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 the year before for playing a grieving gay man in A Single Man, which earned him the BAFTA and Volpi Cup. He went on to play secret agent Harry Hart in the Kingsman films, appeared in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Mary Poppins Returns, 1917, Supernova, and Operation Mincemeat, and earned Emmy nominations for Conspiracy and The Staircase. In 2012 he founded Raindog Films and has since campaigned for Indigenous rights, refugees, and the environment - and once co-authored a scientific paper on brain structure and political orientation.