Colin Firth receives the European Silver Ribbon

(ANSA) - ROME, JUN 16 - The English Colin Firth is the winner of the European Ribbon 2021, a recognition of the special style of an eclectic and elegant actor who continues to give the international audience interpretations of great theatrical intensity and popular successes in a career signed by a leading role in excellence in auteur cinema as well as in comedy. "A choice that rewards the excellence of his talent as the simplicity and, at the same time, his splendid professionalism both when it comes to tackling the commitment of the classics, sometimes closer to theater than to cinema, and the lightness of comedy, a genre" underlines the president Laura Delli Colli "to whom Colin Firth invariably gives his irresistible 'touch' British". On 22 June at the Maxxi in Rome lasered with awards'in presence in the rules of the Covid protocollianti for the awards assigned by the Italian Film Journalists.

    Linked to our country by special affection, Colin Firth was born in Hampshire. After theatrical experiences in the name of Shakespeare comes Another country in which he joins Rupert Everett on the screen and is immediately love with cinema: at the end of the 1980s, he is The Viscount of Valmont and about ten years later, thanks to a mainstream miniseries like Pride and Prejudice is Mr. Darcy. The popularity then with the saga The diary of BridgetJones. With that film Firth begins a roundup of green and green comedies now loved all over the world by different generations of spectators. Between Love Actually (2003) and What a mess, BridgetJones! (2004) plays Vermeer in The Girl with a Pearl Earring, then is the protagonist of Atom Egoyan's False Truth, then continuing to alternate with a musical like Mamma mia! (2008)author directed by Michael Winterbottom, Woody Allen or stylist Tom Ford, star of his first film as director, A Single Man (2009) for which he won the Volpi Cup. With The King's Speech (2010) by TomHooper, which tells the fight against stuttering by King George VI of England, a year later the GoldenGlobe, the Bafta and the Screen Actors Guild also arrive with the Oscar. At the moment he is busy on the set in the United States. (HANDLE).