Colin Firth

Colin Firth

10-Sep-1960


Andorra


Actor

Colin Firth is an English actor. He was born the son of two pastors and spent parts of his childhood in Nigeria and Missouri, before returning to Hamphire, England, as a child. He trained to be an actor for the London Drama Center and his first acting career was on stage. However, Collin Firth’s great start was not until he played his most important role to date, as Mr. Darcy did in the Pride and Prejudice Bride production in 1995. He has also participated in major box office competitions such as the Bridget Jones's Diary series, The English Patient (1996), True Love (2003) and Mamma Mia! (2008). In 2009, he took part in leading Tom Ford's A single Man, which earned him Academy Award and Golden Globe nominations and a BAFTA award. Colin's most successful work to date has been King George VI's presentation in The King's Speech (2010) which earned him the Academy Award, BAFTA and Screen Actor's Guild Award among many others. Colin has three sons and lives with his wife, Italian producer and director Livia Giuggioli, in London and Italy.

QUOTES BY Colin Firth


"It does help to actually realize that however stunning the person who is, you know, fluttering eyelashes at you, she doesn't do anything to match up to your wife."

"People have the idea of missionaries as going out with the Bible and hitting natives with it. It's not really what they were doing. They were all doing something rather different."

"People have the idea of missionaries as going out with the Bible and hitting natives with it. It's not really what they were doing. They were all doing something rather different."

"Whenever you take on playing a villain, he has to cease to be a villain to you. If you judge this man by his time, he's doing very little wrong."

"I have a kind of neutrality, physically, which has helped me. I have a face that can be made to look a lot better - or a lot worse."

"I'll be your friend so long as you're not crap"

"My parents and grandparents have always been engaged in teaching or the medical profession or the priesthood, so I've sort of grown up with a sense of complicity in the lives of other people, so there's no virtue in that; it's the way one is raised."

"Forget trying to be sexy. That's just gruesome."

"People coming up and saying something nice is always welcome. But when you're being secretly photographed, that's not so nice. I would rather shake hands with someone and exchange a few words than take a selfie."

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