English actor (born 1960)
Colin Andrew Firth
CBE
(born 10 September 1960) is an English actor and producer. He was identified in the mid-1980s with the "
Brit Pack
" of rising young British actors,
[1]
undertaking a series of challenging roles, including leading roles in
A Month in the Country
(1987),
Tumbledown
(1988) and
Valmont
(1989). His portrayal of
Mr. Darcy
in the
1995 television adaptation
of
Jane Austen
's
Pride and Prejudice
led to widespread attention, and to roles in more prominent films such as
The English Patient
(1996),
Shakespeare in Love
(1998),
The Importance of Being Earnest
(2002),
Girl with a Pearl Earring
(2003), and
Love Actually
(2003), co-starring as
Mark Darcy
in the
romantic comedy films
Bridget Jones's Diary
(2001),
Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason
(2004), and
Bridget Jones's Baby
(2016), and Harry Bright in the
musical comedy films
Mamma Mia!
(2008) and
Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again!
(2018).
In 2009, Firth received international acclaim for his performance in
Tom Ford
's
A Single Man
, for which he won a
BAFTA Award
and the
Volpi Cup for Best Actor
and received his first
Academy Award
nomination. In 2010, his portrayal of
King George VI
in
Tom Hooper
's
The King's Speech
won him the
Academy Award for Best Actor
.
[2]
He subsequently appeared as
MI6
agent
Bill Haydon
in
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
(2011), and as
secret agent
Harry Hart / Agent Galahad
in
Kingsman: The Secret Service
(2014) and its sequel
Kingsman: The Golden Circle
(2017). He has since appeared in the
musical
fantasy film
Mary Poppins Returns
(2018), the
war film
1917
(2019), and the
romance film
Supernova
(2020). He is also known for his performances in television, including
BBC
's
Conspiracy
(2001) and
HBO
's
The Staircase
(2022), receiving
Primetime Emmy Award
nominations for each.
In 2012, he founded the production company Raindog Films, where he served as a producer for
Eye in the Sky
(2015) and
Loving
(2016). His films have grossed more than $3 billion from 42 releases worldwide.
[3]
Firth has campaigned for the rights of Indigenous people and is a member of
Survival International
. He has also campaigned on issues of asylum seekers, refugees' rights and the environment. He commissioned and co-authored a scientific paper on a study of the differences in brain structure between people of differing political orientations.
[4]
He is the recipient of
various accolades
, including an
Academy Award
, two
British Academy Film Awards
, a
Golden Globe Award
, and three
Screen Actors Guild Awards
. In 2011, Firth was appointed a CBE by
Queen Elizabeth II
at
Buckingham Palace
for his services to drama.
[5]
[6]
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
.
[7]
Early life
[
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]
Firth was born on 10 September 1960 in the village of
Grayshott, Hampshire
,
[8]
to parents who were academics and teachers. His mother, Shirley Jean (
nee
Rolles), was a
comparative religion
lecturer at King Alfred's College (now the
University of Winchester
); and his father, David Norman Lewis Firth, was a history lecturer at King Alfred's and education officer for the
Nigerian government
.
[9]
[10]
[11]
Firth is the eldest of three children; his sister
Kate
is an actress and voice coach, and his brother
Jonathan
is also an actor.
[12]
His maternal grandparents were
Congregationalist
ministers and his paternal grandfather was an
Anglican
priest. They did overseas
missionary
work, and both of his parents were born and spent part of their childhoods in
India
.
[13]
[14]
[15]
As a child, Firth frequently travelled due to his parents' work, spending some years in
Nigeria
.
[16]
He also lived in
St. Louis
,
Missouri
, when he was 11, which he has described as "a difficult time".
[17]
On returning to England, he attended the Montgomery of Alamein Secondary School (now
Kings' School
), which at the time was a state
comprehensive school
in
Winchester, Hampshire
. He was still an outsider and the target of
bullying
. To counter this, he adopted the local working class Hampshire accent and copied his schoolmates' lack of interest in schoolwork.
[18]
Firth began attending drama workshops at age 10, and by 14 had decided to be a professional actor. Until
further education
, he was not academically inclined, later saying in an interview, "I didn't like school. I just thought it was boring and mediocre and nothing they taught me seemed to be of any interest at all."
[17]
However, at
Barton Peveril Sixth Form College
in
Eastleigh
, he was imbued with a love of
English literature
by an enthusiastic teacher, Penny Edwards, and has said that his two years there were among the happiest of his life.
[19]
After his
sixth form
years, Firth moved to London and joined the
National Youth Theatre
, where he made many contacts and got a job in the
wardrobe department
at the
National Theatre
.
[18]
He subsequently studied at
Drama Centre London
.
[20]
Career
[
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]
1983?1995: Early work and breakthrough
[
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]
Playing
Hamlet
in the Drama Centre end-of-year production, Firth was spotted by playwright
Julian Mitchell
, who cast him as the
gay
, ambitious
public schoolboy
Guy Bennett in the 1983
West End
production of
Another Country
. In 1984, Firth made his film debut as Tommy Judd, Guy Bennett's
straight
,
Marxist
school friend in the
screen adaptation of the play
(with
Rupert Everett
as Guy Bennett).
[21]
[22]
It was the start of a longstanding public feud between Firth and Everett, which was eventually resolved.
[23]
He starred with Sir
Laurence Olivier
in
Lost Empires
(1986), a TV adaptation of
J. B. Priestley
's novel.
[24]
In 1987, Firth and other up-and-coming British actors such as
Tim Roth
,
Bruce Payne
and
Paul McGann
were dubbed the '
Brit Pack
'.
[25]
That year, he appeared with
Kenneth Branagh
in the film version of
J. L. Carr
's
A Month in the Country
.
[26]
Sheila Johnston observed a theme in his early work of playing those traumatised by war.
[27]
He portrayed real-life British soldier
Robert Lawrence
MC
in the 1988 BBC dramatisation
Tumbledown
. Lawrence was severely injured at the
Battle of Mount Tumbledown
during the
Falklands War
, and the film details his struggles to adjust to his disability whilst confronted with indifference from the government and public. It attracted controversy at the time, with criticism coming from left and right sides of the political spectrum.
[27]
Despite this, the performance brought Firth a Royal TV Society Best Actor Award, and a nomination for the 1989
BAFTA
Television Award
.
[28]
In 1989, he played the title role in
Milo? Forman
's
Valmont
, based on
Les Liaisons dangereuses
.
[29]
Released just a year after
Dangerous Liaisons
, it did not make a big impact in comparison. That year he also played a paranoid, socially awkward character in the
Argentinian
psychological thriller
Apartment Zero
.
[30]
Firth finally became a British household name through his role as the aloof, haughty aristocrat
Mr. Darcy
in the 1995
BBC
television adaptation of
Jane Austen
's
Pride and Prejudice
. Producer Sue Birtwistle's first choice for the part, he was eventually persuaded to take it despite his unfamiliarity with Austen's writing.
[31]
He and co-star
Jennifer Ehle
began a romantic relationship during the filming, which received media attention only after their separation.
[32]
Sheila Johnston wrote that Firth's approach to the part "lent Darcy complex shades of coldness, even caddishness, in the early episodes".
[27]
The series was an international success and unexpectedly elevated Firth to stardom
[32]
?in some part due to a scene not from the novel, where he emerges from a lake swim in a wet shirt.
[33]
Although he did not mind being recognised as "a romantic idol as a Darcy with smouldering sex appeal"
[34]
in a role that "officially turned him into a heart-throb",
[35]
he expressed the wish not to be associated with
Pride and Prejudice
forever.
[36]
He was, therefore, reluctant to accept similar roles and risk becoming
typecast
.
[18]
1996?2008: Romance and ensemble films
[
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]
For a time, it did seem as if Mr. Darcy would overshadow the rest of Firth's career, and there were humorous allusions to the role in his next five movies.
[37]
The most notable was his casting as the love interest
Mark Darcy
in the
film adaptation
of
Bridget Jones's Diary
, itself a modern-day retelling of
Pride and Prejudice
. Firth accepted the part as he saw it as an opportunity to lampoon his Mr. Darcy character.
[38]
The film was very successful
[39]
and critically well-liked.
[40]
A
2004 sequel
was mostly panned by critics
[41]
but still financially successful.
Prior to this, Firth had a significant supporting role in
The English Patient
(1996) as the husband of
Kristin Scott Thomas
's character, whose jealousy of her adultery leads to tragedy. That year he also played the husband of the character of Kristin's sister,
Serena Scott Thomas
, in the television miniseries
Nostromo
. Of the two he said "Serena was a much more faithful wife." He had parts in light
romantic
period pieces
such as
Shakespeare in Love
(1998),
Relative Values
(2000) and
The Importance of Being Earnest
(2002). He appeared in several television productions, including
Donovan Quick
(an updated version of
Don Quixote
) (1999),
[42]
and had a more serious role as Dr.
Wilhelm Stuckart
in
Conspiracy
(2001), concerning the Nazi
Wannsee Conference
, for which he was nominated for a
Primetime Emmy Award
.
[43]
Firth featured in the ensemble all-star cast of
Richard Curtis
'
Love Actually
(2003), another financial success
[44]
which divided critics.
[45]
[46]
He was also given solo billing as the romantic lead in
Hope Springs
, but it received very poor reviews
[47]
[48]
and made little box-office impact.
[49]
He starred as
Amanda Bynes
' character's father in the 2003 teen comedy
What A Girl Wants
, which was based on the play
The Reluctant Debutante
.
[50]
He played painter
Johannes Vermeer
opposite
Scarlett Johansson
in the 2003 release
Girl with a Pearl Earring
; some critics praised the film's subtlety
[51]
and sumptuous visuals,
[52]
whilst others found it almost restrained, tedious and bereft of emotion.
[53]
Nevertheless, it received mostly favourable reviews, was moderately successful
[54]
and earned several awards and nominations.
In 2005 Firth appeared in
Nanny McPhee
with
Emma Thompson
, in which he plays a struggling widowed father, it was a rare venture for him into the
fantasy
genre.
[55]
He also appeared in
Where the Truth Lies
, a return to some of his darker, more intense early roles, that included a notorious scene featuring a
bisexual
orgy
.
[56]
Sheila Johnston wrote that it "confounded his fans", but nonetheless that his character "draws knowingly on that suave, cultivated persona",
[57]
which could be traced from Mr. Darcy. Other films from this time included
Then She Found Me
(2007) with
Helen Hunt
and
The Last Legion
(2007) with
Aishwarya Rai
.
In 2008, he played the adult
Blake Morrison
reminiscing on his difficult relationship with his ailing father in the film adaptation of Morrison's memoir,
And When Did You Last See Your Father?
It received generally favorable reviews.
[58]
[59]
Peter Bradshaw
of
The Guardian
gave it four out of five stars.
[60]
Manohla Dargis
in
The New York Times
said: "It's a pleasure to watch Mr. Firth?a supremely controlled actor who makes each developing fissure visible?show the adult Blake coming to terms with his contradictory feelings, letting the love and the hurt pour out of him."
[61]
Philip French
of
The Observer
wrote that Firth "[does] quiet agonising to perfection."
[62]
However, Derek Elley of
Variety
called the film "an unashamed tearjerker that's all wrapping and no center." While he conceded that it was "undeniably effective at a gut level despite its dramatic shortcomings", he added, "Things aren't helped any by Firth's dour perf, as his Blake comes across as a self-centered whiner, a latter-day Me Generation figure who's obsessed with finding problems when there really aren't any."
[63]
The film adaptation of
Mamma Mia!
(2008) was Firth's first foray into
musicals
. He described the experience as "a bit nerve-wracking"
[64]
but believed he got off lightly by being tasked with one of the less demanding songs,
Our Last Summer
.
[65]
Mamma Mia
became the highest grossing British-made film of all time,
[66]
taking in over $600 million worldwide.
[67]
Like
Love Actually
, it polarised critics, with supporters such as
Empire
calling it "cute, clean, camp fun, full of sunshine, and toe tappers",
[68]
whereas Peter Bradshaw in
The Guardian
said the film gave him a "need to vomit".
[69]
Carrie Rickey in
The Philadelphia Inquirer
described Firth's performance as "the embodiment of forced mirth."
[70]
That year, Firth also starred in
Easy Virtue
, which screened at the Rome Film Festival to excellent reviews.
[71]
He starred in
Genova
, which premiered at the
2008 Toronto International Film Festival
.
[72]
In 2009 he appeared in
A Christmas Carol
, an adaptation of
Charles Dickens
's novel, using the
performance capture
procedure, playing Scrooge's optimistic nephew Fred.
[73]
2009?2011: Critical success
[
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]
At the
66th Venice International Film Festival
in 2009, Firth received the
Volpi Cup
for Best Actor for his role in
Tom Ford
's directorial debut
A Single Man
,
as a college professor grappling with solitude after the death of his longtime partner. His performance earned him career-best reviews and Academy Award, Golden Globe, Screen Actors' Guild, BAFTA, and BFCA nominations; he won the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role in February 2010.
[74]
Firth starred in the 2010 film
The King's Speech
as
Prince Albert, Duke of York/King George VI
, detailing his efforts to overcome his speech impediment while becoming monarch of the United Kingdom at the end of 1936. At the
Toronto International Film Festival
(TIFF),
[75]
the film received a standing ovation. The TIFF release of
The King's Speech
fell on Firth's 50th birthday and was called the "best 50th birthday gift". On 16 January 2011, he won a Golden Globe for his performance in
The King's Speech
in the category of
Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture ? Drama
. The
Screen Actors Guild
recognised him with the award for Best Male Actor on 30 January 2011.
[76]
In February 2011, he won his second consecutive
best actor award
at the
2011 BAFTA awards
,
[77]
and received an
Academy Award for Best Actor
in on 27 February 2011.
[78]
The film grossed $414,211,549 worldwide.
[79]
Firth appeared as senior British secret agent
Bill Haydon
in the 2011 adaptation of the
John le Carre
novel
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
, directed by
Tomas Alfredson
and co-starring
Gary Oldman
,
Benedict Cumberbatch
,
Tom Hardy
,
Mark Strong
and
John Hurt
.
[80]
It gathered mostly excellent reviews.
[81]
The Independent
described Firth's performance as "suavely arrogant" and praised the film.
[82]
Deborah Young in
The Hollywood Reporter
thought Firth got "all the best dialogue", which he delivered "sardonically".
[83]
Leslie Felperin in
Variety
wrote that all the actors brought their "A game" and Firth was in "particularly
choleric
, amusing form."
[84]
2012?present: Established actor
[
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]
In May 2011, Firth began filming
Gambit
?a remake of
a 1960s crime caper
, in the part originally played by
Michael Caine
. It was released in the UK in November 2012 and was a financial and critical failure.
[85]
[86]
Empire
's
Kim Newman
wrote, "Firth starts out homaging Caine with his
horn-rimmed
cool but soon defaults to his usual repressed British cold mode",
[87]
whilst
Time Out London
called his a "likeable performance", although criticised the film overall.
[88]
Stephen Dalton in
The Hollywood Reporter
said, "To his credit, Firth keeps his performance grounded in downbeat realism while all around are wildly mugging in desperate pursuit of thin, forced laughs.
[89]
[90]
In 2012, Firth co-founded Raindog Films with British music industry executive and entrepreneur
Ged Doherty
.
[91]
Its first feature,
Eye in the Sky
, for which Firth was co-producer, was released in April 2016.
[92]
In May 2013, it was announced that Firth had signed to co-star with
Emma Stone
in
Woody Allen
's romantic comedy
Magic in the Moonlight
, set in the 1920s and shot on the
French Riviera
.
[93]
In 2014, he did his first turn as
Harry Hart / Agent Galahad
in the spy action film
Kingsman: The Secret Service
, which grossed $414.4 million against an $81 million budget.
[94]
Firth had been announced to voice
Paddington Bear
for the film
Paddington
; however, he announced his withdrawal on 17 June 2014, saying: "It's been bittersweet to see this delightful creature take shape and come to the sad realization that he simply doesn't have my voice".
[95]
In June 2015, he began filming the story of amateur yachtsman
Donald Crowhurst
in
The Mercy
, alongside
Rachel Weisz
,
David Thewlis
and
Jonathan Bailey
.
[96]
In 2016, Firth reprised his popular role as Mark Darcy in
Bridget Jones's Baby
, which fared much better with audiences and critics than the second in the series (
Bridget Jones: Edge of Reason
). He portrayed American book editor
Max Perkins
in
Genius
, co-starring
Jude Law
as author
Thomas Wolfe
and based on
A. Scott Berg
's biography
Max Perkins: Editor of Genius
.
[97]
[98]
In 2016 he began filming for
Rupert Everett
's directorial debut
The Happy Prince
, a biopic of
Oscar Wilde
, playing Wilde's friend
Reginald "Reggie" Turner
.
[99]
In 2017, he reprised his role as Jamie from 2003's
Love Actually
in the television short film
Red Nose Day Actually
, by original writer and director
Richard Curtis
.
[100]
Also that year, Firth returned as
Harry Hart / Agent Galahad
in the sequel
Kingsman: The Golden Circle
.
[101]
In 2018, Firth reprised his role of Harry Bright in the sequel to
Mamma Mia!
,
Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again
.
[102]
That year, he also appeared as William Weatherall Wilkins in the musical fantasy film
Mary Poppins Returns
, starring
Emily Blunt
in the title role. He also played British naval commander
David Russell
in
Thomas Vinterberg
's
Kursk
, a film about the true story of the
2000 Kursk submarine disaster
, in which he starred alongside
Matthias Schoenaerts
.
[103]
[104]
[105]
In 2019, he had a cameo as British General Erinmore in
Sam Mendes
' World War I film
1917
.
[106]
Set in 1947 England, Firth starred with
Julie Walters
in
The Secret Garden
and later in 2020 with
Stanley Tucci
in
Supernova
.
[107]
In 2021, he starred in romantic drama film
Mothering Sunday
directed by Eva Husson.
[108]
In December 2021, he was cast in Sam Mendes' drama film
Empire of Light
, starring
Olivia Colman
.
[109]
He was seen as Ewen Montagu in
Operation Mincemeat
, in April 2022.
[110]
Firth returned to television in May 2022 starring as Michael Peterson in the HBO production
The Staircase
.
[111]
Writing
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]
Firth's first published work, "The Department of Nothing", appeared in
Speaking with the Angel
(2000),
[112]
a collection of short stories edited by
Nick Hornby
[113]
and published to benefit the
TreeHouse Trust
[114]
to aid autistic children. He met Hornby during the filming of the original
Fever Pitch
.
[115]
He contributed to the book
We Are One: A Celebration of Tribal Peoples
(2009),
[116]
which explores the cultures, diversity and challenges of Indigenous peoples around the world. It features contributions from many Western writers, including
Laurens van der Post
,
Noam Chomsky
,
Claude Levi-Strauss
; and from Indigenous people such as
Davi Kopenawa Yanomami
and
Roy Sesana
. Profits from the book's sale benefit the Indigenous rights organisation
Survival International
. Firth was an executive producer for the film
In Prison My Whole Life
, featuring Noam Chomsky and
Angela Davis
. It was selected to the 2007 London Film Festival and the 2008 Sundance Film Festival.
[117]
In December 2010, Firth was guest editor on
BBC Radio 4
's
Today
programme, where he commissioned research to scan the brains of volunteers (mostly university students) to see if there were structural differences that might account for political leanings.
[4]
The resulting academic paper listed him as an author, along with two
University College London
researchers
[118]
[119]
and the science reporter of the BBC Radio 4
Today
programme. For his contribution, professor
John Jost
called Firth a 'scientific ambassador' in the field of political neuroscience.
[4]
The study suggested that conservatives had more development in the
amygdala
, and liberals in the
anterior cingulate cortex
.
In 2012, Firth's audiobook recording of
Graham Greene
's
The End of the Affair
was released at
Audible.com
[120]
and was declared
Audiobook of the Year
at the 2013
Audie Awards
.
[121]
Activism
[
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]
Firth has been a longstanding supporter of
Survival International
, a
non-governmental organisation
that advocates for the rights of tribal peoples.
[122]
Speaking in 2001, he said, "My interest in tribal peoples goes back many years ... and I have supported [Survival] ever since."
[123]
In 2003, during the promotion of
Love Actually
, he spoke in defence of the Indigenous people of
Botswana
, condemning the Botswana government's eviction of the
Gana and Gwi people
(San) from the
Central Kalahari Game Reserve
. He said of San, "These people are not the remnants of a past era who need to be brought up to date. Those who are able to continue to live on the land that is rightfully theirs are facing the 21st century with a confidence that many of us in the so-called developed world can only envy."
[122]
He has also backed a Survival International campaign to press the Brazilian government to take more decisive action in defence of
Awa-Guaja people
, whose land and livelihood is critically threatened by the actions of loggers.
[124]
As a supporter of the
Refugee Council
, Firth was involved in a campaign to stop the
deportation
of a group of 42 Congolese
asylum seekers
, expressing concerns in open letters to
The Independent
and
The Guardian
that they faced being murdered on their return to the
Democratic Republic of Congo
.
[125]
[126]
[127]
Firth said: "To me, it's just basic civilisation to help people. I find this incredibly painful to see how we dismiss the most desperate people in our society. It's easily done. It plays to the tabloids, to the
Middle-England
xenophobes
. It just makes me furious. And all from a government we once had such high hopes for."
[128]
Four of the asylum seekers were given last-minute reprieves from deportation.
[129]
Firth, along with other celebrities, has been involved in the
Oxfam
[130]
global campaign
Make Trade Fair
, focusing on trade practices considered especially unfair to third-world producers, including dumping, high import tariffs, and labour rights.
[131]
[132]
[133]
He and some collaborators opened Eco, an eco-friendly shop in West London,
[134]
which offers fair-trade and eco-friendly goods, and expert advice on making spaces more energy efficient. In October 2009, at the
London Film Festival
, he launched a film and political activism website, Brightwide (since decommissioned), with his wife Livia.
[135]
[136]
During the
2010 general election
, Firth announced his support for the
Liberal Democrats
, having previously been a
Labour
supporter, citing asylum and refugees' rights as key reasons for the change.
[137]
In December 2010, he publicly dropped his support of the Liberal Democrats, citing their U-turn on
tuition fees
, and said that he was currently unaffiliated.
[138]
He appeared in literature supporting changing the British electoral system from
first-past-the-post
to
alternative vote
for electing members of parliament to the
House of Commons
, in the unsuccessful
Alternative Vote referendum
in 2011.
[139]
In 2009, he joined the
10:10
project, supporting the movement calling for people to reduce their carbon footprints. In 2010, he endorsed the "Roots & Shoots"
[140]
education programme in the UK run by the
Jane Goodall Institute (UK)
.
Personal life
[
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]
In 1989, Firth began a relationship with
Meg Tilly
, his co-star in
Valmont
. Their son, William Joseph Firth, was born in 1990.
[141]
William is now also an actor, appearing with his father in
Bridget Jones's Baby
in 2016. The family moved to the
Lower Mainland
of
British Columbia
, Canada but Firth and Tilly ultimately broke up in 1994.
During the filming of
Pride and Prejudice
, Firth and co-star
Jennifer Ehle
began a romantic relationship, which received media attention only after their separation.
[32]
In 1997, Firth married Italian activist
Livia Giuggioli
.
[142]
They have two sons, Luca and Matteo.
[18]
Firth speaks fluent Italian.
[143]
The family divided their time between
Wandsworth
, in London, and
Umbria
, Italy.
[144]
[145]
They announced their separation in 2019.
[146]
They had gone through a private separation several years prior, but had reconciled.
[147]
Firth was a vocal opponent of the
Brexit
initiative for the United Kingdom to leave the European Union. Following the referendum's passage, and the ensuing uncertainty over rights of non-EU citizens, he applied for "dual citizenship (British and Italian)" in 2017 to "have the same passports as his wife and children".
[148]
[149]
The
Italian interior minister
,
Marco Minniti
, announced Firth's application had been approved on 22 September 2017.
[150]
Firth said, "I will always be extremely British (you only have to look at or listen to me)."
[151]
In 2011, after winning the Academy Award for his portrayal of King George VI in
The King's Speech
, Firth suggested that he may be a
republican
(anti-monarchist) in a
CNN
interview with
Piers Morgan
, saying that voting was "one of his favourite things" and that unelected institutions were "a problem for him".
[152]
[153]
Acting credits and awards
[
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]
Firth has received numerous awards, including an
Academy Award
,
Golden Globe Award
,
British Academy Film Award
, and
Screen Actors Guild Award
for his performance as
King George VI
in
Tom Hooper
's historical drama
The King's Speech
(2010).
He received an
honorary doctorate
on 19 October 2007 from the
University of Winchester
.
[154]
[155]
On 13 January 2011, he was presented with the 2,429th star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
[156]
In April 2011,
Time
included him in its list of the World's 100 Most Influential People.
[157]
He was made a
Freeman
of the
City of London
on 8 March 2012,
[158]
and was awarded an
honorary fellowship
by the
University of the Arts London
in 2012.
[159]
Firth was appointed
Commander of the Order of the British Empire
(CBE) in the
2011 Birthday Honours
for services to drama.
[5]
[160]
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