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Wikipedia — Colin Firth

The single most-cited public biography of Colin Firth on the web. Maintained by a long-standing community of editors, sourced to interviews, awards databases and major newspapers. Read the references at the bottom of the article first — they are often more useful than the prose above them.

IMDb — nm0000147

The complete commercial filmography database entry. Indispensable for credits, premiere dates, runtimes, ratings, and the “Did You Know?” trivia panel.

Theatricalia — Colin Firth

The most reliable single source for his stage history. Maintained by theatre obsessives. Lists production runs, venues and dates with the precision IMDb has never quite mustered for the stage.

BFI Filmography

The British Film Institute archive. Particularly useful for early television work that other databases have lost.

The Tumblr fan community

Where the active fans are — daily images, edits, news clips

colinfirthdaily.tumblr.com
News, recent photos and original fan-made content. The most consistent posting cadence in the Firth Tumblr-sphere.
dailyfirth.tumblr.com
Curated daily posts focused on best-known roles — A Single Man, King’s Speech, P&P, Kingsman.
colinfirthfans.tumblr.com
Long-running community Tumblr; reblogs and original posts.
colinfirthaddicted.tumblr.com
Heavy on rare photos and behind-the-scenes set imagery.
firththirst.tumblr.com
Exactly what the URL suggests — image-heavy, gif-heavy, unrepentant.
wehavealongwaytogoforth.tumblr.com
Wider focus on British actors of his generation but Firth-heavy. Long, thoughtful posts.
colinfirthalterego.tumblr.com
Picture-led, character-led; particularly good on the lesser-watched 1990s television work.
mentallydatingcolinfirth.tumblr.com
Self-explanatory. Funny. Worth following.

Awards databases

Check ceremony results without intermediary spin

The Academy — 83rd Awards (2011)

Best Actor for The King’s Speech. The official ceremony record.

BAFTA Awards Database

All BAFTA Film and Television award nominations and wins; including the 2010 win for A Single Man and the 2011 win for The King’s Speech, plus the 2026 Television nominations for Lockerbie.

Golden Globes Archive

2011 Best Actor — Drama (The King’s Speech); plus the run of nominations across the 2000s.

SAG Awards Archive

2011 Best Male Actor (King’s Speech) and earlier nominations.

66th Venice Film Festival (2009)

Volpi Cup for Best Actor — A Single Man. The win that started the King’s Speech-era awards run.

Sister sites in the WholeTech network

Related properties under the same editorial

austen.com

The original Jane Austen fan site, est. 1997. Full text of all six novels, biography, fan fiction archives, the Regency reading room. Particularly relevant for Firth’s P&P / Bridget Jones / Mr. Darcy connection — see our crossover hub.

jane.austen.com

The Regency-themed sister property. Curated Austen shop and a peer-to-peer Austen swap marketplace.

tvreviewer.com

Award-show coverage across Oscars, BAFTAs, Emmys, Globes. Read here for the wider awards picture in any given Firth season.

wholetech.com

The WholeTech network hub. 100+ independent sites, publishing since 1996.

Reading and listening

What Firth has written, narrated and championed

Speaking with the Angel — ed. Nick Hornby, 2000

The charity short-story anthology in which Firth’s “The Department of Nothing” appears, alongside Hornby, Zadie Smith, Robert Harris and others. All proceeds to TreeHouse Trust for autistic children.

We Are One: A Celebration of Tribal Peoples — Survival International, 2009

Firth’s contribution sits among hundreds of essays and photographs in support of indigenous rights worldwide. Survival International is one of his longest public commitments.

The End of the Affair — audiobook, narrated by Colin Firth

Firth’s recording of Graham Greene’s 1951 novel won Audiobook of the Year at the 2013 Audie Awards. Widely regarded as one of the finest celebrity-narrated audiobooks of recent decades.

Survival International

The indigenous-rights organisation Firth has publicly supported since 2001 — from the Botswana Gana / Gwi campaign to the Awá-Guajá defence in Brazil.

This site

Where to start on ColinFirth.com itself

Chronology

The complete year-by-year life. From 1960 to Disclosure Day in 2026.

Biography

Same life told as narrative rather than timeline.

Filmography

Every feature film. Television and theatre live separately.

Firth & Austen

The Mr. Darcy / Mark Darcy / lake-scene crossover, with the sister Austen sites.

Articles & Interviews

The deep press archive — hundreds of magazine profiles and junket transcripts collected over thirty years.