Move over Bridget... Darcy is all smiles with a new lady by his side
COLIN FIRTH may have finally found the perfect partner to plot a fairytale romance.
According to friends, the
Oscar winner is dating US screenwriter Maggie Cohn after they fell for each other on the set of his latest drama,
The Staircase.
Sources say the 61-year-old – who played handsome lawyer Mark Darcy in the Bridget
Jones films – has been in a relationship with Ms Cohn since they met on the project last year.
The couple were spotted last week as they enjoyed a romantic lunch at Mr Firth’s local Lebanese restaurant, Grilandia, in west London.
Dressed casually in jeans, quilted jacket and flat cap, he smiled as the couple left the restaurant for a relaxed stroll in the winter sunshine.
Ms Cohn, right, producer of the TV series American Crime Story, wore a turquoisecheck wool coat and flat black shoes. The pair laughed and joked as they chatted on their walk.
‘They were deep in conversation together and looked very happy,’ an onlooker said. ‘Colin appeared to be cracking a couple of jokes and they giggled together. They might not have been holding hands but they appeared to be close.’
Los Angelesbased Ms Cohn is a sought-after screenwriter who has won major awards for American Crime Story from the Writers Guild of America and the Producers Guild of America. She has also written episodes of the popular Netflix crime drama Narcos: Mexico.
The writer, thought to be in her 40s, had jetted in from her base in the US to visit Mr Firth.
The couple spent months working on The Staircase, a crime drama written by Ms Cohn as a TV mini-series and based on the 2004 true crime docu-series of the same name.
Mr Firth plays the lead role of Michael Peterson, a writer convicted of murdering his wife Kathleen Peterson, portrayed by Toni Collette. His spokesman declined to comment.