Colin Andrew Firth is an English actor and producer. He is the recipient of several accolades, including an Academy Award, two BAFTA Awards, and a Golden Globe Award, as well as nominations for two Primetime Emmy Awards. In 2011, Firth was appointed a CBE for his services to drama, and appeared in Time magazine's 100 most influential people in the world.
Identified in the mid-1980s with the "Brit Pack" of rising young British actors, he had leading roles in A Month in the Country, Tumbledown and Valmont. His portrayal of Mr. Darcy in the 1995 television adaptation of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice led to widespread attention and roles in more prominent films such as The English Patient, Shakespeare in Love, The Importance of Being Earnest, and Love Actually. He starred as Mark Darcy in the Bridget Jones film series, and also acted in the musical comedy Mamma Mia! and its 2018 sequel.
Firth won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of King George VI in the historical drama The King's Speech. He was previously Oscar-nominated for playing a grieving gay man in the romantic drama A Single Man, which earned him the BAFTA Award and the Volpi Cup for Best Actor.
From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_Firth) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/legalcode)