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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.
Following events of the first season, Charles, Hank and Erik continue thier quest to find more about the X Gene and the mutants. Set in the 90's, thier quest leads them to knowledge of various human experimentations on the mutants like those of Stryker. At the helm of it, is Sebastian Shawa , an ex-Hydra scientist who has managed to survive old age and death using mutant gene manipulation and intends to use them as weapons for the future. He's revealed as one of the scientists who tortured Erik in the Nazi camps and killed his mother in order to bring out his true power. Today, he and a group of mutants are causing global attacks . Charles is concerned about the effects of the attacks on an already tabooed and marginalised mutant population, meanwhile Erik is driven by revenge against the person who ruined his life. Towards the end, they manage to defeat the rogue mutants but Erik kills Shaw and vows for revenge against the human population who have been experimenting,killing and marginalising the mutants simply because they were different yet more powerful. Erik and Charles have a grave difference in opinion leading to the end of thier long friendship and trust. Charles who was injured in the spine during the fight, is handicapped and on wheelchair. He doesn't give up on the human race and decides to set up a centre for nurturing and bringing up mutants to live in harmony with the normal population , under secrecy so that they're not persecuted.
