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.^ Hugh's full name is Hugh John Mungo Grant.
^ His full name is Hugh John Mungo Grant.- Little Known Facts About Hugh Grant - Associated Content - associatedcontent.com 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.associatedcontent.com [Source type: General]
^ Hugh John Mungo Grant (born 9 September 1960) is a British actor and film producer.- Hugh Grant Videos - Metacafe 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.metacafe.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
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.^ The film was nominated for two Academy Awards, and among numerous awards won by its cast and crew, it earned Grant his first and only Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Musical Or Comedy and a BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role.
^ NEWS January 8th, 2007: The 64th Annual Golden Globe Awards to be telecast live on NBC on January 15.- Search for hugh grant | MovieWeb 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.movieweb.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Caption: Hugh Grant and Drew Barrymore From: Photo Coverage: Golden Globe Awards Complete Coverage Date: 01-16-2007 .
.^ His movies have earned more than $2.4 billion from 25 theatrical releases worldwide.- Hugh Grant Videos - Metacafe 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.metacafe.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
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^ In a career spanning 20 years, Grant's movies have earned more than $2.4 billion from 25 theatrical releases worldwide.
^ He may be typecast but his movies are far more entertaining than Daniel Day Lewis movies and he is considered one of the greatest actors ever.- Can you name the Hugh Grant movies? - sporcle 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.sporcle.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[1]
.^ But it was the surprise comedy hit, "Four Weddings and a Funeral" (1994), that would turn Grant into a star.- Hugh Grant Biography - Yahoo! Movies 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC movies.yahoo.com [Source type: General]
^ "Four Weddings and a Funeral" was a great movie.- Hugh Grant to quit acting... again | Mail Online 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.dailymail.co.uk [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ That was the character he played in Richard Curtis' Four Weddings and a Funeral , alongside Andie MacDowell.- Hugh Grant - AskMen.com 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.askmen.com [Source type: General]
- Hugh Grant Celebrity Profile, News, Gossip & Photos - AskMen.com 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.askmen.com [Source type: General]
- Hugh Grant Celebrity Profile, News, Gossip & Photos - AskMen.com UK 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC uk.askmen.com [Source type: General]
[2] .^ Aug 20, 1999 Mickey Blue Eyes .- HSX.com – StarBond : Hugh Grant 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.hsx.com [Source type: General]
^ May 28, 1999 Notting Hill .- HSX.com – StarBond : Hugh Grant 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.hsx.com [Source type: General]
^ Mickey blue eyes .- Hugh Grant Fan Club | Fansite with photos, videos, and more 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.fanpop.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ By the turn of the 21st century, he established himself as a leading man skilled with a satirical comic talent.- Hugh Grant Videos - Metacafe 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.metacafe.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Synopsis: Comic leading man Hugh Grant gets serious in this drama about a physician who uncovers a truly disturbing secret.- Hugh Grant Filmography 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.fandango.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ With relatively sparse on-screen work as rogues and gentlemen, he established himself, by the turn of the 21st century, as an accomplished light comedian and prominent leading man.
[3] .^ In recent years, Grant has expanded his oeuvre with critically acclaimed turns as a cad in Bridget Jones's Diary (2001), About A Boy (2002), and American Dreamz (2006).- Hugh Grant Videos - Metacafe 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.metacafe.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ May 17, 2002 About a Boy .- HSX.com – StarBond : Hugh Grant 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.hsx.com [Source type: General]
^ Apr 13, 2001 Bridget Jones's Diary .- HSX.com – StarBond : Hugh Grant 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.hsx.com [Source type: General]
[4]
.^ Grant has been criticised by students of cinema for: the repetitive predictability of his movies, putting emphasis on nuanced mannerisms, and his unwillingness to stretch as an actor.
^ The actor also allegedly hurled abuse targeted at the photographer's as the poor guy backed off - maybe someone should put him in a movie with Alec Baldwin!- Hugh Grant Photos & Pics Archive at X17 Online 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC x17online.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ The movie is a definite must in any collection of queer cinema and tells the story of a group of Cambridge students forced to suppress their homosexuality because of Edwardian prudery.
[5] .^ Within the film industry, he is cited as a movie star who approaches his roles like a character actor, with the ability to make acting look effortless.
^ Is he limited, or does he limit himself by choosing familiar roles that play to his strengths, like his rakish cad in both Bridget Jones films?- Hugh Grant: The deadly serious star behind the smile 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.azcentral.com [Source type: General]
- Hugh Grant: Behind that smile lurks a deadly serious film star - USATODAY.com 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.usatoday.com [Source type: General]
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^ The actor disappeared from the screen for a time, but returned with the charming romantic comedy "Notting Hill" (1999), starring as a failed bookshop owner who enters a relationship with world famous film star Anna Scott (Julia Roberts).
[6] .^ Hallmarks of his patented comic skills include a nonchalant touch of irony/sarcasm and studied physical mannerisms as well as his precisely-timed dialogue delivery and facial expressions.
.^ Widespread media speculation about Grant's reportedly strong personality and life off the big screen has often overshadowed his work as a thespian.
^ Hugh Grant talks about his big screen return .- Hugh Grant talks about his big screen return 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC blog.taragana.com [Source type: General]
^ By Robert Deutsch, USA TODAY "He's very charming and clever and kind and a gentleman": That's Sarah Jessica Parker's description of Hugh Grant, her co-star in Did You Hear About the Morgans?, opening Friday.- Hugh Grant: Behind that smile lurks a deadly serious film star - Worldnews.com 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC article.wn.com [Source type: General]
[7][8] .^ Over years of fame, he has been identified in popular culture as a figure of charisma, charm, sharp tongue, and wit, who nonetheless is very vocal about his disrespect for the profession of acting and his disdain toward the culture of celebrity.
^ By Robert Deutsch, USA TODAY "He's very charming and clever and kind and a gentleman": That's Sarah Jessica Parker's description of Hugh Grant, her co-star in Did You Hear About the Morgans?, opening Friday.- Hugh Grant: Behind that smile lurks a deadly serious film star - Worldnews.com 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC article.wn.com [Source type: General]
^ But despite his reputation as a prickly interview who abhors personal questions and stonewalls reporters, Grant, 49, is charming, forthright and disarmingly quick-witted while discussing his latest film, Did You Hear About the Morgans ?- Hugh Grant: The deadly serious star behind the smile 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.azcentral.com [Source type: General]
[13] .^ He is equally infamous for his grumpiness, political incorrectness, hostilities with the media, and bad temper.
[13][14] .^ The photographer also claimed 46-year-old Hugh - who recently split from his girlfriend Jemima Khan - launched into a tirade of abuse aimed at his children.- Hugh Grant Hates Baked Beans, Photographers, And Small Children | ImNotObsessed.com 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.imnotobsessed.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ In a career spanning 20 years, Grant's movies have earned more than $2.4 billion from 25 theatrical releases worldwide.
^ Despite an oft-repeated claim that acting is not a true calling but just a job he fell into, Oxford-educated Grant is referred in the media as Britain's most bankable and best-known actor.
[15]
Ancestry and early life
.^ James Murray Grant born 1929 .- Behind Blue Eyes • • Your Hugh Grant Online Source • • 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC hughgrant.free.fr [Source type: General]
^ Grant was born in Hammersmith, London, England to Fynvola Susan MacLean, a teacher, and James Murray Grant, an aspiring artist and carpet salesman who ran a carpet firm.- Hugh Grant Photos | Who is Hugh Grant dating? Girlfriend, Wife 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.whosdatedwho.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Grant was born at Hammersmith Hospital in London, England to Captain James Murray Grant and his wife Fynvola Susan (ne MacLean).
[16] Genealogist Antony Adolph described Grant's family history as "a colourful
Anglo-Scottish tapestry of warriors, empire-builders and aristocracy."
[17] Grant is from a long line of
Scots military men, doctors and explorers, including
William Drummond and Dr. James Stewart.
[17][18][19] .^ His maternal antecedents extend to notable names in English and Scottish history, such as John Murray, 1st Duke of Atholl, Heneage Finch, 1st Earl of Nottingham, Rt Hon.
.^ Having played a chief executive (the British Prime Minister in Love Actually ), what advice did you have for Dennis Quaid (playing the President) or Willem Dafoe (as his Vice President)?- PopEntertainment.com: Hugh Grant interview about 'American Dreamz.' 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.popentertainment.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ One was 2003 when Hugh Grant played the British prime minister in Love Actually.- Hugh Grant - Boxxet 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.boxxet.com [Source type: General]
[20] .^ James Murray Grant born 1929 .- Behind Blue Eyes • • Your Hugh Grant Online Source • • 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC hughgrant.free.fr [Source type: General]
^ His own grandfather, Major James Murray Grant, DSO, a native of Inverness in Scotland, was decorated for bravery and leadership at Dunkirk during WWII. .
^ Hugh Grant for his bravery during filming.- Movies - News - Director: 'Hugh Grant is very brave' - Digital Spy 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.digitalspy.co.uk [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[21]
Grant's father, Capt.
.^ Grant was trained at Sandhurst and served with the Seaforth Highlanders for eight years in Malaya, Germany and Scotland.
^ One grandfather was in the Seaforth Highlanders - Grant would like to make a movie of his WW2 heroics, but his father forbids it, believing all movies to be a "vulgarisation" of the truth.- Hugh Grant - Wiki - Pictures - Videos 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.flixster.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
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- Behind Blue Eyes • • Your Hugh Grant Online Source • • 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC hughgrant.free.fr [Source type: General]
[22] .^ He ran a carpet firm, pursued hobbies such as golf and watercolouring, and raised his family in Chiswick, West London, where the Grants lived next to Arlington Park Mansions on Sutton Lane.
^ William Thacker (played by Hugh Grant ) is a bookseller at a shop in the Notting Hill district in West London, who shares a Read More .- Hugh Grant Filmography 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.fandango.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Hugh Grant leaves his home in west London.- Hugh Grant - Boxxet 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.boxxet.com [Source type: General]
[23][24] In September 2006, a collection of Capt.
.^ In September 2006, a collection of his paintings was hosted by the John Martin Gallery in a charity exhibition, organised by his famous son, called 'James Grant: 30 Years of Watercolours.'
^ Hugh Grant news Hugh Grant Sets Marriage As New Year's Resolution (afp) Fri, 08 Jan 2010 04:01:30 .- Latest Pictures of Hugh Grant > New, Latest Photos Shoot : pics @ Platinum-Celebs.com 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.platinum-celebs.com [Source type: General]
^ Grant sold the painting in 2007, six years later, for $20.8 million.- Hugh Grant's Drunken Warhol Purchase | NBC New York 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.nbcnewyork.com [Source type: General]
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- Hugh Grant's Drunken Warhol Purchase | NBC Dallas-Fort Worth 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.nbcdfw.com [Source type: General]
[25] His mother, Fynvola Grant, was the great-granddaughter of Sir Evan Colville Nepean (
CB), whose father, Rev. Canon Evan Nepean, served as the
Canon of
Westminster and was
Chaplain In Ordinary to
Queen Victoria.
[26] .^ Fynvola Grant, a schoolteacher and the great-granddaughter of Sir Evan Colville Nepean (CB), taught Latin, French and music for more than 30 years in the state schools of West London.
^ Willem had been coming to me for acting advice for years ever since I did Lair of the White Worm , but no more than usual.- PopEntertainment.com: Hugh Grant interview about 'American Dreamz.' 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.popentertainment.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ In a career spanning 20 years, Grant's movies have earned more than $2.4 billion from 25 theatrical releases worldwide.
[27] .^ She died at the age of 63, after an 18-month battle with pancreatic cancer, in 2001.
^ Grant was very close to his mother, Fynvola, who died of pancreatic cancer in July 2001, and he adores his father James, who he sees for a regular Sunday night supper.- Cele|bitchy » Blog Archive » Hugh Grant on his panic attacks & fears he’ll be “a sad, lonely old man” 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.celebitchy.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Mother : Fyvola Susan MacLean born 11 October 1933 died in July 2001 .- Behind Blue Eyes • • Your Hugh Grant Online Source • • 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC hughgrant.free.fr [Source type: General]
[29]Grant's famous
RP accent is an inheritance from his mother and, on
Inside the Actors Studio in 2002, he credited her with "any acting genes that [he] might have."
[24] Both his parents were children of military families,
[30] and, despite his parents' posh upbringings and backgrounds, Grant has stated that his family was not always affluent while he was growing up.
[31] .^ He spent his childhood summers in Scotland, shooting and fishing with his grandfather.
^ His own grandfather, Major James Murray Grant, DSO, a native of Inverness in Scotland, was decorated for bravery and leadership at Dunkirk during WWII. .
^ Rate news: +0 British actor Hugh Grant enjoyed action-packed Christmases during his childhood - he spent the holidays learning how to shoot on his grandparents' farm in Scotland.- Latest Pictures of Hugh Grant > New, Latest Photos Shoot : pics @ Platinum-Celebs.com 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.platinum-celebs.com [Source type: General]
[23] .^ His elder brother, James 'Jamie' Grant, is a successful banker as Senior Vice President, head of Remote Banking Services, at JPMorgan Chase in New York.
^ Brother : James Grant James is a banker.- Behind Blue Eyes • • Your Hugh Grant Online Source • • 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC hughgrant.free.fr [Source type: General]
^ He then reunited with the director of "FWAAF", Mike Newell, for the widely ignored tragicomedy "An Awfully Big Adventure" that was labelled a 'determinedly offbeat film' by the "New York Times".
[32]Education
.^ Grant started his education at the pre-preparatory Wetherby School.
.^ From 1969 to 1978, he attended Latymer Upper School on scholarship, excelling academically but concentrating primarily on playing 1st XV rugby, cricket and football for the institution.
^ As a young boy, Grant was known as 'a real killer, very fast, very competitive' on the sports field; he played rugby in his school's team of first XV as a stopper at centre and played football (American Soccer) as an avid fan of Fulham F.C..
^ Outside of his acting profession, Grant has been a good athlete, he played cricket and football in his younger years.- Hugh Grant (I) - Biography 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.imdb.com [Source type: General]
[33][34] .^ He also represented Latymer on the popular quiz show, "Top of the Form", an academic competition between two teams of four secondary school students each.
[35] Chris Hammond, his form teacher in 1975 and later the assistant head of Latymer, told
People magazine that Grant was "a clever boy among clever boys."
[34][36] In 1979, he won the Galsworthy scholarship to
New College, Oxford where he studied
English literature and graduated with
2:1 honours.
[37] .^ Grant is remembered as a famous face at Oxford, with actress Anna Chancellor recalling, 'I first met Hugh at a party at Oxford.
^ London, Hugh Grant was educated at Oxford University and performed with a comedy troupe called "The Jockeys of Norfolk."- Hugh Grant DVDs, Hugh Grant DVD Rentals, Rent Hugh Grant Movies at Netflix Today 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.netflix.com [Source type: General]
^ So apparently last night Hugh Grant was leaving "celebrity and paparazzi hotspot" (ha!- Hugh Grant Randomly Kicking A Dude In The Crotch Is Always Funny - Celebrity Gossip! - Videogum 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC videogum.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ There was something magical about him.
^ There is nothing temotely funny about a rich individual deploying £2m - on a drunken whim - to magic an additional £11m for himself out of thin air.- How Hugh Grant got drunk. And bought a Warhol | Jonathan Jones | Art and design | guardian.co.uk 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.guardian.co.uk [Source type: News]
^ There’s something about that sheepish, self-deprecating look he constantly sports that makes me quiver for him.- Cele|bitchy » Blog Archive » Hugh Grant: “I’m not as bad with children as I used to be” 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.celebitchy.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ He was a star even then, without having done anything.'
[38] .^ Viewing acting as nothing more than a creative outlet, he joined the Oxford University Dramatic Society and starred in a successful touring production of "Twelfth Night".
^ "I had to do this scene with an enormous grizzly bear, but as it turns out, this bear has done hundreds of films and is more interested in acting and how it looks on camera than on eating people.” .- Hugh Grant and Sarah Jessica Parker dish Did You Hear About the Morgans? 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.sheknows.com [Source type: General]
^ From a food safety point of view, these are products, these are crops, these are technologies that have been more widely tested than any other food product that came before them in history.- PBS - harvest of fear: interviews: hugh grant 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.pbs.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[40]
Young earner
.^ After making his debut as Hughie Grant in the Oxford-financed "Privileged" (1982) and deferring his place at the Courtauld Institute, Grant dabbled in a variety of jobs: he wrote book reviews; worked as assistant groundsman at Fulham Football Club; tried his hand at tutoring; wrote comedy sketches for TV shows; and was hired by Talkback Productions to write and produce radio commercials for products such as Mighty White bread and Red Stripe lager.
^ While still a student, he was snagged in 1982 for the Oxford production, Privileged , and was credited as Hughie Grant.- Hugh Grant - AskMen.com 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.askmen.com [Source type: General]
- Hugh Grant Celebrity Profile, News, Gossip & Photos - AskMen.com 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.askmen.com [Source type: General]
- Hugh Grant Celebrity Profile, News, Gossip & Photos - AskMen.com UK 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC uk.askmen.com [Source type: General]
^ He supplemented his income by writing TV comedy sketches and radio ads, and doing some literary reviews.- Hugh Grant - AskMen.com 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.askmen.com [Source type: General]
- Hugh Grant Celebrity Profile, News, Gossip & Photos - AskMen.com 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.askmen.com [Source type: General]
- Hugh Grant Celebrity Profile, News, Gossip & Photos - AskMen.com UK 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC uk.askmen.com [Source type: General]
[44] .^ To obtain his equity card, he joined the repertory theatre Nottingham Playhouse and lived for a year at Park Terrace in The Park Estate, Nottingham.
[45] .^ Bored of small acting parts, he created his own comedy revue called The Jockeys of Norfolk with friends Chris Lang and Andy Taylor.
^ Starting on a low note, The Jockeys of Norfolk eventually proved a hit at the Edinburgh Festival after their sketch on the Nativity, told as an Ealing comedy, garnered them a spot on the BBC2 TV show called "Edinburgh Nights".
^ His comedy crew, The Jockeys of Norfolk, was a hit at an Edinburgh festival and got signed for a TV pilot.- Hugh Grant - AskMen.com 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.askmen.com [Source type: General]
- Hugh Grant Celebrity Profile, News, Gossip & Photos - AskMen.com 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.askmen.com [Source type: General]
- Hugh Grant Celebrity Profile, News, Gossip & Photos - AskMen.com UK 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC uk.askmen.com [Source type: General]
.^ The group toured London's pub comedy circuit with stops at "The George IV" in Chiswick, "Canal Cafe Theatre" in Little Venice and "The King's Head" in Islington.
^ He jumped on his knack for making people laugh by joining a comedy troupe that performed in London's pub circuit, often performing alongside Mike Myers when he lived there.- Hugh Grant - AskMen.com 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.askmen.com [Source type: General]
- Hugh Grant Celebrity Profile, News, Gossip & Photos - AskMen.com 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.askmen.com [Source type: General]
- Hugh Grant Celebrity Profile, News, Gossip & Photos - AskMen.com UK 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC uk.askmen.com [Source type: General]
^ They played the London pub comedy circuit, including the George IV in Chiswick, often appearing on the same bill as Mike Myers , then resident in London.- Hugh Grant - Wiki - Pictures - Videos 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.flixster.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[46] .^ His comedy crew, The Jockeys of Norfolk, was a hit at an Edinburgh festival and got signed for a TV pilot.- Hugh Grant - AskMen.com 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.askmen.com [Source type: General]
- Hugh Grant Celebrity Profile, News, Gossip & Photos - AskMen.com 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.askmen.com [Source type: General]
- Hugh Grant Celebrity Profile, News, Gossip & Photos - AskMen.com UK 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC uk.askmen.com [Source type: General]
^ Starting on a low note, The Jockeys of Norfolk eventually proved a hit at the Edinburgh Festival after their sketch on the Nativity, told as an Ealing comedy, garnered them a spot on the BBC2 TV show called "Edinburgh Nights".
^ Got his start by performing in a British comedy sketch group, The Jockeys of Norfolk.- Hugh Grant (I) - Biography 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.imdb.com [Source type: General]
[47] During this time, Grant also appeared in theatre productions of plays such as
An Inspector Calls,
Lady Windermere's Fan, and
Coriolanus.
Movie career
.^ Grant's breakthrough came with the leading role as Charles in Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994), opposite Andy MacDowell, a role which won him a Golden Globe Award , as well as a BAFTA Film Award for Best Actor.- Hugh Grant (I) - Biography 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.imdb.com [Source type: General]
^ But it was all good experience for what came next, as Grant was signed by Merchant-Ivory to co-star as Clive Durham in 1987's Maurice , a moving tale involving college-based homosexual scandal.- Hugh Grant - Wiki - Pictures - Videos 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.flixster.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Following some television roles, Grant made his first professional film appearance in 1987 with a blink-and-he's-gone part in White Mischief.
.^ The film also starred James Wilby, who'd appeared with Grant in Privileged.- Behind Blue Eyes • • Your Hugh Grant Online Source • • 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC hughgrant.free.fr [Source type: General]
^ He and co-star James Wilby shared the Volpi Cup for best actor at the Venice Film Festival for their portrayal of Cantabrigian collegians Clive Durham and Maurice Hall, respectively.
^ The film also starred James Wilby, who'd appeared with Grant in Privileged .- Hugh Grant - Wiki - Pictures - Videos 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.flixster.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ During the late 1980s and early 1990s, Grant balanced small roles on television with obscure film work.
^ Remando al viento .
^ The role won him a Best Actor award at the Venice Film Festival, but despite such acclaim, Grant's next films were largely forgettable affairs.
.^ Following some television roles, Grant made his first professional film appearance in 1987 with a blink-and-he's-gone part in White Mischief.
^ Next came another stiff-upper-lipped period sex drama in White Mischief.- Behind Blue Eyes • • Your Hugh Grant Online Source • • 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC hughgrant.free.fr [Source type: General]
^ Next came another stiff-upper-lipped period sex drama in White Mischief .- Hugh Grant - Wiki - Pictures - Videos 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.flixster.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ The Big Man 1990 R , 116 min.- Hugh Grant - Movies 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC filmsandtv.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ He appeared in the gritty Liam Neeson-starring streetfighting drama The Big Man , then as the wholly ineffectual husband of Kristen Scott Thomas, freaked out by the sexually predatory Peter Coyote and Emmanuelle Seigner in Roman Polanski's Bitter Moon .- Hugh Grant - Wiki - Pictures - Videos 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.flixster.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ He appeared in the gritty Liam Neeson-starring streetfighting drama The Big Man, then as the wholly ineffectual husband of Kristen Scott Thomas, freaked out by the sexually predatory Peter Coyote and Emmanuelle Seigner in Roman Polanski's Bitter Moon.- Behind Blue Eyes • • Your Hugh Grant Online Source • • 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC hughgrant.free.fr [Source type: General]
The film explores the life of an Scottish miner (Neeson) who becomes unemployed during a union strike.
.^ Our Sons 1991 TV , 96 min.- Hugh Grant - Movies 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC filmsandtv.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Our Sons (1991) 23.- Hugh Grant - Movies 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC filmsandtv.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ That same year, he undertook the title role in the syndicated miniseries "Champagne Charlie", chronicling the true-life rise to success against the climate of the American Civil War and political unrest in France of Charles Heidsieck, and offered a touching turn as the homosexual son of Julie Andrews in AIDS drama "Our Sons" (ABC, 1991).
.^ But in 1992, Roman Polanski cast him in Bitter Moon as Kristen Scott Thomas' boob husband.- Hugh Grant - AskMen.com 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.askmen.com [Source type: General]
- Hugh Grant Celebrity Profile, News, Gossip & Photos - AskMen.com 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.askmen.com [Source type: General]
^ In 1992, he appeared in Roman Polanski's sex comedy "Bitter Moon", portraying a fastidious and proper British tourist who is married to Kristen Scott Thomas but finds himself enticed by the sexual hedonism of a seductive French woman and her embittered, paraplegic American husband.
^ He appeared in the gritty Liam Neeson-starring streetfighting drama The Big Man , then as the wholly ineffectual husband of Kristen Scott Thomas, freaked out by the sexually predatory Peter Coyote and Emmanuelle Seigner in Roman Polanski's Bitter Moon .- Hugh Grant - Wiki - Pictures - Videos 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.flixster.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ Called an 'anti-romantic opus of sexual obsession and cruelty' by the "Washington Post", the film has been identified as an early illustration of Grant's ability to put a bemused comic spin on strait-laced characters.
[48] .^ His other work in period pieces such as Ken Russell's "The Lair of the White Worm" (1988), award-winning Merchant-Ivory drama "The Remains of the Day" (1993) and (as Frdric Chopin in) "Impromptu" (1991) was largely unnoticed.
^ Now Grant played Chopin in Francois Aubry's short Nocturnes, joined John Hurt in La Nuit Bengali, and hugely enjoyed a return to gothic horror in Ken Russell's lunatic adaptation of Bram Stoker's The Lair Of The White Worm.- Behind Blue Eyes • • Your Hugh Grant Online Source • • 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC hughgrant.free.fr [Source type: General]
^ Now Grant played Chopin in Francois Aubry's short Nocturnes , joined John Hurt in La Nuit Bengali , and hugely enjoyed a return to gothic horror in Ken Russell's lunatic adaptation of Bram Stoker's The Lair Of The White Worm .- Hugh Grant - Wiki - Pictures - Videos 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.flixster.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ He later called this phase of his career 'hilarious,' referring to his early movies as Europuddings, 'where you would have a French script, a Spanish director, and English actors.
^ The British actor - who stars in new movie 'Did You Hear About The Morgans?'- Latest Pictures of Hugh Grant > New, Latest Photos Shoot : pics @ Platinum-Celebs.com 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.platinum-celebs.com [Source type: General]
^ Hugh later stated that he hoped his film stardom would just be "a phase", hopefully lasting no more than ten years.- Hugh Grant - Wiki - Pictures - Videos 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.flixster.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
- Behind Blue Eyes • • Your Hugh Grant Online Source • • 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC hughgrant.free.fr [Source type: General]
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.'
^ But it is true to say I always thought I was the best actor, and I did feel that way at school.- Cele|bitchy » Blog Archive » Hugh Grant: “I’m not as bad with children as I used to be” 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.celebitchy.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[49]
.^ At 32, Grant found it degrading to go to auditions for uninspiring roles and was on the brink of giving up the profession, when he was surprised by the script of "Four Weddings and a Funeral" ("FWAAF").
^ Charles in Four Weddings and Funeral (1994) .- Hugh Grant Picture, Video, Wallpaper, Profile, Gossip, and News at CelebrityWonder.com 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.celebritywonder.com [Source type: General]
^ LolaBella : November 25th, 2009 at 1:32 pm I’ve always had a crush on Hugh…I loved him in Notting Hill and Four Weddings And A Funeral.- Cele|bitchy » Blog Archive » Hugh Grant: “I’m not as bad with children as I used to be” 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.celebitchy.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[3] .^ '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.
^ Before he even begins, he’ll give you an itemized list of how he’s going to fail you: ‘I’m not funny, I’m no good…’ But I don’t know that Hugh doesn’t enjoy acting as much as he says he doesn’t.- Hugh Grant Interview - Get More Men We Love at ELLE.com 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.elle.com [Source type: General]
^ But it seems that deep down, people actually want that stuff as long as you're funny enough while you're doing it."- Hugh Grant Two Weeks Notice 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.femail.com.au [Source type: General]
[2] .^ Released in 1994, "FWAAF" unexpectedly became the highest-grossing British film of all time with a worldwide box office in excess of $244 million, making Grant an overnight international sensation.
^ The movie grossed over $320 million, making it the highest-grossing British film at the time.- Hugh Grant - AskMen.com 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.askmen.com [Source type: General]
- Hugh Grant Celebrity Profile, News, Gossip & Photos - AskMen.com UK 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC uk.askmen.com [Source type: General]
^ The film made $320 million, making it the highest grossing British film ever, and Grant won both a BAFTA and a Golden Globe.- Hugh Grant - Wiki - Pictures - Videos 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.flixster.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
- Behind Blue Eyes • • Your Hugh Grant Online Source • • 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC hughgrant.free.fr [Source type: General]
.^ The film was nominated for two Academy Awards, and among numerous awards won by its cast and crew, it earned Grant his first and only Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Musical Or Comedy and a BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role.
^ It also earned him a Golden Globe and a British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) award for Best Actor.- Hugh Grant Celebrity Profile, News, Gossip & Photos - AskMen.com 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.askmen.com [Source type: General]
^ Skins actor Nicholas Hoult is competing against Kristen Stewart for the Bafta rising star award for his role in A Single Man, directed by Tom Ford .- Hugh Grant - Actors and Actresses - Entertainment - news 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.wikio.com [Source type: General]
.^ It also temporarily typecast him as the lead character, Charles, a bohemian and debonair bachelor, who was the alter ego of filmmaker Richard Curtis.
.^ 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.
^ Globe and Mail Nicholas Hoult's grown up since we last saw him tagging along behind Hugh Grant in About a Boy.- Hugh Grant - Boxxet 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.boxxet.com [Source type: General]
^ Writer/director Richard Curtis , who has known Grant since his breakthrough turn in 1994's Four Weddings and a Funeral , says "a lot of contradictions emerge" with the actor.- Hugh Grant: Behind that smile lurks a deadly serious film star - USATODAY.com 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.usatoday.com [Source type: General]
[49][51] Grant later expressed:
| “ |
.^ That was the character he played in Richard Curtis' Four Weddings and a Funeral , alongside Andie MacDowell.- Hugh Grant Celebrity Profile, News, Gossip & Photos - AskMen.com 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.askmen.com [Source type: General]
^ Could you imagine such a thing?- The Superficial - Hugh Grant drunkenly strikes out with model 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC thesuperficial.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994) .- Hugh Grant DVDs, Hugh Grant DVD Rentals, Rent Hugh Grant Movies at Netflix Today 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.netflix.com [Source type: General]
.^ Or, if you're either a fan or friend, stay away from Grant's house, because no one should be eating that many baked beans.- Posts tagged Hugh grant at Cinematical 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.cinematical.com [Source type: General]
^ I will see the film;he is one of those actors who can elevate a script b/c he’s just funny.- Cele|bitchy » Blog Archive » Hugh Grant on his panic attacks & fears he’ll be “a sad, lonely old man” 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.celebitchy.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Quite why, no one knows, because it stops them tasting like apricots and makes them taste like honey...- Hugh Grant Quotes - Hugh Grant 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.flixster.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
bothered to rent all the other films I'd done.[3] |
” |
.^ The following year, 1995, saw the release of his first studio-financed Hollywood project, Chris Columbus' comedy "Nine Months", whose commercial prospects were boosted by its star's coincidental off-screen notoriety.
^ Now a star, Grant appeared in the comedy Nine Months and the award-winning period piece, Sense and Sensibility (both in 1995).- Hugh Grant Celebrity Profile, News, Gossip & Photos - AskMen.com 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.askmen.com [Source type: General]
^ The box-office take of his subsequent film, Nine Months , released on the heels of his arrest, was buoyed by his notoriety, as were the ratings of the episode of The Tonight Show which featured Grant's sheepish apology to his then-girlfriend, model/actress Elizabeth Hurley .- Hugh Grant - Ask.com 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.ask.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ Though a hit at the box office, it was almost universally panned by critics.
^ It was dismissed by critics, performed unsuccessfully at the box office, and garnered its actor-producer mixed reviews for his starring role.
.^ 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.'
^ Samuel Falkner (Hugh Grant) is a child psychiatrist who has no kids of his own and doesn't want any, which leaves him a bit shaken when his girlfriend of five years, Rebecca Taylor (Julianne Moore) announces that she's pregnant.- Hugh Grant Movies (Used, New, Hard-to-Find) - Alibris 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.alibris.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Samuel Falkner ( Hugh Grant ) is a child psychiatrist who has no kids of his own and doesn't want any, which leaves him a bit shaken when his girlfriend of five years, Rebecca Read More .- Hugh Grant Filmography 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.fandango.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[52] .^ The Englishman Who Went up a Hill But Came Down A Mountain (1995) more movies like this .- Hugh Grant Movies (Used, New, Hard-to-Find) - Alibris 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.alibris.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ The same year, he played a supporting part as Emma Thompson's suitor in Ang Lee's Academy Award-winning adaptation of Jane Austen's "Sense and Sensibility".
^ The same year, while playing Lord Byron in a Spanish production called "Remando Al Viento" (1988), he met little-known actress and future-girlfriend Elizabeth Hurley, who was cast in a supporting role as Byron's former lover Claire Clairmont.
.^ The same year, he played a supporting part as Emma Thompson's suitor in Ang Lee's Academy Award-winning adaptation of Jane Austen's "Sense and Sensibility".
.^ He then reunited with the director of "FWAAF", Mike Newell, for the widely ignored tragicomedy "An Awfully Big Adventure" that was labelled a 'determinedly offbeat film' by the "New York Times".
^ Photo: Hugh Grant at an event for his latest film in New York.- Hugh Grant's drunken Warhol story has Britain in a tizzy | Culture Monster | Los Angeles Times 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC latimesblogs.latimes.com [Source type: General]
^ Film historian David Thompson wrote in "The New Biographical Dictionary of Film" about how it is merely itchy mannerisms that Grant equates with screen acting.
[53] .^ In a role far removed from his star-making turn as Charles, Grant portrayed a bitchy, supercilious director of a repertory company in post-World War II Liverpool.
^ The company closed its U.S. office in 2002 and Grant resigned as director in December 2005.
Critic
Roger Ebert wrote, "It shows that he has range as an actor,"
[54] but the
San Francisco Chronicle disapproved on grounds that the film "plays like a vanity production for Grant."
[55] Janet Maslin, 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."
[53]
.^ Grant made his debut as a film producer with the 1996 thriller "Extreme Measures", a commercial and critical failure.
^ His portrayal in Mike Newell's well-made film enchanted audiences and critics, many of whom likened him to similarly witty and dashing classic cinematic leads David Niven and Cary Grant.- Hugh Grant - Wiki - Pictures - Videos 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.flixster.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ In 1982, while still a student, Grant made his big screen debut in Privileged (1982) by director Michael Hoffman .- Hugh Grant (I) - Biography 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.imdb.com [Source type: General]
.^ After a three year hiatus, in 1999, he essayed another Richard Curtis-inspired character of an English everyman opposite Julia Roberts in "Notting Hill", which was brought to theatres by much of the same team that was responsible for "FWAAF".
^ (On Julia Roberts, his co-star in Notting Hill) The moral of filmmaking in Britain is that you will be fucked by the weather.- Hugh Grant Quotes - Hugh Grant 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.flixster.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Notting Hill and brought a home near there he also has one around south kensington and one in America too.- Hugh Grant - Ask.com 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.ask.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ This new Working Title production displaced "FWAAF" as the biggest British hit in the history of cinema, with earnings equalling $363 million worldwide.
^ Released in 1994, "FWAAF" unexpectedly became the highest-grossing British film of all time with a worldwide box office in excess of $244 million, making Grant an overnight international sensation.
^ He works as a projectionist at a London cinema, and part of his job is to check the prints of new films before they screen to the public.- Hugh Grant - Actors and Actresses - Entertainment - news 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.wikio.com [Source type: General]
[50] .^ As it became exemplary of modern romantic comedies in mainstream culture, the film was also received well by critics.
^ English men in romantic comedy films - doesn't work on as many movies as his peers because he's "picky" and can only act a certain type of character.- Latest Pictures of Hugh Grant > New, Latest Photos Shoot : pics @ Platinum-Celebs.com 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.platinum-celebs.com [Source type: General]
^ After looking for hired-gun co-writers, into Alex's life wanders, in true modern romantic comedy fashion, the last thing he ever expected .- Posts tagged Hugh grant at Cinematical 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.cinematical.com [Source type: General]
CNN reviewer
Paul Clinton said, "
Notting Hill stands alone as another funny and heartwarming story about love against all odds."
[56] Reactions to Grant's Golden Globe-nominated performance were varied, with
Salon's Stephanie Zacharek criticizing 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.'
^ For all his pithy self-deprecation, Grant, by all accounts — including his own — is a stickler on set, a hands-on actor who's involved in every bit of the filmmaking process.- Hugh Grant: The deadly serious star behind the smile 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.azcentral.com [Source type: General]
^ Grant, once called the 'unofficial mayor of London,' is frequently referred in the press with phrases that describe him as a 'human straight line' who is 'bursting with charisma.'
[57] .^ The movie provided both its stars a chance to satirize 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.'
^ "Small Time Crooks" starred Grant, in the words of film critic Andrew Sarris, as 'a petty, petulant, faux-Pygmalion art dealer, David who is one of the sleaziest and most unsympathetic characters Mr. Allen has ever created.'
^ His elder brother, James 'Jamie' Grant, is a successful banker as Senior Vice President, head of Remote Banking Services, at JPMorgan Chase in New York.
[58] .^ Grant also released his second production output, a fish-out-of-water mob comedy "Mickey Blue Eyes", that year.
^ After decent roles in Mickey Blue Eyes and Small Time Crooks , Hugh Grant scored huge once again in 2002's About a Boy , the Nick Hornby story of a hopelessly immature bachelor who takes a few tips on growing up from a 12-year-old boy.- Hugh Grant Celebrity Profile, News, Gossip & Photos - AskMen.com 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.askmen.com [Source type: General]
^ In a career spanning 20 years, Grant's movies have earned more than $2.4 billion from 25 theatrical releases worldwide.
.^ It was dismissed by critics, performed unsuccessfully at the box office, and garnered its actor-producer mixed reviews for his starring role.
^ Grant is recognized as a divisive movie star in both, critical reviews and popular media profiles.
^ "The Star-Ledger" dismissed the performance, writing that 'paper dolls have more depth.'
.^ Hugh wrong for Lyrics role .
^ Thankfully, Hugh Grant isn't one of them.- Hugh Grant's drunken Warhol story has Britain in a tizzy | Culture Monster | Los Angeles Times 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC latimesblogs.latimes.com [Source type: General]
^ Where does Hugh Grant live?- Hugh Grant - Ask.com 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.ask.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ If he'd accompanied Robert Scott to the South Pole, the explorer would have lived to be 100.
^ Close How Hugh Grant got drunk.- How Hugh Grant got drunk. And bought a Warhol | Jonathan Jones | Art and design | guardian.co.uk 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.guardian.co.uk [Source type: News]
^ That's how good Hugh Grant is at rescuing doomed ventures.
[60]
Giving his most critically acclaimed performance to date, Grant plays Snooker as Will Freeman in
About a Boy.
Small Time Crooks starred Grant, in the words of film critic
Andrew Sarris, as "a petty, petulant, faux-Pygmalion art dealer, David, [who] is one of the sleaziest and most unsympathetic characters Mr. Allen has ever created."
[62] 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."
[63] A year later, his turn as a charming but womanising book publisher Daniel Cleaver in
Bridget Jones's Diary (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."
[64] The movie, adapted from
Helen Fielding's novel of the same name, was an international hit, earning $281 million worldwide.
[50] .^ In a scene-stealing performance, 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.'
^ In the 1990s, Grant's performances were deemed overbearing, in the words of "Washington Post"s Rita Kempley, due to his 'comic overreactions-the mugging, the stuttering, the fluttering eyelids.'
^ I know that art, music, theater, dance, literature—all forms of art can be judged according to certain criteria.- Hugh Grant's drunken Warhol story has Britain in a tizzy | Culture Monster | Los Angeles Times 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC latimesblogs.latimes.com [Source type: General]
[65]
.^ It was his 'immaculate comic performance' ("BBC") as the trust-funded womaniser, Will Freeman, in the film adaptation of Nick Hornby's best-selling novel "About a Boy" that received raves from critics.
^ Globe and Mail Nicholas Hoult's grown up since we last saw him tagging along behind Hugh Grant in About a Boy.- Hugh Grant - Boxxet 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.boxxet.com [Source type: General]
^ Film critic Rex Reed, 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.'
[66] Almost universally praised, with an Academy Award-nominated screenplay,
About a Boy (2002) was determined by the
Washington Post to be "that rare romantic comedy that dares to choose messiness over closure, prickly independence over fetishized coupledom, and honesty over typical Hollywood endings."
[67] 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,"
[68] 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."
[69] Released a day after the blockbuster
Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones,
About a Boy was a more modest box office grosser than other successful Grant films, making all of $129 million globally.
[50] The film earned Grant his third Golden-Globe nomination, while the
London Film Critics Circle named Grant its Best British Actor and
GQ honoured him as one of the magazine's men of the year 2002.
[70] "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."
[67] The New York Observer 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 womanizing 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."
[71] .^ Globe and Mail Nicholas Hoult's grown up since we last saw him tagging along behind Hugh Grant in About a Boy.- Hugh Grant - Boxxet 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.boxxet.com [Source type: General]
^ Simian Films produced two Grant vehicles in the 1990s and lost a bid to produce "About a Boy" to Robert De Niro's TriBeCa Productions.
^ It is also notable for marking the film debut of actors Hugh Grant , Imogen Stubbs , and James Wilby .- Hugh Grant Filmography 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.fandango.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
Gone were the floppy locks that had become his trademark, with Grant now sporting a cropped haircut. He has retained this look since.
Grant was also paired with
Sandra Bullock in
Warner Bros.'s
Two Weeks Notice, which made $199 million internationally but was judged poorly by professional reviewers.
[50] .^ "The Village Voice" concluded that Grant's creation of a spoiled billionaire fronting a real estate business was 'little more than a Britishism machine.'
^ In a career spanning 20 years, Grant's movies have earned more than $2.4 billion from 25 theatrical releases worldwide.
^ In reality, it is no more tragic than the office Christmas party.- How Hugh Grant got drunk. And bought a Warhol | Jonathan Jones | Art and design | guardian.co.uk 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.guardian.co.uk [Source type: News]
[72].^ This success was followed by the 2003 ensemble comedy hit, "Love Actually", headlined by Grant as the British Prime Minister.
^ Two Weeks Notice (2002) .- Hugh Grant DVDs, Hugh Grant DVD Rentals, Rent Hugh Grant Movies at Netflix Today 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.netflix.com [Source type: General]
^ Having recently completed Curtis' latest script, 'Love Actually' [which was also directed by the scribe himself], Grant describes it as "an ensemble piece, like 'Short Cuts' but funny."- Hugh Grant Two Weeks Notice 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.femail.com.au [Source type: General]
.^ A Christmas release by Working Title Films, the holiday movie was promoted as 'the ultimate romantic comedy' and accumulated $246 million at the international box office.
^ Released in 1994, "FWAAF" unexpectedly became the highest-grossing British film of all time with a worldwide box office in excess of $244 million, making Grant an overnight international sensation.
^ With such diverse international talent , it's easy to imagine that the movie's title will also be a good description of the set between takes.- Posts tagged Hugh grant at Cinematical 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.cinematical.com [Source type: General]
[50] .^ It marked the directorial debut of Richard Curtis, who told the "New York Times" that Grant adamantly tempered the characterization of the role to make his character more authoritative and less haplessly charming than earlier Curtis incarnations.
^ A majority, though, tend to change their opinion of Grant from film to film, especially differentiating between his roles as Richard Curtis' alter ego and the cynical, smart and sometimes sleazy rogue.
^ He told "Vanity Fair" in 2003 that being an actor at a certain age is akin to being a 'char-monkey,' making it unworthy of an adult's time.
[73] .^ One was 2003 when Hugh Grant played the British prime minister in Love Actually.- Hugh Grant - Boxxet 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.boxxet.com [Source type: General]
^ 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.'
^ 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.'
[74] Film critic
Rex Reed, 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."
[75]
.^ A speech given by Grant in "Love Actually" - where he extols the virtues of Great Britain and refuses to cave to the pressure of its longstanding ally, the United States - was etched in the transatlantic memory as a satirical, wishful statement on the concurrent Bush-Blair relationship.
^ One was 2003 when Hugh Grant played the British prime minister in Love Actually.- Hugh Grant - Boxxet 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.boxxet.com [Source type: General]
^ This success was followed by the 2003 ensemble comedy hit, "Love Actually", headlined by Grant as the British Prime Minister.
[76] .^ Hugh Grant's convict love song .
^ I would just like to say this.- Hugh Grant Quotes - Hugh Grant 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.flixster.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Hugh Grant's Jemima love nest .
.^ 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.'
^ Also there's too much pressure, especially these days with this madness of films having to be huge opening films and all that.- Hugh Grant Two Weeks Notice 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.femail.com.au [Source type: General]
^ Related Topix: Life , Holidays , New Year's Day/Eve , How to Look Good Naked , Entertainment , Television , Reality TV , Restaurant Management .- Hugh Grant News - Topix 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.topix.com [Source type: General]
[77]
Grant as the gratuitously nasty TV personality, Martin Tweed, in
American Dreamz.
.^ In 2004, Grant 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.
^ Bridget Jones's Diary (2001) more movies like this .- Hugh Grant Movies (Used, New, Hard-to-Find) - Alibris 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.alibris.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2004) more movies like this .- Hugh Grant Movies (Used, New, Hard-to-Find) - Alibris 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.alibris.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[50] .^ Gone from the screen for two years, he next reteamed with Paul Weitz ("About a Boy") for the black comedy "American Dreamz" (2006).
^ Globe and Mail Nicholas Hoult's grown up since we last saw him tagging along behind Hugh Grant in About a Boy.- Hugh Grant - Boxxet 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.boxxet.com [Source type: General]
^ Film historian David Thompson wrote in "The New Biographical Dictionary of Film" about how it is merely itchy mannerisms that Grant equates with screen acting.
.^ Grant starred as the cynical and acerbic host of an "American Idol"-like reality show where, according to Caryn James of the "New York Times", 'nothing is real ...
^ His elder brother, James 'Jamie' Grant, is a successful banker as Senior Vice President, head of Remote Banking Services, at JPMorgan Chase in New York.
^ While promoting Woody Allen's "Small Time Crooks" on NBC's "The Today Show" in 2000, Grant quipped to host Matt Lauer, 'It's my millennium of bastards.?
except the black hole at the centre of the host's heart, as Mr. Grant takes Mr. Cowell's villainous act to its limit."
[78] .^ "American Dreamz" failed financially but Grant was generously praised.
^ Trailer Online To Dennis Quaid and Hugh Grant Comedy American Dreamz!
.^ He played his self-aggrandizing character, an amalgam of Simon Cowell and Ryan Seacrest, with smarmy self-loathing.
^ Grant would stand out as the self-aggrandizing but self-loathing host, a predator on the look-out for saleable talent, such as Mandy Moore's young singer.- Hugh Grant - Wiki - Pictures - Videos 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.flixster.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
The Boston Globe proposed that this "just may be the great comic role that has always eluded Hugh Grant,"
[79] and critic Carina Chocano said, "He is twice as enjoyable as the preening bad guy as he was as the bumbling good guy."
[80]
.^ Own Music and Lyrics, the hilarious comedy starring Hugh Grant and Drew Barrymore on DVD today!...- Music and Lyrics - Drew Barrymore and Hugh Grant | SPIKE 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.spike.com [Source type: General]
^ Meaningless kiss - soundtrack Music & Lyrics, Hugh Grant,Drew Barrymore...- Hugh Grant on Yahoo! Music 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC new.music.yahoo.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Hugh Grant and Drew Barrymore to play beautiful music together .
The
Associated Press described it as "a weird little hybrid of a romantic comedy that's simultaneously too fluffy and not whimsical enough."
[81] Though he neither listens to music nor owns any CDs,
[30] Grant learned to sing, play the piano, dance (a few mannered steps) and studied the mannerisms of prominent musicians to prepare for his role as a has-been
pop singer, based loosely on
Andrew Ridgeley.
[13] .^ "The Star-Ledger" dismissed the performance, writing that 'paper dolls have more depth.'
^ It was dismissed by critics, performed unsuccessfully at the box office, and garnered its actor-producer mixed reviews for his starring role.
[82] .^ The movie, with its revenues totalling $145 million, allowed Grant to mock disposable pop stardom and fleeting celebrity through its washed-up lead character.
^ In earlier films, Grant was adept at plugging into the stereotype of a repressed Englishman for humorous effects, allowing him to gently satirize his characters as he summed them up and played against the type simultaneously.
^ Hugh Grant plays Alex Fletcher, previous co-lead singer of the music group Pop.- Hugh Grant - Boxxet 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.boxxet.com [Source type: General]
.^ According to the "San Francisco Chronicle", 'Grant strikes precisely the right note with regard to Alex's career: He's too intelligent not to be a little embarrassed, but he's far too brazen to feel anything like shame.'
^ More often than not kind to Grant, there have been moments where he feels the media has gone too far.- Hugh Grant Two Weeks Notice 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.femail.com.au [Source type: General]
^ Critic Roger Ebert 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.'
[83] .^ Getty Images Hugh Grant and Sarah Jessica Parker attend the premiere of ‘Did You Hear About the Morgans?’ at Ziegfeld Theatre, NYC, December 14, 2009 .- Hugh Grant Returns To Films After 2-Year Absence | Access Hollywood - Celebrity News, Photos & Videos 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC preview3.accesshollywood.com [Source type: General]
- Hugh Grant Returns To Films After 2-Year Absence | Access Hollywood - Celebrity News, Photos & Videos 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC origin3-www.accesshollywood.com [Source type: General]
^ We have added a new set of images from the event 'Sarah Jessica Parker and Hugh Grant filming Did you hear about the Morgans?'!
^ "Did You Hear About The Morgans" had a London premiere Tuesday night, attended by the film's stars Hugh Grant and Sarah Jessica Parker.
[84]
Filmmaker
.^ In July 1994, Grant signed a two-year production deal with Castle Rock Entertainment and by October, he became founder and director of the UK-based Simian Films Limited.
^ Released in 1994, "FWAAF" unexpectedly became the highest-grossing British film of all time with a worldwide box office in excess of $244 million, making Grant an overnight international sensation.
^ Simian Films produced two Grant vehicles in the 1990s and lost a bid to produce "About a Boy" to Robert De Niro's TriBeCa Productions.
[85] .^ He appointed his then-girlfriend, Elizabeth Hurley, as the head of development to look for prospective projects.
.^ Robert De Niro 15 Minutes .- Hugh Grant Two Weeks Notice 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.femail.com.au [Source type: General]
^ Simian Films produced two Grant vehicles in the 1990s and lost a bid to produce "About a Boy" to Robert De Niro's TriBeCa Productions.
^ Globe and Mail Nicholas Hoult's grown up since we last saw him tagging along behind Hugh Grant in About a Boy.- Hugh Grant - Boxxet 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.boxxet.com [Source type: General]
[86] .^ The company closed its U.S. office in 2002 and Grant resigned as director in December 2005.
^ He has since said that his primary interest remains in filmmaking because: 'Acting is at best an interpretative thing.
^ (December 2009) Thinks he's a ''very limited'' actor because he's picky and can only act a certain type of character.- Hugh Grant Picture, Video, Wallpaper, Profile, Gossip, and News at CelebrityWonder.com 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.celebritywonder.com [Source type: General]
.^ It's like being a musician and playing someone else's music.
.^ I've always wanted to write the music.'
^ "I don't know why she'd want to work with ME, but I wanted to work with her just because I've always admired her, thought she's the girl, queen of that kind of stuff.- Hugh Grant Two Weeks Notice 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.femail.com.au [Source type: General]
[13] .^ In 2000, Grant joined the Supervisory Board of IM Internationalmedia AG, the powerful Munich-based film and media company.
^ Hugh Grant has told the media that he won't be making a third film of the successful Bridget Jones' Diary.- Hugh Grant News - Topix 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.topix.com [Source type: General]
[88] .^ He has also served on the advisory board of Mark Milln and Kami Naghdi's U.K. Production company, Hogarth Pictures.
[89]
Attitude toward acting
.^ Hugh later stated that he hoped his film stardom would just be "a phase", hopefully lasting no more than ten years.- Hugh Grant - Wiki - Pictures - Videos 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.flixster.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Grant has called being a successful actor a mistake and talked of his hope that film stardom would just be 'a phase' in his life, lasting no more than ten years.
^ "The Village Voice" concluded that Grant's creation of a spoiled billionaire fronting a real estate business was 'little more than a Britishism machine.'
[49] .^ A self-confessed 'committed and passionate' perfectionist on a film set, Grant has repeatedly opted to describe himself as a reluctant actor, who chooses to be neutral about his career and works mostly with friends from previous collaborations.
^ Genealogist Antony Adolph, who has studied Grant's family history, described it as 'a colourful Anglo-Scottish tapestry of warriors, empire-builders and aristocracy.'
^ Film historian David Thompson wrote in "The New Biographical Dictionary of Film" about how it is merely itchy mannerisms that Grant equates with screen acting.
[90] .^ Telling the "New York Times" that he must truly love something before he can do it, he revealed that he chooses projects based on how well they are written and whether the character he is being asked to play is funny.
^ He then reunited with the director of "FWAAF", Mike Newell, for the widely ignored tragicomedy "An Awfully Big Adventure" that was labelled a 'determinedly offbeat film' by the "New York Times".
^ It marked the directorial debut of Richard Curtis, who told the "New York Times" that Grant adamantly tempered the characterization of the role to make his character more authoritative and less haplessly charming than earlier Curtis incarnations.
[91]
.^ A majority of Grant's popular movies follow a similar plot that captures an optimistic, cocky bachelor experiencing a series of embarrassing escapades to find true love, often with an American woman.
^ With the surprise hit "Four Weddings and a Funeral" Grant would find great fame, with an acclaimed performance as the terribly charming Charles, an unlikely hero, stammering and unlucky in love who finds his match in Carrie, an aloof but passionate American woman (Andie MacDowell).
^ With the surprise hit Four Weddings and a Funeral Grant would find great fame, with an acclaimed performance as the terribly charming Charles, an unlikely hero, stammering and unlucky in love who finds his match in Carrie, an aloof but passionate American woman (Andie MacDowell).- Hugh Grant - Wiki - Pictures - Videos 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.flixster.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ In earlier films, Grant was adept at plugging into the stereotype of a repressed Englishman for humorous effects, allowing him to gently satirize his characters as he summed them up and played against the type simultaneously.
^ Janet Maslin, praising Grant as 'superb' and 'a dashing cad under any circumstances,' commented, 'For him this film represents the road not taken.
^ The movie, with its revenues totalling $145 million, allowed Grant to mock disposable pop stardom and fleeting celebrity through its washed-up lead character.
[45] .^ His screen persona of later films gradually developed into a cynical, self-loathing cad.
[92] .^ Using his facial contortions and an affected stammer for varied comic purposes, Grant's characters have often been emotionally distant men, and he once admitted his inability to cry on cue, even with the help of methanol.
^ To my horror, she did, and even worse, got it,” Grant recently admitted in an interview while doing press for his new romantic comedy with Sarah Jessica Parker".- Hugh Grant ties one on and scores a mint – The Marquee Blog - CNN.com Blogs 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC marquee.blogs.cnn.com [Source type: General]
^ To my horror, she did, and even worse, got it,” Grant recently admitted in an interview while doing press for his new romantic comedy with Sarah Jessica Parker.- Hugh Grant ties one on and scores a mint – The Marquee Blog - CNN.com Blogs 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC marquee.blogs.cnn.com [Source type: General]
[94] His preference for levity over dramatic range has been a controversial topic in establishment circles, prompting him to say:
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.^ It's just a sorta humorous story, why people get so emotionally involved in the lives of celebrities I'll never know!- Hugh Grant ties one on and scores a mint – The Marquee Blog - CNN.com Blogs 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC marquee.blogs.cnn.com [Source type: General]
.^ Bored of small acting parts, he created his own comedy revue called The Jockeys of Norfolk with friends Chris Lang and Andy Taylor.
It makes me laugh.[95] |
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.^ In interviews, Grant has pinned his extensively published disinterest in acting on two different thoughts: first, that he drifted into the job as a temporary joke at age 23 and finds it an immature way for a grown man to spend his time; and secondly, because he believes to have already given the one remarkable comic performance he had hoped to create on screen.
^ In the 1990s, Grant's performances were deemed overbearing, in the words of "Washington Post"s Rita Kempley, due to his 'comic overreactions-the mugging, the stuttering, the fluttering eyelids.'
^ One grandfather was in the Seaforth Highlanders - Grant would like to make a movie of his WW2 heroics, but his father forbids it, believing all movies to be a "vulgarisation" of the truth.- Hugh Grant - Wiki - Pictures - Videos 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.flixster.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[95] .^ Calling most scripts lame, Grant has stated that, unlike him, most actors really love acting and that blinds them to the fact that the rest of it is pretentious nonsense, which, he says, it very often is.
^ Film critic Rex Reed, 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.'
^ Grant, once called the 'unofficial mayor of London,' is frequently referred in the press with phrases that describe him as a 'human straight line' who is 'bursting with charisma.'
[15] .^ He told "Vanity Fair" in 2003 that being an actor at a certain age is akin to being a 'char-monkey,' making it unworthy of an adult's time.
[49]
Critical and peer review
.^ Grant is recognized as a divisive movie star in both, critical reviews and popular media profiles.
^ Journalist David Chater, reviewing a Channel 4 production entitled "Brits go to Hollywood", remarked that the Hugh Grant 'of popular image is wholly inaccurate.
^ Callan, voicing a popular stance, argued that Grant's hostility toward the media is hypocritical because stars like him often seek publicity when it is time to promote their movies.
[8] .^ He has stuck to the genre of comedy, especially romantic-comedy, for the entirety of his mainstream movie career and never ventures to play characters who are not British.
^ Within the film industry, he is cited as a movie star who approaches his roles like a character actor, with the ability to make acting look effortless.
^ As it became exemplary of modern romantic comedies in mainstream culture, the film was also received well by critics.
.^ While some film critics, such as the respected Roger Ebert, have defended the limited variety of his performances, others have dismissed him as a one-trick pony.
^ In most other walks of life, one can adopt a confident swagger -- even with insufficient talent to justify such an air.- Why golf is no joke for Hugh Grant - CNN.com 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.cnn.com [Source type: General]
^ The film earned Grant another Golden Globe nomination and gained him the critical respect that had largely evaded his earlier work, leading many to tout it as the highlight of his acting career.
Eric Fellner, co-owner of Working Title Films and a long-time collaborator of Grant said, "His range hasn't been fully tested, but each performance is unique."
[97] A majority, though, tend to change their opinion of Grant from film to film, especially differentiating between his roles as Richard Curtis' alter ego and the cynical, smart and sometimes sleazy rogue of several films released in the new millennium.
In the 1990s, Grant's performances were deemed overbearing, in the words of
Washington Post's Rita Kempley, due to his "comic overreactions—the
mugging, the stuttering, the fluttering eyelids." She added: "He's got more tics than Benny Hill."
[98] .^ Grant's penchant for conveying his characters' feelings with mannerisms, rather than direct emotions, has been one of the foremost objections raised against his acting style.
^ Repeated accusations, which have only subsided in recent years, have targeted what the critics contend is his inclination to make characters likable and charming rather than authentic and complex.
^ More often than not kind to Grant, there have been moments where he feels the media has gone too far.- Hugh Grant Two Weeks Notice 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.femail.com.au [Source type: General]
.^ Stephen Hunter of the "Washington Post" once stated that, to be effective as a comic performer, he must get 'his jiving and shucking under control.'
^ In the 1990s, Grant's performances were deemed overbearing, in the words of "Washington Post"s Rita Kempley, due to his 'comic overreactions-the mugging, the stuttering, the fluttering eyelids.'
^ Once we post them on the Site, these changes become effective immediately and if you use the Site after they become effective it will signify your agreement to be bound by the changes.- Music and Lyrics - Drew Barrymore and Hugh Grant | SPIKE 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.spike.com [Source type: General]
[99] .^ Film historian David Thompson wrote in "The New Biographical Dictionary of Film" about how it is merely itchy mannerisms that Grant equates with screen acting.
^ Grant's penchant for conveying his characters' feelings with mannerisms, rather than direct emotions, has been one of the foremost objections raised against his acting style.
^ Widespread media speculation about Grant's reportedly strong personality and life off the big screen has often overshadowed his work as a thespian.
In the new millennium, Claudia Puig of
USA Today celebrated the observation that finally "gone [were] the self-conscious 'Aren't I adorable' mannerisms that seemed endearing at the start of [Grant's] film career but have grown cloying in more recent movies."
[100].^ A few years later the value of recent art has so escalated that you can make an astronomical – previously unimaginable – profit on it.- How Hugh Grant got drunk. And bought a Warhol | Jonathan Jones | Art and design | guardian.co.uk 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.guardian.co.uk [Source type: News]
.^ Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994) 13.- Hugh Grant - Movies 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC filmsandtv.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ In 1999, Stephanie Zacharek stated that 'by the time of "Four Weddings and a Funeral", he'd switched to a more straightforward, dull, crumpled-corduroy acting style,' perhaps because, she chided, 'Why bother to play a character when you can just ape a stereotype?'
^ Fifteen years ago, when I interviewed him for Four Weddings and a Funeral , he was definitely an afternoon person; by the time I interviewed him again, for Bridget Jones’s Diary , he was absolutely an evening person.- Hugh Grant Interview - Get More Men We Love at ELLE.com 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.elle.com [Source type: General]
[57] .^ According to Carina Chocano, amongst film critics, the two tropes most commonly associated with Grant are that he reinvented himself in "Bridget Jones's Diary" and "About a Boy" and dreads the possibility of becoming a parody of himself.
^ Globe and Mail Nicholas Hoult's grown up since we last saw him tagging along behind Hugh Grant in About a Boy.- Hugh Grant - Boxxet 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.boxxet.com [Source type: General]
^ Film historian David Thompson wrote in "The New Biographical Dictionary of Film" about how it is merely itchy mannerisms that Grant equates with screen acting.
[101] Echoing a widely-accepted assessment that Grant plays the same part over and again since he came to international fame in 1994,
The Observer's Philip French has said: "His range is as narrow as a cigarette paper."
[97]
.^ His colleagues, though, have often, but not universally, defended his skills.
.^ Emma Thompson, working with him in "Sense and Sensibility", wrote in "The Sense and Sensibility Screenplay and Diaries" that Grant 'is as great an actor as I've always thought.
^ Drew Barrymore 'hates' him, Emma Thompson is 'as mad as a chair' and Renée Zellweger is a 'very good kisser', according to a 'far from sane' Hugh Grant, who jokingly made the claims in a recent magazine interview.
^ The same year, he played a supporting part as Emma Thompson's suitor in Ang Lee's Academy Award-winning adaptation of Jane Austen's "Sense and Sensibility".
.^ So light and yet very much "felt".'
[102] .^ Drew Barrymore 'hates' him, Emma Thompson is 'as mad as a chair' and Renée Zellweger is a 'very good kisser', according to a 'far from sane' Hugh Grant, who jokingly made the claims in a recent magazine interview.
^ To make things work, you must be very open and share exciting options with one another.- Hot Couples Report for Hugh Grant & Elizabeth Hurley 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.adze.com [Source type: General]
^ While less celebrated than his film work, his small screen appearances were fairly frequent, especially in the earlier stages of his career.
[97] .^ Hugh Grant`s jokey claims about female co-stars .
^ Scottish actress Sharon Small, a co-star of Grant in "About a Boy", discovered that 'he is … a really versatile actor.
^ Globe and Mail Nicholas Hoult's grown up since we last saw him tagging along behind Hugh Grant in About a Boy.- Hugh Grant - Boxxet 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.boxxet.com [Source type: General]
a really versatile actor.
.^ People tend to put him in a box and say, 'That's all he does', but when we were filming I watched him closely and he was very subtle and very different in every single take.'
^ Despite being famously inventive on film sets ('The biggest laughs that my characters get in films tend to be improvised lines,' he has said ), he has talked of finding the work of an actor restrictive because 'saying other peoples' lines all the time is -- it's always been -- diminishing.'
^ Then, just as suddenly, it all collapsed around him, in a whirl of failed productions and very public sex scandals.- Hugh Grant - Wiki - Pictures - Videos 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.flixster.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[7]
Work ethic
A 2007
Vogue profile of Grant referred to him as a man with a "professionally misanthropic mystique."
[13] The observation followed published facts such as that Grant picks his own movies,
[95] conducts his interviews alone (without any publicists),
[103] is known for politically incorrect and outrageous riffs in public,
[13] and derides focus groups, market research and overriding emphasis on the opening weekend.
[91] .^ Grant also decided to let go of his agent in 2006, ending a 10-year relationship with CAA. After proudly proclaiming in interviews to have never listened to external views on his career, he stated that he did not require the hand-holding an agent provides.
^ Three years later, in February 2007, Grant's publicist announced that the couple had 'decided to split amicably.'
^ Sarah Jessica Parker's 15-year wait for Hugh Grant finally ends .- Hugh Grant - Boxxet 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.boxxet.com [Source type: General]
[104] .^ Grant also decided to let go of his agent in 2006, ending a 10-year relationship with CAA. After proudly proclaiming in interviews to have never listened to external views on his career, he stated that he did not require the hand-holding an agent provides.
[13] .^ A few months before firing his agent, he said, 'They've known for years that I have total control.
I've never taken any advice on anything."
[95].^ It has been reported that Grant has a reputation for not always bonding with his fellow cast and crew members.
[11] .^ Being a 'stern, edgy and intense' presence on film sets, the method behind his performances is believed to be the exact reverse of the ease and simplicity he brings to his characters.
[9] .^ According to the "New York Times", Grant is known in the film industry as a meticulous performer who takes his time to prepare for a role.
^ Film historian David Thompson wrote in "The New Biographical Dictionary of Film" about how it is merely itchy mannerisms that Grant equates with screen acting.
^ 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.'
[6] .^ His working style is apparently predicated on a tendency toward control-freakishness.
^ Saying that the only thing he 'fears is fear itself,' he has told reporters about having modest panic attacks on film sets, due to the tightening pressure of recreating delicate comic scenes as performed in the relaxed environment of rehearsals.
[105] .^ Richard Curtis, a frequent collaborator, revealed that Grant is not fluid about the filmmaking process and tends to be unrelaxed while filming because he doesn't feel as though he's in the director's hands and prefers instead to take responsibility of giving a definitive performance.
^ A majority, though, tend to change their opinion of Grant from film to film, especially differentiating between his roles as Richard Curtis' alter ego and the cynical, smart and sometimes sleazy rogue.
^ Film historian David Thompson wrote in "The New Biographical Dictionary of Film" about how it is merely itchy mannerisms that Grant equates with screen acting.
[13]
.^ Grant is noted by co-workers to be very conscientious about the dialogues that come out of his mouth and as a rare actor who demands more takes until he achieves the desired shot according to his own standard.
[106][107] Though known for being inventive on film sets ("The biggest laughs that my characters get in films tend to be improvised lines," he has said
[6]), he has talked of finding the work of an actor restrictive because "saying other peoples' lines all the time is - it's always been - diminishing."
[105] Media accounts of Grant on film sets present him as an actor who does not abdicate responsibility to his production team but is, instead, usually involved with various aspects of his projects, including script development, choosing the director of photography, the acting, and then the editing and the marketing.
[39][49] .^ IMDb > Hugh Grant add/change photo Add Resume Hugh Grant products .- Hugh Grant (I) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.imdb.com [Source type: General]
.^ He won a scholarship to Oxford; he is highly articulate; he works non-stop and beats himself up with relentless self-criticism.'
^ He enjoys beating himself up.” .- Hugh Grant Interview - Get More Men We Love at ELLE.com 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.elle.com [Source type: General]
^ In 1979, he won the Galsworthy scholarship to New College, Oxford where he studied English literature and graduated with an upper second-class honours degree.
[108]
Celebrity and media relations
.^ As observed by the "Boston Globe", Grant has repeatedly spoken about his boredom with playing the celebrity in the press.
[109] .^ About the culture of celebrity, he told "Vogue", 'My theory is that it's like bodybuilders who inject testosterone, which means that their own powers to generate testosterone shut down forever.
^ My mother had a theory about Englishmen: They are permanently all two gin and tonics under par.- Hugh Grant Interview - Get More Men We Love at ELLE.com 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.elle.com [Source type: General]
^ Over years of fame, he has been identified in popular culture as a figure of charisma, charm, sharp tongue, and wit, who nonetheless is very vocal about his disrespect for the profession of acting and his disdain toward the culture of celebrity.
.^ The fake esteem you get from being in the public eye feels like self-worth, but actually your own powers to produce it shut down.
^ About the culture of celebrity, he told "Vogue", 'My theory is that it's like bodybuilders who inject testosterone, which means that their own powers to generate testosterone shut down forever.
^ Grant is noted for his tendency of teasingly insulting everyone, which has earned him the public reputation of someone who can put you down, put you on and put you off in the same sentence.
.^ The stuff that really counts is your own.
And that's, I think, why people go bonkers."
[13]
.^ Neither a keen actor, nor a keen celebrity, Grant's prickliness toward the fourth estate is widely observed and documented.
^ As observed by the "Boston Globe", Grant has repeatedly spoken about his boredom with playing the celebrity in the press.
[111] .^ While promoting "Mickey Blue Eyes" in 1999, Grant exclaimed, 'I'm even talking to the British press, which is astounding.'
^ "I don't mind promoting a film, that's absolutely fine; you do a press junket, that's great, as you get a chance to talk about the film and everything.- Hugh Grant Two Weeks Notice 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.femail.com.au [Source type: General]
^ He used this breakthrough role as a frequent cinematic persona during the 1990s to deliver comic performances in popular films like "Mickey Blue Eyes" (1999) and "Notting Hill" (1999).
[91] .^ Said to be 'unwilling to play the game' with the media, he is often described as appearing disinterested and brusque at press junkets to promote his movies.
^ Callan, voicing a popular stance, argued that Grant's hostility toward the media is hypocritical because stars like him often seek publicity when it is time to promote their movies.
^ "I don't mind promoting a film, that's absolutely fine; you do a press junket, that's great, as you get a chance to talk about the film and everything.- Hugh Grant Two Weeks Notice 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.femail.com.au [Source type: General]
He has injured many paparazzi including hitting one with his car in America.
[43]
.^ Fifteen years ago, when I interviewed him for Four Weddings and a Funeral , he was definitely an afternoon person; by the time I interviewed him again, for Bridget Jones’s Diary , he was absolutely an evening person.- Hugh Grant Interview - Get More Men We Love at ELLE.com 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.elle.com [Source type: General]
^ Journalists interviewing him have expressed exasperation at Grant's habit of responding to most questions with sardonic quips or sarcastic explanations that reveal nothing about him and provide little insight into the characters he plays.
^ Grant is known by popular media to guard his privacy 'jealously,' rarely discussing his life in public and choosing instead to fend off personal questions with humour.
[11] .^ His self-ironic tendencies are blamed for interviewers' inability to discriminate between whether he is being serious or playful at any given time.
^ Telling the "New York Times" that he must truly love something before he can do it, he revealed that he chooses projects based on how well they are written and whether the character he is being asked to play is funny.
[13] .^ On probing, he has remained incredibly steadfast in 'offering a dead bat to any question he feels is not general enough.'
[112] Jessica Callan, a former gossip columnist for the
Daily Mirror, explained to
The Times that if you are nice to gossip columnists, they'll generally be nice back, but she said, "Hugh Grant is such a grumpy bugger: you think, God, let’s wind him up."
[113]
.^ Hugh Grant, one of Britain's best known faces who has been equally entertaining...- Hugh Grant (I) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.imdb.com [Source type: General]
^ I've met many thoughtful 40plus singles who were trying to find true love.- Perez Hilton: A Horny Drew Barrymore Locks Lips With Hugh Grant! 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC perezhilton.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Himself - #81: Celebrity Arrests 101 Most Shocking Moments in Entertainment (2003) (TV) ....- Hugh Grant (I) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.imdb.com [Source type: General]
[97] .^ Showbiz media personalities in his homeland use him as a referential model for the epitome of a reluctant, ungrateful celebrity.
.^ Former editor of British tabloid newspapers the "News of the World" and the "Daily Mirror", Piers Morgan, has written about his advice for Grant to stop making movies if he does not appreciate the spotlight.
^ On April 27, 2007, Grant accepted undisclosed damages from Associated Newspapers over claims made about his relationships with his girlfriends in three separate tabloid articles - which were published in the "Daily Mail" and "Mail on Sunday" - dated February 18, 21 and 24.
^ Film historian David Thompson wrote in "The New Biographical Dictionary of Film" about how it is merely itchy mannerisms that Grant equates with screen acting.
[114]
.^ Fifteen years ago, when I interviewed him for Four Weddings and a Funeral , he was definitely an afternoon person; by the time I interviewed him again, for Bridget Jones’s Diary , he was absolutely an evening person.- Hugh Grant Interview - Get More Men We Love at ELLE.com 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.elle.com [Source type: General]
^ I've met Robert Hughes once ( a long story, I'm not in the habit of attending private views ) and had the "privilege" of hearing him give a talk.- How Hugh Grant got drunk. And bought a Warhol | Jonathan Jones | Art and design | guardian.co.uk 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.guardian.co.uk [Source type: News]
^ Comedy favorite Hugh Grant (BRIDGET JONES'S DIARY) stars as a young man who offends an entire town...- Hugh Grant on Blu-ray and DVD - Miramax Films 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC miramax.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[116][117][118] .^ The bear -- named Bart -- has appeared in many movies, and though Bart has been trained for it since he was a cub, Grant admitted, ''I was still very nervous about it all, especially after his trainer gave me the do's and don't's.''- Un-bearable role for Hugh Grant in 'Morgans' :: CHICAGO SUN-TIMES :: Bill Zwecker 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC poll.suntimes.com [Source type: General]
^ ''This still makes me laugh, even after all this time," Grant said, calling from New York.- Un-bearable role for Hugh Grant in 'Morgans' :: CHICAGO SUN-TIMES :: Bill Zwecker 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC poll.suntimes.com [Source type: General]
^ London, April 18, 1939 - Joseph P. Kennedy refers to a telegram regarding Mr. Grant's conversation with Lady Ryan, wife of the British Minister at Durazzo.
[121] .^ Posted: February 07, 2007 Description: Drew Barrymore and Hugh Grant talk about the making of their film Music...- Music and Lyrics - Drew Barrymore and Hugh Grant | SPIKE 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.spike.com [Source type: General]
[122] His response to the host, "I thought this was a classy show. I am ashamed of you," resulted in increased editorial disapproval of his gruff behaviour in England.
[123][124][125]
Libel lawsuits
.^ In 1996, Grant won substantial damages from News (UK) Ltd over a 'highly defamatory' article published in January of 1995.
^ The company's now-defunct newspaper, "Today", had falsely claimed that Grant verbally abused a young extra with a 'foul-mouthed tongue lashing' on the set of "The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain".
^ On April 27, 2007, Grant accepted undisclosed damages from Associated Newspapers over claims made about his relationships with his girlfriends in three separate tabloid articles - which were published in the "Daily Mail" and "Mail on Sunday" - dated February 18, 21 and 24.
[126]
.^ On April 27, 2007, Grant accepted undisclosed damages from Associated Newspapers over claims made about his relationships with his girlfriends in three separate tabloid articles - which were published in the "Daily Mail" and "Mail on Sunday" - dated February 18, 21 and 24.
^ The actor Hugh Grant has confessed that he was drunk (at least, according to the Daily Mail) when he ordered an assistant to bid at Sotheby's for a Warhol that he later sold for £13m.- How Hugh Grant got drunk. And bought a Warhol | Jonathan Jones | Art and design | guardian.co.uk 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.guardian.co.uk [Source type: News]
^ Grant said, in a written statement, that he took the action because: '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.'
.^ His lawyer stated that all of the articles' 'allegations and factual assertions are false.'
^ Claiming the article to be false and defamatory, the couple's lawyer stated that the article's 'numerous allegations including supposed quotes from sources are false and indeed fabricated.'
[127] .^ Grant said, in a written statement, that he took the action because: '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.'
^ On April 27, 2007, Grant accepted undisclosed damages from Associated Newspapers over claims made about his relationships with his girlfriends in three separate tabloid articles - which were published in the "Daily Mail" and "Mail on Sunday" - dated February 18, 21 and 24.
^ The actor Hugh Grant has confessed that he was drunk (at least, according to the Daily Mail) when he ordered an assistant to bid at Sotheby's for a Warhol that he later sold for £13m.- How Hugh Grant got drunk. And bought a Warhol | Jonathan Jones | Art and design | guardian.co.uk 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.guardian.co.uk [Source type: News]
.^ He went on to take the opportunity to stress, 'I'm also hoping that this statement in court might remind people that the so-called 'close friends' or 'close sources' on which these stories claim to be based almost never exist.'
^ People tend to put him in a box and say, 'That's all he does', but when we were filming I watched him closely and he was very subtle and very different in every single take.'
[128]
.^ Deriding British newspaper for having become a 'little tittle-tattle industry,' Grant has, on various occasions, claimed that the tabloids are keen to fabricate scandal on the slightest pretext and his own words are filtered through various media outlets before being misquoted numerous times.
^ Grant has also been presented in the press as occasionally being 'very disengaged' at social events, with British newspapers regularly referring to him as bad-tempered, arrogant, rude, and grumpy.
^ Former editor of British tabloid newspapers the "News of the World" and the "Daily Mirror", Piers Morgan, has written about his advice for Grant to stop making movies if he does not appreciate the spotlight.
[45][112]
Personality
Grant, once called the "unofficial mayor of London,"
[129] is frequently referred in the press with phrases that describe him as a "human straight line"
[130] who is "bursting with charisma."
[131] He has been portrayed by acquaintances as a complicated man with an anarchic and sharp constitution.
[13][45] .^ I know someone who personally met Warhol on more than several occasions and she had the same impression as Robert Hughes, he was one of th stupidest people she had ever met.- How Hugh Grant got drunk. And bought a Warhol | Jonathan Jones | Art and design | guardian.co.uk 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.guardian.co.uk [Source type: News]
[11][132] "There is at least as much of Hugh that is charismatic, intellectual, and whose tongue," according to
Mike Newell, "is maybe too clever for its own good as there is of him that's gorgeous and kind of woolly and flubsy."
[12]Grant's interview with
Oprah Winfrey on 22 October 2004, was highly discussed in the media for his outspoken wit, which produced extemporaneous quips that included his description of
Julia Roberts as "very big-mouthed." He said: "Literally, physically, she has a very big mouth. ... when I was kissing her, I was aware of a faint echo."
.^ I know someone who personally met Warhol on more than several occasions and she had the same impression as Robert Hughes, he was one of th stupidest people she had ever met.- How Hugh Grant got drunk. And bought a Warhol | Jonathan Jones | Art and design | guardian.co.uk 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.guardian.co.uk [Source type: News]
^ Though Grant admits that there's nothing one can do about what is written by misinformed journalists, nevertheless he doesn't handle it well.- Hugh Grant Two Weeks Notice 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.femail.com.au [Source type: General]
[133] Such incidents have been accompanied by stories of Grant's purported insensitivity.
[13] .^ After Bridget 1, Hugh suffered the loss of his mother, then took on About A Boy , directed by American Pie duo Paul and Chris Weitz.- Hugh Grant - Wiki - Pictures - Videos 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.flixster.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[134]It is frequently written that Grant employs an impulsive habit of “cocky self-deprecation” in public relations.
[13] .^ London, April 18, 1939 - Joseph P. Kennedy refers to a telegram regarding Mr. Grant's conversation with Lady Ryan, wife of the British Minister at Durazzo.
^ Grant may come across as a good-humoured, nice guy, but the one thing that riles him is the press.- Hugh Grant Two Weeks Notice 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.femail.com.au [Source type: General]
[117][118][123][124][136] According to his colleagues and public appearances, Grant is not worried about how his grumpiness is publicly perceived, with his moodiness unabashedly on display in televised and published interviews.
[137]Personal life
Grant is known in popular media for his guarded privacy,
[138] as he rarely discusses his life in public and chooses instead to fend off personal questions with humour.
[23] Grant is a supporter of
Marie Curie Cancer Care, whose Great Daffodil Appeal he promoted in March 2008.
[139].^ Hugh Grant, one of Britain's best known faces who has been equally entertaining...- Hugh Grant (I) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.imdb.com [Source type: General]
^ The Bengali Night (International: English title) Remando al viento (1988) ....- Hugh Grant (I) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.imdb.com [Source type: General]
[49] Grant started dating the aspiring model while shooting, and due to his rising fame, the latter half of their relationship was spent in the global media spotlight. After 13 years together, the two made "a mutual and amicable decision" to split in May 2000.
[140] With Grant a single man, according to
Vogue, "by all accounts the women of London were practically stabbing one another with forks at social events to get close to him."
[13] In 2004, he began dating socialite
Jemima Khan under the intense scrutiny of British
tabloids.
[13] .^ Posted: February 07, 2007 Description: Drew Barrymore and Hugh Grant talk about the making of their film Music...- Music and Lyrics - Drew Barrymore and Hugh Grant | SPIKE 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.spike.com [Source type: General]
[141] The spokesman added, "Hugh has nothing but positive things to say about Jemima."
Public scandals
.^ Inside the Actors Studio: The Craft of Theatre and Film (USA: first season title) - Episode #8.14 (2002) TV episode ....- Hugh Grant (I) 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.imdb.com [Source type: General]
^ Hugh Grant Two Weeks Notice .- Hugh Grant Two Weeks Notice 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.femail.com.au [Source type: General]
^ Hugh Grant/Two Weeks Notice Interview.- Hugh Grant Two Weeks Notice 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.femail.com.au [Source type: General]
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno had him booked for the same week and, as recalled in former employee Don Sweeney's memoirs, "despite his arrest, Hugh Grant kept his appointment to appear on Jay's show."
[145] The interview was a career-making hit for Leno and Grant was singled out for not making excuses for the incident.
[146][147] He famously said:
| “ |
.^ "That's very nice of you to think that I'm good at playing those kinds of roles", says a self-effacing Grant in a New York hotel room.- Hugh Grant Two Weeks Notice 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.femail.com.au [Source type: General]
And there you have it.[148] |
” |
On
Larry King Live, Grant declined the host
Larry King's repeated invitations to probe his psyche, saying that psychoanalysis was "more of an American syndrome" and he himself was "a bit old fashioned."
[149] He told the host: "I don't have excuses."
[150] Grant's management of the scandal was deemed unusual for a celebrity. He was appreciated for "his refreshing honesty" as he "faced the music and handled it with tongue [in] cheek."
[151] The incident registered strongly in the global cultural conscience and tarnished Grant's wholesome image. In the 2006
CBS TV series
Love Monkey, the character called Shooter (
Larenz Tate) explained the phenomenon of male discontent as "Grant's Law." Referring to Hugh Grant, he said that the star "had the hottest, sexiest and most beautiful woman waiting for him at home. And what does Hugh do? He picks up a cut-rate whore on Hollywood Boulevard." This, he believed, showed that, "We, as men, can never be satisfied."
[152]In April 2007, Grant was arrested on allegations of assault made by
paparazzo Ian Whittaker.
[153] Grant made no official statement and did not comment on the incident.
[154] Charges were dropped on 1 June by the
Crown Prosecution Service on the grounds of "insufficient evidence."
[155]Sports
Grant's athletic passions have often been profiled by newspapers and television media. A famous "
golfing addict",
[156] Grant is a scratch golfer and is a regular at pro-am tournaments with membership at the Sunningdale Golf Club. He is also frequently pictured by the paparazzi at the famed Scottish golf courses in
St Andrews,
Kingsbarns and
Carnoustie.
[157] Highly competitive,
[158] he reportedly plays with a lot of money at stake.
[159] .^ "That's very nice of you to think that I'm good at playing those kinds of roles", says a self-effacing Grant in a New York hotel room.- Hugh Grant Two Weeks Notice 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC www.femail.com.au [Source type: General]
He is also a fan of Scottish side
Rangers F.C.[160] thanks to his grandfather who was Scottish. He continued to play in a Sunday-morning football league in south-west London after college and remains an "impassioned Fulham supporter."
[33] On the set of
About a Boy,
Nicholas Hoult recalled being taught
cricket and
snooker by Grant. Hoult said, "when we weren't acting we'd all play cricket. ...
.^ Hugh Grant on Blu-ray and DVD - Miramax Films Movie Title Matches: Miramax Films Home In Theaters & Coming soon In Theaters: .- Hugh Grant on Blu-ray and DVD - Miramax Films 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC miramax.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[161] Actress
Alicia Witt (
Two Weeks Notice) has also described Grant as "a really good tennis player, shockingly good."
[162] He used to play football as a child with John Isaacs, Jeremy Isaac's son.
Filmography
Awards and honours
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| Persondata |
| NAME |
Grant, Hugh John Mungo |
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| SHORT DESCRIPTION |
English actor and film producer |
| DATE OF BIRTH |
9 September 1960 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH |
Hammersmith, London, England |
| DATE OF DEATH |
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