Colin Firth

Colin Andrew Firth was born 10 September 1960 and came up in the mid-1980s as part of the "Brit Pack" of young British actors, taking leading roles in A Month in the Country, Tumbledown, and Valmont. His 1995 turn as Mr. Darcy in the BBC's Pride and Prejudice brought widespread attention and led to parts in The English Patient, Shakespeare in Love, and Love Actually, as well as the Bridget Jones series where he played another Darcy — Mark — across films spanning 2001 to 2025. He won the Academy Award for Best Actor in 2010 for his King George VI in The King's Speech, after an Oscar nomination…