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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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: A Search for Truth | Jim Swire | Otto Bathurst | |
| Young Sherlock | Sir Bucephalus Hodge | Guy Ritchie | Filming |
| Year | Title | Role | Playwright | Venue |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 in 2011.
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.
Gary Leonard Oldman is an English actor and filmmaker. Known for his versatility and intense acting style, he has received various accolades, including an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, three British Academy Film Awards, and nominations for two Primetime Emmy Awards. His films have grossed over $11 billion worldwide, making him one of the highest-grossing actors of all time.
Stanley 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.
Pride and Prejudice is a six-episode 1995 British television drama, adapted by Andrew Davies from Jane Austen's 1813 novel of the same name. Jennifer Ehle and Colin Firth starred as Elizabeth Bennet and Fitzwilliam Darcy, respectively. Produced by Sue Birtwistle and directed by Simon Langton, the serial was a BBC production with additional funding from the American A&E Network. BBC1 originally broadcast the 55-minute episodes from 24 September to 29 October 1995. The A&E Network aired the series in double episodes on three consecutive nights beginning 14 January 1996.
Bridget Jones's Diary is a 2001 romantic comedy film directed by Sharon Maguire from a screenplay by Helen Fielding, Andrew Davies and Richard Curtis. It is based on the 1996 novel of the same name by Fielding. The film 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.
The Russian nuclear submarine K-141 Kursk sank in an accident on 12 August 2000 in the Barents Sea, with the loss of all 118 personnel on board. The submarine, which was of the Project 949A-class, was taking part in the first major Russian naval exercise in more than 10 years. The crews of nearby ships felt an initial explosion and a second, much larger explosion, but the Russian Navy did not realise that an accident had occurred and did not initiate a search for the vessel for over six hours. The submarine's emergency rescue buoy had been intentionally disabled during an earlier mission and it took more than 16 hours to locate the submarine, which rested on the ocean floor at a depth of 108 metres (354 ft).
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 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.
Kingsman: The Secret Service is a 2014 spy action comedy film directed by Matthew Vaughn. It is the first instalment in the Kingsman film series and is also based on the comic book series of the same name, written by Mark Millar and Dave Gibbons, published by Millarworld and based on a concept by Millar and Vaughn.
Kursk is a 2018 disaster drama-thriller film directed by Thomas Vinterberg, based on Robert Moore's book A Time to Die, about the true story of the 2000 Kursk submarine disaster. It stars Matthias Schoenaerts, Léa Seydoux, Peter Simonischek, August Diehl, Max von Sydow, and Colin Firth. It was the last film featuring von Sydow to be released before his death in March 2020.
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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