Biography
Colin Andrew Firth (born 10 September 1960) is an English actor and producer. He is the recipient of several accolades, including an Academy Award, two BAFTA Awards, and a Golden Globe Award, as well as nominations for two Primetime Emmy Awards. In 2011, Firth was appointed a CBE for his services to drama, and appeared in Time magazine's 100 most influential people in the world.
Identified in the mid-1980s with the "Brit Pack" of rising young British actors, he had leading roles in A Month in the Country (1987), Tumbledown(1988) and Valmont (1989). His portrayal of Mr Darcy in the 1995 television adaptation of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice drew widespread attention. It led to roles in more prominent films such as The English Patient (1996), Shakespeare in Love (1998), The Importance of Being Earnest (2002), and Love Actually (2003). He starred as Mark Darcy in the Bridget Jones film series (2001–2025). Also, he acted in the musical comedy Mamma Mia! (2008) and its 2018 sequel.
Firth won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of King George VI in the historical drama The King's Speech (2010). He was previously Oscar-nominated for his role as a grieving gay man in the romantic drama A Single Man (2009), which earned him the BAFTA Award and the Volpi Cup for Best Actor. He subsequently played secret agent Harry Hart in Kingsman: The Secret Service (2014) and its 2017 sequel. He also performed in films such as Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011), Mary Poppins Returns (2018), 1917 (2019), The Secret Garden, Supernova (both 2020), and Operation Mincemeat (2021). For his roles on television, he received Primetime Emmy Award nominations for his portrayals of Dr. Wilhelm Stuckart in the BBC film Conspiracy (2001) and Michael Peterson in the HBO limited series The Staircase (2022).
In 2012, he founded the production company Raindog Films, under which he served as a producer for Eye in the Sky (2015) and Loving (2016). His films have grossed more than $3 billion from 42 releases worldwide. Firth has campaigned for the rights of Indigenous people and is a member of Survival International. He has also campaigned on issues such as asylum seekers, refugees' rights, and the environment. He commissioned and co-authored a scientific paper on differences in brain structure between people with different political orientations.
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Filmography (129)
Disclosure Day
2026
Wild Asia: Life at Extremes
2026
Young Sherlock
2026
Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy
2025
Lockerbie: A Search for Truth
2025
Rye Lane
2023
Empire of Light
2022
Operation Mincemeat
2022
The Staircase
2022
Chiusi fuori
2021
Mothering Sunday
2021
Supernova
2020
Being Bridget Jones
2020
Greed
2019
1917
2019
Kursk
2018
The Mercy
2018
Mary Poppins Returns
2018
Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again
2018
The Happy Prince
2018
Kingsman: The Golden Circle
2017
Red Nose Day Actually
2017
Bridget Jones's Baby
2016
Genius
2016
Kingsman: The Secret Service
2015
Kingsman: The Secret Service Revealed
2015
Before I Go to Sleep
2014
Magic in the Moonlight
2014
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014
The Railway Man
2013
Devil's Knot
2013
Gambit
2012
Arthur Newman
2012
Stars in Shorts
2012
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
2011
King George VI: The Man Behind the King's Speech
2011
Der Weg des Ruhms - Hollywoods Walk of Fame
2011
OK! TV
2011
Main Street
2010
The King's Speech
2010
Steve
2010
Harold Pinter: A Celebration
2010
Conan
2010
Dorian Gray
2009
Genova
2009
A Single Man
2009
St Trinian's 2: The Legend of Fritton's Gold
2009
A Christmas Carol
2009
The Jay Leno Show
2009
Live from Studio Five
2009
Mamma Mia!
2008
The Accidental Husband
2008
Easy Virtue
2008
This Is My Africa
2008
St Trinian's
2007
Then She Found Me
2007
The Last Legion
2007
And When Did You Last See Your Father?
2007
Celebration
2007
Born Equal
2006
Nanny McPhee
2005
Where the Truth Lies
2005
Trauma
2004
Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason
2004
Love Actually
2003
Girl with a Pearl Earring
2003
What a Girl Wants
2003
Hope Springs
2003
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2003
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003
The Importance of Being Earnest
2002
Forever Ealing
2002
Bridget Jones's Diary
2001
Conspiracy
2001
Four Play
2001
Baldrick's Video Diary - A Blackadder in the Making
2001
Relative Values
2000
Donovan Quick
2000
My Life So Far
1999
The Turn of the Screw
1999
The Secret Laughter of Women
1999
Blackadder: Back & Forth
1999
The Early Show
1999
Shakespeare in Love
1998
Fever Pitch
1997
A Thousand Acres
1997
The View
1997
Nostromo
1997
The English Patient
1996
The Daily Show
1996
Circle of Friends
1995
The Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd
1995
Pride and Prejudice: From Page to Screen
1995
Pride and Prejudice
1995
The Deep Blue Sea
1994
Playmaker
1994
Ruth Rendell: Master of the Moor
1994
The Hour of the Pig
1993
GMTV
1993
Mad at the Moon
1992
Hostages
1992
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992
Femme Fatale
1991
Out of the Blue
1991
Performance
1991
Wings of Fame
1990
Apartment Zero
1989
Valmont
1989
Tumbledown
1988
This Morning
1988
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988
The Play on One
1988
A Month in the Country
1987
The Secret Garden
1987
The Ruth Rendell Mysteries
1987
Lost Empires
1986
Dutch Girls
1985
Nineteen Nineteen
1985
Screen Two
1985
Another Country
1984
Camille
1984
Wetten, dass..?
1981
Saturday Night Live
1975
Crown Court
1972
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
New York Will Eat You Alive
Cry to Heaven
Bare
Untitled Berlin Noir Series
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