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
I was not quite as gracious as Mark Darcy about wearing what my mother tried to make me wear. It tended to stop really, when I was quite young.
The sheer level of fascination on the subject is really a symptom of how this issue affects people, particularly women who are in utter disbelief that anyone would consciously go the other way -- to actually try to gain weight,
Colin is the sort of name you give your goldfish for a joke.
In this case it appealed to me partly because it felt close to me in some ways. This is about a confused, bewildered middle class Englishman adrift in smalltown America and that has definitely been me.
It's an Atom Egoyan movie, ... We know he's not the world's great pornographer. It's hard to quantify what kind of damage (the rating) will have done.
I want to say, strenuously, that although I have never considered the Darcy thing to be a problem, that is simply not going to happen.
There was quite a lot of your rear end that didn't make it either.
is that it is like Hamlet. If you thought about who had played it before, you'd never play Hamlet again.
Something about being given that microphone and if you're dressed right and the spotlights are on you, how can you not play that stuff?
Some people do it with irony and humor. Some people do it earnestly. Some people are ashamed of having to ask the question. And every so often there will be a journalist from Swaziland who doesn't know anything about it -- wonderful.
And I always thought the biggest failing of Americans was their lack of irony. They are very serious there! Naturally, there are exceptions... the Jewish, Italian, and Irish humor of the East Coast.
All we can do is hope and pray - on suggestions Hugh Grant will retire soon