The London Drama Centre of which Colin was a former student.

Former students have set up the Friends of Drama Centre London. The Friends of Drama Centre London is a trust and a charity, entirely independent and dedicated to support Drama Centre London students in the pursuit of their goals to become actors, directors and writers.


The Friends of Drama Centre London was set up specifically to raise funds to alleviate such needs. It is led by an independent Committee composed of former students from all generations, including:



•  Mark Bazeley

•  Aimee Cowan

•  Poppy Elliott

•  Colin Firth*:



* "Colin has worked consistently since leaving the Drama Centre in 1982 and walking straight into the play of the year, Julian Mitchell’Another Country, in which he replaced Rupert Everett as the public-speaking proto-traitor Guy Bennett. “That fairy godmother never appears again. He dwarfs what ”Pride and Prejudice” felt like. I went from nobody knowing who I was and everyone doubting me to my dad taking photos of the poster on Finsbury Avenue."



•  Tara Fitzgerald

•  Aaron Harris

•  Geraldine James OBE

•  Dr Vladimir Mirodan FRSA

•  Jack Shepherd






"In drama school (London's Drama Centre) I tended to get flamboyant characters, paranoids and psychos (Hamlet was his crowning achievement as a student). Since then, I've been astonished to find myself playing naive, sensitive, romantic young chaps." [L A Times, February 1987]