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Colin Andrew Firth (born 10 September 1960) is an English actor and producer. He is the recipient of several accolades, including an Academy Award, two BAFTA Awards, and a Golden Globe Award, as well as nominations for two Primetime Emmy Awards. In 2011, Firth was appointed a CBE for his services to drama, and appeared in Time magazine's 100 most influential people in the world. Identified in the mid-1980s with the "Brit Pack" of rising young British actors, he had leading roles in A Month in the Country (1987), Tumbledown(1988) and Valmont (1989). His portrayal of Mr Darcy in the 1995 television adaptation of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice drew widespread attention. It led to roles in more prominent films such as The English Patient (1996), Shakespeare in Love (1998), The Importance of Being Earnest (2002), and Love Actually (2003). He starred as Mark Darcy in the Bridget Jones film series (2001–2025). Also, he acted in the musical comedy Mamma Mia! (2008) and its 2018 sequel. Firth won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of King George VI in the historical drama The King's Speech (2010). He was previously Oscar-nominated for his role as a grieving gay man in the romantic drama A Single Man (2009), which earned him the BAFTA Award and the Volpi Cup for Best Actor. He subsequently played secret agent Harry Hart in Kingsman: The Secret Service (2014) and its 2017 sequel. He also performed in films such as Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011), Mary Poppins Returns (2018), 1917 (2019), The Secret Garden, Supernova (both 2020), and Operation Mincemeat (2021). For his roles on television, he received Primetime Emmy Award nominations for his portrayals of Dr. Wilhelm Stuckart in the BBC film Conspiracy (2001) and Michael Peterson in the HBO limited series The Staircase (2022). In 2012, he founded the production company Raindog Films, under which he served as a producer for Eye in the Sky (2015) and Loving (2016). His films have grossed more than $3 billion from 42 releases worldwide. Firth has campaigned for the rights of Indigenous people and is a member of Survival International. He has also campaigned on issues such as asylum seekers, refugees' rights, and the environment. He commissioned and co-authored a scientific paper on differences in brain structure between people with different political orientations. Description above from the Wikipedia article Colin Firth, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Colin Firth
Tobias Kiramman
for Tobias Kiramman in Arcane live action series
Suggested by thewantedraccoon
Been a while since I've done one of these, but this is something that I've been wanting to do for a really long time now. Let me just preface this by saying that we absolutely DO NOT need for any kind of live action adaptation of Arcane to be made in any way, shape or form. We all know the actual Arcane animated series is purely phenomenal entirely on its one and has no need to be changed or altered in any regard whatsoever. However, while I do wholeheartedly think that it doesn't need to happen, I also think that there is some level of possibility that it could actually work if it were to be given the same exact treatment that was given to the most recent live action One Piece series, as that's a live action reinterpretation of an animated property that pays respect to the source material that it's based on while also having its own distinctive identity. Which is exactly what a live action Arcane series should be if it were to ever be made. With all of that in mind, here's my casting ideas for the key characters of a hypothetical live action reimagining of the incredible work of cinematic art that is Arcane
