• Name: Colin Firth
  
• Height: 6'1"
  
• Sex: M
  
• Nationality: British
  
• Birth Date: September 10, 1960
  
• Birth Place: Grayshott, Hampshire, England, UK
  
• Profession: actor
  
• Education: The Drama Centre, London, England
  
• Husband/Wife: Livia Giuggioli (married on June 21, 1997)
  
• Relationship: Jennifer Ehle (actress; met while filming Pride and Prejudice in 1995), Meg Tilly (actress; 1989-1994)
  
• Father: David Firth (history teacher; born in 1934)
  
• Mother: Shirley Firth (teacher; born in 1936)
  
• Sister: Kate Firth (voice coach; born in 1961)
  
• Brother: Jonathan Firth (actor; born on April 6, 1967)
  
• Son: Luca (born on March 29, 2001, in Rome), William Firth (born in 1990; mother: Meg Tilly)
  

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• About his first name: "Well it doesn't exactly have a ring to it, does it? It's more the sort of name you'd give to your goldfish for a joke."
• "Acting was the first thing I ever got any approval or attention for, and I craved attention."
• "An entirely sane person wouldn't make a very good actor. I have a certain amount of confidence in the sound of my own voice. I don't melt or blush easily."
• "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."
• "Falling in love stops you caring for so many other things. I don't enjoy being overwhelmed by someone. I don't often fall hopelessly for someone. I don't need a woman."
• "I don't believe in careers. You can't do each job honestly if you're having a career."
• "I don't often get funny lines. No one's realized I can do comedy."
• "I don't think I'm a steaming, smouldering kind of guy."
• "I get letters from people who think they've got an understanding of what sort of person I am, but it's actually a montage of snippets from interviews and the kinds of things I've chosen to say in public. People want to create an image for the human being behind the part, but that image is not recognizable to me or anybody who knows me."
• "I have a kind of neutrality, physically, which has helped me. I have a face that can be made to look a lot better - or a lot worse."
• "If my confidence was challenged, I'd withdraw."
• "I'm attracted to playing neurotics, but I must resist the impulse to sympathise with those creatures."
• "My family is pretty academic and I was the first in generations not to go to University. My parents just thought 'Thank God he's found something where he actually goes to classes.'"
• "The English people, a lot of them, would not be able to understand a word of spoken Shakespeare. There are people who do and I'm not denying they exist. But it's a far more philistine country than people think."
• On LA: "I really have a romance with this place. I miss it terribly when I'm not here. But I also miss walking in the streets where something peculiar and spontaneous can happen. And I don't mean driving to Santa Monica so you can walk down the street."
• On parenting: "I used to imagine I was infinitely liberal about children. I couldn't understand parents giving children a hard time about whether your hair was long, whether you pierced your ears, whether you were gay or straight. Though I have to admit, if my son wanted to be a soldier I'd have a problem with that. Still, I think a lot of misery is caused by expectations."
• On preparing of a role: "I'm like a glutton...anything I can lay my hands on from the moment I know I'm doing a job."

• European Film Awards: Audience Award - Best Actor, BRIDGET JONES'S DIARY (2001)
• Broadcasting Press Guild Awards: Best Actor, PRIDE AND PREJUDICE (1996)
• RTS Television Award: Best Actor - Male, Tumbledown (1990)
• RTS Television Award: Best Actor - Male, Tumbledown (1989)

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