Colin Firth (innate September 10, 1960), is a popular British actor. Since ingesting a star role of Mr. Darcy in the BBC's 1995 dramatisation of Pride and Prejudice, Firth has become known as a heart-throb. Virtually all critics assume him to exist as the gifted & versatile actor even, equally home in stage, or in screen.

Firth was natural within Grayshott, Hampshire, and spent part of his childhood within Nigeria, where his personal were missionaries, and St. Louis, Missouri, in which his father was teaching. He starred in the award-winning 1981 London stage production of Another Country. His foremost film & television appearances were processed within 1984. Inside 1987, he played alongside Kenneth Branagh in the film version of J. L. Carr's novel, A Month in the Country. Inside 1989, he took a lead in the film Valmont, playing paired Meg Tilly, with whom he experienced the easily-publicised relationship. His number 1 major TV role come in a equivalent season, whenever he played the lead in the play, Tumbledown, a drama according to really cases in the Falklands War.

Despite far flung admiration for his performances, it was simply with Pride and Prejudice that Firth's career really took off. He played the supporting role in The English Patient (1996). Since so, he has starred within films like Fever Pitch (1997), Shakespeare in Love (1998), ''Bridget Jones's Diary (2001), Love Actually (2003), What a Girl Wants (2003), and Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2004), as well as TV productions including Donovan Quick (an updated version of Don Quixote) (1999) and Conspiracy'' (2001).

He too starred in the 2002 film adaptation of Oscar Wilde's famous play, The Importance of Being Earnest, in which he played Jack Worthing.

Colin Firth has the immature brother, Jonathan, who is too an actor, however is non related Peter Firth or Julian Firth.