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FILMBIOGRAFIE:
The Importance of Being Earnest
(2002)/Bridget Jones's Diary (2001)/Conspiracy (2001)/Relative
Values (2000)/Londinium (2000)/My Life So Far (1999)/The
Secret Laughter of Women (1999)/Shakespeare in Love (1998)/A
Thousand Acres (1997)/Fever Pitch (1997)/The English Patient
(1996)/Pride and Prejudice (1996)/Circle of Friends (1995)/Playmaker
(1994)/The Advocate (1994)/Hostages (1993)/Wings of Fame
(1993)/Femme Fatale (1990)/Apartment Zero (1989)/Valmont
(1989)/A Month in the Country (1988)/Tumbledown (1988)/Dutch
Girls (1987)/Another Country (1984)/Camille Nostromo (1984).
BIOGRAFIE:
Birthdate:September
10, 1960
Birthplace:
Grayshot, Hampshire, England
Occupation:
Actor
Quote: "I
don't think a great many things are achieved by crudely exerting yourself
upon them. Still, I'd love to do cartwheels and the fireworks and the pyrotechnics.
I would love to dazzle. I just don't have a great capacity for it." --Harper's
Bazaar, May 1996
Claim to Fame:
Played Tommy Judd in Another Country (1984)
Significant
Other(s):
Wife: Livia
Giuggioli; born 1970; married June 21, 1997
Jennifer Ehle, actress; born 1970
Meg Tilly, actress; born 1960; together
1989-94
Family:
Grandparents:
missionaries; worked in India
Father:
David Firth, history teacher; born 1934; traveled to various locations
to teach; became history lecturer at King Alfred's College, Winchester
Mother: Shirley
Firth, teacher; born 1936; lecturer on comparative literature at Open University
Sister: Kate
Firth, voice coach; born 1961
Brother:
Jonathan Firth, actor; born April 6, 1967
Son:
William Firth; born 1990; mother, Meg Tilly
Awards:
1988:
Seattle Film Festival: Best Actor, Apartment Zero
1989: Royal
Television Society: Best Actor, Tumbledown
1998:
Screen Actors Guild: Cast in a Theatrical Motion Picture, Shakespeare in
Love"; shared with cast mates
Factoids:
Had nomadic childhood, living in
England, Nigeria and St. Louis, Missouri
Education:
The Drama Centre, London, England