Colin Firth
Date of birth: 1960-09-10
Place of birth: Grayshott, Hampshire, England, UK
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Colin Andrew Firth, 콜린 퍼스, コリン・ファース, كولين فيرث, โคลิน เฟิร์ธ, 哥連·費夫, 柯林·佛斯, Колин Фёрт, کالین فرث
Biography
Colin Andrew Firth (born 10 September 1960) is an English actor and producer. He was identified in the mid-1980s with the "Brit Pack" of rising young British actors, undertaking a challenging series of roles, including leading roles in A Month in the Country (1987), Tumbledown (1988) and Valmont (1989). His portrayal of Mr. Darcy in the 1995 television adaptation of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice led to widespread attention, and to roles in more prominent films such as The English Patient (1996), Shakespeare in Love (1998), Bridget Jones's Diary (2001), The Importance of Being Earnest (2002), Girl with a Pearl Earring (2003), Richard Curtis's romantic comedy ensemble film Love Actually (2003), and the musical comedy Mamma Mia! (2008) and its sequel, Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again! (2018). In 2009, Firth received international acclaim for his performance in Tom Ford's A Single Man, for which he won a BAFTA Award and received his first Academy Award nomination. In 2010, his portrayal of King George VI in Tom Hooper's The King's Speech won him the Academy Award for Best Actor. He subsequently appeared as MI6 agent Bill Haydon in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011), and as secret agent Harry Hart in Kingsman: The Secret Service (2014) and its sequel Kingsman: The Golden Circle (2017). He has since appeared in the musical fantasy Mary Poppins Returns (2018), and Sam Mendes' war film 1917 (2019), and Supernova (2020). He is also known for his performances in television including the BBC film Conspiracy (2001), and HBO's The Staircase (2022), receiving Primetime Emmy Award nominations for each. In 2012, he founded the production company Raindog Films, where he served as a producer for Eye in the Sky (2015) and Loving (2016). His films have grossed more than $3 billion from 42 releases worldwide. Firth has campaigned for the rights of indigenous tribal people and is a member of Survival International. He has campaigned on issues of asylum seekers, refugees' rights and the environment. He commissioned and co-authored a scientific paper on a study of the differences in brain structure between people of differing political orientations. He is the recipient of various accolades, including an Academy Award, two British Academy Film Awards, a Golden Globe Award, and three Screen Actors Guild Awards. In 2011, Firth was appointed a CBE by Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace for his services to drama. That same year, he received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and appeared in Time magazine's 100 most influential people in the world.
Movie Credits
The English Patient
1996-11-14
In the 1930s, Count Almásy is a Hungarian map maker employed by the Royal Geographical Society to ch
Love Actually
2003-09-07
Eight very different couples deal with their love lives in various loosely interrelated tales all se
Bridget Jones's Diary
2001-04-13
Bridget Jones is an average woman struggling against her age, her weight, her job, her lack of a man
Fever Pitch
1997-04-04
A romantic comedy about a man, a woman and a football team. Based on Nick Hornby's best selling auto
Shakespeare in Love
1998-12-11
Young Shakespeare is forced to stage his latest comedy, "Romeo and Ethel, the Pirate's Daughter," be
Girl with a Pearl Earring
2003-12-12
This film, adapted from a work of fiction by author Tracy Chevalier, tells a story about the events
What a Girl Wants
2003-03-27
An American girl, Daphne, heads to Europe in search of the father she's never met. But instead of fi
St Trinian's
2007-12-21
When their beloved school is threatened with closure should the powers that be fail to raise the pro
Trauma
2004-09-17
Awaking from a coma to discover his wife has been killed in a car accident, Ben's world may as well
Apartment Zero
1989-09-02
In a rundown area of Buenos Aires, at the dawn of the 1980s, Adrian LeDuc owns both a struggling mov
Nanny McPhee
2005-10-21
Widower Cedric Brown hires Nanny McPhee to care for his seven rambunctious children, who have chased
Hope Springs
2003-05-09
British artist Colin Ware discovers that his fiancée, Vera, is going to marry another man. Distraugh
Dorian Gray
2009-09-09
Seduced into the decadent world of Lord Henry Wotton, handsome young aristocrat Dorian Gray becomes
Circle of Friends
1995-04-07
Three girlhood friends now at college share first loves, first kisses and first betrayals. At the ce
Mamma Mia!
2008-07-03
A spirited young bride-to-be living with her single mother on a small Greek island secretly invites
Another Country
1984-06-01
In Moscow in 1983, an American journalist interviews Guy Bennett, who recalls his last year at publi
The Importance of Being Earnest
2002-05-17
Two young gentlemen living in 1890s England use the same pseudonym ('Ernest') on the sly, which is f
Genova
2009-04-02
A man moves his two daughters to Italy after their mother dies in a car accident, in order to revita
Where the Truth Lies
2005-10-07
An ambitious reporter probes the reasons behind the sudden split of a 1950s comedy team.
Conspiracy
2001-05-19
At the Wannsee Conference on January 20, 1942, senior Nazi officials meet to determine the manner in
Then She Found Me
2007-09-07
A New York schoolteacher hits a midlife crisis when, in quick succession, her husband leaves, her ad
Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason
2004-11-10
Bridget Jones is working as a TV host and still dating her new love, barrister Mark Darcy, for a per
Four Play
2001-09-02
A romantic comedy about the fleeting attractions between men and women on the set of a popular Briti
The Last Legion
2007-04-19
As the Roman empire crumbles, young Romulus Augustus flees the city and embarks on a perilous voyage
The Accidental Husband
2008-02-29
Emma, a radio host, is about to be married to Richard, her perfect match. But right before her weddi
A Single Man
2009-12-11
Set in Los Angeles in 1962, at the height of the Cuban missile crisis, is the story of a British col
Dutch Girls
1985-10-18
In this sophomoric comedy, a lusty adolescent British hockey team heads for Holland where they find
Rye Lane
2023-03-17
Two twenty-somethings, both reeling from bad break-ups, connect over the course of an eventful day i
St Trinian's 2: The Legend of Fritton's Gold
2009-12-18
After a wealthy philanthropist expresses an unusual interest in a ring found by her niece Annabelle,
Valmont
1989-11-17
Set in Baroque France, a scheming widow and her lover make a bet regarding the corruption of a recen
A Month in the Country
1987-09-27
A destitute WWI veteran is hired to help carry out restoration work on a medieval mural in a rural Y
Empire of Light
2022-12-09
The duty manager of a seaside cinema, who is struggling with her mental health, forms a relationship
When Did You Last See Your Father?
2007-10-05
The story of a son's conflicting memories of his dying father.
Easy Virtue
2008-11-07
A young Englishman marries a glamorous American. When he brings her home to meet the parents, she ar
My Life So Far
1999-08-25
A memoir of the lives of a family growing up on a post World War I British estate headed up by a str
A Christmas Carol
2009-11-04
Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable e
A Thousand Acres
1997-09-19
The lives of an Iowa farmer's three daughters are shattered when he suddenly decides to bequeath the
The Turn of the Screw
1999-12-26
A governess put in charge of two young children begins to see the ghost of her dead predecessor.
The Secret Garden
1987-11-30
When a spoiled English girl living in 19th century India loses both parents in a cholera epidemic, s
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
2011-09-16
In the bleak days of the Cold War, espionage veteran George Smiley is forced from semi-retirement to
The Hour of the Pig
1993-09-25
In medieval France, young lawyer Richard Courtois leaves Paris for the simpler life in the country.
Main Street
2010-10-21
From the once thriving tobacco warehouses, to the current run-down and closed shops of Five Points,
Femme Fatale
1991-03-01
A worried artist tries to locate his wife who suddenly abandoned him only to discover that she led a
Relative Values
2000-06-23
A comedy of discriminating taste and dirty little secrets. In 1952 England, Nigel, the Earl of Marsh
Bridget Jones's Baby
2016-09-14
After breaking up with Mark Darcy five years earlier, Bridget Jones' happily-ever-after hasn't quite
Gambit
2012-04-25
An art curator decides to seek revenge on his abusive boss by conning him into buying a fake Monet,
Tumbledown
1988-05-29
The film centers on the experiences of Robert Lawrence MC, an officer of the Scots Guards during the
Arthur Newman
2012-09-07
A story of a man who fakes his own death and assumes a new identity in order to escape his life, who
The Railway Man
2013-12-02
A victim from World War II's "Death Railway" sets out to find those responsible for his torture. A t
Chiusi fuori
2021-09-09
While he is about to rehearse Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot in the theater, Stefano Accorsi sud
Devil's Knot
2013-05-09
The savage murders of three young children sparks a controversial trial of three teenagers accused o
The Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd
1995-10-14
D.H, Lawrence's early play about a married woman who wishes her husband dead after falling in love w
King George VI: The Man Behind the King's Speech
2011-07-01
This documentary tells the story of the man who overcame his own failings for the sake of his nation
Stars In Shorts
2012-09-28
Seven short films, all of which feature name actors, including Judi Dench, Kenneth Branagh, Colin Fi
Celebration
2007-02-26
All the action takes place in a swish London restaurant where two coarse-grained strategy consultant
Camille
1984-12-11
Camille is a courtesan in Paris. She falls deeply in love with a young man of promise, Armand Duval.
Before I Go to Sleep
2014-09-03
A woman wakes up every day, remembering nothing as a result of a traumatic accident in her past. One
Forever Ealing
2002-12-05
This is a history of the England's Ealing Film Studios, from its beginnings in 1902. It follows the
Kingsman: The Secret Service
2015-01-24
The story of a super-secret spy organization that recruits an unrefined but promising street kid int
The Secret Laughter of Women
1999-11-26
Oscar-winner Colin Firth stars in this heart-warming cross-cultural romantic comedy set in the idyll
The Deep Blue Sea
1994-11-12
Hester Collyer is rescued by a neighbor after attempting suicide in the flat she shares with her you
Magic in the Moonlight
2014-07-25
Set in the 1920s French Riviera, a master magician is commissioned to try and expose a psychic as a
The King's Speech
2010-11-26
The King's Speech tells the story of the man who became King George VI, the father of Queen Elizabet
Der Weg des Ruhms
2011-10-15
Documentary about Hollywood.
Genius
2016-06-10
New York in the 1920s. Max Perkins, a literary editor is the first to sign such subsequent literary
Wings of Fame
1990-03-23
A famous movie actor claims that he has written a book. As result, a real author, not a very well kn
Greed
2019-09-07
A retail billionaire's 60th birthday party is celebrated in an exclusive hotel on the Greek island o
Birthing Mamma Mia!
2008-12-31
This short documentary is about the making of the 2008 film musical "Mamma Mia!".
Blackadder: Back & Forth
1999-03-29
What was a cunning plan from Lord Edmund Blackadder V to fake a time machine on his gullibly incompe
Born Equal
2006-12-17
Four characters living in one neighborhood in London - all living dramatically different lives, all
Steve
2010-02-12
A young couple begin to receive daily visits from their downstairs neighbor, Steve. Steve draws atte
This Is My Africa
2008-04-01
Interviewees discuss the memories, tastes and experiences that they associate with Africa for a pers
Donovan Quick
2000-12-28
Quirky stranger Donovan (Colin Firth) blows into the Scottish village of Port Clyde. There, he rents
Kursk
2018-11-07
Barents Sea, August 12th, 2000. During a Russian naval exercise, and after suffering a serious accid
Kingsman: The Golden Circle
2017-09-20
When an attack on the Kingsman headquarters takes place and a new villain rises, Eggsy and Merlin ar
The Mercy
2018-02-09
In 1968, Donald Crowhurst, an amateur sailor, endangers the fate of his family and business, and his
Mad at the Moon
1992-09-16
A young woman on the frontier marries a meek farmer who has an annoying habit of going through a rat
Mary Poppins Returns
2018-12-13
Mary Poppins returns to the Banks family and helps them evade grave dangers by taking them on magica
Harold Pinter: A Celebration
2010-01-24
In June 2009, a group Britain's leading actors gathered for one night only to perform a celebration
Red Nose Day Actually
2017-03-24
Fourteen years after the events of the first film, a series of encounters between people in Britain
Playmaker
1994-05-14
A would-be actress uncovers horrifying files on other starlets.
Hostages
1992-09-23
True account of the six men held hostage by religious extremists in Beirut during the Reagan-Bush er
Nineteen Nineteen
1985-11-14
Two former patients of Sigmund Freud meet again and discuss their psychiatric treatment 65 years ear
Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again
2018-07-18
Five years after meeting her three fathers, Sophie Sheridan prepares to open her mother’s hotel. In
The Happy Prince
2018-04-12
In 1895, Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) was the most famous writer in London, and Bosie Douglas, son of the
Out of the Blue
1991-08-22
Alan makes films in the warehouse studio where he lives, with the help of his friends Rudy and Liz.
The Secret Garden
2020-07-08
Mary Lennox is born in India to wealthy British parents who never wanted her. When her parents sudde
1917
2019-12-25
At the height of the First World War, two young British soldiers must cross enemy territory and deli
Ruth Rendell: Master of the Moor
1994-09-02
Stephen Whalby loves the moor. When a series of senseless murders of young women invades his beloved
Supernova
2020-11-20
Sam and Tusker, partners of 20 years, are traveling across England in their old RV visiting friends,
Operation Mincemeat
2022-04-01
In 1943, two British intelligence officers concoct Operation Mincemeat, wherein their plan to drop a
Baldrick's Video Diary - A Blackadder in the Making
2001-10-15
An intimate behind the scenes short film while shooting the Black Adder special Back and Forth.
Mothering Sunday
2021-11-12
On a warm spring day in 1924, house maid and foundling Jane Fairchild finds herself alone on Mother'
New York Will Eat You Alive
Plot unknown. Feature film based on the comic "Zombie Brother".
Being Bridget Jones
2020-12-22
Marking 25 years since the creation of the Bridget Jones character for a column in The Independent n
Pride and Prejudice: From Page to Screen
1995-11-04
A making of featurette about the translation of the classic Jane Austen-novel into a screenplay, fil
Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy
2025-02-12
Bridget Jones navigates life as a widow and single mum with the help of her family, friends, and for
The Dish
2026-06-12
A UFO story. Plot TBA.
Kingsman: The Secret Service Revealed
2015-06-08
A documentary on Kingsman: The Secret Service.