
Colin Firth
Department: Acting
Biography
Colin Andrew Firth (born 10 September 1960) is an English actor and producer. He is the recipient of several accolades, including an Academy Award, two BAFTA Awards, and a Golden Globe Award, as well as nominations for two Primetime Emmy Awards. In 2011, Firth was appointed a CBE for his services to drama, and appeared in Time magazine's 100 most influential people in the world. Identified in the mid-1980s with the "Brit Pack" of rising young British actors, he had 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 drew widespread attention. It led to roles in more prominent films such as The English Patient (1996), Shakespeare in Love (1998), The Importance of Being Earnest (2002), and Love Actually (2003). He starred as Mark Darcy in the Bridget Jones film series (2001–2025). Also, he acted in the musical comedy Mamma Mia! (2008) and its 2018 sequel. Firth won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of King George VI in the historical drama The King's Speech (2010). He was previously Oscar-nominated for his role as a grieving gay man in the romantic drama A Single Man (2009), which earned him the BAFTA Award and the Volpi Cup for Best Actor. He subsequently played secret agent Harry Hart in Kingsman: The Secret Service (2014) and its 2017 sequel. He also performed in films such as Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011), Mary Poppins Returns (2018), 1917 (2019), The Secret Garden, Supernova (both 2020), and Operation Mincemeat (2021). For his roles on television, he received Primetime Emmy Award nominations for his portrayals of Dr. Wilhelm Stuckart in the BBC film Conspiracy (2001) and Michael Peterson in the HBO limited series The Staircase (2022). In 2012, he founded the production company Raindog Films, under which 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 people and is a member of Survival International. He has also campaigned on issues such as asylum seekers, refugees' rights, and the environment. He commissioned and co-authored a scientific paper on differences in brain structure between people with different political orientations. Description above from the Wikipedia article Colin Firth, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For

The English Patient
1996

Love Actually
2003

Bridget Jones's Diary
2001

Fever Pitch
1997

Shakespeare in Love
1998

Girl with a Pearl Earring
2003

What a Girl Wants
2003

St Trinian's
2007

Trauma
2004

Apartment Zero
1989

Nanny McPhee
2005

Hope Springs
2003

Dorian Gray
2009

Circle of Friends
1995

Mamma Mia!
2008

Another Country
1984

The Importance of Being Earnest
2002

Genova
2009

Where the Truth Lies
2005

Conspiracy
2001

Then She Found Me
2007

Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason
2004

Four Play
2001

The Last Legion
2007

The Accidental Husband
2008

A Single Man
2009

Dutch Girls
1985

Rye Lane
2023

St Trinian's 2: The Legend of Fritton's Gold
2009

Valmont
1989

A Month in the Country
1987

Empire of Light
2022

And When Did You Last See Your Father?
2007

Easy Virtue
2008

My Life So Far
1999

A Christmas Carol
2009

A Thousand Acres
1997

The Turn of the Screw
1999

The Secret Garden
1987

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
2011

The Hour of the Pig
1993

Main Street
2010

Femme Fatale
1991

Relative Values
2000

Bridget Jones's Baby
2016

Gambit
2012

Tumbledown
1988

Arthur Newman
2012

The Railway Man
2013

Chiusi fuori
2021

Devil's Knot
2013

The Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd
1995

King George VI: The Man Behind the King's Speech
2011

Stars in Shorts
2012

Celebration
2007

Camille
1984

Before I Go to Sleep
2014

Forever Ealing
2002

Kingsman: The Secret Service
2015

The Secret Laughter of Women
1999

The Deep Blue Sea
1994

Magic in the Moonlight
2014

The King's Speech
2010

Der Weg des Ruhms - Hollywoods Walk of Fame
2011

Genius
2016

Wings of Fame
1990

Greed
2019

Blackadder: Back & Forth
1999

Born Equal
2006

Steve
2010

This Is My Africa
2008

Donovan Quick
2000

Kursk
2018

Kingsman: The Golden Circle
2017

The Mercy
2018

Mad at the Moon
1992

Mary Poppins Returns
2018

Harold Pinter: A Celebration
2010

Red Nose Day Actually
2017

Playmaker
1994

Nineteen Nineteen
1985

Hostages
1992

Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again
2018

The Happy Prince
2018

Out of the Blue
1991

The Secret Garden
2020

1917
2019

Ruth Rendell: Master of the Moor
1994

Supernova
2020

Operation Mincemeat
2022

Baldrick's Video Diary - A Blackadder in the Making
2001

Mothering Sunday
2021

New York Will Eat You Alive
—

Being Bridget Jones
2020

Pride and Prejudice: From Page to Screen
1995

Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy
2025

Disclosure Day
2026

Kingsman: The Secret Service Revealed
2015

Cry to Heaven
—

Wild Asia: Life at Extremes
2026

This Morning
1988

The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2003

Pride and Prejudice
1995

The Daily Show
1996

LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988

The View
1997

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992

The Early Show
1999

The Staircase
2022

The Jay Leno Show
2009

Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951

Lost Empires
1986

GMTV
1993

Live from Studio Five
2009

OK! TV
2011

Saturday Night Live
1975

Performance
1991

Wetten, dass..?
1981

Performance
1991

The Ruth Rendell Mysteries
1987

Nostromo
1997

Lockerbie: A Search for Truth
2025

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014

Untitled Berlin Noir Series
—

Young Sherlock
2026

Crown Court
1972

Conan
2010