Happy birthday Colin Firth! Here are 10 of your best movie roles to celebrate!

The Love Actually actor is 55 today!

Colin Firth

by Maria Vallahis |
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Colin Firth is one of those great British actors who has played a variety of momental film roles.

And considering it's his birthday TODAY we thought we'd honour a few of them.

From a fuddy-duddy barrister in Bridget Jones's Diary, to singing ABBA in Mamma Mia! - Let us NOT forget he won an Oscar as George VI with a serious speech impediment in the The King's Speech.

These are just to name a few. So Happy Birthday Colin! And here are some of your best roles:

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Colin Firth's 10 best movie roles

Love Actually (2003)1 of 10

Love Actually (2003)

A dashing Colin in a rom-com, about to kiss the girl...swoon.

Nanny McPhee (2005)2 of 10

Nanny McPhee (2005)

As the dapper dad playing alongside Emma Thompson.

The King's Speech (2010)3 of 10

The King's Speech (2010)

In his monumental role as King George VI.

Bridget Jones's Diary (2010)4 of 10

Bridget Jones's Diary (2010)

Totally swoonful. Alongside Renée Zellweger and Hugh Grant for this one.

Mamma Mia! (2008)5 of 10

Mamma Mia! (2008)

Colin played Harry in this musical film feature.

Kingsman: The Secret Service (2014)6 of 10

Kingsman: The Secret Service (2014)

Another Harry, but this time Colin is dapper secret agent, Harry Hart.

A Single Man (2009)7 of 10

A Single Man (2009)

Colin plays English professor George in this drama set in the 1960s.

Before I Go To Sleep (2014)8 of 10

Before I Go To Sleep (2014)

Ben (Firth) has to wake up every morning to his wife Christine (Nicole Kidman) who has amnesia.

Gambit (2012)9 of 10

Gambit (2012)

Colin plays a mild-mannered art curator who plans to scam his abusive boss.

The Railway Man (2013)10 of 10

The Railway Man (2013)

Eric Lomax (Firth), a former British army officer and POW, discovers that the Japanese interpreter who tortured him is still alive.

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