Grant during his appearance in November 2014 Born Hugh John Mungo Grant ( 1960-09-09) 9 September 1960 (age 57), UK Alma mater Occupation Actor, producer Years active 1982–present Partner(s) (1987–2000) Children 4 Hugh John Mungo Grant (born 9 September 1960) is an English actor and film producer. Grant has received a, a, and an for his work. His films have earned more than US$2.4 billion from 25 theatrical releases worldwide. Grant first received attention after earning the for his performance in 's (1987) but achieved international success after appearing in the -scripted (1994). Grant used this breakthrough role as a frequent cinematic persona during the 1990s, delivering comic performances in films such as (1999) and (1999).

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One of the best known figures in 1990s, Grant was in a high-profile relationship with, which was the focus of much attention in the British and international media. By the turn of the 21st century, Grant had established himself as a, skilled with a satirical comic talent. Grant has expanded his oeuvre with critically acclaimed turns as a in (2001), (2002), and (2006). Grant later played against with multiple roles in the epic sci-fi drama film, (2012).

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He is also known for appearing in such as (1993), (1995) and (2016). Within the film industry, Grant is cited as an anti-star who approaches his roles like a, and attempts to make his acting appear spontaneous. Hallmarks of his comic skills include a nonchalant touch of / 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 an actor. Grant has been outspoken about his antipathy towards the profession of acting, and in his disdain towards the culture of celebrity and hostility towards the media. In a career spanning 30 years, Grant has repeatedly claimed that acting was not his true calling, but rather a career that developed by happenstance. Contents.

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Early life Grant was born at in, London, the second son of Fynvola Susan MacLean (b., 11 October 1933; d., July 2001) and James Murray Grant (b. Grant's grandfather, Colonel James Murray Grant, was decorated for bravery and leadership at during World War II. Genealogist Antony Adolph has described Grant's family history as 'a colourful tapestry of warriors, empire-builders and aristocracy.' A few of his notable ancestors include, Dr. James Stewart, and a sister of former Prime Minister. Grant's father was an officer in the for eight years in, and Scotland. He ran a carpet firm, pursued hobbies such as golf and, and raised his family in, west London, where the Grants lived next to Arlington Park Mansions on Sutton Lane.

In September 2006, a collection of Capt. Grant's paintings was hosted by the John Martin Gallery in a charity exhibition, organised by his son, called 'James Grant: 30 Years of Watercolours.'

His mother worked as a schoolteacher and taught Latin, French and music for more than 30 years in the of west London. She died at the age of 67, 18 months after being diagnosed with. Grant's is an inheritance from his mother; and, on in 2002, he credited her with 'any acting genes that he might have.' Both his parents were children of military families, but, despite his parents' backgrounds, Grant has stated that his family was not always affluent while he was growing up. Grant spent his childhood summers shooting and hunting with his grandfather in Scotland. Grant has an older brother, James, living in Portugal.

Education Grant started his education at Hogarth Primary School in Chiswick but then moved to St Peter's Primary School in, Grant was then educated at an independent prep school. From 1969 to 1978, he attended the independent in Hammersmith on a scholarship and played 1st XV rugby, cricket and football for the school. He also represented Latymer on the popular quiz show, an academic competition between two teams of four secondary school students each. In 1979, Grant won the Galsworthy scholarship to, where he starred in his first film, produced by the. He read and graduated with. Actress, who met Grant while she was still at university, has recalled, 'I first met Hugh at a party at Oxford. There was something magical about him.

He was a star even then, without having done anything. Grant joined the exclusive at Oxford, a group with a reputation for debauchery and decadence'. Grant received an offer from the, to pursue a PhD in the history of art, but decided not to take the offer because he failed to secure a grant. Viewing acting as nothing more than a creative outlet, he joined the and starred in a successful touring production of. Young earner After making his debut as Hughie Grant in the Oxford-financed (1982), Grant dabbled in a variety of jobs, such as working as an assistant groundsman at, tutoring, writing comedy sketches for TV shows, and working for to write and produce radio commercials for products such as Mighty White bread and Red Stripe lager. To obtain his card, he joined the, a regional theatre, and lived for a year at Park Terrace in. Bored with small acting parts, he created his own comedy revue called The Jockeys of Norfolk, a name taken from Shakespeare's, with friends and Andy Taylor.

The group toured London's pub comedy circuit with stops at The George IV in, Canal Cafe Theatre in and The King's Head in. Starting on a low note, The Jockeys of Norfolk eventually proved a hit at the after their sketch on the, told as an, gained them a spot on the TV show called Edinburgh Nights. During this time, Grant also appeared in theatre productions of plays such as (at the ), and. Grant at the Cannes film festival, 1997. Grant's first leading film role came in 's drama (1987), adapted from 's novel. He and co-star shared the for best actor at the for their portrayals of lovers Clive Durham and Maurice Hall, respectively.

During the late 1980s and early 1990s, Grant balanced small roles on television with rare film work, which included a supporting role in (1988), opposite and and a turn as in a -winning Spanish production called (1988). He also portrayed some other real life figures during his early career such as in Champagne Charlie and as in -nominated. In 1990, he made a in the sport/crime drama, opposite, and in which Grant assumed a Scottish accent. The film explores the life of a Scottish miner (Neeson) who becomes unemployed during a union strike.

In 1991, he played ' gay son in the made-for-television film. In 1992, he appeared in 's film, 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, paraplegic American husband.

The film was called an 'anti-romantic opus of sexual obsession and cruelty' by the Washington Post. His other work in period pieces such as 's horror film (1988), award-winning drama (1993) and (as in) (1991) went largely unnoticed. He later called this phase of his career 'hilarious,' referring to his early films as 'Europuddings, where you would have a French script, a Spanish director, and English actors. The script would usually be written by a foreigner, badly translated into English. And then they'd get English actors in, because they thought that was the way to sell it to America.' At 32, Grant claimed to be on the brink of giving up the acting profession but was surprised by the script of ( FWAAF).

'If you read as many bad scripts as I did, you'd know how grateful you are when you come across one where the guy actually is funny,' he later recalled. Released in 1994, FWAAF became the highest-grossing British film to date with a worldwide box office in excess of $244 million, making Grant an overnight international star. The film was nominated for two, and among numerous awards won by its cast and crew, it earned Grant his first and only and a. It also temporarily typecast him as the lead character, Charles, a bohemian and debonair bachelor. Grant and Curtis saw it as an inside joke that the star, due to the parts he played, was assumed to have the personality of the screenwriter, who is known for writing about himself and his own life.

Grant later expressed: “ Although I owe whatever success I've had to Four Weddings and a Funeral, it did become frustrating after a bit that people made two assumptions: One was that I was that character – when in fact nothing could be further from the truth, as I'm sure would tell you – and the other frustrating thing was that they thought that's all I could do. I suppose, because those films happened to be successful, no one, perhaps understandably. Bothered to rent all the other films I'd done. ” In July 1994, Grant signed a two-year production deal with and by October, he became founder and director of the UK-based Simian Films Limited. He appointed his then-girlfriend, Elizabeth Hurley, as the head of development to look for prospective projects. Simian Films produced two Grant vehicles in the 1990s and lost a bid to produce About a Boy to 's. The company closed its US office in 2002 and Grant resigned as director in December 2005.

He also starred in the film as the leading character Pirate Captain. Grant's first studio-financed project was 's comedy. Though a hit at the box office, it was almost universally panned by critics. The Washington Post called it a 'grotesquely pandering caper' and singled out Grant's performance, as a child psychiatrist reacting unfavourably to his girlfriend's unexpected pregnancy, for his 'insufferable muggings.'

The same year, he played leading roles as 's suitor in ’s Academy Award-winning adaptation of 's and as a cartographer in 1917 Wales in. In the same year he performed in the -winning. Wrote Grant is 'having a fine and liberating time playing a supercilious court portrait painter' and of said he has 'some delicious moments' in the film. Before the release of Four Weddings and a Funeral, Grant reunited with its director, for the tragicomedy that was labelled a 'determinedly off-beat film'. Grant portrayed a bitchy, supercilious director of a repertory company in post-World War II. Critic wrote, 'It shows that he has range as an actor,' but the San Francisco Chronicle disapproved on grounds that the film 'plays like a vanity production for Grant.' , praising Grant as 'superb' and 'a dashing cad under any circumstances,' commented, 'For him this film represents the road not taken.

Made before Four Weddings and a Funeral was released, it captures Mr. Grant as the clever, versatile character actor he was then becoming, rather than the international dreamboat he is today.' Grant made his debut as a film producer with the 1996 thriller. Roger Ebert and Gene Siskel each gave the film three out of four stars with Siskel writing 'Hugh Grant's work in 'Extreme Measures' is a refreshing standout.'

After a three-year hiatus, in 1999 he paired with in, which was brought to theatres by much of the same team that was responsible for Four Weddings and a Funeral. This new production displaced Four Weddings and a Funeral as the biggest British hit in the history of cinema, with earnings equalling $363 million worldwide. As it became exemplary of modern romantic comedies in mainstream culture, the film was also received well by critics. CNN reviewer said, ' Notting Hill stands alone as another funny and heartwarming story about love against all odds.' Reactions to Grant's Golden Globe-nominated performance were varied, with 's Stephanie Zacharek criticising that, 'Grant's performance stands as an emblem of what's wrong with Notting Hill. What's maddening about Grant is that he just never cuts the crap. He's become one of those actors who's all shambling self-caricature, from his twinkly crow's feet to the time-lapsed half century it takes him to actually get one of his lines out.'

The film provided both its stars a chance to satirise the woes of international notoriety, most noted of which was Grant's turn as a faux-journalist who sits through a dull press junket with, what the New York Times called, 'a delightfully funny deadpan.' Grant also released his second production output, a fish-out-of-water mob comedy, that year. It was dismissed by critics, performed modestly at the box office, and garnered its actor-producer mixed reviews for his starring role. Roger Ebert thought, 'Hugh Grant is wrong for the role and strikes one wrong note and then another,' whereas, writing in the Los Angeles Times, said, 'If he'd been on the, fewer lives would have been lost. If he'd accompanied to the, the explorer would have lived to be 100. That's how good Hugh Grant is at rescuing doomed ventures.' While promoting 's on NBC's The Today Show in 2000, Grant told host, 'It's my millennium of bastards'.

In 2000, Grant also joined the Supervisory Board of, the powerful -based film and media company. Small Time Crooks starred Grant, in the words of film critic, as 'a petty, petulant, faux-Pygmalion art dealer, David, who is one of the sleaziest and most unsympathetic characters Mr. Allen has ever created.' In a role devoid of his comic attributes, the New York Times wrote: 'Mr. Grant deftly imbues his character with exactly a perfect blend of charm and nasty calculation.' A year later, his turn as a charming but womanising book publisher Daniel Cleaver in (2001) 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 memory'.

The film, adapted from 's novel of the same name, was an international hit, earning $281 million worldwide. Grant was, according to the Washington Post, fitting as 'a cruel, manipulative cad, hiding behind the male god's countenance that he knows all too well'.

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Grant's 'immaculate comic performance' (BBC) as the trust-funded womaniser, Will Freeman, in the film adaptation of 's best-selling novel received raves from critics. Almost universally praised, with an Academy Award-nominated screenplay, (2002) was determined by the Washington Post to be 'that rare romantic comedy that dares to choose messiness over closure, prickly independence over fetishised coupledom, and honesty over typical Hollywood endings.' Rolling Stone wrote, 'The acid comedy of Grant's performance carries the film and he gives this pleasing heartbreaker the touch of gravity it needs,' while Roger Ebert observed that 'the Cary Grant department is understaffed, and Hugh Grant shows here that he is more than a star, he is a resource.'

Released a day after the blockbuster, About a Boy was a more modest box office grosser than other successful Grant films, making all of $129 million globally. The film earned Grant his third Golden-Globe nomination, while the named Grant its Best British Actor and honoured him as one of the magazine's men of the year 2006. 'His performance can only be described as revelatory,' wrote critic Ann Hornaday, adding that 'Grant lends the shoals layer upon layer of desire, terror, ambivalence and self-awareness.' Concluded: 'The film gets most of its laughs from the evolved expertise of Hugh Grant in playing characters that audiences enjoy seeing taken down a peg or two as a punishment for philandering and womanising and simply being too handsome for words-and with an English accent besides. In the end, the film comes over as a messy delight, thanks to the skill, generosity and good-sport, punching-bag panache of Mr. Grant's performance.'

About a Boy also marked a notable change in Grant's boyish look. Now 41, he had lost weight and also abandoned his trademark floppy hair. 's took note of Grant's maturation in his review, saying he looked noticeably older and that it 'looked good on him.' He added that Grant's 'pillowy cheeks are flatter and a bit drawn, and the eyes that used to peer with 'love me' cuteness now betray a shark's casual cunning.

Everything about him is leaner and spikier (including his hair, which has been shorn and moussed into a Eurochic bed-head mess), but it's not just his surface that's more virile; the nervousness is gone, too. Hugh Grant has grown up, holding on to his lightness and witty cynicism but losing the stuttering sherry-club mannerisms that were once his signature. In doing so, he has blossomed into the rare actor who can play a silver-tongued sleaze with a hidden inner decency.' Grant was also paired with in 's, which made $199 million internationally but received poor reviews.

The Village Voice concluded that Grant's creation of a spoiled billionaire fronting a real estate business was 'little more than a Britishism machine.' Two Weeks Notice was followed by the 2003 ensemble comedy, headlined by Grant as the British Prime Minister. A Christmas release by Working Title Films, the film was promoted as 'the ultimate romantic comedy' and accumulated $246 million at the international box office. It marked the directorial debut of Richard Curtis, who told the New York Times that Grant adamantly tempered the characterisation of the role to make his character more authoritative and less haplessly charming than earlier Curtis incarnations. Roger Ebert claimed that 'Grant has flowered into an absolutely splendid romantic comedian' and has 'so much self-confidence that he plays the British prime minister as if he took the role to be a good sport.' Film critic, on the contrary, called Grant's performance 'an oversexed bachelor spin on Tony Blair' as the star 'flirted with himself in the paroxysm of self-love that has become his acting style.'

In a 2005 speech, British Prime Minister referred to Grant's character in a speech, saying: 'I know there's a bit of us that would like me to do a Hugh Grant in Love Actually and tell America where to get off. But the difference between a good film and real life is that in real life there's the next day, the next year, the next lifetime to contemplate the ruinous consequences of easy applause.' Grant during the second round of, October 2007 In 1987, while playing in the Spanish production Remando Al Viento (1988), Grant met actress, who was cast in a supporting role as Byron's former lover.

Grant began dating Hurley during filming and their relationship was subsequently the subject of much media attention. After 13 years together, they separated in May 2000. He is godfather to her son Damian, born in 2002. In September 2011, Grant had a daughter, Tabitha, with Tinglan Hong, a receptionist at a Chinese restaurant in London. His daughter's Chinese name is Xiao Xi, meaning 'happy surprise'. Grant and Hong had a 'fleeting affair', according to his publicist. Grant has said that Hong has 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.

In September 2012 Grant had a second child, John Mungo Grant, with Swedish television producer Anna Eberstein. He subsequently reunited with Hong, with whom he had his third child, Felix Grant, in 2013. Grant and Eberstein then had a second child, Grant's fourth, in December 2015. Political views In 2011, Grant appeared at the ' conference on the, where he briefly met then-party leader. Grant said that he was attending the and conferences as well, but told Lib Dem activists that 'You, more than any of the other parties, have a good bill of health. You have never been in bed with these scumbags.' In the, Grant expressed support for prominent Liberal Democrat figure and later hosted a dinner for the Liberal Democrats, in which he met the winner of a draw of donors to the Liberal Democrats.

In an email sent by former Liberal Democrat leader, Grant wrote: 'I am not a Lib Dem, a Tory, a Labourite or anything in particular but I recognise political guts.' In the 2015 election, Grant also endorsed two Labour candidates: (saying 'I wish he could be our next to be honest'), and his former agent,.

Sports As a young boy, he played on his school's first XV team at centre and played as an avid fan of He continued to play in a Sunday-morning football league in south-west London after college and remains an 'impassioned Fulham supporter.' Grant is also a supporter of Scottish football club. Grant's other interests include tennis and snooker.

In 2011, the apologised after Grant made an offhand joke about and rugby when he was invited into the commentary box during coverage of an vs game. Talking about playing rugby during his school days, Grant said: 'I discovered it hurt less if you tackled hard than if you tackled like a queen.'

Charity work Grant is a patron of the, which operates the website Healthtalkonline. Grant is also patron of the Fynvola Foundation, named after his late mother; the foundation supports the Lady Dane Farmhouse, a home in for adults with. Since the death of his mother in 2001, Grant has worked as a fundraiser and ambassador for, promoting the charity's annual on several occasions. Grant is also a patron of. Awards and honours. (1976).

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