Do we like Colin Firth?
Our score: 7 out of 10. Nothing harmful found and a public stand against Woody Allen, but the record I could open is thin and he has little on the record about trans people.
Firth is the English actor who played a gay English professor in A Single Man, the role that got him talking about LGBTQ+ people in Hollywood in 2009. More than a decade later he played one half of a long-term gay couple opposite Stanley Tucci in Supernova. That is a long run of playing queer men, and he has been open about the awkward questions that raises.
The stand most people remember is January 2018. After Dylan Farrow gave her first televised interview repeating her allegation that Woody Allen molested her, which Allen has long denied, Firth told The Guardian he would not work with Allen again. He had starred in Allen's 2014 film Magic in the Moonlight, so he was one of the first big male names to say it publicly, with a film already on his CV.
The other legal story is one where Firth was the complainant, not the defendant. In 2018 he and his wife accused an Italian journalist of stalking and harassing her, which the journalist denied. The two sides reached a private settlement in July 2018, with a joint statement saying it was in the families' best interests, and nobody was convicted of anything.
On the harm test, there is nothing nasty here in his own words. He called Brexit “a disaster of unexpected proportions” and took Italian citizenship in 2017, which reads as pro-European rather than anything worse. In 2009 he told Parade that gay actors still face constraints in Hollywood and that there are not many openly gay leading men. I found nothing from him on trans people either way, and I could not open enough pages on his recent projects to clear his co-stars and studios, so treat this as a pass on the record I could read.
The charm is real. Talking about Supernova, he said of Tucci “I was smitten immediately”, and he describes the film as being about two people who love each other. Reports in my searches also tie him to Oxfam and Survival International, but I could not open those pages, so I won't lean on them.
So: a decent bloke, on the evidence. He has put his name to the right side of the Allen argument, and I found no pattern of harm. The caveat is that this card rests on a handful of older articles, and the 2026 coverage I found was mostly fan-site reposts, so there is no verified recent news to report. Nothing new on him lately that I could confirm.