Colin Firth is a British actor who has had an extensive career both on stage and screen, having received an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, two BAFTA Awards, three Screen Actors Guild Awards, and a Volpi Cup. Firth's films have grossed more than $4 billion from over 50 releases worldwide.
Year | Title | Role | Director | Notes |
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1984 | Crown Court | PC Franklin | Gareth Morgan | Television (UK); episode: "Citizens: Part 1" |
Camille | Armand Duval | Desmond Davis | Television film | |
1985 | Dutch Girls | Neil Truelove | Giles Foster | |
1986 | Lost Empires | Richard Herncastle | Alan Grint | TV mini-series |
1987 | Pat Hobby: Teamed with Genius | Rene Wilcox | Rob Thompson | PBS Shorts Special |
The Secret Garden | Adult Colin Craven | Alan Grint | Hallmark Hall of Fame | |
1988 | Tumbledown | Robert Lawrence | Richard Eyre | Television film |
1991 | Out of the Blue | Alan | Nick Hamm | Play for television |
1992 | Hostages | John McCarthy | David Wheatley | Television – HBO |
1994 | Master of the Moor | Stephen Whalby | Marc Evans | Television film – UK |
The Deep Blue Sea | Freddie Page | Karel Reisz | Play for television – UK | |
1995 | Pride and Prejudice | Fitzwilliam Darcy | Simon Langton | Television mini-series |
The Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd | Charles Holroyd | Katie Mitchell | Play for television – UK | |
1997 | Nostromo | Charles Gould | Alastair Reid | Television mini-series |
1999 | Blackadder: Back & Forth | William Shakespeare | Richard Curtis | Television short |
The Turn of the Screw | The Master | Ben Bolt | Masterpiece Theatre | |
2000 | Donovan Quick | Donovan Quick/Daniel Quinn | David Blair | Television film |
2001 | Conspiracy | Wilhelm Stuckart | Frank Pierson | Television film – HBO |
We Know Where You Live | Himself | Declan Lowney | Benefit for Amnesty International | |
Fourplay | Allen Portland | Mike Binder | Television film – HBO, also known as Londinium | |
2004 | Saturday Night Live | Himself | Television series | |
2006 | Born Equal | Mark Armitage | Dominic Savage | Television film – UK |
2017 | Red Nose Day Actually | Jamie | Richard Curtis Mat Whitecross | Television short film |
2022 | The Staircase | Michael Peterson | Antonio Campos | Miniseries |
TBA | Lockerbie | Jim Swire | Otto Bathurst | |
Young Sherlock | Sir Bucephalus Hodge | Guy Ritchie | Filming |
Year | Title | Role | Playwright | Venue |
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1983 | Another Country | Guy Bennett | Julian Mitchell | Queen's Theatre, West End |
1984 | The Doctor's Dilemma | Louis Dubedat | George Bernard Shaw | Churchill Theatre, Bromley |
1985 | The Lonely Road | Felix | Arthur Schnitzler | The Old Vic, London |
1987 | Desire Under the Elms | Eben | Eugene O'Neill | Greenwich Theatre, London |
1991 | The Caretaker | Aston | Harold Pinter | Comedy Theatre, West End |
1993 | Chatsky | Chatsky | Alexander Griboyedov | Almeida Theatre, London |
1999 | Three Days of Rain | Walker/Ned | Richard Greenberg | Donmar Warehouse, London |
Colin Andrew Firth is an English actor and producer. Over his career he has been the recipient of several accolades, including an Academy Award, two BAFTA Awards, a Golden Globe Award, and three Screen Actors Guild Awards as well as nominations for two Primetime Emmy Awards. In 2011, Firth was appointed a CBE by Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace for his services to drama. That same year, he received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and appeared in Time magazine's 100 most influential people in the world.
Geoffrey Roy Rush is an Australian actor. Known for often playing eccentric roles on both stage and screen, he has received numerous accolades, including an Academy Award, a Primetime Emmy Award and a Tony Award, making him the only Australian to achieve the Triple Crown of Acting, in addition to three BAFTA Awards and two Golden Globe Awards. Rush is the founding president of the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts and was named the 2012 Australian of the Year.
Stanley Oliver Tucci Jr. is an American actor. Known as a character actor, he has played a wide variety of roles ranging from menacing to sophisticated. Tucci has earned numerous accolades, including six Emmy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards as well as nominations for an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, and a Tony Award.
David Wheeler, better known as David Thewlis, is an English actor and filmmaker. He is known as a character actor and has appeared in a wide variety of genres in both film and television. He has received the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor and nominations for two BAFTA Awards, a Golden Globe Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, and a Screen Actors Guild Award.
Peter Macintosh Firth is an English actor. He is best known for his role as Sir Harry Pearce in the BBC One programme Spooks; he is the only actor to have appeared in every episode of the programme's ten-series lifespan. He has given many other television and film performances, most notably as Alan Strang in Equus (1977), earning both a Golden Globe Award and an Academy Award nomination for the role.
Bridget Jones's Diary is a 2001 romantic comedy film directed by Sharon Maguire and written by Richard Curtis, Andrew Davies, and Helen Fielding. A co-production of the United Kingdom, United States and France, it is based on Fielding's 1996 novel of the same name, which is a reinterpretation of Jane Austen's 1813 novel Pride and Prejudice. The adaptation stars Renée Zellweger as Bridget Jones, a 32-year-old British single woman, who writes a diary which focuses on the things she wishes to happen in her life. However, her life changes when two men vie for her affection, portrayed by Colin Firth and Hugh Grant. Jim Broadbent and Gemma Jones appear in supporting roles. Production began in August 2000 and ended in November 2000, and took place largely on location in London and the home counties.
Tumbledown is a 1988 BBC Television drama film set during the Falklands War. Directed by Richard Eyre, it stars Colin Firth, Paul Rhys, and David Calder.
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The Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Castin a Motion Picture is an award given by the Screen Actors Guild to honor the finest acting achievements in film. It is the final award presented during the ceremony.
Lost Empires is a 1986 television miniseries adaptation of J. B. Priestley's 1965 novel of the same name and starred Colin Firth, John Castle and Laurence Olivier. Produced by Granada Television, it was shown as a serial, and premiered on the UK's ITV network between 24 October and 5 December 1986.
Thomas George Hooper is a British-Australian filmmaker. Known for his work in film and television he has received numerous accolades including an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, a Primetime Emmy Award and three Golden Globe Awards.
A Single Man is a 2009 American period romantic drama film based on the 1964 novel of the same name by Christopher Isherwood. The directorial debut of fashion designer Tom Ford, the film stars Colin Firth, who was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of George Falconer, a depressed gay British university professor living in Southern California in 1962.
The King's Speech is a 2010 historical drama film directed by Tom Hooper and written by David Seidler. Colin Firth plays the future King George VI who, to cope with a stammer, sees Lionel Logue, an Australian speech and language therapist played by Geoffrey Rush. The men become friends as they work together, and after his brother abdicates the throne, the new king relies on Logue to help him make his first wartime radio broadcast upon Britain's declaration of war on Germany in 1939.
The 17th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards, honoring the best achievements in film and television performances for the year 2010, was presented on January 30, 2011, at the Shrine Exposition Center in Los Angeles, California for the fifteenth consecutive year. It was broadcast live simultaneously by TNT and TBS.
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Jacob Tremblay is a Canadian actor. He is the recipient of various accolades, including a Canadian Screen Award, a Critics' Choice Movie Award, and nominations for a SAG Award and three Saturn Awards.
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The Happy Prince is a 2018 biographical drama film about Oscar Wilde, written and directed by Rupert Everett in his directorial debut. The film stars Everett, Colin Firth, Colin Morgan, Emily Watson, Edwin Thomas and Tom Wilkinson. It premiered at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival, and was shown at the 2018 BFI Flare: London LGBT Film Festival. At the 9th Magritte Awards, it received a nomination in the category of Best Foreign Film.
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