Hugh Grant Biography

Hugh Grant (born 9 September 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.

Biography

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 Frédéric 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, Hugh Grant was arrested near Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood, having been caught in flagrante delicto with 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.

Hugh Grant 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.

Hugh 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

In his earlier career, he was often credited as Hughie Grant.
Thomas Sangster, who played the boy "Sam" in Love Actually, is a distant cousin of Grant.
Grant played cricket in his younger days, and currently enjoys playing golf, frequently taking part in pro-am tournaments where he receives tuition from Colin Montgomerie. He is a fan of Fulham Football 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.

Film List

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)