Colin Andrew Firth, CBE (born 10 September 1960) is a British film, television, and theatre actor. The previous year, he received his first Academy Award nomination, for his leading role in A Single Man, a performance that won him a BAFTA Award. His mother, Shirley Jean (née Rolles), was a comparative religion lecturer at King Alfred’s College Winchester (now the University of Winchester), and his father, David Norman Lewis Firth, was a history lecturer (also at King Alfred ’s) and education officer for the Nigerian Government. He lived in St. Louis, Missouri when he was 11. That same year, Firth played the role of the apple in several ‘Fruit of the Loom’ TV advertisements. in 1984, he made his film debut in the screen adaptation of the play, taking the role of Tommy Judd (opposite Rupert Everett as Bennett). in the second novel, Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason, the character even meets Firth in Rome. (2008), the film adaptation of Mamma Mia.

Colin Andrew Firth, CBE (born 10 September 1960) is a British film, television, and theatre actor. Firth gained wide public attention in the 1990s for his portrayal of Mr. Darcy in the 1995 television adaptation of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. Firth spent part of his childhood in Nigeria, where his father was teaching. That same year, Firth played the role of the apple in several ‘Fruit of the Loom’ TV advertisements. Firth and other young British actors who were becoming established film actors such as Tim Roth, Gary Oldman, Bruce Payne and Paul McGann were dubbed the ‘Brit Pack’.

Firth spent part of his childhood in Nigeria, where his father was teaching. He later attended the Montgomery of Alamein Secondary School (now Kings’ School), a state comprehensive school in Winchester, Hampshire, and then Barton Peveril College in Eastleigh, Hampshire. in the second novel, Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason, the character even meets Firth in Rome. Firth had a supporting role in The English Patient (1996) and since then, has starred in films such as Fever Pitch (1997), Shakespeare in Love (1998), Relative Values (2000), Bridget Jones’s Diary (2001), The Importance of Being Earnest (2002), Love Actually (2003), What a Girl Wants (2003), Hope Springs (2003), Girl with a Pearl Earring (2003), Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2004), Nanny McPhee (2005), Where The Truth Lies (2005), Then She Found Me (2007) with Helen Hunt, The Last Legion (2007) with Aishwarya Rai, When Did You Last See Your Father. (2008), the film adaptation of Mamma Mia.