Hugh John Mungo Grant (born September 9, 1960) is an English-language film actor and producer. Grant has received the Golden Globe, BAFTA, and Honorary CÃÆ'Â sar for his work. His films have earned over US $ 2.4 billion from 25 theatrical releases worldwide. Grant first received attention after earning the Volpi Cup for his performance at James Ivory's Maurice (1987) but achieved international success after appearing in the manuscript of Richard Curtis Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994). Grant used this breakthrough role as a frequent cinematic character in the 1990s, giving comic performances in films such as Mickey Blue Eyes (1999) and Notting Hill (1999). One of the most notable figures of the 1990s British popular culture, Grant was in a high-profile relationship with Elizabeth Hurley, who became the focus of great attention in the British and international media.
At the turn of the 21st century, Grant has established himself as a leading man, skilled with a satirical comic talent. Grant has expanded its oeuvre with highly recognized changes as cad in Bridget Jones's Diary (2001), About About a Boy (2002), and American Dreamz (2006). Grant then played against the type with many roles in the science fiction drama film, Cloud Atlas (2012). He is also known for appearing in cutting periods such as The Remains of the Day (1993), Sense and Sensibility (1995) and Florence Foster Jenkins (< 2016). Recently, Grant received critical acclaim for his turn as Phoenix Buchanan, an antagonist in Paddington 2 and as Jeremy Thorpe in BBC One miniseries Very British Scandal .
In the film industry, Grant is cited as an anti-star who approaches his role like a character actor, and attempts to make his acting appear spontaneously. The advantages of his comic skills include a touch of irreverent irony/sarcasm and studying his physical behavior, as well as the prompt delivery of his dialogue and facial expressions. Media coverage about Grant's life from the big screen often overshadows his work as an actor. Grant has been vocal about antipathy towards the acting profession and in his contempt for celebrity culture and hostility towards the media. He emerged as a leading critic of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation's actions during the International News phone hacking scandal. In a career spanning 30 years, Grant has repeatedly claimed that acting is not his true vocation but a career developed by chance.
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Grant was born at Charing Cross Hospital in Hammersmith, London, second son of Fynvola Susan MacLean (b) Wickham, Hampshire, October 11, 1933, and Captain James Murray Grant (born 1929). Grant's grandfather, Colonel James Murray Grant, DSO was decorated for courage and leadership in Saint-Valery-en-Caux during World War II. Genealogist Antony Adolph has described Grant's family history as "a colorful Anglo-Scottish tapestry of warriors, imperial builders and aristocracy." Some of his famous ancestors include William Drummond, Viscount Strathallan 4, Dr. James Stewart, John Murray, 1st Marquess of Atholl, Heneage Finch, 1st Nottingham Earl, Sir Evan Nepean, and sister of former Prime Minister Spencer Perceval.
Grant's father was an officer at Seaforth Highlanders for eight years in Malaya and Germany. He runs a carpet company, pursues hobbies such as golf and watercolor painting, and raises his family in Chiswick, west London, where Grants lives next to Arlington Park Mansions in Sutton Lane. In September 2006, Capt's collection of paintings. Grant was guided by John Martin Gallery in a charity fair, hosted by his son, called "James Grant: 30 Years of Watercolor." His mother works as a school teacher and teaches Latin, French, and music for over 30 years in public schools in west London. He died at the age of 67, 18 months after being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.
Grant's accent was a legacy from his mother; and, at Inside Actors Studio in 2002, he praised him with "the acting genes he probably [had]." His parents were children of military families, but, regardless of the background of his parents, Grant had stated that his family was not always prosperous as he grew up. Grant spent the summer and shoot with his grandfather in Scotland. Grant has an older brother, James, who lives in Portugal.
Education
Grant began his education at Hogarth Primary School in Chiswick, but later moved to St. Peter's Elementary School in Hammersmith, and Grant was trained in an independent preparatory school, Wetherby School. From 1969 to 1978, he attended the independent Latymer High School at Hammersmith with scholarships and playing the first XV rugby, cricket and soccer for school. He also represents Latymer on the popular quiz show, Top of the Form , an academic competition between two teams of four high school students each.
In 1979, Grant won a Galsworthy scholarship to New College, Oxford, where he starred in his first movie, Privileged , produced by the Oxford University Film Foundation. He read English and graduated with praise 2: 1. Actress Anna Chancellor, who met Grant while she was at university, has recalled, "I first met Hugh at a party at Oxford. There was something magical about him. star even then, without doing anything.Grant joins the exclusive Piers Gaveston Society in Oxford, a group with a reputation for debauchery and decadence ".
Grant accepted an offer from the University of London's Courtauld Institute of Art to pursue a PhD in art history, but decided not to take the offer because he failed to get a grant. Seeing acting as nothing more than a creative outlet, he joined the Oxford University Dramatic Society and starred in the successful production tour of Twelfth Night.
Young earnings
After debuting as Hughie Grant at Oxford-funded Privileged (1982), Grant experimented with various jobs, such as working as a guard assistant at Fulham Football Club, tutoring comedy sketches for TV Shows, and working for Talkback Productions to write and produce radio ads for products like Mighty White bread and Red Stripe lager. To earn his Equity card, he joined Nottingham Playhouse, a regional theater, and stayed for a year at Park Terrace at The Park Estate. Bored with the small parts of acting, he created his own comedy film entitled The Jockeys of Norfolk, a name taken from Shakespeare Richard III , with friends Chris Lang and Andy Taylor. The group visited the pub comedy circuit in London with a stop at The George IV in Chiswick, Canal Cafe Theater in Little Venice and The King's Head on Islington. Starting with a low note, The Jockeys of Norfolk finally proved to be a hit at the Edinburgh Festival after their sketch of the Nativity, described as the comedy Ealing, gave them a spot on the BBC2 TV show entitled Edinburgh Nights. During this time, Grant also appeared in the production of theatrical dramas such as Inspector Call (on Royal Exchange, Manchester), Lady Windermere's Fan , and Coriolanus .
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Careers
Grant's first major role appeared in the Edwardian Merchant-Ivory Maurice drama (1987), adapted from the novel E. M. Forster. He and fellow star James Wilby shared the Volpi Cup for best actor at the Venice Film Festival for their depictions of lovers Clive Durham and Maurice Hall, respectively.
During the late 1980s and early 1990s, Grant balanced a small role in television with rare film work, which included a supporting role in The Dawning (1988), as opposed to Anthony Hopkins and Jean Simmons and turns as Lord Byron in the Spanish production of the award winning Goya called Remando al viento (1988). He also portrayed several other real-life figures during his early career such as Charles Heidsieck at Champagne Charlie and as Hugh Cholmondeley in the White Mischief Award-nominated BAFTA Award.
In 1990, he made a cameo appearance in the sports drama/crime of the Big Man, opposite Liam Neeson, and where Grant assumed a Scottish accent. The film explores the life of a Scottish miner (Neeson) who becomes unemployed during a trade union strike. In 1991, he played as a gay son Julie Andrews in the ABC film made for Our Sons television.
In 1992, she appeared in the Roman Polanski movie Bitter Moon, portraying a thorough and proper British traveler who married but found herself attracted by the sexual hedonism of a tempting French lady and her lame and paralyzed husband in America.. The film is called "opus anti-romantic obsession and sexual cruelty" by the Washington Post . Other works in period pieces such as Ken Russell's horror film The Lair of the White Worm (1988), award-winning Merchant-Ivory drama The Remains of the Day (1993)) and (such as FrÃÆ' Â © ric Chopin in) Impromptu (1991) are largely unnoticed. He then calls this phase of his career "funny," referring to his first film as "Europuddings, where you will have French script, a Spanish director, and English actors." The manuscript will usually be written by strangers, translated poorly into in And then they will include British actors, because they think that's the way to sell them to America. "
At 32, Grant claimed to be on the verge of giving up the acting profession but was shocked by the Four Weddings and a Funeral script ( FWAAF ). "If you read as many bad scripts as I do, you'll know how grateful you are when you find one where that person is really funny," he then remembers. Released in 1994, FWAAF became the best-selling British film to date with a worldwide box office of more than $ 244 million, making Grant a midnight international star. The film was nominated for two Academy Awards, and among the many awards won by the cast and crew, he earned Grant the first and only Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy and BAFTA Award for Best Actor in the Main Role. It also temporarily typecast him as the main character, Charles, bohemian and bachelor debonair. Grant and Curtis see it as a joke that the star, because the parts it plays, is thought to have a screenwriter personality, known to write about himself and his own life. Grant then stated:
In July 1994, Grant signed a two-year production contract with Castle Rock Entertainment and in October, he became founder and director of UK-based Simian Films Limited. He appointed his girlfriend, Elizabeth Hurley, as head of development to look for prospective projects. Simian Films produced two Grant vehicles in the 1990s and lost offers to produce About Boys to Robert De Niro's TriBeCa Productions. The company closed its US office in 2002 and Grant resigned as director in December 2005. He also starred in the movie Pirates! Band of Misfits as the main character of the Pirate Captain.
The first Hollywood project funded by Grant's studio was Chris Columbus's <9 Nine Months comedy. Despite a hit at the box office, it's almost universally repeated by critics. The Washington Post referred to it as "a great pandering achievement" and devoted to Grant's performance, as a child psychiatrist who reacts unfavorably to unexpected girlfriend pregnancies due to his "unbearable muggings". That same year, he played a leading role as an applicant for Emma Thompson in an Anggun adaptation that won an Academy Award from Jane Austen Sense and Sensibility and as a cartographer in 1917 in Wales The Englishman Went Up a Hill But Coming Down the Mountain . In the same year she appeared at the Academy Award winner's Academy Award-winning. Lisa Schwarzbaum writes Grant is "having a good time and freeing up portrait painter portrait painters" and Kevin Thomas of Los Angeles Times says he has "some delicious moments" in the movie.
Prior to releasing Four Weddings and a Funeral, Grant reunited with his director, Mike Newell, for the tragicomedy of Great Adventure labeled "very unusual film" "by < The Grant describes a bitchy and supercilious director of the treasury company in Liverpool post-World War II.Critic Roger Ebert writes, "This shows that he has the reach of an actor," but The San Francisco Chronicle is not approved on the grounds that the movie "plays like a vanity production for Grant." Janet Maslin praises Grant as "amazing" and "a mighty man in all circumstances," commented, "To him this movie represents a path not taken. Made before Four Weddings and Funeral released, it captured Mr. Grant as a smart and versatile character actor, then becomes, rather than an international dreamboat as it is today. "Grant debuted as a film producer with the 1996 Extreme Measures thriller. Roger Ebert and Gene Siskel each gave the film three of four stars with Siskel's inscription" Hugh Grant's work on 'Extreme Size' is a refresher which is refreshing. "
After three years of absence, in 1999 he teamed up with Julia Roberts on Notting Hill, who was taken to the cinema by many of the same teams responsible for My Four Weddings and Cemeteries. Production The new job title replaces Four Weddings and a Funeral as Britain's biggest blow in cinema history, with an income of $ 363 million worldwide. Being an example of modern romantic comedies in mainstream culture, the film is also well received by critics. CNN's Paul Clinton said, "Notting Hill stands alone as a funny and moving story about love against all odds." Reactions to the performance of the nominated Golden Globes vary greatly, with Stephanie Zacharek from Salon.com criticizing that, "Grant's appearance is a symbol of what is wrong with Notting Hill." What is annoying about Grant is that he does not never cut nonsense.He became one of the actors who all ruffled caricatures of themselves, ranging from his wrinkled legs to half a century that made him actually pull out one of his lines. "This film provides an opportunity for his stars to awaken the misery internationally, the most famous is Grant's turn as a fake journalist sitting through a boring, binge-eating press party, the so-called New York Times, a fun funny prefix. Grant also released its second production output, the Mickey Blue Eyes waterbird comedy, that year. It was rejected by the critics, appearing modestly at the box office, and gathering his producers mixed reviews for his main role. Roger Ebert thought, "Hugh Grant was wrong for the role [and] attacked one false note and the other was wrong," while Kenneth Turan, writing in Los Angeles Times, said, "If he's been on Titanic, fewer lives lost.When he accompanied Robert Scott to the South Pole, the explorer will live to 100. That's how Hugh Grant saved the failed business. "
While promoting Woody Allen's Small Time Crooks at NBC's The Today Show in 2000, Grant told host Matt Lauer, "This is my bastard's millennium." In 2000, Grant also joined IM Board of Internationalmedia AG, a powerful Munich-based film and media company. Little Time Crooks starred in Grant, in the words of film critic Andrew Sarris, as "a pseudo-fake, Pygmalion art merchant, David, [who] is one of the most disgusting and least sympathetic characters Mr. Allen has ever made. "In a role that has no comic attributes, the New York Times wrote:" Mr. Grant deftly inspired his character with a perfect blend of charm and poor calculations. " A year later, his turn as a feminine but feminine publisher, Daniel Cleaver in Bridget Jones's Diary (2001) was proclaimed by Variety to be "the overthrow of a star, luxuriously polished - and nice - poster images as every comic bend in memory ". The film, adapted from Helen Fielding's novel of the same name, became an international hit, earning $ 281 million worldwide. Grant, according to the Washington Post , fits as "a cruel and manipulative prisoner, hiding behind the expression of the god he knows very well."
Grant's "tireless comic show" (BBC) as a trust-funded lady lover Will Freeman in the best-selling novel adaptation novel Nick Hornby About a Boy received praise from critics. Almost universally praised, with the Academy Award nomination scenario, About a Boy (2002) determined by Washington Post as "a rare romantic comedy that dares to choose messiness over closure, debau over coupledom amulets, and honesty over a typical Hollywood ending. " Rolling Stone writes," The acid comedy of Grant's show brought the film [and he] gave this heartbeat a touch of gravity required, "while Roger Ebert observes that "Cary Grant's department is short of staff," and Hugh Grant points out here that he's more than just a star, he's a resource. "Released the day after the Star Wars blockbuster: Episode II - Attack of the Clones About a Boy is a simpler box office movie than any other successful Grant movie, making all $ 129 million film globally.The film earned its third Golden-Globe nomination Grant, while the London Film Critics Circle named Grant Best British Actor and GQ honored him as one of the magazine's men in 2006. "His appearance can only be described as a revelation , "writes critic Ann Hornaday, adding that" Grant lends a layer of shelf to layers of desire, terror, ambivalence and self-awareness. "The New York Observer concludes:" [Film] gets most of the laugh from Hugh Grant's evolving skills in playing the characters enjoyed by spectators who are thought to drop a stake or two as a punishment for cheating and organizing women. and just too handsome for words - and with an English accent. In the end, the film emerges as a mess of excitement, thanks to skill, generosity and good sport, a punching pocket-bag from Mr. Grant. " About Boy also marks an important change in Grant's childish appearance.Now 41, she has lost her weight and also left her typical floppy hair. Owen Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman noticed Grant's maturation in his review, saying he looks older and that "looks good to him." He adds that "soft padded cheeks are flatter and less interested, and the eyes used to look at the cuteness of 'my love' are now betraying the shark's casual ingenuity. Everything about him is slimmer and sharper (including his hair, which has been shaved and moussed into the chaos of the head of the Eurochic bed), but it's not only its livelier surface, nervousness is also missing, Hugh Grant has grown up, holding on lightly and cynically which is funny but loses the sherry-club stammer behavior that once was his signature. By doing so, he has grown into a rare actor who can play a silver trick with hidden inner courtesy. "
The grant is also paired with Sandra Bullock at Warner Bros.. Two Weeks Notice , which generated $ 199 million internationally but received poor reviews. The Village Voice concluded that Grant's creation of a spoiled millionaire who preceded the real estate business was "little more than a British machine."
Two Sunday Notifications followed by comedy ensemble 2003, Love Actually , entitled by Grant as Prime Minister of England. Released Christmas by Working Title Films, the film was promoted as "the ultimate romantic comedy" and raised $ 246 million at the international box office. This marks the debut of director Richard Curtis, who told the New York Times that Grant firmly strives to characterize the role of making his character more authoritative and less haplessly fascinating than Curtis's earlier incarnations. Roger Ebert claims that "Grant has bloomed into a truly incredible romantic comedian" and has "so much confidence that he plays the British prime minister as if he's taking on the role of being a good sport." Movie critic Rex Reed, on the other hand, calls Grant's performance "excessive bachelor on Tony Blair" as a star "flirting with himself in a self-love paroxysm that has become his acting style."
In a 2005 speech, British Prime Minister Tony Blair referred to Grant's character, saying: "I know there are a few of us who want me to do Hugh Grant on Love Actually and tell Americans where to get off. the difference between a good movie and real life is that in real life there is the next day, next year, the next lifetime to ponder the devastating consequences of the standing ovation. "
In 2004, Grant changed his role as Daniel Cleaver for a small part in Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason , which, like its predecessor, generated over $ 262 million commercially. Missing from the screen for two years, Grant was subsequently reteamed with Paul Weitz ( About a Boy ) for the American Dreamz (2006) black comedy film. Grant starred as an acerbic carrier of reality shows such as American Idol , where, according to Caryn James of the New York Times , "nothing is real... except the black hole in the center the heart of the host, because Mr. Grant took Mr. Cowell's evil actions to the limit. " American Dreamz failed financially but Grant was generously praised. He plays a self-assured character, a mixture of Simon Cowell and Ryan Seacrest, self-deprecating. The Boston Globe proposes that this "might be a great comic role that always avoids Hugh Grant," and critic Carina Chocano said, "She's two times more fun than a bad guy like her as a clumsy good man. "
In 2007, Grant starred in Drew Barrymore in a parody of pop culture and music industry called Music and Lyrics . The Associated Press describes it as "a weird little hybrid of romantic comedy that simultaneously is too fluffy and not weird enough." Although he does not listen to music or has a CD, Grant learns to sing, play piano, dance (some polite steps) and learn the behavior of eminent musicians to prepare for his role as an existing pop singer, based on Andrew Ridgeley, a lesser known member of pop duo of the 1980s Wham !. The Star-Ledger dismissed the show, writing that "the paper doll is deeper." The film, with revenues of $ 145 million, allows Grant to taunt discardable pop stars and quick celebrities through key washed characters. According to the San Francisco Chronicle, Grant strikes exactly the right note regarding Alex's career: He's too smart not to be a bit embarrassed, but he's too brave to feel ashamed. " In 2009, Grant starred opposite Sarah Jessica Parker in the romantic comedy Marc Lawrence Do You Hear About Morgans? , which is a critical but successful box office failure. She reunited with Lawrence again for the dramatic movie The Rewrite, starring Marisa Tomei. The film received mixed reviews, while Grant's performance was praised by many critics. Director Quentin Tarantino has stated that the film is one of his favorites this year and calls Grant "the perfect perfect man." By 2015, he has a supporting role as Alexander Waverly in Guy Ritchie's The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Entertainment Weekly describes her performance as "the only fun" in the movie. Glenn Kenny of Rogerebert.com gave the film a mixed review but stated that "while it can not be said that Hugh Grant rescued the movie, he again became famous in the last half hour, after the previous plot-nursery in the movie, the things that are so important. "
In 2016, he plays St. Clair Bayfield, partner of the title character, in the movie Florence Foster Jenkins , directed by Stephen Frears and starring Meryl Streep. Grant's performance was echoed by film critics as "best career" ( Screen International ), "one of his best performances in years" (Indiewire), "best work of his career" ( Variety ) where he "goes to a deeper, darker and more risky place" ( Rolling Stone ). Rafer Guzman of Newsday said "Surely this 55-year-old actor has just sealed his first Oscar nomination." Carrie Rickey from Yahoo! The film commented Grant "deserves a Globe, Oscar nomination, and admission - finally - that he's unique and irreplaceable among modern actors." Grant was nominated for his first individual Screen Actors Guild Award and also received nominations for BAFTA, the Golden Globe, Critical Choice Award, Satellite Award, and European Film Awards. Some critics have put his work among the best acting performances of the year. Most award experts have predicted him to get his first Academy Award nomination for his performance, but Grant is not nominated.
Grant's next appearance is as a villain in the family film Paddington 2, which is a commercial and critical success. The Guardian described his performance as "theft scene," while IGN commented, "Grant continues to make an amazing comeback in his career, once again by playing in his skilled comedic skills. Buchanan, who disguises every silly disguise with a kind of selfish pretense, that Grant is perfect in withdrawal. "Grant later won the London Film Critics Coverage Award for Supporting Actor of the Year and was also nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role over appearance.
In 2018, Grant returns to the television screen after 25 years as Jeremy Thorpe on BBC One miniseries The Very British Scandal, which marks his second collaboration with director Stephen Frears. The Digital Spy Review states that "there are always a few demons in Grant's best turn, and in Thorpe, a man with a conscious dark side, he finds the richest part in years."
Screen role
Grant has been a comedy actor (especially a romantic comedy) for almost all of his mainstream film careers. He also never dared to play a character that is not an Englishman. While some film critics, such as Roger Ebert, have defended the limited range of appearances, others have fired him as a single pony. Eric Fellner, co-owner of Working Title Films and Grant's longtime collaborator, said, "The range is not yet fully tested, but every appearance is unique." The majority of Grant's popular films of the 1990s followed a similar plot that captured an optimistic bachelor who suffered a series of embarrassing incidents to find true love, often with an American woman. In previous films, Grant was adept at incorporating the stereotype of an oppressed Englishman for funny effects, allowing him to gently uncover his characters as he concluded it and play against the type simultaneously. The show is sometimes considered arrogant, in the words of Rita Kempley, because of its "comic overreactions - mugging, stuttering, eyelid fluttering." He added: "He has more tics than Benny Hill." Grant's passion for conveying his character's feelings with behavior, not direct emotion, has become one of the main objections posed to his acting style. Stephen Hunter of the Washington Post has stated that, in order to be effective as a comic player, he has to get a "tug and control in control." Film historian David Thomson writes in the New Biography Film Dictionary about how it is just an "itchy behavior" that Grant is on par with screen acting. In his choice of role, Grant said:
Grant's screen appearance of the next films, in the new millennium, gradually evolved into a cynic, self-loathing. Claudia Puig of USA Today celebrates this transformation with observations that eventually "disappear is self-conscious behavior" Is not I adorable "that seems to be captivating early in [Grant's] film career but has evolved in newer films. "Using facial contusion and stuttering are impacted for various comic goals, According to Carina Chocano, among the film critics, the two alluses most often associated with Grant are he rediscovering his screen personality in Bridget Jones's Diary and About a Boy and fear the possibility of becoming a parody of herself.
Nevertheless, Grant sometimes acts in drama. He plays a fraudulent, cynical theater director with a tendency for teenage boys in the drama An Awfully Big Adventure, which receives critical acclaim, and for "a very calm, dignified appearance" as Frà © Ã… © dÃÆ'  ©  © ric Chopin in the biopic James Lapine Impromptu . In 2012, Grant played six "very evil" characters in the epic drama Cloud Atlas, an experience he talked about positively. Grant said:
Personality
Grant has expressed his boredom by playing celebrities in the media and is well known in popular media to keep his secrecy. While investigating his personal life, he remains firm in "offering dead bats to any questions he feels are not common enough." Grant describes himself as a reluctant actor, has been called a successful actor as a mistake and has repeatedly spoken about his hope that the movie star will be a "phase" in his life, lasting no more than ten years.
The Grant's Vogue profile in 2007 referred to him as a man with a "professional misanthropic mystique". Grant has expressed his displeasure for focus groups, market research, and emphasis on opening weekend box-office numbers, saying: "It's very damaging to the filming process.What's wrong with the way they release movies, more slowly, let them build?" Mike Newell once said: "At least there are many of Hugh's charismatic, intellectual, and whose tongues may be too clever for his own good because there are amongst him beautiful and rather furry and flecked." Filmmaker Paul Weitz says that Grant is funny and that "he feels lacking in himself and others, and then he cares about their humanity." British newspapers regularly refer to him as "angry".
Grant is a "committed and passionate" perfectionist who claims to be on a movie set. American film critic Dave Kehr has written that Grant is "well known in the film industry as a very meticulous player who takes the time to prepare the role - someone who works hard to make it look easy - though that is not the nature he admired in himself. Grants are recorded by co-workers to demand endless takings until they reach the desired shoot according to their own standards.
Grant dropped his agent in 2006, ending a 10-year relationship with CAA. Grant had stated in the interview that he did not listen to an external view of his career: "They've known for years that I have full control, I never ask for any advice."
In media
Libel lawsuit
In 1996, Grant won a lot of damage from News (UK) Ltd for what his lawyer called the "highly defamatory" article published in January 1995. The now-defunct newspaper Today , has falsely claimed that the Grant verbally harassed a young man with a "dirty tongue whip" on the set of British People Who Go to the Hill But Come to the Mountain.
On April 27, 2007, Grant received an undisclosed compensation from Associated Newspapers for claims made about his relationship with his ex-boyfriends in three separate tabloid articles, published in The Mail and Mail on Sunday on the 18th, 21st and 24th of February. His lawyer stated that all allegations of "factual articles and statements are wrong." Grant said, in a written statement, that he took action because: "I am tired of the letter The Daily and Letters on Sunday publishes almost entirely fictitious articles about my personal life for financial gain "He also went on to take the opportunity to emphasize," I also hope that statements in this court can remind people that the so-called 'close friends' or 'close sources' in which these stories claim are based almost never there is. "
Legal issues
On June 27, 1995, Grant was arrested in Los Angeles, California, in a police deputy operation not far from Sunset Boulevard to receive oral sex in public place from Hollywood prostitute Divine Brown. He claimed there was no contest and was fined $ 1,180, placed on a two-year probation, and ordered to complete an AIDS education program by Robert J. Sandoval.
The arrest took place about two weeks before the release of Grant's first major studio movie, Nine Months , which is scheduled to be promoted on several American television shows. The Tonight Show with Jay Leno told him to book for the same week. In the much-watched interview, Grant was noted for not making excuses for the incident after Leno asked him, "What are you thinking about?" Grant replied, "I think you know in life what's good to do and what's bad, and I do a bad thing, and there you have it."
On Larry King Live, Grant rejected the repeated host of Larry King's invitation to investigate his soul, saying that psychoanalysis was "more than an American syndrome" and he himself was "a bit old-fashioned." He told the host: "I have no reason." Grant was rewarded for his "refreshing honesty" as he "faced the music and handled it with his tongue on the cheek."
In April 2007, Grant was arrested on charges of assault made by paparazzo Ian Whittaker. Grant made no official statement and made no comment about the incident. The allegations were handed down on June 1 by the Office of the Crown Prosecutor on the basis of "insufficient evidence."
Hacking phone expansion
In April 2011, Grant published an article in New Statesman's "The Bugger, Bugged" about a conversation (after the previous meeting) with Paul McMullan, a former journalist and paparazzo for News on the World . In an unobtrusive remark silently recorded by Grant, McMullan alleged that editors in the Daily Mail
When asked by Grant whether Cameron had encouraged the Metropolitan Police to "drag their feet" on an illegal phone tapping search by Murdoch journalist McMullan agreed it had happened, and stated that the police themselves had received a bribe from a tabloid journalist: "20 percent of Mr. Met has taken a backhander from tabloid hacks. So why would they want to open that worm?... And what's wrong with that, anyway? It does not hurt anyone in particular. "
Grant's article drew considerable interest, since both the contents of the recorded recording were recorded, and Grant's novelty "turned the tables" on tabloid journalists.
While allegations concerning the News of the World continue to receive coverage in broadsheets and similar media (Grant appears, for example, on BBC Radio 4) it is only with the revelation that the voicemail of the later Millie Dowler killed has been hacked, and evidence for an investigation into his murder has been removed, that his coverage has changed from the interests of the media to the public (and ultimately political) anger. Grant became a kind of spokesperson against Murdoch's News Corporation, culminating in a BBC television show Question Time in July 2011.
Grant said: "It is interesting to have a little journey to another world, I really need that as well as to deal with real life instead of creating a synthetic life, which I have done for the last 25 years.
On February 5, 2018, Mirror Group Newspapers apologized for his actions against Grant and other celebrities, calling the business "morally wrong". It is understood that this happened after Grant received a six figure figure to complete the High Court action. Grant contributed payment to the campaign campaign group Hacking .
Personal life
Relationships
In 1987, while playing Lord Byron in Spanish production Remando Al Viento (1988), Grant met actress Elizabeth Hurley, who was instrumental in the supporting role of Byron's former lover Claire Clairmont. Grant began dating Hurley during the filming and their relationship continued to highlight the media. After 13 years together, they parted company in May 2000. He was godfather to his son Damian, born in 2002.
In September 2011, Grant had a daughter, Tabitha, with Tinglan Hong, sometimes reported wrongly in the press as a receptionist at a Chinese restaurant in London. Her Chinese daughter's name is Xiao Xi, which means "happy surprise". Grant and Hong have a "brief affair", according to his publicist. Grant said that Hong had been "badly treated" by the media; press intrusion prevented him from attending the birth of his daughter, with Hong getting orders to allow him to visit them peacefully. In September 2012, Grant has a second child, John Mungo Grant, with Swedish television producer Anna Eberstein. He then reunited with Hong, with whom he has his third child, Felix Grant, in 2013. Grant and Eberstein then have a second child, the fourth Grant, in December 2015. In early 2018 their third child was born together. In May 2018 it was revealed that Grant and Eberstein were engaged, and likely to be married at the end of that month, which they did on May 25, 2018.
Political view
In 2011, Grant appeared at the Liberal Democrats conference at the International News phone hacking scandal, where he briefly met the then-party leader Nick Clegg. Grant said that he attended the Conservative and Labor conference as well, but told Lib Dem activists that "You, over all others, have good health bills, you never sleep with this bastard."
In the 2015 British election, Grant expressed support for prominent Liberal Democrat Danny Alexander and later hosted a dinner for the Liberal Democrats, where he met the donor draw winner to the Liberal Democrats. In an email sent by former Liberal Democrat leader Paddy Ashdown, Grant wrote: "I am not Lib Dem, Tory, Labourite or anything special but I recognize political courage."
In the 2015 election, Grant also supported two Labor candidates: Tom Watson (saying "I hope he can be our next Prime Minister to be honest"), and his former agent, Michael Foster.
Sports
As a youngster, he played rugby union on his first school XV team at the center and played football as a big fan of Fulham F.C. He continued playing in Sunday-morning soccer leagues in south-west London after college and remained a "passionate Fulham supporter." Grant is also a supporter of the Scottish football club, Rangers. Other Grant interests include tennis and snooker.
In 2011, the BBC apologized after Grant made a joke just about homosexuality and rugby when he was invited to the comment box during English vs Scotland coverage at Twickenham Stadium. Speaking of playing rugby during his school days, Grant said: "I find it less painful if you are handled harder than if you were handled like a queen."
Relationships with fellow stars
After production at Restoration ended, Grant's co-star Robert Downey Jr. revealed to Gayl Murphy about the Hollywood Correspondent that he and Grant did not get along during the filming. Downey goes on to say that: "I kinda think he [Grant] is a jerk," he told Murphy, "Do not know, I just think him." My personal experience with him is I think he is this kind of important self, kind, boring flash-in-the-pan a-hole Brit. "In 2018, after filming Paddington 2 finished, Grant will then proceed to confirm the tension that he and Downey have, stating:" He [ Downey] hates me He sees me and wants to kill me, "he said of the actor. "I'm very hurt." As a result of Grant's confirmation of their feud for decades, Downey then went to Twitter to make amends with Grant, which Grant approved.
In addition to confirmation, Grant also revealed that he and Drew Barrymore did not get along during production Music & amp; Lyrics , the last one has yet to catch the wind from the interview. "Well, Drew, I think I hate it a bit, but I admire it, we're just very different people," Grant explained. "He's very L.A. and I'm a grumpy London guy, the funny thing is that, even if it's a little tense on the set, I think the chemistry is a bit better between us." Sometimes the tension makes good crackle. " Barrymore is also one of four prominent women, Grant, whom he does not know, the other being Julianne Moore, Julia Roberts, and Rachel Weisz. But on Graham Norton Show's appearance, Grant declares he does not know why he calls Weisz and he may "go for a 'triple comedy'".
Nevertheless, there are some co-stars who like to work with Grant, some even befriend him afterwards. He praised Meryl Streep, who co-starred him in Florence Foster Jenkins, calling him "a genius," while merely noting that he had problems with his vision during production. Other notable women that Grant likes to work with include Emma Thompson, who collaborated with Grant about Actual Love , Impromptu , Sense and Sensibility , and > The Remains of the Day . He also remembers having a good experience with Fourth Weddings and a Funeral against Andie Macdowell, whom he calls "The Charm of Southern Peach", and Nine Months against Robin Williams, who he calls "genius on another level" and "very good".
Charity work
Grants are protective of DIPEx Charity, which operates the Healthtalkonline website. The grant is also the patron of the Fynvola Foundation, named after his late mother; the foundation supports the Duke of Lady Dane, a home in Faversham for adults with learning disabilities.
Since the death of his mother in 2001, Grant has worked as a fundraiser and ambassador for Marie Curie Cancer Care, promoting the annual Daffodil Appeal of this charity on several occasions. Grants are also a protector of Pancreatic Cancer Action.
Awards and honor
Movieography
References
External links
- Hugh Grant on IMDb
- Hugh Grant at AllMovie
- Hugh Grant in Box Office Mojo
- Hugh Grant at the Screenonline of the British Film Institute
- Hugh Grant on Charlie Rose
- "Hugh Grant collects news and comments". The Guardian .
- "Hugh Grant collects news and comments". The New York Times . Ã, , and on NYT Movies
- Hugh Grant's Interview on BBC Radio 4 Desert Island Disk , April 21, 1995
- Hugh Grant's interview at Museum of the Moving Image of Florence Foster Jenkins
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