Colin Firth
Colin Firth
Colin Andrew Firth, CBEis an English actor. Firth's films have grossed more than $3 billion from 42 releases worldwide. Firth has received an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, two British Academy Film Awards, and three Screen Actors Guild Awards, as well as the Volpi Cup. Firth's most notable and acclaimed role to date has been his 2010 portrayal of King George VI in The King's Speech, a performance that earned him an Oscar and multiple worldwide best actor awards...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth10 September 1960
CityGrayshott, England
Colin is the sort of name you give your goldfish for a joke.
is that it is like Hamlet. If you thought about who had played it before, you'd never play Hamlet again.
There was quite a lot of your rear end that didn't make it either.
Because I am an Englishman I spent most of my life in a state of embarrassment.
Almost every comedy you see is about people making all wrong choices and making all the errors of judgement possible. Good comedy is when it works on this scale. Because it is psychologically very real.
It used to be that I was always paranoid or a loser or something so there's usually something that you seem to associate yourself with at one time or another.
Most actors will tell you they have some sort of dream of doing something other than what they're doing.
Comedy - particularly the frothy and frivolous - is notoriously neglected by festivals and awards. But it's bloody hard to get right.
My grandmother was a minister as well, which was not that common in the 1930s.
On his fight scene with Hugh Grant in Bridget Jones: It was a delicious experience.
The Hollywood Foreign Press have just given me a time out from my 20-year midlife crisis. My heartfelt thanks to them.
Maybe it's shallow of me to have a wife that's so beautiful, but it makes things easier. To me she's the most beautiful woman in the world.
I like playing strange characters. Some people might say it has something to do with a hidden part of myself, but I think it's a lot simpler than that: normal people are just not very interesting.
Hollywood hasn't aggressively pursued me. Neither have I aggressively pursued Hollywood.