It's no secret that most celebrity marriages are short-lived. Fame, money, long forced partings, fans and fans destroy even the strongest alliances created by love. So the seemingly perfect marriages of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, Antonio Banderas and Melanie Griffith, Igor Petrenko and Ekaterina Klimova, Fedor and Svetlana Bondarchuk broke up. Only a few celebrities manage to maintain a family hearth. This, for example, Adriano Celentano and Claudia Mori, Vladimir Menshov and Vera Alentova, Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson, David and Victoria Beckham, as well as the characters in this article are Colin Firth and Livia Giudzholli. What is the secret of their long and happy marriage?
Colin Firth
Colin Firth is a British film and theater actor. Born in 1960 in a family of teachers. When Colin was a teenager, he moved to the United States with his parents and younger children. Strict rules for a boy from a British family were not easy in the company of American teenagers. Growing up, Colin decided to become an actor. In 1982, Firth graduated from college. His first movie job was the film “Another Country,” in which he was lucky to play one of the main characters. And the first main role of Firth was Arman Duvall in the film adaptation of the novel by Alexander Dumas, the son of "Lady with Camellias."
Best Roles
He became famous worldwide for the role of Mr. Darcy in the film adaptation of the novel Pride and Prejudice (1995).
One of the best films starring Colin Firth is Girl with a Pearl Earring. In it, he played the role of the talented Dutch artist Jan Vermeer.
The actor also remarkably played one of the main characters in Bridget Jones's Diary, The English Patient, Shakespeare in Love.
It is interesting to know that it was the Pride and Prejudice movie starring Colin that inspired writer Helen Fielding to write a book about Bridget Jones, which to some extent is a modern adaptation of Jane Austen's novel. Firth in the movie played the role of Mark Darcy - modern Mr. Darcy.
For the lead role in Lonely Man, he was nominated for an Academy Award. But the figurine went to another. Those who know the biography of actor Colin Firth know that he received an Oscar for playing the lead role in the drama King Speaks! Thanks to the film “Kingsman: Secret Service”, Firth changed his usual role, pumped up his muscles and appeared in front of the audience as a tough guy.
The personal life of the actor before marriage
The personal life of Colin Firth, unlike many other popular handsome actors, was not too eventful. The first serious hobby was Meg Tilly - a partner in the movie "Valmont". Their romance lasted three years. The couple settled in British Columbia with Meg's children. Colin and Meg had a son, who was named William. But after several years of living in the wilderness, Colin was homesick. The couple broke up.
On the set of Pride and Prejudice, Firth fell in love with his partner Jennifer El. Colin admired absolutely everything in her: appearance, manners, behavior, lifestyle. He believed that in the film she plays herself. The actors looked great together. This novel did not last even two years. The press only became aware of him when he was finished.
The love story of Colin Firth and his wife
In 1995, Colin starred in the TV series "Nostromo". On the set, he met Livia Giudzholli - assistant director, as well as producer of documentaries. The young Italian beauty, who was ten years younger than Fert, impressed the actor so much that he fell desperately in love and began to look after her. He had to adopt the strict rules that reigned in the Giudzholli family: he could meet with Libya only with the permission of his father (the 26-year-old girl lived with her parents). Colin even learned Italian. He admired the large and close-knit family of the Jujolly. Courtship lasted two years. Finally, Colin Firth made an offer to Libya. They got married in 1997.
One of the strongest Hollywood marriages
Today, Colin and Libya have been married for twenty-one years. They raise two sons - Luke and Matteo. The family lives in the UK, then in Italy. Sometimes an actor stays in the USA with his eldest son. Colin has a very good relationship with Italian relatives. He loved Italy so much that he took a second (Italian) citizenship and bought a house near Milan, in which the family celebrates Christmas every year.
Answering journalists' questions about the long-standing loyalty to his wife, Colin Firth answers that it is easy for him to resist the temptation and not encourage flirting women with him, because he seriously considers his wife the most beautiful woman in the world. The only negative (the actor jokes) in this marriage are the outstanding culinary abilities of Libya, as a result of which he can not resist the temptation to eat a lot and tasty food, which afterwards negatively reflects on his figure. Colin believes that his wife helps him avoid star disease by preventing her slightest symptoms with well-aimed, but not at all offensive, jokes. Firth does not doubt the wisdom and insight of Libya, calling her his main adviser.
When the children of Colin Firth and Libya were younger schoolchildren, according to their father, they did not understand too much what their dad did. The couple did not at all show the children the films in which he played.
Inspired by the idea of consuming only organic products, Colin Firth and his wife opened an upmarket ECO-AGE store in London. They are successfully engaged in family business.
Short-term crisis
Like many couples who have lived together for many years, Giudzholli and Firth experienced a serious crisis not so long ago. Colin Firth and his wife decided to live separately. And at this time, Libya had a short-term affair with a friend who had been in love with her since childhood, journalist Marco Brancaccia. After some time, the couple decided to reunite. An unchallenged abandoned lover was not about to give up. Hoping to bring back the woman he loved, he continually bothered her with threats to devote the public to the details of their recent novel. And then Livia Giudzholi made a desperate decision. She herself told the press about her betrayal and reported to the police an indomitable journalist. Colin Firth behaved nobly in this situation. He forgave his wife and even wrote a letter to Brancaccia, in which he said that he understood his suffering. The couple refused a judicial investigation, not wanting to bring out the details of their lives.
Colin and Libya today
Today Colin Firth and his wife are back together. Their marriage went through a serious test. During the scandal, their names did not leave the front pages of newspapers. At the premiere of the film Mamma Mia-2, Colin was with Libya. The couple kept a little tense, feeling the curious glances of people dedicated to recent scandalous history. But at the same time, Colin and Libya supported each other, and it seemed that they were even closer than before.
By their example, Colin Firth and Livia Giudzholli demonstrate that true love is above scandals and turmoil, as well as the fact that together you can overcome any difficulties.