Colin Firth
Colin Firth was born in Grayshott, Hampshire, England, and normally works in the dramatic genre having gotten his first acting credit for an episode of Crown Court (1984 series), his first film Another Country (1984 with Rupert Everett), and won an Oscar for Best Actor in a Leading Role for The King’s Speech (2010 with Geoffrey Rush) after being nominated the year before for A Single Man (with Julianne Moore). Easily delivering the intellectual British stereotype, Firth has been able to build a career of dramatic performances, complicated romances, and manages to have a sense of humour. Firth appeared in Lost Empires (1986 tv mini-series about a magic act), Pride and Prejudice (1995 romance with Jennifer Ehle based on the Jane Austen’s novel), The English Patient (1996 war with Ralph Fiennes), Bridget Jones’s Diary (2001 rom-com with Renée Zellweger), Girl with a Pearl Earring (2003 romance with Scarlett Johansson), Love Actually (2003 rom-com also starring Hugh Grant), Nanny McPhee (2005 comedy with Emma Thompson), Mamma Mia! (2008 musical with Meryl Streep), Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011 mystery with Gary Oldman), Magic in the Moonlight (2014 rom-com with Emma Stone), and Kingsman: The Secret Service (2014 action with Taron Egerton). He was most recently seen in Genius (drama with Jude Law about a book editor) and Bridget Jones’s Baby (his third appearance in the franchise with Renée Zellweger), and will next be seen in sequels to Kingsman and Mamma Mia!, The Happy Prince (drama about Oscar Wilde), The Mercy (drama with Rachel Weisz), Mary Poppins Returns (musical with Emily Blunt), and Kursk (drama about a submarine disaster).
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