Colin Firth

Colin Firth has a younger brother, Jonathan, who is also an actor, but is not related to Peter Firth or Julian Firth. As of 2004, Ford was living in quiet retirement in Beverly Hills with his son's family. 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. In 1992 he was awarded the Legion d'Honneur medal for his action in the Second World War. Since then, he has starred in films such as Fever Pitch (1997), Shakespeare in Love (1998), Bridget Jones's Diary (2001) and Love Actually (2003), as well as TV productions including Donovan Quick (an updated version of Don Quixote) (1999) and Conspiracy (2001). In 1962, Glenn Ford won a Golden Globe Award as best actor for his part in Frank Capra's Pocketful of Miracles, and has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Despite widespread admiration for his performances, it was only with Pride and Prejudice that Firth's career really took off. With Eleanor Powell he is the father of actor Peter Ford.

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. Ford has been married (and divorced) four times to Eleanor Powell, Jeanne Baus, Kathryn Hays and Cynthia Hayward. In 1989, he took the lead in the film Valmont, playing opposite Meg Tilly, with whom he had a well-publicised relationship. His major roles in thrillers and dramas and action films include A Stolen Life, The Big Heat, Blackboard Jungle, Interrupted Melody, Experiment in Terror, Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse and Superman and Westerns such as The Fastest Gun Alive, 3:10 to Yuma and Cimarron. Carr's novel, A Month in the Country. Ford's movie-acting career flourished in the 1950s and 60s, and continued into the early 1990s, with increasing television roles. L. He went on to be a leading man opposite Rita Hayworth in five films, and starred with other acting greats such as Bette Davis, Gloria Grahame, Ingrid Thulin.

In 1987, he played alongside Kenneth Branagh in the film version of J. His breakthrough role was in 1946, following military service, starring alongside Rita Hayworth in Gilda. His first film and television appearances were made in 1984. His acting career began on stage, and his first large movie part was in 1939 film Heaven with a Barbed Wire Fence. He starred in the award-winning 1981 London stage production of Another Country. Ford is best known for his film roles as cowboys and as an ordinary man in unusual circumstances. Firth was born in Hampshire, England, and spent part of his childhood in Nigeria where his family were missionaries. He was born in Sainte-Christine, Portneuf, Quebec, Canada and moved to Santa Monica, California with his family as a child.

Darcy in the BBC's 1995 dramatisation of Pride and Prejudice, Firth has become known as a heart-throb, but in reality he is a talented and versatile actor, equally at home on stage or screen. Gwyllyn Samuel Newton Ford (born May 1, 1916), better known by his stage name Glenn Ford, is an actor. Since taking the starring role of Mr. Colin Firth (born September 10, 1960) is a popular British actor.