Hugh Grant

British actor

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Updated 2026-08-29

He made stammering through romantic comedies look like high art, then spent the back half of his career playing the kind of brittle, vain bastards who probably tormented him at school — and turned out to be better at that.

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Hugh John Mungo Grant was born 9 September 1960 and cut his teeth in period dramas like Maurice (1987), which won him the Volpi Cup, and later The Remains of the Day and Sense and Sensibility. Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994) made him a star — the Golden Globe and BAFTA followed — and the rom-com reign continued through Notting Hill, Bridget Jones's Diary, About a Boy, and Love Actually. Then he pivoted: supporting turns as a deluded accompanist in Florence Foster Jenkins (2016) and a preening actor in Paddington 2 (2017) earned him BAFTA nominations, and he kept leaning into darker, weirder…

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In the last couple of weeks I have seen the ads for the Wonder Bra. Is that really a problem in this country? Men not paying enough attention to women’s breasts?

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Politics is stressful, it's scary, tiresome. Acting is like a breath of fresh air. They're both fictional kind of creativity: politicians are bad actors.

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