COLIN FIRTH BY GRAHAM FULLER

After excelling as repressed, troubled, or traumatized Englishmen in such films as A Month In the Country (1987), Apartment Zero (1988), and Tumbledown (1989), and as the French seducer in Valmont (1989), Colin Firth became a star by playing two Darcys: the arrogant Mr. Darcy, careless with his shirt, in the BBC's

Pride and Prejudice (1995), and the haughty lawyer Mark Darcy in Bridget Jones's Diary (2001). Pop-culture iconhood was confirmed for the pleasingly taciturn actor, now 43, when journalist Bridget interviewed "Colin Firth" in the second Bridget Jones novel, which is currently being filmed.

As the 17th-century Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer in Girl With a Pearl Earring, based on Tracy Chevalier's novel (more Firth on page 60)

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Above: Colin Firth wears clothes and boots by BOSS HUGO BOSS. Fragrance by HUGO HUGO BOSS. Hair styling products by Aveda.