Colin Firth

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Colin Firth (2017)

Colin Andrew Firth , CBE (born September 10, 1960 in Grayshott ) is a British actor and film producer . In 2011 he was awarded an Oscar for his leading role in the historical film The King's Speech .

Career

Colin Firth (2005)

Firth was born in 1960 in the English county of Hampshire . After attending the Montgomery of Alamein School in Winchester and Barton Peveril College, he trained as an actor at the Drama Center in London.

In 1984 he starred in Lady with the Camellias ( Camille ), a television film with Greta Scacchi and Ben Kingsley . He played the title role in 1989, directed by Miloš Formans, in Valmont , a film adaptation of Choderlos de Laclos ' epistolary novel Les Liaisons dangereuses ( Dangerous Liaisons ) . The six-part BBC TV series Pride and Prejudice ( Pride and Prejudice ) by Jane Austen's eponymous novel, he played Mr. Darcy, the male lead. In reference to this, he played Mark Darcy in the film adaptation of Helen Fielding's Bridget Jones - Chocolate for Breakfast (2001, with Renée Zellweger and Hugh Grant ). Also in the films A Month in the Country (1987, with Natasha Richardson ), Fever Pitch (1997, as a tragicomic football fan in the British film adaptation of Nick Hornby 's novel of the same name ), Shakespeare in Love (1998) and in Actually ... Love (2003 with Alan Rickman , Emma Thompson , Hugh Grant , Liam Neeson and Laura Linney ) he participated. Also in 2003, Firth was Jan Vermeer for the young Scarlett Johansson in The Girl with a Pearl Earring .

In Bridget Jones - The Edge of Reason (2004, starring Hugh Grant) and Bridget Jones's Baby (2016, with Patrick Dempsey ), he played two more times, the role of Mark Darcy. In 2005 he starred with Emma Thompson and Thomas Sangster in A Magical Nanny (directed by Kirk Jones ). The film version of Isherwood -Stoffes A Single Man 2009 by Tom Ford earned him an Oscar nomination as George Falconer. However, he only received the award the following year in Tom Hooper's The King's Speech for the role of British monarch George VI. trying to overcome his stutter .

He contributed a story to the collection of short stories Speaking with the Angel published by Nick Hornby in 2001 . In 2007 he produced the documentary In Prison My Whole Life , directed by Marc Evans, about the famous death penalty case of African American journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal , who has been in prison on death row for over 25 years. Colin Firth is co-authoring a paper on the relationship between structural differences in the brain and political orientation after initiating this research as guest editor on BBC Radio 4's Today broadcast.

Awards

Colin Firth, with director Tom Hooper ( The King's Speech ), receives a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame (January 2011).

On October 19, 2007, Colin Firth was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Winchester. Firth has received multiple awards for his leading role in the drama A Single Man . In addition to the Coppa Volpi of the Venice Film Festival 2009 and the British BAFTA Award , he was nominated for the Golden Globe Award and the Oscar .

He has received numerous film awards for his role in The King's Speech , including awards from the New York and Los Angeles Film Critics' Associations , the British Independent Film Award , the European Film Award , and his first Golden Globe Award and second BAFTA Award . He also received the award in the category “Best Actor” at the 2011 Academy Awards.

In January 2011, Firth received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in the film category . In June 2011 he was awarded the level of Commander of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II . Colin and Livia Firth received the honorary award of the German Sustainability Award 2014 as credible role models for social and ecological commitment.

engagement

Colin Firth has been committed to the organization Survival International for years and campaigns for the rights of indigenous peoples. In 2009 he contributed to the book We Are One for the organization . He also supports the activists' campaign for the Awá , a threatened people in Brazil . Firth has also been an ambassador for the development aid organization Oxfam since 2002 . He is particularly active in the Oxfam Make Trade Fair campaign for equality for farmers in developing countries. a. Shareholder of the fair trade coffee chain Progreso in London, where he was also behind the counter, and of Eco-Age, a sustainable fashion shop in London-Chiswick, which is run by his brother-in-law Nicola Giuggioli and his wife.

Private

Colin Firth with his wife Livia at the 2009 Venice International Film Festival

Colin Firth has a sister (* 1962) and a younger brother Jonathan , who is also an actor. As a child, Firth lived in many parts of the world because of the frequent moves of his professorial parents; Among other things, he spent long periods in Nigeria , where his grandparents worked as missionaries , and in the United States.

Firth lives alternately in London and Italy. From 1997 to 2019 he was married to the Italian documentary filmmaker Livia Giuggioli , with whom he has two sons. His eldest son William Joseph Firth (* 1990), who is also an actor, comes from an earlier relationship with actress Meg Tilly . In 2017 Colin Firth also took on the Italian citizenship. His two youngest sons, born in Rome, have dual citizenship.

Filmography (selection)

As an actor

As a producer
speaker

literature

Web links

Commons : Colin Firth  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ryota Kanai, Tom Feilden, Colin Firth, Geraint Rees: Political Orientations Are Correlated with Brain Structure in Young Adults . In: Current Biology . Vol. 21, No. 8 , 2011, p. 677-680 , doi : 10.1016 / j.cub.2011.03.017 .
  2. ^ Colin Firth credited in brain research. In: BBC News. June 5, 2011, accessed August 19, 2013 .
  3. ↑ https://www.hampshirechronicle.co.uk/news/1741020.actor-colin-firth-to-receive-honory-degree-from-winchester-university/
  4. ↑ https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-13731039
  5. ↑ Archive link ( Memento from December 11, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  6. ^ Survivalinternational.org
  7. ↑ Colin Firth supports campaign for the Awá
  8. ↑ Colin Firth and his wife split up
  9. ↑ The Guardian: Brexit critic Colin Firth opts for Italian passport for 'family reasons' , September 23, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Firth, Colin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Firth, Colin Andrew (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British actor and film actor
DATE OF BIRTH September 10, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Grayshott , Hampshire, England, UK