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Hugh Grant
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Hugh John Mungo Grant (born 9 September 1960) is an English actor. He established himself early in his career as a charming, vulnerable romantic leading man and has since transitioned into a character actor. He has received several accolades, including a British Academy Film Award and a Golden Globe Award, as well as nominations for two Primetime Emmy Awards. He received an Honorary César in 2006. In 2022, Time Out magazine listed Grant as one of Britain's 50 greatest actors of all time. As of 2025, his films have grossed over US$4 billion worldwide.
Grant made his feature film acting debut in Privileged (1982), followed by the romantic drama Maurice (1987), for which he gained acclaim and …
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Hugh John Mungo Grant (born 9 September 1960) is an English actor. He established himself early in his career as a charming, vulnerable romantic leading man and has since transitioned into a character actor. He has received several accolades, including a British Academy Film Award and a Golden Globe Award, as well as nominations for two Primetime Emmy Awards. He received an Honorary César in 2006. In 2022, Time Out magazine listed Grant as one of Britain's 50 greatest actors of all time. As of 2025, his films have grossed over US$4 billion worldwide. Grant made his feature film acting debut in Privileged (1982), followed by the romantic drama Maurice (1987), for which he gained acclaim and won the Volpi Cup for Best Actor. He then acted in a string of successful period dramas such as The Remains of the Day (1993), Sense and Sensibility (1995) and Restoration (1995). Grant emerged as a star with Richard Curtis's romantic comedy Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994), for which he won the Golden Globe and BAFTA Award for Best Actor. He starred in further romantic comedies such as Notting Hill (1999), Bridget Jones's Diary (2001) and its 2004 and 2025 sequels, About a Boy (2002), Two Weeks Notice (2002), Love Actually (2003) and Music and Lyrics (2007). Grant began taking on against-type parts, earning three BAFTA Award nominations for his roles as St. Clair Bayfield in the biopic comedy Florence Foster Jenkins (2016), a haughty actor in the family film Paddington 2 (2017), and a charming yet sinister man in the horror film Heretic (2024). He has also acted in the science fiction epic Cloud Atlas (2012), the crime comedy The Gentlemen (2019), the fantasy comedy Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves (2023), and the musical fantasy Wonka (2023). He earned two Primetime Emmy Award nominations for his roles as Jeremy Thorpe in the BBC miniseries A Very English Scandal (2018) and a man accused of murder in the HBO miniseries The Undoing (2020). Grant has been outspoken about his antipathy toward acting, his disdain for celebrity culture, and his hostility toward the media. He emerged as a prominent critic of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation during the News International phone hacking scandal. Description above from the Wikipedia article Hugh Grant, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Hugh Grant's Filmography
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Treasure Island
as John Trelawney
Tribeca 25
as Self
What is an Ocean… Reconnecting the Cast and Crew of Cloud Atlas
as Self - Interviewee
Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy
as Daniel Cleaver
Paddington in Peru
as Phoenix Buchanan
Heretic
as Mr. Reed
Merchant Ivory
as Self
Unfrosted
as Thurl Ravenscroft
Wonka
as Oompa Loompa
Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
as Forge
Scandalous: Phone Hacking on Trial
as Self
Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre
as Greg Simmonds
The Laughter & Secrets of Love Actually: 20 Years Later – A Diane Sawyer Special
as Self
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
as Phillip
Death to 2021
as Tennyson Foss OBE
Mosley: It's Complicated
as Self
Death to 2020
as Tennyson Foss
Being Bridget Jones
as Self
The Gentlemen
as Fletcher
Polanski, le travail à l'oeuvre
as Self (archive footage)
One Red Nose Day and a Wedding
as Charles
Paddington 2
as Phoenix Buchanan
Red Nose Day Actually
as The Prime Minister
There's Something About Romcoms
as Self
Florence Foster Jenkins
as St. Clair Bayfield
A Grand Night In: The Story of Aardman
as Self - Voice of The Pirate Captain
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
as Waverly
The Rewrite
as Keith Michaels
One Rogue Reporter
Terms and Conditions May Apply
as Self - Actor (archive footage)
Hugh Grant: Taking on the Tabloids
as Self
Girlfriend in a Coma
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Cloud Atlas
as Rev. Giles Horrox / Hotel Heavy / Lloyd Hooks / Denholme Cavendish / Seer Rhee / Kona Chief
So You Want To Be A Pirate!
as The Pirate Captain
The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists!
as Pirate Captain (voice)
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
as (archive footage)
Did You Hear About the Morgans?
as Paul Morgan
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Locating the World of Sense & Sensibility
as Self
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Elegance & Simplicity: The Wardrobe of Sense & Sensibility
as Self
Music and Lyrics
as Alex Fletcher
American Dreamz
as Martin Tweed
Live 8
as Self
A Tribute To Ismail Merchant
as Self (archive footage)
Housewarming
as Le nouveau voisin
Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason
as Daniel
Love Actually
as The Prime Minister
101 Most Shocking Moments in Entertainment
as Self (archive footage)
Two Weeks Notice
as George Wade
About a Boy
as Will Freeman
Heart of the Festival
as Self (archive footage)
50 Years of NBC Late Night
as Self (archive footage)
Bridget Jones's Diary
as Daniel Cleaver
Small Time Crooks
as David
Mickey Blue Eyes
as Michael Felgate
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The Making of a Mobster: 'Mickey Blue Eyes'
as Self
Notting Hill
as William Thacker
Doctor Who: The Curse of Fatal Death
as The Handsome Doctor
Junket Whore
as Self
No Poster
Happy Birthday Elizabeth: A Celebration of Life
as Self
Extreme Measures
as Dr. Guy Luthan
Night Train to Venice
as Martin
Restoration
as Elias Finn
Sense and Sensibility
as Edward Ferrars
Nine Months
as Samuel Faulkner
The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain
as Reginald Anson
An Awfully Big Adventure
as Meredith Potter
Four Weddings and a Funeral
as Charles
Sirens
as Anthony Campion
The Changeling
as Alsemero
The Remains of the Day
as Reginald Cardinal
Twelfth Night
as Sebastian (voice)
Bitter Moon
as Nigel
The Trials of Oz
as Richard Neville
Our Sons
as James
Impromptu
as Frederic Chopin
The Big Man
as Gordon
Champagne Charlie
as Charles Heidsieck
The Lady and the Highwayman
as Lord Lucius Vyne
The Bengali Night
as Allan
The Lair of the White Worm
as Lord James D'Ampton
Rowing with the Wind
as Lord Byron
The Dawning
as Harry
White Mischief
as Hugh
Maurice
as Clive Durham
A Modest Success
as James
The Demon Lover
as Robert Drover
Jenny's War
as Peter Baines
Honour, Profit & Pleasure
as Burlington
Privileged
as Lord Adrian
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James Ivory: In Search of Love and Beauty
as Self