“Well, Drew, I think did hate me a bit. But I admired her. We just were very different human beings,”
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Hugh Grant
Hugh John Mungo Grant is an English actor. He established himself early in his career as a charming and 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 mag…
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2026· 6 entries
“She was very L.A. and I was an old grumpy Londoner. The funny thing is, although it was fractionally tense on the set of that film, I think the chemistry is rather good between us. Sometimes tension makes a good crackle.”
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“a politician with integrity, who puts the public first”
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“I was tired of the Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday papers publishing almost entirely fictional articles about my private life for their own financial gain.”
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Public attention spiked: 17,990 Wikipedia readers in one day, 4.6× the usual 3,898, with 3 article edits. Editors noted: Relationships Anna Eberstein, daughter of {{ill|Susanne Eberstein|sv}}
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The Guardian: Hugh Grant and Esther Ghey sign letter backing under-16s social media ban in UK
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2025· 3 entries
The Guardian: There’s a reason Hugh Grant is the best thing in middling movies: he writes his own lines
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The Guardian: Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy review – giant laughs for Hugh Grant but weepie sequel is strangely dazed
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Grant returned to the romantic comedy genre in a supporting role, reprising his role as Daniel Cleaver in Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy
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2024· 1 entry
Grant had a guest appearance in Stephen Frears-directed, Kate Winslet-starring HBO limited series The Regime, for which he was nominated for Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actor
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2023· 2 entries
Grant appeared as an Oompa-Loompa in Wonka, a film which serves as a prequel to the Roald Dahl novel Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, exploring Willy Wonka's origins
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Grant reunited with Guy Ritchie for the action Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre alongside Jason Statham and Aubrey Plaza
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2022· 1 entry
Time Out magazine listed Grant as one of Britain's 50 greatest actors of all time
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2021· 1 entry
Snopes rated the claim “Actor Hugh Grant's middle name is "Mungo."” Mostly True.
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2020· 2 entries
After moving on to more character roles, he has stated that he "enjoys acting now"
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Grant starred in HBO miniseries The Undoing, opposite Nicole Kidman and Donald Sutherland
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2019· 2 entries
“I am not a Lib Dem, a Tory, a Labourite or anything in particular but I recognise political guts.”
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Grant played another against-type role, in Guy Ritchie's The Gentlemen, his second collaboration with the director following The Man From U
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2018· 3 entries
“I discovered it hurt less if you tackled hard than if you tackled like a queen”
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Grant returned to television screens after 25 years, as Jeremy Thorpe opposite Ben Whishaw as Norman Josiffe in the BBC One miniseries A Very English Scandal, which marked his second collaboration with director Stephen F
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Grant mentioned the on-set tension that he and Robert Downey Jr
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2015· 2 entries
Grant's daughters with Eberstein were born in December 2015 and March 2018.
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Had a supporting role as Alexander Waverly in Guy Ritchie's crime thriller The Man from U
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2012· 3 entries
Stated that Hong had been "badly treated" by the media; the press intrusion prevented him from attending the birth of his daughter, with Hong obtaining an injunction to allow him to visit them in peace
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Played six "incredibly evil" characters in the epic drama film Cloud Atlas, an experience he has talked about positively, saying:
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Later, Grant reunited briefly with Hong, and she gave birth to Grant's third child, a son, in December 2012.
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2011· 2 entries
The BBC apologised after Grant made an offhand joke about homosexuality and rugby when he was invited into the commentary box during coverage of an England v Scotland game at Twickenham Stadium
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Grant appeared at the Liberal Democrats' conference on the News International phone-hacking scandal, where he briefly met then-party leader Nick Clegg
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2009· 1 entry
Starred opposite Sarah Jessica Parker in Marc Lawrence's romantic comedy Did You Hear About the Morgans
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2007· 1 entry
Starred opposite Drew Barrymore in a parody of pop culture and the music industry called Music and Lyrics
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2004· 1 entry
Reprised his role as Daniel Cleaver for a small part in Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason, which, like its predecessor, made more than $262 million commercially
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2002· 4 entries
Grant credited his mother with "any acting genes that [he] might have
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Grant starred as the trust-funded womaniser Will Freeman in the film adaptation of Nick Hornby's best-selling novel About a Boy
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Grant is godfather to Hurley's son Damian, born in 2002.
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And Grant resigned as director in December 2005
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2001· 3 entries
Grant has worked as a fundraiser and ambassador for Marie Curie Cancer Care, promoting the charity's annual Great Daffodil Appeal on several occasions
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His turn as a charming but womanising book publisher, Daniel Cleaver, in Bridget Jones's Diary was proclaimed by Variety to be "as sly an overthrow of a star's polished posh – and nice – poster image as any comic turn in
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Grant bought the print "Liz" by Andy Warhol for £2m
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2000· 2 entries
Grant told host Matt Lauer, "It's my millennium of bastards"
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Grant also joined the supervisory board of IM Internationalmedia AG, the powerful Munich-based film and media company
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1999· 1 entry
Paired with Julia Roberts in Notting Hill, which was written by Richard Curtis and produced by much of the same team that was responsible for Four Weddings and a Funeral
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1996· 1 entry
Grant won substantial damages from News (UK) Ltd over what his lawyers called a "highly defamatory" article published in January 1995
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1995· 4 entries
Awarded BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role for Four Weddings and a Funeral (1995).
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Won Golden Globe Awards (1995).
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Starred as Emma Thompson's suitor in her Academy Award-winning adaptation of Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility, directed by Ang Lee
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Also performed in Restoration; Lisa Schwarzbaum wrote that Grant is "having a fine and liberating time playing a supercilious court portrait painter", and Kevin Thomas of Los Angeles Times said he has "some delicious
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1994· 1 entry
With Grant as the protagonist, Four Weddings and a Funeral became the highest-grossing British film to date with a worldwide box office in excess of $244 million, making him an overnight international star
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1993· 1 entry
Had a supporting role in the Merchant-Ivory drama The Remains of the Day
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1992· 1 entry
Appeared in Roman Polanski's film Bitter Moon, portraying a fastidious and proper British tourist who is married but finds himself enticed by the sexual hedonism of a seductive French woman and her embittered, paraple
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1991· 2 entries
Played Julie Andrews' gay son in the ABC made-for-television film Our Sons
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Also starred as Frederic Chopin in Impromptu, opposite Judy Davis as his lover George Sand
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1990· 1 entry
Had a small role in the sport/crime drama The Big Man, opposite Liam Neeson, in which Grant assumed a Scottish accent; the film explores the life of a Scottish miner (Neeson) who becomes unemployed during a union stri
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1988· 1 entry
Had a leading role in Ken Russell's horror film, The Lair of the White Worm
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1987· 2 entries
Won Volpi Cup for Best Actor (1987).
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While playing Lord Byron in the Spanish production Remando Al Viento (1988), Grant met actress Elizabeth Hurley, who was cast in a supporting role as Byron's former lover Claire Clairmont
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1986· 1 entry
Played Eric Birling in a production of An Inspector Calls at the Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester, directed by Richard Wilson, giving a performance that Grevel Lindop, writing in the Times Literary Supplement, des
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1985· 1 entry
And 1986, Grant had minor roles in eight television productions, including TV films, historical miniseries and single episodes of series
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1979· 1 entry
Won a Galsworthy scholarship to study at the University of Oxford as a student of New College, Oxford, where he read English literature and graduated with an upper second class degree
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1960· 1 entry
Born 1960-09-09.
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1917· 1 entry
Wales in The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain (1995)
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