Hugh Grant

Acting • Born 1960-09-09

Acting3London, England, UK

Biography

Hugh John Mungo Grant (born 9 September 1960) is an English actor and film producer. He has received a Golden Globe Award, a BAFTA, and an Honorary César. His movies have also earned more than $2.4 billion from 25 theatrical releases worldwide. Grant achieved international stardom after appearing in Richard Curtis's sleeper hit Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994). He used this breakthrough role as a frequent cinematic persona during the 1990s to deliver comic performances in mainstream films like Mickey Blue Eyes (1999) and Notting Hill (1999). By the turn of the century, he had established himself as a leading man skilled with a satirical comic talent. Since the 2000s, Grant has expanded his oeuvre with critically acclaimed turns as a cad in Bridget Jones's Diary (2001), About A Boy (2002), Love Actually (2003), and American Dreamz (2006). Within the film industry, Grant is cited as an anti-movie star who approaches his roles like a character actor, with the ability to make acting look effortless. Hallmarks of his comic skills include a nonchalant touch of irony/sarcasm and studied physical mannerisms as well as his precisely-timed dialogue delivery and facial expressions. The entertainment media's coverage of Grant's life off the big screen has often overshadowed his work as a thespian. He has been vocal about his disrespect for the profession of acting, his disdain towards the culture of celebrity, and hostility towards the media. In a career spanning 20 years, Grant has repeatedly claimed that acting is not a true calling but just a job he fell into.

Filmography

141 credits

About a Boy

Movie • 2002

Will Freeman

Love Actually

Movie • 2003

The Prime Minister

Notting Hill

Movie • 1999

William Thacker

The Remains of the Day

Movie • 1993

Reginald Cardinal

Mickey Blue Eyes

Movie • 1999

Michael Felgate

Bridget Jones's Diary

Movie • 2001

Daniel Cleaver

Four Weddings and a Funeral

Movie • 1994

Charles

Small Time Crooks

Movie • 2000

David

The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain

Movie • 1995

Reginald Anson

Two Weeks Notice

Movie • 2002

George Wade

Sense and Sensibility

Movie • 1995

Edward Ferrars

Bitter Moon

Movie • 1992

Nigel

Music and Lyrics

Movie • 2007

Alex Fletcher

The Lair of the White Worm

Movie • 1988

Lord James D'Ampton

Champagne Charlie

Movie • 1989

Charles Heidsieck

Extreme Measures

Movie • 1996

Dr. Guy Luthan

An Awfully Big Adventure

Movie • 1995

Meredith Potter

Nine Months

Movie • 1995

Samuel Faulkner

Did You Hear About the Morgans?

Movie • 2009

Paul Morgan

Maurice

Movie • 1987

Clive Durham

American Dreamz

Movie • 2006

Martin Tweed

Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason

Movie • 2004

Daniel

Sirens

Movie • 1994

Anthony Campion

Restoration

Movie • 1995

Elias Finn

Death to 2021

Movie • 2021

Tennyson Foss OBE

White Mischief

Movie • 1987

Hugh

Wonka

Movie • 2023

Oompa Loompa

Impromptu

Movie • 1991

Frederic Chopin

Rowing with the Wind

Movie • 1988

Lord Byron

There's Something About Romcoms

Movie • 2016

Self

The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists!

Movie • 2012

Pirate Captain (voice)

Cloud Atlas

Movie • 2012

Rev. Giles Horrox / Hotel Heavy / Lloyd Hooks / Denholme Cavendish / Seer Rhee / Kona Chief

Housewarming

Movie • 2005

Le nouveau voisin

Night Train to Venice

Movie • 1996

Martin

Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen

Movie • 2012

(archive footage)

Heretic

Movie • 2024

Mr. Reed

The Lady and the Highwayman

Movie • 1988

Lord Lucius Vyne

Our Sons

Movie • 1991

James

The Making of a Mobster: 'Mickey Blue Eyes'

Movie • 1999

Self

The Dawning

Movie • 1988

Harry

Girlfriend in a Coma

Movie • 2012

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

The Trials of Oz

Movie • 1991

Richard Neville

The Changeling

Movie • 1993

Alsemero

The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

Movie • 2015

Waverly

Unfrosted

Movie • 2024

Thurl Ravenscroft

Merchant Ivory

Movie • 2024

Self

The Rewrite

Movie • 2014

Keith Michaels

The Bengali Night

Movie • 1988

Movie • 1999

The Handsome Doctor

Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy

Movie • 2025

Daniel Cleaver

Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery

Movie • 2022

Phillip

A Grand Night In: The Story of Aardman

Movie • 2015

Self - Voice of The Pirate Captain

The Big Man

Movie • 1990

Gordon

Junket Whore

Movie • 1998

Self

So You Want To Be A Pirate!

Movie • 2012

The Pirate Captain

Happy Birthday Elizabeth: A Celebration of Life

Movie • 1997

Self

Paddington 2

Movie • 2017

Phoenix Buchanan

Red Nose Day Actually

Movie • 2017

The Prime Minister

Privileged

Movie • 1982

Lord Adrian

The Gentlemen

Movie • 2020

Fletcher

Honour, Profit & Pleasure

Movie • 1985

Burlington

One Red Nose Day and a Wedding

Movie • 2019

Charles

Terms and Conditions May Apply

Movie • 2013

Self - Actor (archive footage)

Death to 2020

Movie • 2020

Tennyson Foss

Being Bridget Jones

Movie • 2020

Self

Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre

Movie • 2023

Greg

Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves

Movie • 2023

Forge

Mosley: It's Complicated

Movie • 2021

Self

Polanski, le travail à l'oeuvre

Movie • 2019

Self (archive footage)

The Demon Lover

Movie • 1986

Robert Drover

Paddington in Peru

Movie • 2024

Phoenix Buchanan

Hugh Grant: Taking on the Tabloids

Movie • 2012

Self

101 Most Shocking Moments in Entertainment

Movie • 2003

Self (archive footage)

Twelfth Night

Movie • 1992

Sebastian (voice)

Locating the World of Sense & Sensibility

Self

TV • 1983

Robert Drover

Late Night Berlin

TV • 2018

Self

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

TV • 2015

Live from Studio Five

TV • 2009

Self

Wetten, dass..?

TV • 1981

Self

Late Night with Seth Meyers

TV • 2014

Self

TV • 1979

Himself - Panellist

Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter

TV • 2015

Self

Performance

Preacher Colin

Late Night with Seth Meyers

TV • 2014

Self - Guest

Jimmy Kimmel Live!

TV • 2003

Self - Guest

Ladies in Charge

TV • 1986

Gerald Boughton-Green

The Regime

TV • 2024

Edward Keplinger