Music and Lyrics (2007) .... Alex Fletcher
American Dreamz (2006) .... Martin Tweed
Travaux, on sait quand ça commence... (2005) .... Le nouveau voisin
... aka Housewarming (International: English title) (USA)
Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2004) .... Daniel Cleaver
Love Actually (2003) .... The Prime Minister
Two Weeks Notice (2002) .... George Wade
Legend of the Lost Tribe (2002) (TV) (voice: English version) .... Blitzen
About a Boy (2002) .... Will
Bridget Jones’s Diary (2001) .... Daniel Cleaver
Small Time Crooks (2000) .... David
Mickey Blue Eyes (1999) .... Michael Felgate
Notting Hill (1999) .... William Thacker
Comic Relief: Doctor Who - The Curse of Fatal Death (1999) (TV) .... The Doctor
Extreme Measures (1996) .... Dr. Guy Luthan
Restoration (1995) .... Elias Finn
Sense and Sensibility (1995) .... Edward Ferrars
Nine Months (1995) .... Samuel Faulkner
The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain (1995) .... Reginald Anson
An Awfully Big Adventure (1995) .... Meredith Potter
Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994) .... Charles
Sirens (1994) .... Anthony Campion
"Performance" .... Alsemero (1 episode, 1993)
- The Changeling (1993) TV episode .... Alsemero
The Remains of the Day (1993) .... Reginald Cardinal
Night Train to Venice (1993) .... Martin
"Shakespeare: The Animated Tales" .... Sebastian (1 episode, 1992)
- Twelfth Night (1992) TV episode (voice) .... Sebastian
Bitter Moon (1992) .... Nigel
The Trials of Oz (1991) (TV) .... Richard Neville
Our Sons (1991) (TV) .... James
Impromptu (1991) .... Frederic Chopin
The Big Man (1990) .... Gordon
"Till We Meet Again" (1989) (mini) TV mini-series .... Bruno de Lancel
Champagne Charlie (1989) (TV) .... Charles Heidsieck
The Lady and the Highwayman (1989) (TV) .... Lord Lucius Vyne
Remando al viento (1988) .... Lord Byron
... aka Rowing in the Wind
The Lair of the White Worm (1988) .... Lord James D’Ampton
Nocturnes (1988) .... Chopin
Nuit Bengali, La (1988) .... Allan
The Dawning (1988) .... Harry
Maurice (1987) .... Clive Durham
White Mischief (1987) .... Hugh
Lord Elgin and Some Stones of No Value (1986) (TV) .... William Hamilton/James
The Demon Lover (1986) (TV) .... Robert Drover
"Ladies in Charge" .... Gerald Boughton-Green (1 episode, 1986)
- The Shadow (1986) TV episode .... Gerald Boughton-Green
"A Very Peculiar Practice" .... Preacher Colin (1 episode, 1986)
- We Love You, That’s Why We’re Here (1986) TV episode .... Preacher Colin
Honour, Profit & Pleasure (1985) (TV) .... Burlington
Jenny’s War (1985) (TV) .... Peter Baines
"The Detective" (1985) (mini) TV mini-series .... Andrew Blankenall
"The Last Place on Earth" (1985) (mini) TV mini-series .... Apsley Cherry-Garrard
Privileged (1982) (as Hughie Grant) .... Lord Adrian
Bio
Hugh Grant was born at Hammersmith Hospital in London, England, the son of Fynvola Susan (née MacLean) and Captain James Murray Grant. Genealogist Antony Adolph described his family history as "a colourful Anglo-Scottish tapestry of warriors, empire-builders and aristocracy." Grant is a descendant of the Grants of Glenmoriston from a long line of Scots military men, doctors and explorers.
Grant’s father, Capt. Grant, was trained at Sandhurst and served with the Seaforth Highlanders for eight years in Malaya, Germany and Scotland. He ran a carpet firm, pursued hobbies such as golf and watercolouring, and raised his family in Chiswick, West London, where the Grants lived next to Arlington Park Mansions on Sutton Lane. In September 2006, a collection of Capt. Grant’s paintings was hosted by the John Martin Gallery in a charity exhibition, organised by his famous son, called "James Grant: 30 Years of Watercolours." Fynvola Grant was the great-granddaughter of Sir Evan Colville Nepean (CB), whose father, Rev. Canon Evan Nepean, served as the Canon of Westminster and was Chaplain In Ordinary to Queen Victoria. She worked as a schoolteacher and taught Latin, French and music for more than 30 years in the state schools of West London. She died at the age of 63, after an 18-month battle with pancreatic cancer, in 2001.
Grant’s famous RP accent is an inheritance from his mother and, on Inside the Actors Studio in 2002, he credited her with "any acting genes that [he] might have." Both his parents were children of military families, and Grant has referred to his own upbringing as very ordinary middle class. He spent his childhood summers in Scotland, shooting and fishing with his grandfather.
Grant started his education at the pre-preparatory Wetherby School. From 1969 to 1978, he attended Latymer Upper School on scholarship and played 1st XV rugby, cricket and football for the school. He also represented Latymer on the popular quiz show, Top of the Form, an academic competition between two teams of four secondary school students each. Chris Hammond, his form teacher in 1975 and later the assistant head of Latymer, told People magazine that Grant was "a clever boy among clever boys." In 1979, he won the Galsworthy scholarship to New College, Oxford where he studied English literature and graduated with a second-class honours degree. Grant is remembered as a famous face at Oxford. Viewing acting as nothing more than a creative outlet, he joined the Oxford University Dramatic Society and starred in a successful touring production of Twelfth Night.
