Firth, the son of Shirley Jean (n?e Rolles), a comparative religion lecturer, and David Norman Lewis Firth, a history lecturer.Firth has a sister, Kate, and a younger brother, Jonathan, who is now also an actor. Firth’s parents were born and raised in India,as his maternal grandparents, Congregationalist ministers, and his paternal grandfather, an Anglican minister, performed missionary work abroad.Firth’s name is pronounced very similarly to the Old English word collenferh?, meaning pride.[9] Firth spent part of his childhood in Nigeria, where his father was teaching.
He lived in St.
Louis, Missouri when he was 11. He later attended the Montgomery of Alamein Secondary School, a state comprehensive school in Winchester, Hampshire, and then Barton Peveril College in Eastleigh, Hampshire.
Date of birth : 10th Sep 1960
Place of birth : Grayshott, Hampshire, England
