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Colin Andrew Firth, CBE (born 10 September 1960) is an English actor. His films have grossed more than $3 billion from 42 releases worldwide.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.boxofficemojo.com/people/chart/?id=colinfirth.htm )〕 He has received an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Awards, two British Academy Film Awards and three Screen Actors Guild Awards, as well as the Volpi Cup. His most notable and acclaimed role to date has been his 2010 portrayal of King George VI in ''The King's Speech'', a performance that earned him an Oscar and multiple worldwide best actor awards. Identified in the late 1980s with the "Brit Pack" of rising, young British actors, it was not until Firth's portrayal of Mr. Darcy in the 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'', ''Bridget Jones's Diary'' (for which he was nominated for a 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. He starred in the action spy comedy ''Kingsman: The Secret Service'' in 2014, which was a commercial success and received generally positive reviews. In 2011, Firth received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and was also selected as one of the ''Time 100''.〔("Full List – The 2011 TIME 100" ), ''Time'', 21 April 2011. Retrieved 8 October 2012.〕 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. Firth has campaigned for the rights of indigenous tribal peoples and is a member of Survival International. He has also campaigned on issues of asylum seekers and refugees' rights and the environment. Firth commissioned and is credited as a co-author on a scientific paper on a study into the differences in brain structure between people of differing political orientations.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Colin Firth credited in brain research )〕 ==Early life== Firth was born in Alton, Hampshire, to parents who were both academics and teachers. His mother, Shirley Jean (née Rolles), was a comparative religion lecturer at King Alfred's College, Winchester (now the University of Winchester), and his father, David Norman Lewis Firth, was a history lecturer (also at King Alfred's) and education officer for the Nigerian Government.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Colin Firth's Lineage )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Colin Firth Biography (1960–) )〕 Firth is the eldest of three children; he has a sister, Kate, a stage actress and voice coach, and a brother, Jonathan, who is also an actor. Firth's parents were brought up in India, because his maternal grandparents, Congregationalist ministers, and his paternal grandfather, an Anglican priest, performed overseas missionary work. As a child, Firth travelled a lot due to his parents' work, spending some years in Nigeria.〔Stated in interview on ''Inside the Actors Studio'', 2011〕 He also lived in St. Louis, Missouri when he was 11, which he has described as "a difficult time". On returning to the UK 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 was the target of bullying. To counter this he adopted the local working class Hampshire accent, and affected a lack of interest in schoolwork.〔(Biography.com )〕 By the time he was fourteen, Firth had already decided he wanted to be a professional actor, having attended drama workshops from the age of ten. 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."〔 However, at Barton Peveril Sixth form college in Eastleigh he became instilled with a love of English literature thanks to an enthusiastic teacher, Penny Edwards, and has said that "My two years at Barton Peveril were among the two happiest years of my life". After his sixth form years, Firth moved to London and joined the National Youth Theatre. There, he made many contacts in the acting world, from which he got a job in the wardrobe department at the National Theatre.〔 From there he went on to study at Drama Centre London. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Colin Firth」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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