Hugh Grant
Acting
- Born:
- 1960-09-09
- Place of birth:
- London, England, UK
Biography
Hugh John Mungo Grant (born 9 September 1960) is an English actor. He established himself early in his career as a charming, vulnerable romantic leading man and has since transitioned into a character actor. He has received several accolades, including a British Academy Film Award and a Golden Globe Award, as well as nominations for two Primetime Emmy Awards. He received an Honorary César in 2006. In 2022, Time Out magazine listed Grant as one of Britain's 50 greatest actors of all time. As of 2025, his films have grossed over US$4 billion worldwide. Grant made his feature film acting debut in Privileged (1982), followed by the romantic drama Maurice (1987), for which he gained acclaim and won the Volpi Cup for Best Actor. He then acted in a string of successful period dramas such as The Remains of the Day (1993), Sense and Sensibility (1995) and Restoration (1995). Grant emerged as a star with Richard Curtis's romantic comedy Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994), for which he won the Golden Globe and BAFTA Award for Best Actor. He starred in further romantic comedies such as Notting Hill (1999), Bridget Jones's Diary (2001) and its 2004 and 2025 sequels, About a Boy (2002), Two Weeks Notice (2002), Love Actually (2003) and Music and Lyrics (2007). Grant began taking on against-type parts, earning three BAFTA Award nominations for his roles as St. Clair Bayfield in the biopic comedy Florence Foster Jenkins (2016), a haughty actor in the family film Paddington 2 (2017), and a charming yet sinister man in the horror film Heretic (2024). He has also acted in the science fiction epic Cloud Atlas (2012), the crime comedy The Gentlemen (2019), the fantasy comedy Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves (2023), and the musical fantasy Wonka (2023). He earned two Primetime Emmy Award nominations for his roles as Jeremy Thorpe in the BBC miniseries A Very English Scandal (2018) and a man accused of murder in the HBO miniseries The Undoing (2020). Grant has been outspoken about his antipathy toward acting, his disdain for celebrity culture, and his hostility toward the media. He emerged as a prominent critic of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation during the News International phone hacking scandal. Description above from the Wikipedia article Hugh Grant, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Filmography
Treasure Island
Tribeca 25
What is an Ocean… Reconnecting the Cast and Crew of Cloud Atlas
Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy
Paddington in Peru
Heretic
Merchant Ivory
Unfrosted
The Regime
Wonka
Faut Voir - L'Hebdo cinéma
Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
Beau geste
Scandalous: Phone Hacking on Trial
Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre
The Laughter & Secrets of Love Actually: 20 Years Later – A Diane Sawyer Special
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
Death to 2021
Mosley: It's Complicated
Death to 2020
Being Bridget Jones
The Undoing
The Drew Barrymore Show
The Rise of the Murdoch Dynasty
The Gentlemen
Polanski, le travail à l'oeuvre
The Kelly Clarkson Show
One Red Nose Day and a Wedding
A Very English Scandal
GQ Presents: Iconic Characters
Late Night Berlin
Paddington 2
Red Nose Day Actually
Quotidien
There's Something About Romcoms
Florence Foster Jenkins
A Grand Night In: The Story of Aardman
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
The Late Late Show with James Corden
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
The Rewrite
One Rogue Reporter
W1A
Late Night with Seth Meyers
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Terms and Conditions May Apply
Hugh Grant: Taking on the Tabloids
Girlfriend in a Coma
Cloud Atlas
So You Want To Be A Pirate!
The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists!
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
Did You Hear About the Morgans?
Live from Studio Five
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
Locating the World of Sense & Sensibility
Elegance & Simplicity: The Wardrobe of Sense & Sensibility
Projectorparishilton
The Graham Norton Show
Music and Lyrics
El hormiguero
American Dreamz
Live 8
A Tribute To Ismail Merchant
Housewarming
Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason
Kulturplatz
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Love Actually
101 Most Shocking Moments in Entertainment
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Two Weeks Notice
Top Gear
American Idol
Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway
About a Boy
Heart of the Festival
50 Years of NBC Late Night
Bridget Jones's Diary
Small Time Crooks
The Early Show
Mickey Blue Eyes
The Making of a Mobster: 'Mickey Blue Eyes'
Notting Hill
Doctor Who: The Curse of Fatal Death
Junket Whore
Parkinson
The View
Happy Birthday Elizabeth: A Celebration of Life
Extreme Measures
The Daily Show
Night Train to Venice
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
TFI Friday
Restoration
Sense and Sensibility
Nine Months
The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain
An Awfully Big Adventure
Inside the Actors Studio
Four Weddings and a Funeral
Sirens
The Changeling
The Remains of the Day
The Nanny
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Late Show with David Letterman
Shakespeare: The Animated Tales
Twelfth Night
Bitter Moon
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
The Trials of Oz
Performance
Our Sons
Impromptu
The Big Man
Judith Krantz's Till We Meet Again
Champagne Charlie
The Lady and the Highwayman
The Bengali Night
The Lair of the White Worm
Rowing with the Wind
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
The Dawning
White Mischief
Maurice
A Modest Success
The Demon Lover
A Very Peculiar Practice
Ladies in Charge
Jenny's War
Jenny's War
Honour, Profit & Pleasure
The Detective
The Last Place on Earth
Goldene Kamera
Shades of Darkness
Privileged
Wetten, dass..?
Question Time
Film '72
The Oscars
Today
Golden Globe Awards
James Ivory: In Search of Love and Beauty