Colin Firth

Colin Firth is an English actor. He has received an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, two BAFTA Awards, and three Screen Actors Guild Awards, as well as the Volpi Cup. Firth’s most notable and acclaimed role to date has been his portrayal of King George VI in Tom Hooper’s The King’s Speech (2010), a performance that earned him an Academy Award for Best Actor, among other accolades.

Identified in the late 1980’s with the “Brit Pack” of rising, young British actors, it was not until Firth’s portrayal of Fitzwilliam Darcy in the 1995 television adaptation of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice that he received more widespread attention. This led to roles in films such as The English Patient, Bridget Jones’s Diary (for which Firth was nominated for a BAFTA), Shakespeare in Love, and Love Actually.

Date of birth:
10th September, 1960
"I’m not patient, and some things drive me crazy. In my work, I get incredibly upset when people don’t get it right or don’t respect others’ needs."
― Colin Firth
Topic(s): Respect
"I have a very long relationship with America. My mother grew up there and I felt to some extent that I partly belong there. I was schooled there briefly for about a year."
― Colin Firth
Topic(s): Relationship
"My parents and grandparents have always been engaged in teaching or the medical profession or the priesthood, so I’ve sort of grown up with a sense of complicity in the lives of other people, so there’s no virtue in that; it’s the way one is raised."
― Colin Firth
Topic(s): Medical
"I always thought the biggest failing of Americans was their lack of irony. They are very serious there! Naturally, there are exceptions… the Jewish, Italian, and Irish humor of the East Coast."
― Colin Firth
Topic(s): Humor
"If you don’t mind haunting the margins, I think there is more freedom there."
― Colin Firth
Topic(s): Freedom
"I absolutely don’t care about my looks and I’m so used to them that I wouldn’t change a thing. I would end up missing my defects."
― Colin Firth
Topic(s): Change
"One of my grandfathers, actually, having gone out there as a minister, decided he would better serve the people as a doctor. So at a very late age – at the age of 38 in fact – he changed course and decided to become a doctor."
― Colin Firth
Topic(s): Age
"I think it’s quite extraordinary that people cast me as if I’m Warren Beatty: until I met my present wife, at the age of 35, you could name two girlfriends."
― Colin Firth
Topic(s): Age

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