. In 2007, Colin opened up about his son having Angelman syndrome, a situation that features developmental delays, speech delays, seizures, and impaired stability. In an interview with Ireland’s Independent on the time, he mentioned that James’s speech and mobility had been affected however he is a robust little boy. “With my son, the one time I am reminded that there’s something completely different about him – that he has some deviation of what’s perceived to be regular – is once I see him with different four-year-olds,” Farrell mentioned. “Then I’m going ‘oh yeah’ and it comes again to me. However from day one I felt that he is the best way he is meant to be.”

In 2014, Colin informed People, “All the things he is achieved in his life has come by the presence and the form of will that’s arduous work. He is lots to be impressed by.” He added that his son labored arduous to stroll, speak, feed himself, and sit nonetheless to look at a film, however that he was thriving.

Due to his son, Colin has been energetic in educating folks about Angelman syndrome and offering assist to charities and organizations devoted to discovering a treatment. He is additionally provided insights to oldsters going by the identical factor. In 2017, on the annual summit and gala for Angelman syndrome analysis hosted by the Basis for Angelman Syndrome Therapeutics (FAST), he mentioned, “I’d additionally say that my coronary heart is with you all, together with my respect for you, on your kids’s struggles and for the love that you’ve on your kids and that I want you all peace and help within the face of any adversities,” per Today. In 2021, the outlet also reported that Farrell and Bordenave filed for coconservatorship of James.

Henry Tadeusz Farrell

Henry Tadeusz Farrell was born in October 2009. He’s Colin’s youngest son along with his earlier girlfriend Alicja Bachleda-Curuś. Again in January 2020 on “The Ellen DeGeneres Show,” Colin mentioned that he’d let an 8-year-old Henry watch the horror film “It,” a call he shortly regretted. “That was a parental dropping of the ball of epic proportions,” he mentioned. “We watched it at dwelling and we watched half of it and, uh . . . I may discern a sure discomfort that was emanating from his 8-year-old physique.” He added, although, that Henry completed the film the following day and was completely tremendous.

As for Colin’s motion pictures, the actor added that his sons aren’t actually excited by them, although they’ve informed him they need him to play fewer dangerous guys. “They’re sick of me being a nasty man, which apparently, studying between the strains, leads me to consider that they suppose I am OK.” On that observe, Colin’s 2022 observe document was a little bit blended: He performed a sweetheart in “The Banshees of Inisherin” and a cave-diving hero in “13 Lives,” however he additionally performed the menacing Penguin in “The Batman”. However absolutely James and Henry are happy with their dad both method.