Colin Firth’s Mother Shirley Jean Ne Rolles Was A Comparative Religion Lecturer At
His mother, Shirley Jean (née Rolles), was a comparative religion lecturer at King Alfred’s College Winchester (now the University of Winchester), and his father, David Norman Lewis Firth, was a history lecturer (also at King Alfred ‘s) and education officer for the Nigerian Government. He lived in St. Louis, Missouri when he was 11. It was through the 1995 BBC television adaptation of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice that Firth gained wider renown. Continuing this in-joke, there was a dog called Mr Darcy in the film St. Trinian ‘s, which Firth’s character accidentally kills. (2008), and Easy Virtue, which screened at the Rome Film Festival to excellent reviews. Colin Firth’s most recent role is in the Toronto International Film Festival debuted film, Genova.
