Colin Firth
Colin Andrew Firth CBE is an actor of English and Italian descent. He has won an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, two European Film Awards, two British Academy Film Awards, three Screen Actors Guild Awards, and the Volpi Cup for Best Actor at the Venice Film Festival. In 2010, he received the Academy Award for Best Actor for his depiction of King George VI in Tom Hooper's The King's Speech.
From his early work in the much-loved BBC series Pride and Prejudice to his Academy Award-winning performance in The King's Speech, he is one of the most dependable film presences around. Firth is an actor who fluctuates between high and poor status. He has the type of low-key sex appeal that allows him to pass for an everyday guy while yet possessing a ruthless charisma that allows him to slip into comedies and tragedies equally.
Recently, he has appeared in minor roles in major motion pictures to provide a sense of calm and dignity in films such as 1917. He'll be reuniting with his Shakespeare in Love director, John Madden, for The Staircase, a reenactment of the true-crime docuseries of the same name. Because he is still relatively young, Academy Award winner Colin Firth has many parts ahead of him to solidify his place as one of the great British actors.
