Seven Psychopaths

Colin Farrell (Actor) .. Marty

Born: May 31, 1976 in Dublin

Best Known For: His partying lifestyle.

Early-life: Born Colin James Farrell on May 31, 1976, in Castleknock, Dublin. He's the youngest of four children, and one of his sisters, Claudine, is now his personal assistant. His father, Eamon, was a professional footballer, and Farrell thought of following in his footsteps until he realised his love of drinking and girls got in the way of training. Instead, he concentrated on acting after being taken to a drama club by his brother.

Career: Farrell dropped out of Gaeity Drama School in Dublin, but landed a part in Ballykissangel a few months later. Roles in The War Zone, and Ordinary Decent Criminal followed before Hollywood beckoned. An acclaimed performance in Tigerland in 2000 led to him being cast in Hart's War, and Minority Report. Phone Booth, his first lead role, was a hit and made him a force to be reckoned with. Since then, Farrell has starred in such films as The Recruit, Daredevil, Intermission, Alexander, Miami Vice, In Bruges (for which he won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor), The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, Crazy Heart and Ondien. He always has a number of films in the pipeline.

Quote: 'I'm in no hurry to get anywhere. I don't have any plans. If you did in this business, you'd destroy yourself.'

Trivia: He failed an audition to become a member of Boyzone.

Sam Rockwell (Actor) .. Billy

Born: November 05, 1968 in Daly City, California

Best Known For: The Green Mile

Early-life: Sam Rockwell was born on November 5, 1968, in Daly City, California, the child of two actors. The family moved to New York when he was two. He made his acting debut when he was ten years old, alongside his mother. While still in high school, he got his first big break when he appeared in the independent film Clownhouse (1989). He then had private training at the William Esper Acting Studio. He notched up a string of minor roles while working a string of regular day jobs and performing in plays.

Career: In 1994, a Miller Ice beer commercial finally enabled him to quit his other jobs to concentrate on his acting career, which culminated in him having five movies out by 1996. In 1997 he found himself the star of another critically lauded film, Lawn Dogs. He had larger parts in two of the bigger hit movies to emerge in 1999: The Green Mile and Galaxy Quest, wowing audiences and critics alike. Big-budget films such as Charlie's Angels gave way to more subtle independent films like Welcome to Collinwood and Confessions of a Dangerous Mind. More recent roles include Moon, Iron Man 2, Conviction, Cowboys & Aliens, Seven Psychopaths and The Way, Way Back.

Quote: 'I want to be a character actor, but I also want to make some money.'

Trivia: In 2007, he guest-starred in the Internet series Casted: The Continuing Chronicles of Derek Riffchyn, Greatest Casting Director in the World. Ever.

Christopher Walken (Actor) .. Hans

Born: March 31, 1943 in New York

Best Known For: Scene-stealing roles in a number of films.

Early-life: Born Ronald Walken on March 31, 1943, in Astoria, New York. His father, a baker, was German, his mother was Scottish, and he has two brothers. All three boys had modelling and acting careers as children, and made appearances on various popular TV shows. Meeting comedy actor Jerry Lewis, while filming one of them, persuaded Walken to tackle acting full-time. After attending the Professional Children's School, he studied dance at Hofstra University, but dropped out to take a role in musical Best Foot Forward in 1963.

Career: For the next few years, Walken appeared in musical productions. After 1966's Barefoot in Athens, small roles in The Anderson Tapes and Annie Hall followed. His big break came in 1978 when he won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for The Deer Hunter. He's been in demand ever since. Other films include A View to a Kill, Batman Returns, True Romance, Pulp Fiction and Catch Me If You Can. He continues to be an in-demand character actor, excelling in both comedy and serious drama. Dancing in Fat Boy Slim video Weapon of Choice introduced him to a new generation of fans. More recent work includes Wedding Crashers, Man of the Year, Hairspray and Seven Psychopaths.

Quote: 'I don't need to be made to look evil. I can do that on my own.'

Trivia: He worked briefly as a lion tamer in a circus at the age of 15.

Woody Harrelson (Actor) .. Charlie

Born: July 23, 1961 in Midland, Texas

Best Known For: His starring role in Cheers and a string of hit movies.

Early-life: Born Woodrick Tracy Harrelson on July 23, 1961, in Midland, Texas, but grew up in Lebanon, Ohio. His father, Charles, has twice been found guilty of committing murder for money - once in 1968, the second time in 1978. He is also believed to have been one of several so-called hobos escorted from the infamous grassy knoll in Dallas immediately after JFK's assassination in 1963. Harrelson gained a degree in theatre arts and English from Hanover College in Indiana before moving to New York.

Career: Harrelson was an understudy for Neil Simon's Biloxi Blues on Broadway and appeared in various small productions before gaining the role of dimwitted barman Woody Boyd in Cheers in 1985. His TV commitments made it difficult for him to gain good movie roles, although he did star in the hit White Men Can't Jump in 1992. When the sitcom finished a year later, he concentrated on films, and has since starred in Indecent Proposal, Natural Born Killers, The People vs Larry Flynt, Welcome to Sarajevo, The Thin Red Line, A Scanner Darkly, No Country for Old Men, The Messenger, Zombieland, 2012 and The Hunger Games movies. In 2014, he starred alongside Matthew McConaughey in HBO crime drama True Detective.

Quote: 'I like crying. And I not only wanna cry with other people, I wanna just split myself down the middle and open my guts and just throw everything out!'

Trivia: Harrelson has had a few brushes with the law.

Tom Waits (Actor) .. Zachariah

Abbie Cornish (Actor) .. Kaya

Born: August 07, 1982 in Lochinvar, New South Wales, Australia

Best Known For: A string of film and TV roles.

Early-life: Abbie was born in Lochinvar, New South Wales, Australia on August 7, 1982 to Shelley and Barry. She grew up on a farm, and began modelling as a teenager. In 1999, she won an Australian Film Institute award for her role in TV show Wildside.

Career: Cornish made her film debut in The Monkey's Mask (2000) and went on to star in One Perfect Day (2004), Somersault (2004), Candy (2006), A Good Year (2006) and Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007). She won a number of awards for her performance in Bright Star (2009). More recently, she has appeared in Limitless (2011), Sucker Punch (2011), Seven Psychopaths (2012), RoboCop (2014) and miniseries Klondike.

Quote: 'When you create a character, you have to trust they're in your DNA, unzip the suit that you've acquired and leave yourself raw to the possibility of anything that might happen.'

Trivia: In 2006, she became an ambassador for animal rights group Voiceless, the animal protection institute.

Olga Kurylenko (Actor) .. Angela

Born: November 14, 1979 in Zaporozhye Oblast, Ukraine

Best Known For: Playing a Bond girl in Quantum of Solace.

Early-life: Olga Kostyantynivna Kurylenko was born in Zaporozhye Oblast, Ukraine, on November 14, 1979 to Konstantyn and Maryna. Her parents divorced when she was three and she was raised by her mother and her grandmother. At the age of 13, Olga was with her mother on a trip to Moscow when she was spotted by an agent and offered a job as a model. Olga moved to Paris when she was 16 and by the time she was 18, she was appearing on the covers of fashion magazines, including Elle and Vogue.

Career: Kurylenko swapped the catwalk for the big screen in 2005 when she made her film debut in The Ring Finger. Since then, she has appeared Paris, je t'aime (2006), The Serpent (2006) and Hitman (2007). In 2008, she co-starred opposite Daniel Craig in Quantum of Solace. More recently, Kurylenko has starred in Seven Psychopaths (2012) and Oblivion (2013). She starred in two seasons of American drama Magic City.

Quote: 'A lot of movies are made to make us dream.'

Trivia: She has been the face of a number of clothing and cosmetic companies.

Gabourey Sidibe (Actor) .. Sharice

Born: May 06, 1983 in Brooklyn

Best Known For: Her Oscar-nominated role in Precious (2009).

Early-life: Gabourey was born in Brooklyn on May 6, 1983 to Alice and Ibnou. She was working as a receptionist for The Fresh Air Fund charity when she landed her breakthrough acting role in Precious (2009), playing an obese 16-year-old girl with two children.

Career: Sidibe was nominated for a Golden Globe and an Academy Award for her role in Precious. Since then, she has starred on the big screen in Tower Heist (2011) and Seven Psychopaths (2012) and had a recurring role in TV drama The Big C. In 2013, she began playing a young witch in the third season of American Horror Story: Coven.

Quote: 'I love the way I look. I'm fine with it. And if my body changes, I'll be fine with that.'

Trivia: Sidibe is one of a select group of African-American actresses to be nominated for the Best Actress Oscar.

Martin McDonagh (Director)

02:00 am - 04:15 am, Friday, April 3 on Film4 +1 (47)

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