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.

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 ...

Firth originally set hearts afire as Fitzwilliam Darcy in the 1995 BBC adaptation ... he’s the kind of self-satisfied dude that would ask you out at the bar while reminding you that his salary ...