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Colin Firth Wins SAG Award for THE KING'S SPEECH
By: Nicole Rosky Jan. 30, 2011
Stage and screen star Colin Forth has taken home a Screen Actors Guild Award for 'Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Motion Picture' for his performance in THE KING'S SPEECH!
In 1983, Firth starred as Guy Bennett the award-winning London stage production of Another Country. He later gained wide public attention in the 1990s for his portrayal of Mr. Darcy in the 1995 television adaptation of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. He subsequently achieved film stardom with the international box office success of Bridget Jones's Diary, Mamma Mia!, A Single Man, and The King's Speech.
The King's Speech is a British historical drama film directed by Tom Hooper from a script by David Seidler. The film won the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival People's Choice Award.The film stars Colin Firth as King George VI and Geoffrey Rush as speech therapist Lionel Logue, who helped George VI overcome a stammer. Filming commenced in the United Kingdom in November 2009. The film is set for a limited release in the United States on 26 November 2010 and on general release across the UK on 7 January 2011.
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