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Colin Firth - Biography, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Filmography
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Colin Firth was born in September 1960 in the English village of Grayshott, Hampshire, into a family of teachers. He traveled with his father to Nigeria, where he taught history for some time. In 1971, the family moved to America, to St. Louis, where the actor first graduated from high school, and then college.
The first film with Colin Firth - Another Country, based on the life of Guy Burgess (for a long time, being an agent of British intelligence, he worked for the NKVD). The actor got the role of Tommy Judd, a close friend of the future spy, with whom he was fond of the ideas of Karl Marx. At the time of the release of the tape, Colin was 24. His next work was the painting The Lady with the Camellias (based on the novel by Dumas), in which the actor also played the main character - an aristocrat in love with a courtesan, and then, in Valmont, he himself reincarnated as a seducer, named which is called the film. The continuation of the period of prim clothes and forbidden love in Colin's career was the mini-series Pride and Prejudice, and then the actor dramatically moved a century forward, playing in the English Patient, the picture, which has been nominated for countless awards and took away 9 Oscars, including Best Picture.
Actually, there were no frankly failed films in the actor's career. Having set the right pace from the very beginning, he moved from one, which later became a popular or cult film, to another. He mostly always took the main characters, won the applause of critics and spectators, received awards and prizes. But it is especially worth noting such films with the participation of Colin Firth: Shakespeare in Love (a touching story about one of the most poignant and mysterious writers - William Shakespeare, 7 Oscars); the cult Diary of Bridget Jones; Girl with a Pearl Earring (another historical opus spiced with fictional fiction); light and, at the same time, melodrama Real love; Lonely Man (a drama about loneliness and love, for which the actor was first nominated for an Oscar); The king speaks! (a purely English movie about England, the right kings and friendship, which brought a prize from the American Film Academy).
Colin Firth has brown eyes, naturally dark hair, fair skin and thin lips. The shape of the face is rectangular, the forehead is medium, the hair is curly, thick. Colin Firth does not change hair color, preferring natural. The actor has a small, straight nose and a rounded chin. Colin Firth wears glasses sometimes. The actor's height is 188 cm, no tattoos.
