Meet Colin Farrell’s Children: James Padraig Farrell and Henry Tadeusz Farrell

Colin James Farrell is an Irish actor best known for his roles in Tigerland, In Bruges, The Batman, and HBO’s The Penguin, for which he has won two Golden Globe Awards and a Volpi Cup.

He was born on 31 May 1976 in Castleknock, a suburb of Dublin, Ireland, and he is currently 50 years old.

Farrell grew up in a Catholic household, though he has since described himself as holding a more secular, humanist outlook on faith.

He is of Irish ethnicity and was raised by his parents, Eamon Farrell, a former professional footballer for Shamrock Rovers Football Club who later ran a health food shop, and Rita Farrell (née Monaghan), a homemaker. He is the youngest of four children, with an older brother, Eamon Farrell Jr., and two older sisters, Claudine Farrell and Catherine Farrell. Claudine has worked as her brother’s personal assistant.

Farrell attended St. Brigid’s National School in Castleknock before moving on to Castleknock College, an all-boys private school, and later Gormanston College in County Meath. Acting drew him away from formal study, and he enrolled at the Gaiety School of Acting in Dublin before dropping out once he landed a role in the BBC drama Ballykissangel.

Farrell has never been legally married. He held a non-binding beach ceremony with English actress and singer Amelia Warner in Tahiti in 2001. Still, the pair split roughly four months later, and the union was never legally registered.

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Since then, he has been linked to a string of high-profile partners, including model Kim Bordenave, actress Alicja Bachleda-Curuś, medical student Muireann McDonnell, writer Emma Forrest, and Kelly Macnamara, as well as rumoured romances with Britney Spears, Angelina Jolie, Demi Moore, and Michelle Rodriguez. None of the rumoured relationships were ever confirmed.

Farrell stands 177.8 cm tall, or 5 feet 10 inches, and his net worth is estimated at $80 million-$90 million, built primarily from more than two decades of film work. He has two sons, James Padraig Farrell and Henry Tadeusz Farrell, both from relationships that predate any marriage, and he has spoken openly about how fatherhood shaped his decision to get sober in 2006.

James Padraig Farrell

James Padraig Farrell is Colin Farrell’s eldest son and firstborn child. He was born on 12 September 2003 to American model Kim Bordenave, whom Farrell dated for close to two years before the couple separated. James is currently 22 years old.

At around age two, James was diagnosed with Angelman syndrome, a rare neurogenetic disorder that affects the nervous system and can cause developmental delays, intellectual disability, and speech impairment.

Farrell has described James’s diagnosis, and the challenges of raising a child with special needs, as a turning point that pushed him toward sobriety. In 2024, Farrell launched the Colin Farrell Foundation, a non-profit organization created in James’s honour to support adult children living with intellectual disabilities once they age out of the safeguards available to them in childhood.

Farrell has said he wants the world to treat his son with kindness and respect, and he speaks to James as though he has the cognitive ability and fluency of a typical 20-year-old, while acknowledging he can never be certain how James experiences the attention his story brings.

Henry Tadeusz Farrell

Henry Tadeusz Farrell is Colin Farrell’s younger son. He was born on 7 October 2009 to Polish actress Alicja Bachleda-Curuś, whom Farrell met while filming Ondine, in which the pair starred together. Henry is currently 16 years old.

Unlike his older brother, Henry has grown up largely in the public eye alongside his father, appearing with Farrell at major red carpet events including the 2023 Academy Awards, where the pair wore matching velvet tuxedos, the 2024 New York premiere of The Penguin, and the 2025 Primetime Emmy Awards.

Farrell has repeatedly credited both his sons as the driving force behind his sobriety and has called them the loves of his life, praising the men they are becoming as they navigate adulthood.

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