Colin Firth
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"Colin Andrew Firth", Commander of the Order of the British Empire/CBE is an

Identified in the late 1980s with the "Brit Pack (actors)/Brit Pack" of rising, young British actors, it was not until Firth's portrayal of Fitzwilliam Darcy/Mr. Darcy in the Pride and Prejudice (1995 TV series)/1995 television adaptation of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice that he received more widespread attention. This led to roles in films such as The English Patient (film)/The English Patient, Bridget Jones's Diary (film)/Bridget Jones's Diary (for which he was nominated for a BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role/BAFTA), Shakespeare in Love and Love Actually. In 2009 he received widespread critical acclaim for his leading role in A Single Man, for which Firth gained his first Academy Award nomination, and won a BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role/BAFTA Award.

In 2011, he received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and was also selected as one of the Time 100. He was awarded an honorary degree from the University of Winchester in 2007, and was made a Freeman of the City of London in 2012.

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It's an Atom Egoyan movie, ... We know he's not the world's great pornographer. It's hard to quantify what kind of damage (the rating) will have done.

Something about being given that microphone and if you're dressed right and the spotlights are on you, how can you not play that stuff?

Some people do it with irony and humor. Some people do it earnestly. Some people are ashamed of having to ask the question. And every so often there will be a journalist from Swaziland who doesn't know anything about it -- wonderful.

The sheer level of fascination on the subject is really a symptom of how this issue affects people, particularly women who are in utter disbelief that anyone would consciously go the other way -- to actually try to gain weight.

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.

On his fight scene with Hugh Grant in Bridget Jones: It was a delicious experience.

Colin is the sort of name you give your goldfish for a joke.

All we can do is hope and pray - on suggestions Hugh Grant will retire soon.

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.