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Colin Firth

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Colin Firth

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Also known as Colin Andrew Firth

English actor and producer

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Colin Firth is a British and Italian actor, screenwriter, and film producer who began his professional career in 1983. Born in Grayshott, Hampshire, England, on September 10, 1960, he is a citizen of the United Kingdom and Italy. He received his education at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and the Drama Centre London. Firth speaks English and Italian, with British English as his native language. He resides in Chiswick and Città della Pieve and is an unmarried partner to Meg Tilly. He has three children and siblings named Jonathan Firth and Kate Firth.

His notable works include *The King's Speech*, *When Did You Last See Your Father?*, and *People Speak*. Firth has received the Academy Award for Best Actor, the Jameson People's Choice Award for Best Actor, and the European Film Award for Best Actor. He was also awarded the Commander of the Order of the British Empire. Additionally, he has been recognized in the Time 100 collection and the Hollywood Walk of Fame collection. He supports the sports team Arsenal F.C.

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Person · Open Library

Works
3

Top works

  • The King's Speech
  • When Did You Last See Your Father?
  • People Speak

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Film & TV

Acting · Grayshott, Hampshire, England, UK

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…

Known for

  • Disclosure Day — Noah Scanlon2026
  • Wild Asia: Life at Extremes2026
  • Young Sherlock — Sir Bucephalus Hodge2026
  • Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy — Mark Darcy2025
  • Lockerbie: A Search for Truth — Jim Swire2025
  • Rye Lane — Love Guac’tually Server (uncredited)2023
  • Empire of Light — Donald Ellis2022
  • Operation Mincemeat — Ewen Montagu2022
  • The Staircase — Michael Peterson2022
  • Chiusi fuori — Self2021

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
United Kingdom
Active from
1960
DiscogsStream

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
311,038
Total plays
2,202,375

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Colin Andrew Firth, CBE (born 10 September 1960) is an English film, television, and theatre actor. His films have earned more than $936 million from 42 releases worldwide. He has received an Academy Award, a Golden Globe, a BAFTA and the Screen Actors Guild Award, as well as the Volpi Cup. His most notable and acclaimed role to date has been his 2010 portrayal of King George VI in The King's Speech, a performance that gained him an Oscar and many other worldwide best actor awards. It went on to

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. Cancer incidence and mortality worldwide: Sources, methods and major patterns in GLOBOCAN 2012

    · 2014 · cited 21,632x

  2. Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2

    · 2019 · cited 20,887x

  3. RSEM: accurate transcript quantification from RNA-Seq data with or without a reference genome

    · 2011 · cited 19,966x

  4. A global reference for human genetic variation

    · 2015 · cited 17,787x

  5. Operating Characteristics of a Rank Correlation Test for Publication Bias

    · 1994 · cited 14,437x

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Given name
Andrew
Gender
male
Citizenship
Italy
Place of birth
Grayshott
Sibling
Kate Firth
Occupation
writer
Educated at
Drama Centre London
Languages spoken
Italian
Native language
British English
Award
Volpi Cup for Best Actor
Field of work
film production
Image
Colin Firth by Gage Skidmore.jpg
Number of children
3
Residence
Città della Pieve
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Commons category
Colin Firth
date of birth
1960-09-10
nominated for
Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Miniseries or Television Film
unmarried partner
Meg Tilly
start of work period
1983-00-00
supported sports team
Arsenal F.C.
name in native language
Colin Firth
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Cologne Bonn Airport
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Encyclopedic overview

Colin Andrew Firth (born 10 September 1960) is an English actor and producer. He is the recipient of a number of awards and honours, including an Academy Award, two British Academy Film Awards, a Golden Globe Award, and a Volpi Cup as well as nominations for two Primetime Emmy Awards and three British Academy Television 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 led to widespread attention and 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), and also acted in the musical comedy Mamma Mia! (2008) and its 2018 sequel.

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