Colin Firth is eager to shed his serious movie image - he'd love to play "a transvestite or a stripper" on the big screen.

The British actor shot to fame in a 1990s TV adaption of Jane Austen's Pride & Prejudice and has since gone on to play stoic roles in films like Girl with a Pearl Earring and first-time director Tom Ford's acclaimed 2009 movie A Single Man.

Firth is tipped for Oscar glory next year with his portrayal of stuttering monarch King George VI in new royal drama The King's Speech - but the actor admits he'd like to take on a very different role next.

He says, "I'm dying ...

Most recently, Octomom Nadya Suleman was accused of trying to look and be like Angelina Jolie. If this is true, she's not alone. These days it seems like most women want to look and be like Angelina Jolie. It has become an obsession. Women around the world are going to their plastic surgeons and getting Botox injections and having facial surgery to resemble Jolie. Can you blame them? Angelina is one of the most beautiful women in Hollywood. She is an iconic figure women look up to and want to emulate. There are a number of young female celebrities who are emulating her right now and they ar...

There’s something undeniably sexy about an Irish accent. Add celebrity into the mix, and you have a pretty powerful combination. Here are some of the Irish actors whose charisma, talent and lilting speech have made them favorites among moviegoers and TV fans:

When you think "Irish actor," Colin Farrell immediately comes to mind. A reformed bad boy who reportedly dated Britney Spears and made an infamous sex tape with former girlfriend and Playboy model Nicole Narain, Farrell has altered his priorities in the past few years.

Farrell recently showed his tender side when he opened...

Scarlett Johansson has signed on to play Queen Mary in a new movie adaptation of the life of Mary Queen Of Scots. The actress, who has gone back in time to star in movies like The Black Dahlia and The Girl With The Pearl Earring, will play the British rebel queen next summer.

The new film will focus on the famously contentious relationship between Mary and her half-sister Queen Elizabeth I, who had the Scot imprisoned as a traitor and a threat to the English crown, and then beheaded.

The project is a perfect fit for Johansson - she is currently filming another Tudor period piece...