Hugh Grant

Personal life

In 1987, while playing Lord Byron in a Spanish production calledRemando Al Viento(1988), Grant met actress Elizabeth Hurley , who was cast in a supporting role as Byron's former lover Claire Clairmont .Grant started dating the aspiring model while shooting and since 1994, their relationship was the subject of much media attention. After 13 years together, the two made "a mutual and amicable decision" to split in May 2000.In 2004, he began dating socialite Jemima Khan under the intense scrutiny of British tabloids .Three years later, in February 2007, Grant's publicist announced that the couple had "decided to split amicably."The spokesman added, "Hugh has nothing but positive things to say about Jemima."

Grant is a supporter of Marie Curie Cancer Care , whose Great Daffodil Appeal he promoted in March 2008.A famous " golfing addict",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 .Highly competitive,he reportedly plays with a lot of money at stake.As a young boy, he played rugby union on his school's first XV team at centre and played football as an avid fan of Fulham F.C. . He is also a fan of Scottish side Rangers F.C. 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."Grant's other interests include snooker and tennis.

In the media

Grant has repeatedly spoken about his boredom with playing the celebrity in the pressand is known in popular media for his guarded privacy,About the culture of celebrity, he toldVogue, "My theory is that it's like bodybuilders who inject testosterone, which means that their own powers to generate testosterone shut down forever. 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. The stuff that really counts is your own. And that's, I think, why people go bonkers."On probing of his personal life, he has remained incredibly steadfast in "offering a dead bat to any question he feels is not general enough."Meanwhile, acquaintances portray him as a complicated man with an anarchic and sharp constitution."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."Filmmaker Paul Weitz, calling Grant funny, observed that "he perceives flaws in himself and other people, and then he cares about their humanity nonetheless."British newspapers regularly refer to him as grumpy.

Libel lawsuits

In 1996, Grant won substantial damages from News (UK) Ltd over what his lawyers called a "highly defamatory" article published in January 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 ofThe Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain.

On 27 April 2007, Grant accepted undisclosed damages from the Associated Newspapers over claims made about his relationships with his former girlfriends in three separate tabloid articles, which were published in theDaily MailandThe Mail on Sundayon 18, 21 and 24 February. His lawyer stated that all of the articles' "allegations and factual assertions are false."Grant said, in a written statement, that he took the action because: "I was tired of theDaily MailandMail on Sundaypapers publishing almost entirely fictional articles about my private life for their own financial gain." 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."

Public scandals

Hugh Grant mugshot, 1995

On 27 June 1995, Grant was arrested in an L.A. Vice police operation not far from Sunset Boulevard for misdemeanour lewd conduct in a public place with Hollywood prostitute Divine Brown .He pleaded no contest and was fined $1,180, placed on two years' summary probation, and was ordered to complete an AIDS education program.

The arrest occurred about two weeks before the release of Grant's first major studio film,Nine Months, which he was scheduled to promote on several American television shows.The Tonight Show with Jay Lenohad 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."The interview was a career-making hit for Leno and Grant was singled out for not making excuses for the incident.He famously said:

OnLarry 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."He told the host: "I don't have excuses."Grant was appreciated for "his refreshing honesty" as he "faced the music and handled it with tongue [in] cheek."

In April 2007, Grant was arrested on allegations of assault made by paparazzo Ian Whittaker.Grant made no official statement and did not comment on the incident.Charges were dropped on 1 June by the Crown Prosecution Service on the grounds of "insufficient evidence."

Career

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Grant's first leading role came in Merchant-Ivory 's 1987 Edwardian drama,Maurice, adapted from E.M. Forster 's novel of the same name. He and co-star James Wilby shared the Volpi Cup for best actor at the Venice Film Festival for their portrayals of Cantabrigian collegians Clive Durham and Maurice Hall, respectively. During the late 1980s and early 1990s, Grant balanced small roles on television with rare film work, which included a supporting role inThe Dawning(1988), opposite Anthony Hopkins and a turn as Lord Byron in a Goya Award -winning Spanish production calledRemando al viento(1988). He also portrayed some other real life figures during in his early career such as Charles Heidsieck inChampagne Charlieand as Hugh Cholmondeley in BAFTA Award -nominatedWhite Mischief.

In 1990, he made cameo appearance in the sport/crime dramaThe Big Man, opposite Liam Neeson , and in which Grant assumed a Scottish accent. The film explores the life of an Scottish miner (Neeson) who becomes unemployed during a union strike. In 1991, he played Julie Andrews ' gay son in the ABC made-for-TV movieOur Sons.

In 1992, he appeared in Roman Polanski 's filmBitter Moon, portraying a fastidious and proper British tourist who is married, but finds himself enticed by the sexual hedonism of a seductive French woman and her embittered, paraplegic American husband. The film was called an "anti-romantic opus of sexual obsession and cruelty" by theWashington Post.His other work in period pieces such as Ken Russell ’sThe Lair of the White Worm(1988), award-winning Merchant-Ivory dramaThe Remains of the Day(1993) and (as Frédéric Chopin in)Impromptu(1991) was largely unnoticed. 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 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."

At 32, Grant claimed to be on the brink of giving up the acting profession but was surprised by the script ofFour Weddings and a Funeral(FWAAF)."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.Released in 1994,FWAAFbecame the highest-grossing British film to date with a worldwide box office in excess of $244 million,making Grant an overnight international star. 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 temporarily typecast him as the lead character, Charles, a bohemian and debonair bachelor. 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.Grant later expressed:

Grant in his breakthrough performance as Richard Curtis 's alter ego, Charles, inFour Weddings and a Funeral.

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.He appointed his then-girlfriend, Elizabeth Hurley, as the head of development to look for prospective projects. Simian Films produced two Grant vehicles in the 1990s and lost a bid to produceAbout a Boyto Robert De Niro 's TriBeCa Productions .The company closed its U.S. office in 2002 and Grant resigned as director in December 2005.

1995 saw the release of Grant's first studio-financed Hollywood project, Chris Columbus 's comedyNine Months. Though a hit at the box office, it was almost universally panned by critics. TheWashington Postcalled 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."The same year, he played leading roles as Emma Thompson 's suitor in Ang Lee ’s Academy Award-winning adaptation of Jane Austen 'sSense and Sensibilityand as a cartographer in 1917 Wales inThe Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain. In the same year he performed in the Academy Award -winningRestoration.

Grant then reunited with the director ofFWAAF, Mike Newell , for the tragicomedyAn Awfully Big Adventurethat was labeled a "determinedly offbeat film" byThe New York Times.Grant portrayed a bitchy, supercilious director of a repertory company in post-World War II Liverpool . Critic Roger Ebert wrote, "It shows that he has range as an actor,"but theSan Francisco Chronicledisapproved on grounds that the film "plays like a vanity production for Grant." Janet Maslin , praising Grant as "superb" and "a dashing cad under any circumstances," commented, "For him this film represents the road not taken. Made beforeFour Weddings and a Funeralwas released, it captures Mr. Grant as the clever, versatile character actor he was then becoming, rather than the international dreamboat he is today."Grant made his debut as a film producer with the 1996 thrillerExtreme Measures, a commercial and critical failure.

After a three year hiatus, in 1999 he paired with Julia Roberts inNotting Hill, which was brought to theatres by much of the same team that was responsible forFWAAF. This new Working Title production displacedFWAAFas the biggest British hit in the history of cinema, with earnings equalling $363 million worldwide.As it became exemplary of modern romantic comedies in mainstream culture, the film was also received well by critics. CNN reviewer Paul Clinton said, "Notting Hillstands alone as another funny and heartwarming story about love against all odds."Reactions to Grant's Golden Globe-nominated performance were varied, with Salon.com 's Stephanie Zacharek criticising that, "Grant's performance stands as an emblem of what's wrong withNotting 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."The movie provided both its stars a chance to satirise 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 theNew York Timescalled, "a delightfully funny deadpan."Grant also released his second production output, a fish-out-of-water mob comedyMickey Blue Eyes, that year. It was dismissed by critics, performed modestly at the box office, and garnered its actor-producer mixed reviews for his starring role. Roger Ebert thought, "Hugh Grant is wrong for the role [and] strikes one wrong note and then another,"whereas Kenneth Turan , writing in theLos Angeles Times, said, "If he'd been on the Titanic, fewer lives would have been lost. If he'd accompanied Robert Scott to the South Pole, the explorer would have lived to be 100. That's how good Hugh Grant is at rescuing doomed ventures."

While promoting Woody Allen ’sSmall Time Crookson NBC’sThe Today Showin 2000, Grant told host Matt Lauer , “It's my millennium of bastards.”In 2000, Grant also the Supervisory Board of IM Internationalmedia AG , the powerful Munich -based film and media company.

Giving his most critically acclaimed performance to date, Grant plays Snooker as Will Freeman inAbout a Boy.

Small Time Crooksstarred 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."In a role devoid of his comic attributes, theNew York Timeswrote: "Mr. Grant deftly imbues his character with exactly a perfect blend of charm and nasty calculation."A year later, his turn as a charming but womanising book publisher Daniel Cleaver inBridget Jones's Diary(2001) was proclaimed byVarietyto be "as sly an overthrow of a star's polished posh - and nice - poster image as any comic turn in memory."The movie, adapted from Helen Fielding 's novel of the same name, was an international hit, earning $281 million worldwide.Grant was, according to theWashington Post, fitting as "a cruel, manipulative cad, hiding behind the male god's countenance that he knows all too well."

Grant's "immaculate comic performance" (BBC) as the trust-funded womaniser, Will Freeman, in the film adaptation of Nick Hornby 's best-selling novelAbout a Boyreceived raves from critics.Almost universally praised, with an Academy Award-nominated screenplay,About a Boy(2002) was determined by theWashington Postto be "that rare romantic comedy that dares to choose messiness over closure, prickly independence over fetishised coupledom, and honesty over typical Hollywood endings."Rolling Stonewrote, "The acid comedy of Grant's performance carries the film [and he] gives this pleasing heartbreaker the touch of gravity it needs,"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."Released a day after the blockbusterStar Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones,About a Boywas a more modest box office grosser than other successful Grant films, making all of $129 million globally.The film earned Grant his third Golden-Globe nomination, while the London Film Critics Circle named Grant its Best British Actor andGQhonoured him as one of the magazine's men of the year 2002."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."The New York Observerconcluded: "[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 womanising 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."About a Boyalso marked a notable change in Grant's boyish look. Gone were the floppy locks that had become his trademark, with Grant now sporting a cropped haircut. He has retained this look since.

Billy Bob Thornton (right) and Grant hold a press conference inLove Actually.

Grant was also paired with Sandra Bullock in Warner Bros. 'sTwo Weeks Notice, which made $199 million internationally but was judged poorly by professional reviewers.The Village Voiceconcluded that Grant's creation of a spoiled billionaire fronting a real estate business was "little more than a Britishism machine."

Two Weeks Noticewas followed by the 2003 ensemble comedy,Love Actually, headlined by Grant as the British Prime Minister. A Christmas release by Working Title Films, the movie was promoted as "the ultimate romantic comedy" and accumulated $246 million at the international box office.It marked the directorial debut of Richard Curtis, who told theNew York Timesthat Grant adamantly tempered the characterisation of the role to make his character more authoritative and less haplessly charming than earlier Curtis incarnations.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."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."

A speech delivered by Grant inLove 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.Blair responded by saying, "I know there's a bit of us that would like me to do a Hugh Grant inLove Actuallyand tell America where to get off. 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."

Grant as the gratuitously nasty TV personality, Martin Tweed, inAmerican Dreamz.

In 2004, Grant reprised his role as Daniel Cleaver for a small part inBridget Jones: The Edge of Reason, which, like its predecessor, made more than $262 million commercially.Gone from the screen for two years, Grant next reteamed with Paul Weitz (About a Boy) for the black comedyAmerican Dreamz(2006). Grant starred as the acerbic host of anAmerican Idol-like reality show where, according to Caryn James of theNew York Times, "nothing is real ... except the black hole at the centre of the host's heart, as Mr. Grant takes Mr. Cowell's villainous act to its limit."American Dreamzfailed financially but Grant was generously praised. He played his self-aggrandising character, an amalgam of Simon Cowell and Ryan Seacrest , with smarmy self-loathing.The Boston Globeproposed that this "just may be the great comic role that has always eluded Hugh Grant,"and critic Carina Chocano said, "He is twice as enjoyable as the preening bad guy as he was as the bumbling good guy."

In 2007, Grant starred opposite Drew Barrymore in a parody of pop culture and the music industry calledMusic and Lyrics. The Associated Press described it as "a weird little hybrid of a romantic comedy that's simultaneously too fluffy and not whimsical enough."Though he neither listens to music nor owns any CDs,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 .The Star-Ledgerdismissed the performance, writing that "paper dolls have more depth."The movie, with its revenues totalling $145 million, allowed Grant to mock disposable pop stardom and fleeting celebrity through its washed-up lead character. According to theSan 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."In 2009, Grant starred opposite Sarah Jessica Parker in the romantic comedyDid You Hear About the Morgans?, which was a commercial as well as a critical failure.

Ancestry and early life

Grant was born at Hammersmith Hospital in Hammersmith , London , Middlesex , England, the second son, the eldest being James Grant, a banker , of Fyvola Susan ( née MacLean ) (b. Wickham , Hampshire , 11 October 1933, m. Boxgrove , Sussex , 6 July 1957) and Captain James Murray Grant (b. 1929), who gained the rank of Officer in the service of the Seaforth Highlanders and lived in 1957 at Findhorne , Morayshire , and in 1974 at Sutton , Surrey ).Genealogist Antony Adolph described Grant's family history as "a colourful Anglo-Scottish tapestry of warriors, empire-builders and aristocracy,"including William Drummond, 4th Viscount Strathallan and Dr. James Stewart. John Murray, 1st Duke of Atholl (his uncle through William Murray, 2nd Baron Nairne ), Heneage Finch, 1st Earl of Nottingham , Rt. Hon. Sir Evan Nepean , and a sister of former British Prime Minister Spencer Perceval are a few of his notable maternal antecedents .Grant's grandfather, Major James Murray Grant, DSO , a native of Inverness in Scotland, was decorated for bravery and leadership at Dunkirk during World War II.

Grant's father, Capt. Grant, was trained at Sandhurst and served with the Seaforth Highlanders for eight years in Malaya , Germany and Scotland.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.In September 2006, a collection of Capt. Grant's paintings was hosted by the John Martin Gallery in a charity exhibition, organised by his famous son, called "James Grant: 30 Years of Watercolours."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 .She worked as a schoolteacher and taught Latin, French and music for more than 30 years in the state schools of west London .She died in Hounslow , London, at the age of 65,in July 2001, after an 18-month battle with pancreatic cancer .

Grant's famous RP accent is an inheritance from his mother and, onInside the Actors Studioin 2002, he credited her with "any acting genes that [he] might have."Both his parents were children of military families,but, despite his parents' posh backgrounds, Grant has stated that his family was not always affluent while he was growing up.Grant spent his childhood summers shooting and hunting with his grandfather in Scotland.Grant's elder brother, James "Jamie" Grant, is a successful banker as Managing Director, Head of Healthcare, Consumer, & Retail Investment Banking Coverage, at JPMorgan Chase in New York.

Education

Grant started his education at Hogarth Primary School in Chiswick but then moved to St Peters Primary School in Hammersmith to finsh he Key Stage 2 years. From 1969 to 1978, he attended Latymer Upper School in Hammersmith on a scholarship and played 1st XV rugby, cricket and football for the school.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.Chris Hammond, his form teacher in 1975 and later the assistant head of Latymer, toldPeoplemagazine that Grant was "a clever boy among clever boys."In 1979, he won the Galsworthy scholarship to New College, Oxford where he starred in his first film,Privileged, produced by the Oxford University Film Foundation , OUFF . He studied English literature and graduated with 2:1 honours .Actress Anna Chancellor , who knew Grant at Oxford, has recalled, "I first met Hugh at a party at Oxford Zoo. There was something magical about him. He was a star even then, without having done anything."Viewing acting as nothing more than a creative outlet,he joined the Oxford University Dramatic Society and starred in a successful touring production ofTwelfth Night.. Latymer Upper School have made a scolarship named the Hugh Grant Award.

Young earner

After making his debut as Hughie Grant in the Oxford-financedPrivileged(1982), 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.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 .Bored with small acting parts, he created his own comedy revue called The Jockeys of Norfolk with friends Chris Lang and Andy Taylor. The group toured London’s pub comedy circuit with stops atThe George IVin Chiswick ,Canal Cafe Theatrein Little Venice andThe King's Headin Islington .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 calledEdinburgh Nights.During this time, Grant also appeared in theatre productions of plays such asAn Inspector Calls,Lady Windermere's Fan, andCoriolanus .

Awards and honours

Ancestry

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