Joana Posted July 30, 2007 Posted July 30, 2007 Mr. Colin Firth Biography Early life Firth was born in Grayshott, Hampshire, England to Shirley, a comparative religion lecturer, and David Firth, a history lecturer.[1] Firth has a sister, Kate, and a younger brother, Jonathan, who is now also an actor. Firth's parents were born and raised in India,[2] as his maternal grandparents, Congregationalist ministers, and his paternal grandfather, an Anglican minister, performed missionary work abroad.[3][4][5][6] Firth spent part of his childhood in Nigeria, where his father was teaching. He lived in St. Louis, Missouri when he was 11. He later attended the Montgomery of Alamein Secondary School, a state comprehensive school in Winchester, Hampshire, and then Barton Peveril College in Eastleigh, Hampshire. Film career Firth starred in the award-winning 1981 London stage production of Another Country. He reprised this role for his first film appearance in 1984. In 1987, he appeared alongside Kenneth Branagh in the film version of J. L. Carr's novel, A Month in the Country. In 1989, he took the lead in the film Valmont. Despite widespread admiration for his performances,[citation needed] it was only with the 1995 BBC television adaptation of Pride and Prejudice that Firth gained wider renown. The serial was a big success and Firth became known as a heart-throb because of his role as Fitzwilliam Darcy. This performance also made him the object of affection for fictional journalist Bridget Jones (created by Helen Fielding), an interest which carried on into the two novels featuring the Jones character. In the second novel, Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason, the character even meets Firth in Rome. As something of an in-joke, when the novels were adapted for the cinema, Firth was cast as Jones's love interest, Mark Darcy. Firth as the Earl of Wessex, Shakespeare in Love, 1998Firth had a supporting role in The English Patient (1996) and since then has starred in films such as Fever Pitch (1997), Shakespeare in Love (1998), Bridget Jones's Diary (2001), The Importance of Being Earnest (2002), Love Actually (2003), What a Girl Wants (2003) and Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2004). He has also appeared in recent television productions, including Donovan Quick (an updated version of Don Quixote) (1999) and Conspiracy (2001). Firth is also a Jury Member for the on going Filmaka amateur short film contest. Personal life In 1989, Firth entered into a romantic relationship with actress Meg Tilly, his co-star in Valmont. In 1990, she gave birth to a son, Will Firth. In 1994, Firth was involved with actress Jennifer Ehle, his co-star in Pride and Prejudice. Firth lives both in London and Italy. He married Italian documentary filmmaker Livia Giuggioli on 21 June 1997. The couple have two sons, Luca (born 2001) and Matteo (born 2003). Recently, Firth has been involved in a campaign to stop the deportation of a group of asylum seekers, because he believes that they may be murdered on their return to the Democratic Republic of Congo.[7] Firth has argued that "To me it's just basic civilisation to help people. I find this incredibly painful to see how we dismiss the most desperate people in our society. It's easily done. It plays to the tabloids, to the middle-England xenophobes. It just makes me furious. And all from a government we once had such high hopes for".[8] As a result of the campaign, a Congolese nurse was given a last-minute reprieve from deportation.[9] In a 2006 interview with French magazine, Madame Figaro,[10] Firth was asked "Quelles sont les femmes de votre vie?" (Who are the women in your life?). Firth replied: "Ma mère, ma femme et Jane Austen" (My mother, my wife and Jane Austen). Filmography 1984 Another Country Tommy Judd 1986 Lost Empires (TV mini-series) Richard Herncastle with Sir Laurence Olivier 1987 A Month in the Country Tom Birkin 1988 Tumbledown Robert Lawrence Made for TV Movie Apartment Zero Adrian LeDuc 1989 Valmont Valmont 1990 Wings of Fame Brian Smith 1993 The Hour of the Pig Richard Courtois aka The Advocate 1995 Pride and Prejudice Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy television mini-series Circle of Friends Simon Westward 1996 The English Patient Geoffrey Clifton 1997 Fever Pitch Paul Ashworth A Thousand Acres Jess Clarke 1998 Shakespeare in Love Lord Wessex 1999 Blackadder: Back & Forth William Shakespeare short My Life So Far Edward Pettigrew The Secret Laughter of Women Matthew Field 2000 Relative Values Peter Ingleton 2001 Bridget Jones's Diary Mark Darcy Conspiracy Wilhelm Stuckart Television - HBO 2002 The Importance of Being Earnest Jack Worthing 2003 Girl with a Pearl Earring Johannes Vermeer Hope Springs Colin Ware Love Actually Jamie Bennett What a Girl Wants Henry Dashwood 2004 Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason Mark Darcy Trauma Ben 2005 Nanny McPhee Cedric Brown Where The Truth Lies Vince Collins 2006 Born Equal Mark Armitage Television movie 2007 And When Did You Last See Your Father? Blake Morrison Celebration Russell Play for television St. Trinian's Geoffrey Thwaites The Last Legion Aurelius Then She Found Me Frank 2008 Genova Joe Mamma Mia! Harry Bright The Accidental Husband Richard source:wikipedia Quote
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CarMELita Posted February 21, 2008 Posted February 21, 2008 Madame Figaro mar 08 source: Livejournal, mag lib Quote
wickedcrazyness Posted February 27, 2008 Posted February 27, 2008 Colin Firth Grossly Misunderstands What Kind Of Spirit Is Being HonouredCongratulations to Colin Firth, who has a new Most Mortifying Moment. The 47-year-old Brit was presenting the award for Best Screenplay at the Independent Spirit Awards on Saturday when he read the name of Adrienne Shelly, the woman who wrote, directed and co-starred in the Keri Russell movie Waitress. "Is she here?" Colin asked. Not so much--Adrienne was murdered before the film was released. Hopefully the audience's gasp of horror answered Colin's question. Quote
CarMELita Posted March 4, 2008 Posted March 4, 2008 Press stills for the movie "Accidental Husband" with Uma Thurman source: Livejournal, assainova Quote
CarMELita Posted October 22, 2008 Posted October 22, 2008 InStyle Rus Sep 08 ph. by Mark Mann source: LJ, assainova Quote
feiti Posted October 25, 2008 Posted October 25, 2008 nice pics Carmelita! he is adorable in Pride and Prejudice (he is the real Mr Darcy!) and in Bridget Jones, and Love actually Quote
feiti Posted April 12, 2009 Posted April 12, 2009 in the movie: Girl with a Pearl Earring with Scarlett Johansson Quote
CarMELita Posted November 9, 2009 Posted November 9, 2009 From the movie "Dorian Gray" source: LJ, ru glamour credit: assainova Quote
Nefertiti Posted February 11, 2010 Posted February 11, 2010 'A Single Man' France Premiere in Paris (9.02.10) Quote
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