| Colin Firth Born: 10-Sep-1960
Birthplace: Grayshott, Hampshire, England
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor Nationality: England
Executive summary: Pride and Prejudice Colin Firth is a British actor, best known as Renée Zellweger's love interest in the Bridget Jones movies. He also played an obsessed soccer fan in Fever Pitch, the spurned husband in The English Patient, an unwanted fiancé in Shakespeare in Love, a Victorian cad in The Importance of Being Earnest, and Amanda Bynes' father in What A Girl Wants.
In Helen Fielding's novel Bridget Jones's Diary, Bridget develops a crush on Firth as she watches his performance as Darcy in a BBC adaptation of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. In the film of Bridget Jones's Diary, Firth played another Mr. Darcy. It was an odd but appropriate choice, and Fielding loved it, since her novel was loosely and playfully inspired by Austen's classic, and she had written it with Firth in mind.
His parents were both academics, and due to their traveling, young Firth spent four years of his childhood in Nigeria, and one year attending junior high school in St. Louis. Father: David Firth (history lecturer, King Alfred's College)
Mother: Shirley Firth (comparative religion lecturer, Open University)
Sister: Kate Firth (stage actress, birth control counselor, b. 1962)
Brother: Jonathan Firth (actor, b. 6-Apr-1967)
Girlfriend: Meg Tilly (actress, dated 1989-94)
Son: William Firth (with Meg Tilly, b. 1990)
Girlfriend: Jennifer Ehle (actress, dated in 1995)
Wife: Livia Guiggioli (dated 1996-97, m. 21-Jun-1997, two children)
Son: Luca (b. 29-Mar-2001 in Rome)
Son: Mateo (b. 25-Aug-2003)
Amnesty International
FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR
Mamma Mia! (30-Jun-2008)
St. Trinian's (10-Dec-2007)
Then She Found Me (7-Sep-2007)
When Did You Last See Your Father? (12-Jul-2007)
The Last Legion (19-Apr-2007)
Nanny McPhee (21-Oct-2005)
Where the Truth Lies (13-May-2005)
Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (8-Nov-2004)
Trauma (19-Jan-2004)
Love Actually (7-Sep-2003)
Girl with a Pearl Earring (31-Aug-2003)
What a Girl Wants (27-Mar-2003)
Hope Springs (14-Mar-2003)
The Importance of Being Earnest (17-May-2002)
Londinium (2-Sep-2001)
Conspiracy (19-May-2001)
Bridget Jones's Diary (4-Apr-2001)
Relative Values (23-Jun-2000)
The Turn of the Screw (26-Dec-1999)
The Secret Laughter of Women (26-Nov-1999)
My Life So Far (23-Jul-1999)
Donovan Quick (1999)
Shakespeare in Love (3-Dec-1998)
A Thousand Acres (19-Sep-1997)
Fever Pitch (4-Apr-1997)
The English Patient (6-Nov-1996)
Pride and Prejudice (24-Sep-1995)
Circle of Friends (15-Mar-1995)
Playmaker (16-May-1994)
The Hour of the Pig (25-Sep-1993)
Hostages (20-Feb-1993)
Femme Fatale (23-May-1991)
Wings of Fame (23-Mar-1990)
Valmont (17-Nov-1989)
Apartment Zero (1988)
The Secret Garden (30-Nov-1987)
A Month in the Country (27-Sep-1987)
Another Country (May-1984)
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