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Colin Firth (born September 10, 1960) is a popular British actor. Since taking the starring role of Mr. Darcy in the BBC's 1995 dramatisation of Pride and Prejudice, Firth has become known as a heart-throb. Most critics consider him to be a talented and versatile actor, equally at home on stage or screen.
Firth was born in Hampshire, England, and spent part of his childhood in Nigeria where his family were missionaries. He starred in the award-winning 1981 London stage production of Another Country. His first film and television appearances were made in 1984. In 1987, he played alongside
Kenneth Branagh in the film version of J. L. Carr's novel, A Month in the Country. In 1989, he took the lead in the film Valmont, playing opposite
Meg Tilly, with whom he had a well-publicised relationship. His first major TV role came in the same year, when he played the lead in the play, Tumbledown, a drama based on real events in the Falklands War.
Despite widespread admiration for his performances, it was only with
Pride and Prejudice that Firth's career really took off. Since then, he has starred in films such as Fever Pitch
(1997), Shakespeare in Love
(1998), Bridget Jones's Diary
(2001), Love Actually
(2003), and ' (2004), as well as TV productions including Donovan Quick (an updated version of Don Quixote) (1999) and
Conspiracy (2001).
He also 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 a younger brother, Jonathan, who is also an actor, but is not related to
Peter Firth or Julian Firth.
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MoviesMamma Mia!
Starring:
Meryl Streep, Pierce Brosnan, Colin Firth, Stellan Skarsgard,
Jul...
Review:
Meryl Streep can do anything: sing, dance, do splits, act her heart
out. She (almost) saves this clumsy, overwrought film version of
the Abba musical that's been running on stages from Broadway to
Barcelona since 1999, grossing over $2 billion and luring more than
30 million ticketbuyers to hear Abba songs by Sweden's Björn
Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson shoehorned into a plot where they don't
really fit. Who can argue with that kind of ³money,
money/Always sunny/In a rich man's world success? I can, at least
where the movie is concerned, because the three formidable women
responsible for the show producer Judy Craymer, writer
Catherine Johnson and director Phyllida Lloyd let the magic
slip through their fingers on the treacherous trip from stage to
screen. The plot is stil...
Rating:
2 Stars
Published: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 17:44:55 GMT - Source: Rollingstone.Com - Read the article
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