{"id":8149,"count":4,"description":"Colin Andrew Firth\u00a0(born 10 September 1960) is an English actor and producer. He is the recipient of\u00a0several accolades, including an\u00a0Academy Award, two\u00a0BAFTA Awards, and a\u00a0Golden Globe Award, as well as nominations for two\u00a0Primetime Emmy Awards. In 2011, Firth was appointed a\u00a0CBE\u00a0for his services to drama,\u00a0and appeared in\u00a0Time\u00a0magazine's\u00a0100 most influential people in the world.\n\nIdentified in the mid-1980s with the \"Brit Pack\" of rising young British actors,\u00a0he had leading roles in\u00a0A Month in the Country\u00a0(1987),\u00a0Tumbledown(1988) and\u00a0Valmont\u00a0(1989). His portrayal of\u00a0Mr Darcy\u00a0in the\u00a01995 television adaptation\u00a0of\u00a0Jane Austen's\u00a0Pride and Prejudice\u00a0drew widespread attention. It led to roles in more prominent films such as\u00a0The English Patient\u00a0(1996),\u00a0Shakespeare in Love\u00a0(1998),\u00a0The Importance of Being Earnest (2002), and\u00a0Love Actually\u00a0(2003). He starred as Mark Darcy in the\u00a0Bridget Jones\u00a0film series (2001\u20132025). Also, he acted in the musical comedy\u00a0Mamma Mia!\u00a0(2008) and\u00a0its 2018 sequel.\n\nFirth won the\u00a0Academy Award for Best Actor\u00a0for his portrayal of\u00a0King George VI\u00a0in the historical drama\u00a0The King's Speech\u00a0(2010).\u00a0He was previously Oscar-nominated for his role as a grieving gay man in the romantic drama\u00a0A Single Man (2009), which earned him the\u00a0BAFTA Award\u00a0and the\u00a0Volpi Cup for Best Actor. He subsequently played\u00a0secret agent\u00a0Harry Hart\u00a0in\u00a0Kingsman: The Secret Service\u00a0(2014) and\u00a0its 2017 sequel. He also performed in films such as\u00a0Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy\u00a0(2011),\u00a0Mary Poppins Returns\u00a0(2018),\u00a01917\u00a0(2019),\u00a0The Secret Garden,\u00a0Supernova\u00a0(both 2020), and\u00a0Operation Mincemeat\u00a0(2021). For his roles on television, he received\u00a0Primetime Emmy Award\u00a0nominations for his portrayals of Dr.\u00a0Wilhelm Stuckart\u00a0in the\u00a0BBC\u00a0film\u00a0Conspiracy\u00a0(2001) and\u00a0Michael Peterson\u00a0in the\u00a0HBO limited series\u00a0The Staircase\u00a0(2022).\n\nIn 2012, he founded the production company Raindog Films, under which he served as a producer for\u00a0Eye in the Sky\u00a0(2015) and\u00a0Loving\u00a0(2016). His films have grossed more than $3 billion from 42 releases worldwide.\u00a0Firth has campaigned for the rights of Indigenous people and is a member of\u00a0Survival International. He has also campaigned on issues such as asylum seekers, refugees' rights, and the environment. He commissioned and co-authored a scientific paper on differences in brain structure between people with different political orientations.\n\nDescription above from the Wikipedia article Colin Firth, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.","link":"https:\/\/theromcomcatalog.com\/staging\/actor\/colin-firth\/","name":"Colin Firth","slug":"colin-firth","taxonomy":"actor","meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theromcomcatalog.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/actor\/8149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theromcomcatalog.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/actor"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theromcomcatalog.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/actor"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/theromcomcatalog.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/movie?actor=8149"},{"href":"https:\/\/theromcomcatalog.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?actor=8149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}