Career
Farrell had small parts in television shows and films, including the BBC's Ballykissangel in 1998 and 1999, and his film debut in English actor Tim Roth's directorial debut The War Zone. In 2000, he was cast in the lead role of Private Roland Bozz in Tigerland, a "powerful but hardly released" film (according to movie critic Roger Ebert) directed by the American Joel Schumacher. Emanuel Levy of Variety felt the actor "shines as the subversive yet basically decent lad whose cynicism may be the only sane reaction to an insane situation." Michael Holden of The Guardian felt that he was "too much the hero" to fit the classic rebel archetype properly, but the film's shortcomings "don't lie with Farrell."
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