Anyone who has ever read Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice over the past 200 years has surely conjured up his or her own idea of what the curmudgeonly-but-lovable Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy would ...

But a group of UK academics have discovered that Austen's fictional heartthrob Mr Fitzwilliam Darcy didn't look at all like the actors -- Colin Firth and Matthew MacFadyen -- who've played him.

But brace yourselves, book lovers, because it turns out that Mr. Darcy — the character we’ve been crushing on for over 200 and who has inspired an entire subgenre of literature — might have ...

So Darcy would have had sloping shoulders, a narrow chest, shapely calves and thighs, pale, powdered hair and a fair complexion. In terms of facial features, he is likely to have had a long nose ...

This week, Benedict Cumberbatch triggered our collective crush reflex, when he recreated Colin Firth’s portrayal of Mr. Darcy for a charity photograph. Firth originally set hearts afire as ...

Matthew Rhys: Yes and no. I think if I was offered to play Darcy in Pride & Prejudice, I would have said no for the simple reason [that] so many people have done it before.The readership of Pride ...

Darcy lovers, get ready to swoon. The blousy white shirt that Fitzwilliam Darcy (played by Colin Firth in a role that launched his career, along with a raft of female fantasies) wore in the 1995 ...

He has a funny name: Fitzwilliam Darcy. His occupation is even worse: “gentleman.” (Ugh.) He’s cold, aloof, stoic and proud to the point of arrogance. “Haughty, reserved and fastidious,” in ...

Joining a growing field of Austeniana—and, particularly, Darcyiana—Grange retells Austen's Pride & Prejudice from Fitzwilliam Darcy's point of view. Her device for doing so is an imagined ...