Hugh Grant
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 (38)
Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy
Heretic
Unfrosted
Paddington in Peru
Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre
Wonka
Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
The Gentlemen
Paddington 2
Florence Foster Jenkins
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
The Rewrite
Cloud Atlas
The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists!
Did You Hear About the Morgans?
Music and Lyrics
American Dreamz
Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason
Love Actually
Two Weeks Notice
About a Boy
Bridget Jones's Diary
Small Time Crooks
Notting Hill
Mickey Blue Eyes
Extreme Measures
Sense and Sensibility
Nine Months
The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain
An Awfully Big Adventure
Restoration
Four Weddings and a Funeral
Sirens
The Remains of the Day
Bitter Moon
The Lair of the White Worm
