Hugh Grant

Biography

Hugh Grant was born in England, in an easy family. His/her mother, Fynvola Susan MacLean, were a professor, and her father, James Murray Grant, an artist, who sold carpets to remain. It has an older brother, James. The large-large-father, Dr. James Stewart, were Scottish and known to have been the second of the explorer David Livingstone. It is also related to William Drummond, the fourth Strathallan Viscount.

Child, it attends the school Wetherby School, then Latymer Upper School, and still New College, with Oxford, where it studies the English language, and becomes a notorious member of the club Piers Gaveston Society.

Becoming famous, it shares the life of Liz Hurley during more than ten years. In 1995, it is stopped with Hollywood, to have had an indecent control with a prostitute, Divine Brown, in a public place.

In 2004, it meets Jemima Khan, ex-wife of Imran Khan with which it will live during three years.

Career

Hugh Grant makes its beginnings, in 1982, in a telefilm entitled Privileged . It is then known under the name of “Hughie Grant”. But these are only three years later, that the roles on television hustle. In 1987 it receives the reward of the best actor to the International festival of Venice for its role of homosexual driven back in the film " Maurice" of James Ivory. In 1988, it off makes an appearance noticed in film of Ken Russell The Lair the White WORM , and in 1991, it holds the role of Frederic Chopin in the film Impromptu . In 1993, it divides the high-speed motorboat of film, The Remains off the Day , with Sir Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson. But it is only in 1994, with the film Four marriages and a burial , which he knows a real success. From this year, he is cinematographic real successes and plays with the largest actors and actresses of his time: with Alan Rickman in Year Awfully Big Adventure , with Julianne Moore, in Last nine months , with Emma Thompson in the Judicious and Sensibility , with Ian McNeice, Tared Fitzgerald and Harry Kretchmer, in The Englishman Who Went Up has Hill But Down Cam has Mountain , or with Gene Hackman in Extreme Measures , in 1996. In 1999, it holds the first role in Love at first sight in Notthing Hill , with Julia Roberts. It obtains various successes with Journal of Bridget Jones (2001) with Colin Firth, About has servant boy (2002), and Two weeks note (2002) with Sandra Bullock. In 2003, it continues the adventure of Bridget Jones: The Age of Enlightenment . It also held the first role in American Dreamz (2006), a satire on exposures of reality TV.

Catalog of films

1982 : Privileged , of Michael Hoffman
1985: The Last Places one Earth , of Ferdinand Fairfax (serial TV)
1985: The Detective , of Gift Leaver (serial TV)
1985: Jenny' S War , of Steve Gethers (TV)
1985: Honor, Profit & Pleasure , of Anna Ambrose (TV)
1986: Ladies in Load , of Richard Bramall, Neville Green, Jane Howell and John Wood (series TV)
1986: The Dream To coil , of Peter Hammond (TV)
1986: Lord Elgin and Stones Nap off No Been worth , of Christopher Miles (TV)
1987: On the road of Nairobi ( White Mischief ), of Michael Radford
1987: Maurice , of James Ivory
1988: the Night Bengali , of Nicolas Klotz
1988: Night , of François Aubry (short-measuring)
1988: The Dawning , of Robert Knights
1988: the Den of the white worm ( The Lair off the White WORM ), of Ken Russell
1988: Remando Al viento , of Gonzalo Suárez
1989: the Rider masked ( The Lady and the Highwayman ), of John Hough (TV)
1989: Champagne Charlie , of Allan Eastman (TV)
1989: the Secrecy of Castle Valmont ( Till We Meet Again ), of Charles Jarrott (serial TV)
1990: The Big Man , of David Leland
1991: Impromptu , of James Lapine
1991: Beyond despair ( Our Sounds ), of John Erman (TV)
1991: The Trials off OZ , of Sheree Folkson (TV)
1992: the Moons of gall ( Bitter Moon ), of Roman Polanski
1992: Shakespeare: The Animated Bruise , of Leon Garfield (serial TV) (voice)
1993: Night Train to Venice , of Carlo U. Quinterio
1993: Vestiges of the day ( The Remains off the Day ), of James Ivory
1994: The Changeling , of Simon Curtis (TV)
1994: Sirens ( Sirens ), of John Duigan
1994: Four marriages and a burial ( Four Weddings and has Funeral ), of Mike Newell
1995: Year Awfully Big Adventure , of Mike Newell
1995: the English who climbs a hill but descended a mountain ( The Englishman Who Went Up has Hill But Down Cam has Mountain ), of Christopher Monger
1995: Last nine months also ( Nine Months ), of Chris Columbus
1995: Reason and feelings ( Judicious and Sensibility ), of Ang Lee
1995: the Gift of the king ( Restoration ), of Michael Hoffman
1996: Emergency measures ( Extreme Measures ), of Michael Apted
1999: Comic Relief: Doctor Who and the Curse off Fatal Death , of John Henderson (video)
1999: Love at first sight in Notting Hill ( Notting Hill ), of Roger Michel
1999: Mickey blue eyes ( Mickey Blue Eyes ), of Kelly Makin
2000: Swindlers but not too ( Small Time Crooks ), of Woody Allen
2001: the Newspaper of Bridget Jones ( Bridget Jones' S Diary ), of Sharon Maguire
2002: For a boy ( About has Boy ), of Chris and Paul Weitz
2002: Love without notice ( Two Weeks Note ), of Marc Lawrence
2003: Coils Actually , of Richard Curtis
2004: Bridget Jones: The Age of Enlightenment ( Bridget Jones: The Edge off Reason ), of Beeban Kidron
2005: Work, one knows when that begins… , of Brigitte Roüan
2006: American Dreamz , of Paul Weitz
2007: the Come-back (Music and Lyrics), of Marc Lawrence

Rewards

Price of interpretation to the Festival of Venice for its role in Maurice .
Golden Globe for its role in Four marriages and a burial .
César of honor in 2006

External bonds

Hugh Grant on Internet Movie Database
Behind Blue Eyes: In Hugh Grant Fansite

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