It's left me with a belief that everybody deserves a second chance. I must have been paying some attention as I can still quote randomly from Thomas Hardy and Lord Byron.
Receiving this award gives me an unusual opportunity to thank my college and the person who helped me the most, my extremely fine English teacher Penny Edwards. AoC chief executive Martin Doel said: "The AoC Gold Awards draw attention to the superb work done by both students and their colleges across a variety of sectors and prove that, no matter what your aspirations, Further Education can make a significant contribution to your future success.
I'd like to extend my congratulations to Colin and to all of this year's winners, who demonstrate just how far students can go when their talent and ambition is both recognised and nurtured. Jason Rainbow How to resolve AdBlock issue? Moved to Nigeria, when he was 2 weeks old, where his father had taken a teaching position, and lived there until age 4. Considers former girlfriend Meg Tilly 's children Emily and David from her first marriage to Tim Zinnemann to be his own. In addition to his various roles as Darcy, Firth played at least one other person sharing a name with a Jane Austen character: Henry Dashwood, his character in What a Girl Wants is the name of a character in Miss Austen's "Sense and Sensibility".
Both of his Oscar nominated roles came from playing a character named George. Became a father for the second time at age 40 when his wife Livia Giuggioli gave birth to their son Luca Firth on March 29, Became a father for the third time at age 42 when his wife Livia Giuggioli gave birth to their son Matteo Firth in August Was originally cast as the voice of Paddington Bear in Paddington , but was replaced by Ben Whishaw during post-production of the film.
According to director Paul King he decision was done since "It slowly just became clear that Paddington does not have the voice of a very handsome older man, who has the most beautiful voice on the planet". He and Nicole Kidman circled the same five movies, within two years. In November , they filmed Genius Firth was also cast in Stoker , but dropped out due to scheduling conflicts, and worked on Paddington before he was replaced by Ben Whishaw.
Kidman co-starred in all these five films. She considers Firth to be one of her favorite collaborators and says that "He's the best of the British actors". The first three have gone on to win Best Picture. Geoffrey Rush also appeared in two of those films. Is one of 13 actors who have received an Academy Award nomination for his portrayal of a real-life king. In the latter two, his characters were traumatised by their experiences of the war.
Friends with Emily Blunt , and Julianne Moore. His almost year public feud with Rupert Everett began when both appeared in Another Country Their widely different personas didn't get along, with Everett publicly branding Firth "boring" and classified him as "a ghastly guitar-playing redbrick socialist".
In Everett's autobiography, he admitted that he felt threatened by Firth's talent, but the two eventually settled their differences in Firth claims that "there's nobody I love more in the business now", and they have frequently worked together since. 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. And I always thought the biggest failing of Americans was their lack of irony. They are very serious there!
Naturally, there are exceptions Italian Vogue. Darcy roles] I was delighted to become a popular culture reference point. I'm still delighted about it actually, and I still find it to be weird. However, any similarity between them basically stops at their last name. I was in no way reminded of Ralph by working with Joe.
I got on fantastically with both of them. I have huge admiration for them as actors but I couldn't compare them.
It's more the sort of name you'd give to your goldfish for a joke. 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, depending on how I want it to look. I'd never seen such integrity in acting, and it struck me as a fascinating paradox because acting is artifice. It can be argued to be entirely false. I thought, how can an actor suggest such truth? I like playing strange characters.
Some people might say it has something to do with a hidden part of myself, but I think it's a lot simpler than that: normal people are just not very interesting. Every single film since [ Pride and Prejudice ] there's been a scene where someone goes, "Well I think you've just killed Mr Darcy".
But he is a figure that won't die. He is wandering somewhere. I can't control him. I tried to play with it in Bridget Jones's Diary I've never resented it: if it wasn't for him I might be languishing, but part of me thinks I should do this postmodern thing, change my name by deed poll to Mr Darcy.
Then people can come up to me and say, 'But you are not Mr Darcy' which would be different. I dare say it will be my saving grace when the only employment available to me is opening supermarkets dressed in breeches and a wig. I feel quite strongly about anti-Americanism. I share people's grievances about the current Administration but I remember my father and I watching the Watergate hearings.
Firth himself has become increasingly testy - indeed almost Darcyesque - about the whole business, grumpily snapping at an interviewer last year that the "word Darcy is like a phantom that won't leave me alone, like a school nickname that sticks with you for years afterwards. For good measure, he added: "I'm not remotely interested in Pride and Prejudice in any way and haven't watched it since doing it.
Could redemption, though, finally be at hand? Playing a gay lecturer in last year's A Single Man won him the Oscar nomination for Best Actor but failed to convince anyone with a spare X chromosome. Now, though comes The King's Speech , which opens the Dubai International Film Festival next weekend and which he is expected to attend.
What really seems to irritate Firth though, is that Pride and Prejudice is generally accepted as his Year Zero.
In fact it was and 11 years before Mr Darcy when he starred alongside Rupert Everett in the film version of Another Country , the fictionalised account of the spy Guy Burgess's traumatic experiences at a British boarding school. Firth had already made the part his own in the West End stage version a year earlier. At the time, he was just 23 and had recently completed drama school in London.
The son of teachers and the grandson of missionaries, he was born in Grayshott, Hampshire in but moved almost at once to Nigeria where his father had accepted a job as a history lecturer. Returning to the United Kingdom several years later he found it difficult to fit in, not least at school, where he was derided for his "posh" accent.
By his own account, Firth's teenage years were ones of rebellion, although perhaps not in the accepted fashion. In an interview with The Times of London in he explained that "I didn't smash windows or get into fights" but instead "grew my hair long" and "took refuge" in Camus and Dostoevsky.
There was some mild drug-taking but not anywhere near his parents' and finally a refusal to sit the A level exams that would have taken him to university. In the end he dragged himself out of bed and took a job at a theatre switchboard "staring into the abyss" with a volume of Kafka for diversion from the daily grind.
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