After his Golden Globe win for The Penguin, which happened at the 82nd Golden Globes ceremony on Sunday, Colin Farrell is now the third actor after Heath Ledger and Joaquin Phoenix to take home the award for playing a Batman antagonist.

With his best actor win for limited series “The Penguin,” Colin Farrell joins a small circle of just three actors who have earned a Golden Globe for playing comic book villains. When asked in the Globes press room about joining the ranks of Heath Ledger and Joaquin Phoenix,

The Penguin' star Colin Farrell reflected on being the third actor to win a Golden Globe award for playing a comic book villain along with Heath Ledger and Joaquin Phoenix — who both portrayed the Joker in separate movies — after his historic win at the 2025 ceremony.

The Penguin star Colin Farrell recently became the third actor to win a Golden Globe award for playing a comic book villain. Coincidentally, the other two recipients of the rare honor — Heath Ledger and Joaquin Phoenix — also won for playing a Batman villain.

TV performances, and one that truly made an impression was Colin Farrell’s turn as the titular character on The Penguin. It was expected that the actor and his collaborators would eventually receive some awards recognition,

Christopher Nolan has reflected upon his emotional speech at the Golden Globes after he won the best director role. Nolan, a director like no other, has been around a lot of famous faces, but there are only few that he welcomes into his inner circle when it comes to return work. One of those was his ‘dear friend’ Heath Ledger.

The Penguin actor Colin Farrell has become the third performer to win a Golden Globe for playing a comic book villain, and the first to do so with a TV show. The HBO series sees the Irish actor reprising his role as The Penguin (prosthetics and all) after his debut in 2022's The Batman.