Colin Firth 1960 65
Colin Firth 1960 65
Colin Andrew Firth (born September 10, 1960) is an English actor and producer. He was identified in the mid-1980s with the "Brit Pack" of rising young British actors, undertaking a challenging series of roles, including 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 to roles in more prominent films such as The English Patient (1996), Shakespeare in Love (1998), Bridget Jones's Diary (2001), The Importance of Being Earnest (2002), Girl with a Pearl Earring (2003), Richard Curtis's romantic comedy ensemble film Love Actually (2003), and the musical comedy Mamma Mia! (2008) and its sequel, Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again! (2018).
In 2009, Firth received international acclaim for his performance in Tom Ford's A Single Man, for which he won a BAFTA Award and received his first Academy Award nomination. In 2010, his portrayal of King George VI in Tom Hooper's The King's Speech won him the Academy Award for Best Actor. He subsequently appeared as MI6 agent Bill Haydon in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011), and as secret agent Harry Hart in Kingsman: The Secret Service (2014) and its sequel Kingsman: The Golden Circle (2017). He has since appeared in the musical fantasy Mary Poppins Returns (2018), and Sam Mendes' war film 1917 (2019), and Supernova (2020). He is also known for his performances in television including the BBC film Conspiracy (2001), and HBO's The Staircase (2022), receiving Primetime Emmy Award nominations for each.
In 2012, he founded the production company Raindog Films, where 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 tribal people and is a member of Survival International. He has campaigned on issues of asylum seekers, refugees' rights and the environment. He commissioned and co-authored a scientific paper on a study of the differences in brain structure between people of differing political orientations.
He is the recipient of various accolades, including an Academy Award, two British Academy Film Awards, a Golden Globe Award, and three Screen Actors Guild Awards. In 2011, Firth was appointed a CBE by Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace for his services to drama. That same year, he received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and appeared in Time magazine's 100 most influential people in the world.
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Rating55.7M
Budget243M
RevenueActing
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2025 New York Will Eat You Alive
2025 Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy as Mark Darcy
2024 Luther: Never Too Much Executive Producer
2023 Squaring the Circle (The Story of Hipgnosis) Producer
2023 Rye Lane as Love Guac’tually Server (uncredited)
2022 Empire of Light as Donald Ellis
2022 Operation Mincemeat as Ewen Montagu
2021 Mothering Sunday as Mr Godfrey Niven
2021 Chiusi fuori as Self
2020 Being Bridget Jones as Self
2020 Supernova as Sam
2020 The Secret Garden as Lord Archibald Craven
2019 1917 as General Erinmore
2019 Greed as Self
2018 Mary Poppins Returns as Wilkins / Wolf (voice)
2018 Kursk as Commodore David Russell
2018 Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again as Harry Bright
2018 The Happy Prince as Reggie Turner Executive Producer
2018 The Mercy as Donald Crowhurst
2017 Kingsman: The Golden Circle as Harry Hart
2017 Red Nose Day Actually as Jamie
2016 Loving Producer
2016 Bridget Jones's Baby as Mark
2016 Genius as Max Perkins
2015 Eye in the Sky Producer
2015 Kingsman: The Secret Service as Harry Hart / Galahad
2014 Before I Go to Sleep as Ben
2014 Magic in the Moonlight as Stanley Crawford
2013 The Railway Man as Eric
2013 Devil's Knot as Ron Lax
2012 Stars In Shorts as Steve
2012 Arthur Newman as Arthur Newman
2012 Gambit as Harry Deane
2011 Der Weg des Ruhms as Self (archive footage)
2011 Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy as Bill Haydon
2011 King George VI: The Man Behind the King's Speech as Self
2010 The King's Speech as King George VI
2010 Main Street as Gus Leroy
2010 Steve as Steve
2010 Harold Pinter: A Celebration as Self
2009 St Trinian's 2: The Legend of Fritton's Gold as Geoffrey Thwaites
2009 A Single Man as George
2009 A Christmas Carol as Fred (voice)
2009 Dorian Gray as Lord Henry Wotton
2009 Genova as Joe
2008 Birthing Mamma Mia! as Self
2008 Easy Virtue as Mr. Whittaker
2008 Mamma Mia! as Harry Bright
2008 This Is My Africa as Self
2008 The Accidental Husband as Richard Braxton
2008 In Prison My Whole Life Executive Producer
2007 St. Trinian's as Geoffrey Thwaites
2007 When Did You Last See Your Father? as Blake Morrison
2007 Then She Found Me as Frank
2007 The Last Legion as Aurelius
2007 Celebration as Russell
2006 Born Equal as Mark
2005 Nanny McPhee as Mr. Brown
2005 Where the Truth Lies as Vince
2004 Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason as Mark
2004 Trauma as Ben
2003 Girl with a Pearl Earring as Johannes Vermeer
2003 Love Actually as Jamie Bennett
2003 Hope Springs as Colin Ware
2003 What a Girl Wants as Henry Dashwood
2002 Forever Ealing as Self
2002 The Importance of Being Earnest as John “Jack” Worthing
2001 Baldrick's Video Diary - A Blackadder in the Making as Self
2001 Four Play as Allen Portland
2001 Conspiracy as Dr. Wilhelm Stuckart
2001 Bridget Jones's Diary as Mark Darcy
2000 Donovan Quick as Donovan Quick
2000 Relative Values as Peter Ingleton
1999 The Turn of the Screw as Master
1999 The Secret Laughter of Women as Matthew Field
1999 My Life So Far as Edward Pettigrew
1999 Blackadder: Back & Forth as William Shakespeare
1998 Shakespeare in Love as Lord Wessex
1997 A Thousand Acres as Jess Clark
1997 Fever Pitch as Paul Ashworth
1996 The English Patient as Geoffrey Clifton
1995 Pride and Prejudice: From Page to Screen as Self
1995 The Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd as Charles Holroyd
1995 Circle of Friends as Simon Westward
1994 The Deep Blue Sea as Freddie Page
1994 Ruth Rendell: Master of the Moor as Stephen Whalby
1994 Playmaker as Ross Talbert / Michael Condren
1993 The Hour of the Pig as Richard Courtois
1992 Hostages as John McCarthy
1992 Mad at the Moon as Barber (uncredited)
1991 Out of the Blue as Alan
1991 Femme Fatale as Joseph Prince
1990 Wings of Fame as Brian Smith
1989 Valmont as Valmont
1989 Apartment Zero as Adrian LeDuc
1988 Tumbledown as Robert Lawrence
1987 The Secret Garden as Adult Colin Craven
1987 A Month in the Country as Tom Birkin
1985 Nineteen Nineteen as Young Alexander
1985 Dutch Girls as Neil Truelove
1984 Camille as Armand Duval
1984 Another Country as Tommy Judd
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8.14 Music 2
8.00 Documentary 7
6.98 History 13
6.89 Animation 1
6.73 War 7
6.71 Action 4
6.49 Crime 5
6.46 Science Fiction 2
6.40 Thriller 13
6.40 Family 9
6.35 Fantasy 7
6.35 Adventure 5
6.20 Comedy 34
6.17 Mystery 9
6.13 Romance 37
6.04 Drama 59
5.54 TV Movie 14
5.33 Horror 4
3.67 Western 1