Bridget Jones’s Diary

Helen Fielding’s 1996 novel Bridget Jones’s Diary, which follows the ups and downs of a single thirtysomething woman in London, was based on Pride and Prejudice; in 2001 it was adapted into a movie starring Renée Zellweger and Austen adaptation veterans Firth and Grant. The series The Lizzie Bennet…

…the title character’s father in Bridget Jones’s Diary, a comedy about the adventures of a bumbling 30-something single woman; he reprised the role in Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2004) and Bridget Jones’s Baby (2016). In the musical Moulin Rouge! he appeared as Harold Zidler, the dancing and singing…

…Darcy in the romantic comedy Bridget Jones’s Diary, an adaptation of Helen Fielding’s best-selling novel. That character, an uptight lawyer who falls in love with the title character (played by Renée Zellweger), was based on Austen’s Mr. Darcy. Firth reprised the role in Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2004),…

…title character (Renée Zellweger), in Bridget Jones’s Diary (2001). His later films included About a Boy (2002), an adaptation of Nick Hornby’s novel; Love Actually (2003); and Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2004). In 2007 Grant starred opposite Drew Barrymore as an aging pop star in Music and Lyrics

…Darcy—a lawyer named Mark Darcy—in Bridget Jones’s Diary (2001) with Renée Zellweger as the titular Bridget Jones, who searches for love and thinks she has found it with the unsavory Daniel Cleaver, played by Hugh Grant, before uniting with Mark Darcy. Both Bridget Jones’s Diary and Pride and Prejudice and…

…woman bent on self-improvement in Bridget Jones’s Diary (2001), based on a best-selling 1996 novel by Helen Fielding. She earned a second Golden Globe Award and a second Oscar nomination for best actress for her performance as the murderess Roxie Hart in the musical Chicago (2002). Zellweger showed her range…