Colin Firth
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Biography
Person.
Colin Firth is a British actor whose career has moved from the 1980s generation of young British screen performers into an unusually durable international body of work built around restraint, intelligence and emotional precision. One of his first major film roles came in Another Country in 1984, alongside Rupert Everett, before later performances in A Month in the Country and the television drama Tumbledown established him as more than a conventional leading man.
The 1995 BBC adaptation of Pride and Prejudice made his Mr Darcy a defining popular image, while later films including Bridget Jones’s Diary, A Single Man and The King’s Speech repeatedly played with or complicated that association with English reserve. Firth received an Academy Award nomination for A Single Man and won the 2011 Academy Award for best actor as King George VI in The King’s Speech.
Reviewed 2026-08-19Selected sources
- BFI — Another CountryFirth’s role in the 1984 film Another Country alongside Rupert Everett and its place in his early British film career.
- Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences — 2010 Academy AwardsFirth’s first Academy Award nomination for best actor for A Single Man.
- Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences — 2011 Academy AwardsFirth’s Academy Award win for best actor for The King’s Speech.