Colin Firth

Colin Andrew Firth ( born September 10, 1960 in Grayshott, Hampshire, England ) is a British actor. In 2011 he was honored for his starring role in the period film The King's Speech 's Oscar.

Career

After visiting the Montgomery of Alamein School in Winchester and Barton Peveril College Colin Firth was trained in London at the Drama Center to the actor. 1984 played Colin Firth in Lady with the Camellias ( Camille ) with, a TV movie with Greta Scacchi and Ben Kingsley. He played in 1989 under the direction of Milos Forman's Valmont in the title role, a film adaptation of Choderlos de Laclos ' epistolary novel Les Liaisons dangereuses ( Dangerous Liaisons ). In the six-part BBC TV series Pride and Prejudice ( Pride and Prejudice ) by Jane Austen's novel of the same he played Mr. Darcy, the male lead. In allusion to the fact he played Mark Darcy in the film adaptation of Helen Fielding's Bridget Jones - chocolate for breakfast.

Also in the feature films A Month in the Country (1987, starring Natasha Richardson ), Fever Pitch (1997, as tragicomic football in the British film adaptation of Nick Hornby's novel of the same ), Shakespeare in Love (1998) and in fact ... Love - Love actually (2003 with Alan Rickman, Emma Thompson, Hugh Grant, Liam Neeson and Laura Linney ), he worked with. Also in 2003, stood Firth as Johannes Vermeer Young Scarlett Johansson in Girl with a Pearl Earring aside. In Bridget Jones - The Edge of Reason (2004, with Hugh Grant) Colin Firth played a second time the only at first glance, proud, uninvolved Darcy. A third part of Bridget Jones Stories is currently in preparation. In 2005 he played with Emma Thompson and Thomas Sangster in Nanny McPhee ( Director: Kirk Jones).

The subtle adaptation of Isherwood - substance A Single Man 2009 by Tom Ford brought him as George Falconer an Academy Award nomination. However, he received the award in the following year as King George VI. The King 's Speech, where he met, among others, on his former co-star of Pride and Prejudice, Jennifer Ehle, as wife of his speech therapist.

To edited by Nick Hornby in 2001 collection of short stories " Speaking with the Angel" steered the actor in a story.

In 2007 he produced the documentary " In Prison My Whole Life", directed by Marc Evans, about the famous death penalty case of the African-American journalist Mumia Abu -Jamal, who has already spent about 25 years in prison on death row.

Colin Firth is run as a co-author of a paper on a correlation between structural differences in the brain and political orientation, after he suggested this research as guest editor of BBC Radio 4s Today show.

For the film adaptation of the popular children's classic about Paddington Bear, which will hit theaters in November 2014 Colin Firth will play alongside Nicole Kidman. He will not be seen in the film, as he takes on the role of spokesman for Paddington Bear. However, the animation of the bear to get similarity with Firth.

Awards

On 19 October 2007, Colin Firth was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Winchester.

Firth went on to win many cases for his starring role in the drama A Single Man. In addition to the Coppa Volpi of Venice Film Festival in 2009 and the British BAFTA award he was nominated for a Golden Globe Award and an Oscar.

In 2010, he slipped in Tom Hooper's The King's Speech in the role of the British monarch George VI. , Who tries to overcome his stammer. Once again, he was honored with numerous film awards, including the Awards of Film Critics Associations of New York and Los Angeles, the British Independent Film Awards, the European Film Award as well as his first Golden Globe Award and his second BAFTA Award. Furthermore, Firth was nominated for The King's Speech a second time for the Oscar, he finally the end of February 2011 " Best Actor " won at the awards in the category.

In January 2011, Firth received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in the category of film. On June 11, 2011 Firth was honored by Queen Elizabeth II with the title of Commander of the British Empire.

Commitment

Colin Firth has a longstanding commitment to the organization Survival International, and campaigns for the rights of indigenous peoples. In 2009 he wrote to the organization to contribute in the book We Are One. It also supports the campaign of activists for the Awá, a threatened people in Brazil. Since 2002, Firth is also ambassador of development organization Oxfam. Particularly active he sits down in the Oxfam campaign Make Trade Fair for the equal rights of farmers in developing countries and is among others partakers of Fairtrade coffee chain Progreso in London, where he was already behind the counter, as well as Eco Age, a business for sustainable fashion in London Chiswick, which is run by his brother Nicola Giuggioli and his wife Livia Firth.

Private

Colin Firth his time between London and Italy. He has been married since June 21, 1997 with the Italian documentary filmmaker Livia Giuggioli, with whom he has two sons. From a previous relationship with actress Meg Tilly comes his eldest son, who lived with his mother in Canada and the United States before he recently took up a course of study in London.

Firth has a sister named Kate, and a younger brother, Jonathan, who is also an actor. As a child Firth lived due to frequent relocations of his professors - parents in many parts of the world; among other things, he spent considerable time in Nigeria, where his grandparents were active as missionaries, and in the United States.

Filmography (selection)

2000: In the "best " company - A family turnoff ( Relative Values)
2001: Bridget Jones - chocolate for breakfast ( Bridget Jones 's Diary )
2001: The Wannsee Conference ( Conspiracy, TV film )
2001: Love Affairs - Take the best what you get ( Londinium )
2002: is his Earnest ( The Importance of Being Earnest )
2003: Hope Springs - The love of your life ( Hope Springs )
2003: What a Girl Wants (What a Girl Wants )
2003: The Girl with a Pearl Earring ( Girl with a Pearl Earring)
2003: In fact ... Love ( Love Actually )
2004: trauma (trauma )
2004: Bridget Jones - The Edge of Reason ( Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason)
2005: Where the Truth Lies ( Where the Truth Lies)
2005: Nanny McPhee ( Nanny McPhee )
2006: Celebration ( TV movie )
2006: Born Equal ( TV movie )
2007: The Last Legion ( The Last Legion )
2007: The time that we have left ( And When Did You Last See Your Father? )
2007: Then She Found Me
2008: St. Trinian's (St. Trinian's )
2008: The Accidental Husband ( The Accidental Husband)
2008: Mamma Mia!
2008: Genova
2008: Easy Virtue - An immoral wife
2009: The Picture of Dorian Gray ( Dorian Gray)
2009: A Single Man
2009: Disney's A Christmas Carol ( A Christmas Carol, Voice )
2009: The St. Trinian's 2 - Treasure Hunt (St Trinian 's II: The Legend of Fritton 's Gold )
2010: Main Street
2010: The King's Speech
2010: Steve
2011: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy ( Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy )
2012: A Great Life ( Arthur Newman)
2012: Gambit - The Master Plan ( Gambit )
2013: Devil 's Knot

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