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Hugh John Mungo Grant (born September 9, 1960 in London, England) is an
English film actor who tends to play the archetypal (some would say
stereotypical) Englishman. Grant was born to Finvola and James Grant, who
has Scottish ancestry. He has one brother, James Grant, who lives in the
Manhattan borough of New York City.
After attending Latymer Upper School for boys, Grant studied English at New
College, Oxford. He made his film debut in 1982 with Oxford-financed
Privileged. Television came later, in 1985. In 1991, he starred in the film
Impromptu as Frederic Chopin opposite Julian Sands.
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One of his first major film roles was in The Remains of the Day (1993), and
he became simultaneously known as the partner of actress Elizabeth Hurley
whom he had been dating since 1987 or earlier, but it was Four Weddings and
a Funeral (1994) which turned him into a major star.
Not long after gaining the starring role in Sense and Sensibility in 1995,
Grant was arrested near Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood, having been caught
receiving oral sex from a prostitute, Divine Brown, in a car. A public
apology on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno helped win back public support.
Although he was forgiven by Hurley, they broke up some years later. He was
recently involved with British heiress Jemima Khan, former wife of Pakistani
political figure and cricket star Imran Khan and a daughter of Sir Jimmy
Goldsmith before separating, supposedly because he was not ready to be a
father figure for her two children.
Grant kept a low profile until 1999, when he starred in Notting Hill
opposite Julia Roberts, and followed up with major successes in Bridget
Jones's Diary (2001), About a Boy (2002) and Two Weeks Notice (2002)
opposite Sandra Bullock. He returned to partnership with Richard Curtis in
the 2003 romantic comedy, Love Actually. The sequel to Bridget Jones's Diary,
Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason was released in 2004.
The boy who played "Sam" in Love Actually, Thomas Sangster, is Grant's
cousin.
Grant played cricket in his younger days, and currently enjoys playing golf,
frequently taking part in pro-am tournaments and receives tuition from Colin
Montgomerie. He is a fan of Fulham Football Club. |
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