Hugh Grant

Acting · 4.0 popularity

Age

Movies

Born: September 9, 1960
From: London, England, UK

Biography

Hugh John Mungo Grant (born 9 September 1960) is an English actor and film producer. He has received a Golden Globe Award, a BAFTA, and an Honorary César. His movies have also earned more than $2.4 billion from 25 theatrical releases worldwide. Grant achieved international stardom after appearing in Richard Curtis's sleeper hit Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994). He used this breakthrough role as a frequent cinematic persona during the 1990s to deliver comic performances in mainstream films like Mickey Blue Eyes (1999) and Notting Hill (1999). By the turn of the century, he had established himself as a leading man skilled with a satirical comic talent. Since the 2000s, Grant has expanded his oeuvre with critically acclaimed turns as a cad in Bridget Jones's Diary (2001), About A Boy (2002), Love Actually (2003), and American Dreamz (2006). Within the film industry, Grant is cited as an anti-movie star who approaches his roles like a character actor, with the ability to make acting look effortless. Hallmarks of his comic skills include a nonchalant touch of irony/sarcasm and studied physical mannerisms as well as his precisely-timed dialogue delivery and facial expressions. The entertainment media's coverage of Grant's life off the big screen has often overshadowed his work as a thespian. He has been vocal about his disrespect for the profession of acting, his disdain towards the culture of celebrity, and hostility towards the media. In a career spanning 20 years, Grant has repeatedly claimed that acting is not a true calling but just a job he fell into.

Works

88 films

Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves

20237.4

Heretic

20247.0

Love Actually

20037.1

Notting Hill

19997.3

Paddington in Peru

20246.8

Bridget Jones's Diary

20016.7

Wonka

20237.0

The Gentlemen

20207.7

Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery

20227.0

Cloud Atlas

20126.9

Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy

20256.4

Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason

20046.2

The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

20157.1

Paddington 2

20177.5

Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre

20236.5

Sense and Sensibility

19957.4

Four Weddings and a Funeral

19946.8

Two Weeks Notice

20026.4

Bitter Moon

19927.1

About a Boy

20026.7

The Remains of the Day

19937.4

The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists!

20126.5

Music and Lyrics

20076.5

Maurice

19877.6

Florence Foster Jenkins

20166.7

Nine Months

19955.7

Unfrosted

20245.4

The Rewrite

20146.0

Extreme Measures

19966.0

Sirens

19945.6

Did You Hear About the Morgans?

20095.4

Red Nose Day Actually

20177.0

The Lair of the White Worm

19885.9

Mickey Blue Eyes

19995.7

The Bengali Night

19886.6

Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen

20127.5

Death to 2020

20206.5

Junket Whore

19985.0

Small Time Crooks

20006.5

Impromptu

19916.1

There's Something About Romcoms

20166.0

The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain

19956.3

What is an Ocean… Reconnecting the Cast and Crew of Cloud Atlas

2025

American Dreamz

20065.1

White Mischief

19876.1

Live 8

20057.4

Restoration

19956.1

Death to 2021

20216.0

The Big Man

19904.8

Heart of the Festival

20026.5

The Changeling

19938.0

An Awfully Big Adventure

19956.5

Merchant Ivory

20247.7

So You Want To Be A Pirate!

20126.2

One Red Nose Day and a Wedding

20197.0

Mosley: It's Complicated

20217.0

Terms and Conditions May Apply

20137.0

The Lady and the Highwayman

19885.1

Doctor Who: The Curse of Fatal Death

19997.4

101 Most Shocking Moments in Entertainment

20035.0

A Grand Night In: The Story of Aardman

20157.1

50 Years of NBC Late Night

20015.0

The Demon Lover

19867.0

Polanski, le travail à l'oeuvre

20196.0

Honour, Profit & Pleasure

198510.0

Rowing with the Wind

19885.8

Our Sons

19915.4

The Laughter & Secrets of Love Actually: 20 Years Later – A Diane Sawyer Special

20227.0

A Tribute To Ismail Merchant

200510.0

Locating the World of Sense & Sensibility

2009

One Rogue Reporter

20146.0

Night Train to Venice

19962.3

Elegance & Simplicity: The Wardrobe of Sense & Sensibility

2009

Being Bridget Jones

20209.0

Housewarming

20055.5

Champagne Charlie

19895.3

Hugh Grant: Taking on the Tabloids

2012

Jenny's War

19856.0

The Trials of Oz

19916.3

Scandalous: Phone Hacking on Trial

2023

The Dawning

19885.9

The Making of a Mobster: 'Mickey Blue Eyes'

19997.0

Girlfriend in a Coma

20126.9

Happy Birthday Elizabeth: A Celebration of Life

19977.3

Privileged

19827.5

A Modest Success

1986

Twelfth Night

1992

James Ivory: In Search of Love and Beauty

2026