Hugh John Mungo Grant (born September 9, 1960 in London,
England) is an English film actor who tends to play
the American stereotype of an Englishman. Grant was
born to Finvola and James Grant, who has Scottish ancestry.
He has one brother, James Grant, who lives in Manhattan,
New York City.After attending Latymer Upper School for
boys, Grant studied English at New College, Oxford.
He made his film debut in 1982 with Oxford-financed
Privileged. Television came later, in 1985. In 1991,
he starred in the film Impromptu as Frederic Chopin
opposite Julian Sands.
One of his first major film roles
was in The Remains of the Day (1993), and he became
simultaneously known as the partner of actress Elizabeth
Hurley whom he had been dating since 1987 or earlier,
but it was Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994) which
turned him into a major star.
Not long after gaining a starring
role in Sense and Sensibility in 1995, Grant was arrested
near Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood, having been caught
receiving oral sex from a prostitute, Divine Brown,
in a car. A public apology on The Tonight Show with
Jay Leno helped win back public support. Although
he was forgiven by Hurley, they broke up some years
later. He was recently involved with British heiress
Jemima Khan, former wife of Pakistani political figure
and cricket star Imran Khan (as well as being the
daughter of Sir Jimmy Goldsmith) before separating.
Grant kept a low profile until 1999, when he starred
in Notting Hill opposite Julia Roberts, and followed
up with major successes in Bridget Jones's Diary (2001),
About a Boy (2002) and Two Weeks Notice (2002) opposite
Sandra Bullock. He returned to frequent collaborator
Richard Curtis for the 2003 romantic comedy, Love
Actually, and the sequel to Bridget Jones's Diary,
Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason was released in
2004.
Trivia
The boy who played "Sam" in Love Actually,
Thomas Sangster, is Grant's distant cousin.Grant played
cricket in his younger days, and currently enjoys
playing golf, frequently taking part in pro-am tournaments
and receives tuition from Colin Montgomerie. He is
a fan of Fulham Football Club. He has been spotted
a couple of times by Booker squash club.
In the pilot episode of Love Monkey
one of the characters defines a man's not being content
with a woman, no matter how perfect in any way, as
Grant's Law, named after Hugh Grant. It is a play
upon Murphy's Law.
Filmography
Privileged (1982)
Maurice (1987)
White Mischief (1987)
The Lair Of The White Worm (1988)
Remando al Viento (1988)
La Nuit Bengali (1988)
Nocturnes (1988)
The Dawning (1988)
Judith Krantz's Till We Meet Again (1989)
Champagne Charlie (1989)
The Big Man (1990)
Impromptu (1991)
Bitter Moon (1992)
The Remains of the Day (1993)
Night Train to Venice (1993) USA: Night Train to Hell
Sirens (1994)
Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994)
An Awfully Big Adventure (1995)
The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a
Mountain (1995)
Nine Months (1995)
Sense and Sensibility (1995)
Restoration (1995)
Extreme Measures (1996)
Notting Hill (1999)
Mickey Blue Eyes (1999)
Small Time Crooks (2000)
Bridget Jones's Diary (2001)
About a Boy (2002)
Two Weeks Notice (2002)
Love Actually (2003)
Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2004)
American Dreamz (2006)
American Dog (2008)
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