The Academy award winner celebrates his birthday today. CS gets you some trivia on the actor:

>> Colin’s first acting experience came in infant’s school in a Christmas pantomime.

>> He has played Mr Darcy on three occasions. Once in “Pride and Prejudice” (1995), in Bridget Jones’s Diary (2001) and again in Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2004).

>> His father is a history lecturer at Winchester University College (formerly King Alfred’s College) in Winchester and his mother is a comparative religions lecturer at the Open University.u00a0