Biography
Hugh Grant is an English actor, winner of the Golden Globe, BAFTA, Volpi Cup and honorary Cesar awards.
Actor Hugh Grant
He became known to the general public after the release of the romantic comedy Bridget Jones's Diary, where he played one of the main roles, playing the boss and lover of the main character, Daniel Cleaver.
Childhood and youth
Hugh Grant was born on September 9, 1960 in London. His parents were James and Finvola Grant. His father, who once served in the British army, retrained as a businessman, and his mother worked as a teacher of Latin, French and music in London public schools for more than 30 years.
Hugh was a nice guy from an early age and suffered from it. The future actor thought that his appearance was not masculine enough. The teenager was given self-confidence by the scars that appeared on his face after an injury received during a sports game. And even when the wounds healed, the boy independently injured his face with his father’s razor and did not miss the chance to get involved in another fight in order to look like a real man.
Hugh Grant graduated from school in 1979 and entered college at Oxford University - the young man planned to become an art critic. During those years, he joined a closed student club called the Piers Gaveston Society. After graduating from college, the future actor played for some time in the comedy troupe “Jokers from Norfolk.”
Movies
The Briton did not set himself the goal of becoming a film actor. He first appeared on the screens thanks to his fellow student and friend Michael Hoffman, who suggested making a film. The film entitled “Privileged”, which premiered in London in 1982, became the debut for the comrades. After the release of this film, numerous show business agents became interested in Grant - then they first started talking about him as a promising actor.
Hugh Grant in his youth
It is safe to say that his brilliant debut in “Privileged” paved the way for the actor into the world of cinema. It was this film that opened the cinematic biography of Hugh Grant. For several years he worked on television, starring in television series and films. His most significant works at that time were the roles of a student in James Ivory's film Maurice, Lord James in the horror film Lair of the White Worm, and Lord Byron in the Spanish film Rowing with the Wind.
For his work in Maurice, Hugh Grant was awarded the Venice Film Festival award for best actor in 1987. In 1991, the Briton successfully portrayed the world-famous composer Frederic Chopin in the biographical drama Impromptu. No less striking were the roles in “Bitter Moon” and “At the End of the Day.” These film projects hit the big screens in the early 1990s.
Hugh Grant in the movie Impromptu
The breakthrough in Hugh Grant’s acting career was the film “Four Weddings and a Funeral,” which viewers saw in 1994. In it, the artist first appeared in the role of a shy, handsome guy, causing both laughter and compassion.
The light, sparkling romantic comedy directed by Mike Newell, in which Grant appeared in a duet with Andie MacDowell, instantly turned into a movie hit and made our hero a Hollywood star and sex symbol. This film brought the actor his first prestigious film awards - the Golden Globe and the BAFTA Award.
Hugh Grant in the film "Four Weddings and a Funeral"
Hugh Grant's career was taking off, but it was then, in the summer of 1995, that an unfortunate sex scandal occurred on Hollywood's Sunset Boulevard. The star's reputation suffered greatly, and there was a decline in his career. In 1997 and 1998, the actor did not star in any films.
However, the scandal subsided over time, and in 1999, Hugh Grant returned to his former popularity. He starred in a number of brilliant films, including the audience favorites “The Englishman Who Climbed a Hill and Came Down a Mountain,” “Blue-Eyed Mickey,” “Notting Hill” and “Bridget Jones’s Diary.”
Hugh Grant and Renee Zellweger
These are Hugh Grant's best films. In these films, fans saw their favorite star in their favorite image of a charming handsome man and heartthrob. I especially liked the last two pictures. And everywhere Hugh Grant is in the leading roles.
In the romantic melodrama Notting Hill, which tells the story of a modest owner of a small bookstore in the London district of the same name, viewers enthusiastically watched the development of a romantic relationship between the characters of Hugh Grant and Julia Roberts.
Hugh Grant and Julia Roberts
The brilliant comedy “Bridget Jones's Diary” increased the army of fans of the Hollywood artist significantly. Hugh Grant, Renee Zellweger, Colin Firth, Gemma Jones and Jim Broadbent presented the audience with a real film masterpiece, which millions still enjoy watching today.
In 2002, the audience’s favorite starred in two top-rated films – “My Boy” and “Love with Notice.” The last of these projects is a comedy by Mark Lawrence, in which fans saw the brilliant tandem of Hugh Grant and Sandra Bullock.
Hugh Grant and Sandra Bullock in the film “Love with Notice”
A family melodrama with a set of comedic situations, “My Boy” was filmed based on the work of Nick Hornby. The film was nominated for various film awards more than 20 times, including an Oscar. Hugh himself was awarded the Empire magazine award for best British actor, and he also received Germany's main film award, the Golden Film Camera, and the London Film Critics Society award for best acting of the year.
Grant's equally successful work was the tragicomedy Love Actually, which was the directorial debut of screenwriter Richard Curtis.
Hugh Grant in the movie Love Actually
The plot consists of ten parallel developing stories. Hugh Grant got the role of the British Prime Minister, and his secretary and part-time object of his affections was played by Martine McCutchen. Worldwide box office receipts exceeded all expectations; they exceeded the film's budget 6 times.
After this, there was a certain lull in his career. Among the projects of that period are the less successful sequel to Bridget Jones's Diary and the romantic comedy Out of Sight, Out of Chart, in which the famous Briton starred in a duet with Drew Barrymore.
Hugh Grant and Renee Zellweger
In 2012, the Briton surprised and delighted fans with his work in the historical-fiction film Cloud Atlas, where he played six characters simultaneously. This painting by Tom Tykwer, Lilly and Lana Wachowski consists of six symbolically interconnected stories. And in each of them, the main character is played by Hugh. In some characters it is quite difficult to recognize him due to the complex makeup.
In 2020, the actor’s filmography was supplemented with one more work. The film “The Agents of U.N.C.L.E.” was released, in which Hugh Grant also appeared in an unusual role, playing the head of British intelligence. Unfortunately, the project was not a box office success.
Hugh Grant and Meryl Streep
In the spring of 2016, the premiere of the biographical film Florence Foster Jenkins directed by Stephen Frears took place. Hugh Grant's colleague on the set was the unrivaled Meryl Streep. After the release of the film, the actor admitted that he was scared by the prospect of playing together with the star, who at that time had 19 Oscar nominations (today this figure has risen to 21). For this work, Hugh Grant received a special Golden Icon Award in 2016.
Hugh Grant: interesting facts from the life of an actor
It's impossible not to fall in love with this man! You just have to watch at least one film with his participation, and you will forever be captivated by his charm. All this is about today's birthday boy - American actor Hugh Grant . Today this luxurious man and talented actor turns 55 years old. We, of course, could not ignore this joyful event and collected interesting facts from his biography.
Full name: Hugh John Mungo Grant .
Born in London (UK) .
His father was an artist and sold carpets, and his mother worked as a teacher. The actor has a brother, James, who became a successful banker.
The future heartthrob grew up as a shy and insecure child. In his youth, Grant considered himself to be like a girl and thought that because of this, his peers did not pay attention to him. In an interview, the actor admitted that he only felt courageous at the age of 13, after he broke his face while playing football. Grant liked the scars on his face so much that he later even cut his face with a blade.
Unlike many of his colleagues, Hugh did not dream of an acting career. In 1979, Grant entered college at Oxford University, planning to become an art critic.
As befits a true Englishman, Hugh Grant loves football and has been a fan of the Fulham .
Hugh Grant enjoys golf.
He loves to read esotericism and literature on psychology.
The actor admitted that he is obsessed with cleanliness and order. Hugh also said that he never wears the same thing two days in a row.
Hugh Grant his acting career quite late, at 22 years old. His debut was the film “The Privileged” .
In 1985, the actor began working a lot on television, taking part in various television programs, starring in commercials and TV series.
Grant's first success came in 1987. The actor starred in a melodrama that talked about the love of young gay students. It was his role in this film that helped him attract attention.
Hugh Grant's most popular film, which brought him wide fame, was the film "Four Weddings and a Funeral." For his role in the film, the actor was awarded such prestigious film awards as BAFTA and Golden Globe.
Since 1987, Grant lived with actress Liz Hurley (50). The union, which lasted 13 years, broke up in 2000.
The actor’s career was going uphill, his popularity was gaining momentum, and the best directors were happy to invite him to their films. However, Grant failed in 1995. The police caught Grant in the car of prostitute Divine Brown having sex and arrested him. At this point, he and Liz Hurley were still together.
This scandalous episode negatively affected his career. Grant did not act in films for a whole year.
The long-awaited rise came in 1999 after the film Notting Hill , where Hugh Grant played alongside Julia Roberts (47).
The most popular films in the actor’s career are considered to be the films “Bridget Jones’s Diary” , “My Boy” and “Love with Notices” . These films finally secured Grant's fame and the love of women.
Grant tries to keep his personal life a strict secret, but nosy journalists still manage to unearth details. In 2011, Hugh became the father of a girl who was given a very unusual name - Tabitha (5). Through the court, the actor ensured that his daughter’s name was not mentioned in the press. And all that is known about the girl’s mother is that she is a Chinese woman named Tinglan Hong . A year later, this woman gave the actor another child - a boy, Felix (4).
In 2012, the actor met his current lover, Anna Eberstein . Grant's chosen one worked as a producer on Swiss television. Anna's parents are successful and wealthy lawyers.
Hugh and Anna first met at a party with mutual friends in London. In 2013, she gave birth to a boy. The child was named Hugh John Mungo Grant . Recently it became known that Anna is expecting a child again.
In his 55 years, the actor has never been married and has always maintained that he was not cut out for fatherhood.
Personal life
In his personal life, Hugh Grant turned out to be as much a heartthrob as his on-screen heroes. Despite numerous novels, the actor had never been married until 2018. For many years, Elizabeth Hurley was considered his common-law wife. The couple met during the filming of the melodrama “Row with the Wind.”
In total, the relationship between them lasted 13 years. The couple almost broke up after a sex scandal in 1995, when police caught Hugh Grant in a car with a girl of easy virtue. But Elizabeth forgave the betrayal. Despite this, a few years later Hugh and Liz separated due to the actor’s reluctance to start a family. Hurley is tired of her common-law wife status.
The two stars did not part ways on the best terms. Liz even forbade her son from her first marriage - godson Hugh - to watch films with Grant's participation. However, the actor acted nobly: he left his former family a house in London's Chelsea area.
Hugh Grant and Jemima Khan
After the breakup with Elizabeth, a series of fleeting romances followed. Hugh had relationships with Kasia Komorovich, Martine McCutcheon and Eimear Montgomery. For about 3 years he dated the heiress of tycoon James Goldsmith, Jemima Khan. However, the girl left the playboy after learning about his affair with Drew Barrymore.
In 2011, the famous actor became a father for the first time. The birth of his daughter Tabitha was the result of a fleeting relationship with Chinese actress Tinglan Hong. For some time, the Briton did not reveal to journalists the name of the child’s mother, but when the truth was revealed, he admitted that the birth of the baby was not part of his plans.
Hugh Grant and Tinglan Hong
However, at the end of 2012, Tinglan Hong gave birth to 52-year-old Hugh Grant’s son Felix. It seems that Hong already understood then that she would not be able to marry the star to herself. Therefore, they parted as friends and maintain friendly relations.
And at the beginning of 2014, it became known that Hugh Grant has another son. Of course, illegitimate. The boy was born by Swedish television producer Anna Elisabeth Eberstein. In December 2015, it became known that the couple already had two children: in addition to his son John Mungo, Grant had a daughter growing up.
Hugh Grant with children
A photo of their joint vacation in the Spanish resort of Marbella somewhat upset the star’s fans. Their pet was not in the best physical shape. In his youth he was fit and athletic, but now his figure has become somewhat blurred.
Hugh Grant on the beach
Unlike many stars, Hugh Grant does not have the now popular Instagram, but he does have a verified Twitter, which he updates with regular frequency.
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Biography:
Hugh Grant was born on September 9, 1960, in the family of James Murray Grant and Finvola Grant. It is interesting to trace the family tree of the famous actor - his relatives include viscounts and marquises, and Grant's grandfather, a Scotsman, received an order for bravery during the Second World War. The boy's father served in the British army, and then started selling carpets. Mother taught lessons in French, music and even Latin.
Hugh Grant had been popular with girls since adolescence, but for some reason he was sure that his appearance did not look masculine. In his attempts to change his external characteristics, Hugh was helped by an incident - during training, he broke his face, the scars after the injury did not heal for a long time. At that moment, the teenager had a strange idea: to disfigure himself even more, for which his father’s razor came in handy. As the actor later admitted: “It was my big mistake, because due to my carelessness the wounds became infected, and I treated the inflammatory process for a long time and painfully.”
Hugh Grant photo No. 2
Grant began his acting career relatively late - at the age of 22 he starred in the tragic comedy “The Privileged.” After completing his studies, Hugh participated in a comic troupe, wrote book reviews and actively starred in a number of television projects.
Hugh Grant's first notable work was the film Maurice, which tells about the love of homosexual students. Surprisingly, thanks to this film, Grant won the Volpi Cup as the performer of the best male role.
After this work, directors noticed the young talent, and in 1988, with Hugh’s active participation, five films were released at once. On the set of one of them, Rowing with the Wind, the actor met Elizabeth Hurley, whose romance lasted a very long time for an acting couple - 13 years.
Hayu Grant photo No. 3
The beginning of the 90s was marked by the rapid development of Hugh’s career - he was invited mainly to melodramas, and occasionally to comedies.
After being approved for the role in the film “Sense and Sensibility,” the actor obviously could not withstand the strong emotional stress and decided to relax, and in a very unique way: the paparazzi documented him in a car with a woman of easy virtue. Elizabeth was allegedly able to forgive her lover’s betrayal, but after a few years their relationship collapsed.
This unpleasant incident affected not only the relationship with his beloved, but also his career - for several years the actor was practically not invited anywhere. The films “Notting Hill” and “Bridget Jones’s Diary” helped him get into big cinema again.
Hayu Grant photo No. 4
The actor was even offered to play the Golden-eared Lockhart in the epic Harry Potter, but he did not give his consent. And some time later, Hugh, of course, regretted his refusal, but the opportunity was missed.
Now Hugh Grant is considered one of the highest paid and popular actors, regularly starring in major projects. In his personal life, everything also worked out - for some time he had a relationship with Tinglan Hong. However, from 2012 to this day, the actor has been dating Anna Elisabeth Eberstein, with whom he has two children: a son and a daughter.
Best films:
- Bridget Jones's Diary
- Notting Hill
- Real love
- Bitter Moon
- Cloud Atlas
- My boy
Video trailer for the film with Hugh Grant "The Corrected Cut"
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Hugh Grant now
In 2020, BBC One premiered the mini-series A Very English Scandal, starring Hugh Grant and Ben Whishaw. Also in Russia in the same year, the full-length film “The Adventures of Paddington 2” was shown, where Grant played the main antagonist Phoenix Buchanan, a narcissistic actor who had lost his former glory, and who recently began appearing in dog food commercials.
Hugh Grant and Anna Eberstein
Perhaps the main news of 2020 was Grant's loss of his bachelor status. On May 25, Grant and Eberstein were married. The age difference between the spouses is 18 years. And on the eve of their wedding, information leaked to the media that Anna gave birth to a third child from the actor. True, neither his gender nor his name are still unknown.
FRIENDSHIP IS STRONGER THAN LOVE
No matter how many women Hugh changed, one of them always remained in his life - friendship with Liz Hurley turned out to be much more durable than love. They met in 1987, when Grant was already making his first successes in cinema. But because of Liz, he forgot about everything - he ran after her, abandoning a very prestigious project. We had to wait seven years for recognition. But they became famous in one day. He with the film “Four Weddings and a Funeral” (1994), she with the dress with huge pins that she wore to the premiere. Liz and the dress did not appear in the film, but they became its best advertisement. To the chagrin of fans, the couple finally broke up. Although the fact that everyone began their own personal life did not stop Hugh from taking Liz from the maternity hospital and becoming the godfather of her son. In general, their friendship lasts longer than all subsequent novels of both. Hugh was not even offended by the new and, in general, humiliating information for him about how his girlfriend had once cheated on him.
Interesting Facts
- It was planned that the famous Briton would appear in the hit movie “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.” But he refused, which he later greatly regretted.
- Hugh Grant's films in French release are voiced by Vincent Cassel.
- The Hollywood star has long been a fan of the English football club Fulham, whose matches he never misses.
Hugh Grant and Mikhail Gorbachev
- In the summer of 2008, a Briton bought the right to dinner with USSR President Mikhail Gorbachev, paying $160 thousand for the meal. The proceeds were sent to a children's cancer center in Moscow.
- In 2010, Hugh Grant took part in the popular show “ProjectorParisHilton”, which greatly pleased his fans, demonstrating an excellent sense of humor.
Filmography
- 1987 – “Maurice”
- 1988 – “The Lady and the Robber”
- 1992 – “Bitter Moon”
- 1993 – “Four Weddings and a Funeral”
- 1999 – “Notting Hill”
- 1999 – “Blue-Eyed Mickey”
- 2001 – “Bridget Jones's Diary”
- 2002 – “Love with Notice”
- 2003 – “Love Actually”
- 2004 – “Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason”
- 2007 – “Out of sight, out of sight, out of the charts!”
- 2009 – “The Morgans on the Run”
- 2012 – “Cloud Atlas”
- 2015 – “The Agents of U.N.C.L.E.”
- 2018 – “A Very English Scandal”
Latest news about Hugh Grant
Filming has become an important part of Grant's life. He does not plan to end his career and regularly appears in films of various genres. In 2020, Hugh appeared in the action film The Agents of U.N.C.L. He played the role of the head of British intelligence. A year later, the biographical film Florence Foster Jenkins was released. The main character was played by the legendary actress Meryl Streep. Critics praised the film and Grant's performance.
Fans of the Christmas comedy Love Actually received a pleasant surprise from the film's director. After 14 years, he decided to film a continuation of the romantic story. The main characters gathered again on the set of the sequel. The short comedy is conceived as a charity project.
