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Hugh Grant

Hugh Grant
Photo: Kurt Kulac · CC BY-SA 3.0

About

Hugh John Mungo Grant (born 9 September 1960, London) is an English actor and producer whose career spans four decades. He broke through with Richard Curtis's Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994), winning both a Golden Globe and a BAFTA, and spent the 1990s and 2000s as the defining face of British romantic comedy - Notting Hill, Bridget Jones's Diary, Love Actually. Since the 2010s he has steadily reinvented himself as a character actor, taking on villains, eccentrics and dramatic leads in projects ranging from A Very English Scandal to the A24 psychological thriller Heretic (2024), for which he earned Golden Globe, BAFTA and Critics' Choice nominations.

$4.4B
Total worldwide box office gross across career
$60M
Worldwide gross of Heretic (2024) on a $10M budget
$150M+
Global box office of Paddington in Peru (2025, cameo)

What's new

  • 2025-02

    Grant reprised his role as Daniel Cleaver in Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy, released on 13 February 2025.

  • 2024-11

    Heretic (A24), in which Grant plays the villain Mr. Reed, grossed $60 million worldwide on a $10 million budget and earned him Golden Globe, BAFTA and Critics' Choice Best Actor nominations.

  • 2025-02

    Paddington in Peru, featuring Grant in a cameo as Phoenix Buchanan, surpassed $150 million at the global box office.

  • 2025-02

    A Guardian report noted that Grant personally wrote the Paddington in Peru post-credits scene featuring his character Phoenix Buchanan.

  • 2024-11

    Heretic premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on 8 September 2024 and was released in the US by A24 on 8 November 2024.

Tracks

Four Weddings and a Funeral1994 breakthrough role; Golden Globe and BAFTA Best Actor win
Notting Hill1999 rom-com opposite Julia Roberts; one of the highest-grossing British films of its era
Love Actually2003 ensemble classic; Grant as the British Prime Minister
Paddington 22017 family film; Grant as villain Phoenix Buchanan; 99% on Rotten Tomatoes
Heretic2024 A24 psychological thriller; Grant as Mr. Reed; $60M worldwide, multiple awards nominations

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