The Oscar-winning film actor and producer Colin Firth, unmoved by Theresa May’s pronouncements in Florence, has accepted Italian citizenship, according to the Italian interior ministry in Rome. The actor’s agent said that the decision to apply for a new passport at the Italian embassy in London had been a family decision. “Colin applied for dual citizenship [British and Italian] in order to have the same passports as his wife and children,” the agent said. Firth and Giuggioli, 47, also have a house near the town of Città della Pieve in Umbria and the actor speaks good Italian. Any Briton born in the Irish Republic or Northern Ireland, or with an Irish parent or grandparent, is entitled to an Irish passport and it is thought six million could be eligible.

Source: The Guardian September 23, 2017 15:42 UTC