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Hugh Grant

Ancestry and early life

Grant was born at Hammersmith Hospital in London, England, the son Fynvola Susan (ne MacLean) and Captain James Murray Grant. Genealogist Antony Adolph described Grant's family history as "a colorful Anglo-Scottish tapestry of warriors, Empire-builders and aristocracy. "Grant is from a long line of Scots military men, doctors and researchers, including William Drummond and Dr. James Stewart. John Murray, 1st Duke of Atholl, Heneage Finch, 1st Earl of Nottingham, Rt Hon Sir Evan Nepean, and former British Prime Minister Spencer Perceval are a few of his remarkable mother's ancestors. Grant's grandfather, Major James Murray Grant, DSO, a native of Inverness in Scotland, was honored for his bravery and leadership at Dunkirk during World War II established.

Grant's father, Captain Grant, was trained at Sandhurst and in the Seaforth Highlanders for eight years, Malaya, Germany and Scotland served. He ran down a carpet, 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 organized by the John Martin Gallery in a charity exhibition organized by his famous son, named James Grant. 30-year watercolors "His mother, Fynvola Grant was the great-granddaughter of Sir Evan Colville Nepean (CB), whose father, Rev. Canon Evan Nepean, served as Canon of Westminster and was Chaplain in Ordinary to Queen Victoria. She worked as a teacher and taught Latin, French and music for more than 30 years in the public schools in West London. She died in Hounslow, London, aged 65, in July 2001 after a 18-month battle against cancer.

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] could have. "Both his parents were children of military families, and despite his parents' posh different customs and backgrounds, Grant has stated, that his family does not always prosperous, while he was growing up. Grant's childhood passions included shooting and hunting, especially with his grandfather in Scotland. Grant's older brother, James "Jamie" Grant is a successful banker as Managing Director, Head of Healthcare, Consumer, Retail & Investment Banking Coverage, at JPMorgan Chase in New York.

Education

Grant began his training with Hogarth Primary School in Chiswick. From 1969 to 1978, he attended Latymer Upper School in Hammersmith on a scholarship and played 1st Team rugby, cricket and football for the school. In addition, He represented Latymer on the popular quiz show, on top of the form, an academic competition between two teams from each high school fourand. Chris Hammond, his form in 1975 Teacher and later the deputy 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 honors 2-1. Grant was apparently memorable in Oxford: Actress Anna Chancellor has it recalls, "I met Hugh at a party in Oxford Zoo. There was something magical in itself. He was a star, even if done without a difference." ads as nothing more than a creative Valve, he joined the Oxford University Dramatic Society and starred in a successful touring production of Twelfth Night.

Young earners

After his debut as Hughie Grant in the Oxford-financed Privileged (1982), Grant tried in a variety of Job: He wrote reviews, worked as assistant groundsman at Fulham Football Club, tried his hand at coaching, wrote sketches for TV shows and was on Talk Back Productions hired to write and produce radio commercials for products such as Mighty White bread and Red Stripe camp. To his equity (UK) card, he joined the Nottingham Repertory Theatre Playhouse and lived for a year at the Park Terrace on the Park Estate, Nottingham. Bored with small acting parts, he created his own comedy revue called The Jockeys of Norfolk with friends Chris Lang and Andy Taylor. The group toured London pub comedy circuit with stops at the George IV in Chiswick, Canal Cafe Theatre in Little Venice and The King's Head in Islington. From a low tone, the Jockeys of Norfolk eventually proved a hit at the Edinburgh Festival after their sketch on the Nativity, told as an Ealing comedy, received them a place on the BBC2 TV show called Edinburgh Nights. During this time Grant also appeared in theater productions of plays such as An Inspector Calls, Lady Windermere's Fan, and Coriolanus.

Film Career

Grant's first starring role came in the Merchant-Ivory, 1987 Edwardian drama, Maurice, adapted from EM Forster's novel of the same name. He and co-star James Wilby shared the Volpi Cup for best actor at the Venice Film Festival for her portrayal of Cantabrigian colleague Clive Durham and Maurice Hall, respectively. During the late 1980s and early 1990s, Grant balanced small roles in the Television with rare film work, which included a supporting role in The Dawning (1988), opposite Anthony Hopkins and a turn as Lord Byron in a Spanish Goya Award-winning production Remando called Al Viento (1988). He portrayed a number of other real life characters while in his early career as Charles Heidsieck Champagne Charlie, and as Hugh Cholmondeley BAFTA Award nominee in White Mischief.

In 1990, he made cameo appearance in the sports-crime-drama The Big Man, opposite Liam Neeson and in which Grant was a Scottish accent. The film explores the life of a Scottish miner (Neeson), who is unemployed during a union strike. In 1991 played He Julie Andrews' son gays in the NBC made-for-TV movie of our sons.

In 1992 he entered the Roman Polanski film Bitter Moon, portraying a sophisticated and appropriate British tourist, who is married, but finds himself enticed by the sexual hedonism of a seductive woman French and her embittered, paraplegic American husband. The film was an "anti-romantic work of sexual obsession and cruelty" of the Washington Post called. His other work in period pieces such as Ken Russell The Lair of the White Worm (1988), award-winning Merchant-Ivory drama The Remains of the Day (1993), and (as Frdric Chopin) Impromptu (1991) was largely unnoticed. He later called this phase of his career "hilarious", based on his early films such as "Euro pudding where one would have a French script, a Spanish director and English actors. The script would normally be written by a foreigner, badly into English translated. And then they would get English actors in, because they thought that was the way to sell it to America. "

At 32, Grant claimed on the edge of the task of acting, but was surprised by the script of Four Weddings and a Funeral (FWAAF). "If you so many bad Scripts read like me, you'd know how grateful you are when you come across one where the guy is really funny, "he recalled later. Published FWAAF in 1994 was the highest-grossing British film to date with a worldwide box office of $ 244,000,000, so Grant an overnight international star. The film was nominated for two Academy Awards, and won numerous awards in its cast and crew Grant his first and only Golden Globe Award earned for the best performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy and a BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role. Also temporarily typecast him as the main character, Charles, a bohemian and good-natured bachelor. Grant and Curtis saw it as an inside joke that the stars, because the parts he played, was assumed to have the personality of the Screenwriter, known for writing about himself and his own life. Grant later expressed:

Grant in his Breakthrough as Richard Curtis' alter ego, Charles, in Four Weddings and a Funeral.

Although I owe what I am successful to the Four Had weddings and a Funeral, "it did after a while that people made two assumptions frustrating: it was that I was this character – when in fact nothing could be further from the truth as I am sure Richard would say – and the other was frustrating that they thought that's all I could do. I assume because these films happened to be successful, no one, perhaps understandably, … bothered with all the other movies I had done rent.

In 1995, the release of the first studio-financed Grant's Hollywood project, Chris Columbus comedy Nine Months. Though a hit at the box office, it was almost all of the Critics panned. The Washington Post called it a "grotesquely pandering caper" and singled out Grant's performance as a child psychiatrist react adversely on his Girlfriend unexpected pregnancy, for its "intolerable aggression." That same year, he played supporting parts such as Emma Thompson in Ang Lee Free Oscar-winning Adaptation of Jane Austen's "Sense and Sensibility and as a cartographer in 1917 in Wales, The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain. In the same year He also carried out talent in the Oscar-winning restoration.

Grant then with the Director of FWAAF, Mike Newell, the tragicomedy reunited An Awfully Big Adventure, that a "determined unconventional film" by The New York Times was called. Grant presented a bitchy, arrogant director Repertory Company in a post-World War II Liverpool. Critic Roger Ebert wrote: "It shows he has range as an actor," but the San Francisco Chronicle reasons denied that the film "plays like an vanity production for Grant." Janet Maslin praised Grant as "superb" and "a dashing under any Also cad ", commented:" For him, the way this film are not taken. Made before Four Weddings and a Funeral was released, it begins Mr. Grant as the clever, versatile character actor he was always then, instead of the international dream ship he is today. "

Grant be Debut as a film producer with the 1996 thriller Extreme Measures, a commercial and critical failure. After a three-year break in 1999, he Julia Roberts in Notting Hill, paired, which was released in a large part of the same team that was brought to FWAAF. This new Working Title production displaced FWAAF as the greatest British Hit in the history of cinema, the result corresponding to 363 million U.S. dollars worldwide. How it is made by way of example for modern romantic comedies in mainstream culture, the film was also well received by critics. CNN reviewer Paul Clinton said, "Notting Hill stands alone as another funny and heartwarming story about love against all odds. "Reactions to Golden Globe-nominated Grant's performance were varied, with Salon's Stephanie Zacharek criticism that" Grant's Performance stands as a symbol of what is wrong with Notting Hill. What about Grant intolerable is that he just never cuts the crap. He is one of those actors who all become waddling self-caricature by his sparkling crows feet around the delayed half a century it takes him actually get from one of his lines. "The film, to satirize both its stars a chance to address concerns of international reputation, most of which was found Grant's turn as a faux-journalist who through a dull press junket with sitting, what the New York Times called "a wonderfully deadpan funny." Grant also appeared in his second production, a fish-out-of-water mob comedy " Mickey Blue Eyes, this year. It was dismissed by critics, performed modestly at the box office, and collected his actor-producer mixed reviews for its main role. Roger Ebert thought, "Hugh Grant is wrong for the role [and] strikes a wrong note and then another," while Kenneth Turan, writing in The Los Angeles Times said. "If he had been on the Titanic, fewer lives would be lost if he had accompanied Robert Scott to the South Pole would be the Researchers have lived to be 100th That's how good Hugh Grant is doomed to rescue Ventures. "

While promoting Woody Allen Small Time Crooks on NBC The Today Show in 2000, Grant told host Matt Lauer, t millennium my bastards.61]

Giving his acclaimed performance to date, Grant plays Snooker as Will Freeman in About a Boy.

Small Time Crooks played Grant, in the words the film critic Andrew Sarris, as "a petty, whimsical, faux-Pygmalion art dealer, David, [which] is one of the Sleazies and most unsympathetic characters Mr. Allen has ever created. "In a role without his comic attributes, The New York Times wrote:" Mr. Grant gives his character just sent a perfect charm and wicked mix calculation. "A year later his hand as a charming, but women's stories book publisher Daniel Cleaver in Bridget Jones's Diary (2001), by Variety to be announced "as smart an excerpt from a polished star fall posh – and nice -. poster image as any comic turn in memory" The film, adapted by Helen Fielding novel of the same name, became an international hit, earning $ 281 million worldwide. Grant was, according to the Washington Post, suitable as a "cruel, manipulative cad, hiding behind the male face of God, that he knows only too well. "

Grant's unblemished " Comic performance "(BBC) as the trust funded womanizer, Will Freeman, was in the film adaptation of the bestselling novel by Nick Hornby's About a Boy praises the critics. Almost everywhere praised, with an Oscar nominated screenplay award, About a Boy (2002) was to be determined by the Washington Post, "that rare romantic comedy which dares to mess about closure, prickly independence over fetishized choose togetherness and honesty over typical Hollywood endings. "Rolling Stone wrote: "The acid comedy of Grant's performance carries the film [and he] gives this pleasing heartbreaker the touch of gravity it needs "While Roger Ebert observed that" the Cary Grant department is understaffed, and Hugh Grant shows here that he is more than a star, he is a resource. "Published one day after the blockbuster Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones, About a Boy was a modest box office grosser than other successful Grant films, so all of $ 129,000,000 worldwide. The film was awarded Grant his third Golden Globe nomination, while the London Film Critics Circle honored named Grant its Best British Actor and GQ him as one of the journal Men of 2002. "His performance can only be described as a revelation," wrote the critic Ann Hornaday, adding that "Grant the shallows layer confers upon layer of desire, terror, ambivalence and self-confidence. "The New York Observer concluded," If [the film] most of its laughs from the know-how developed Hugh Grant to play characters that see the audience enjoy taken down a peg or two as punishment for womanizer and women's stories and just too good for words, with an English accent besides. At the end of the film about a chaotic joy, thanks to the skill, generosity and good sport, punching-bag Flair Mr. Grant's performance. "About a Boy also marked a notable change in Grant's boyish appearance. Gone were the floppy locks that became his trademark had, now with Grant sporting a cropped hairstyle. He has this look, as maintained.

Billy Bob Thornton (right) and Grant hold a press conference in Love Actually.

Grant was with Sandra Bullock in Warner Bros. 's Two Weeks Notice, which made $ 199,000,000 internationally but poorly evaluated by professional reviewers combined. The Village Voice concluded that Grant's creation of a spoiled billionaire fronting a real estate business "Little more than a Britishism machine." Was

followed Two Weeks Notice 2003 ensemble comedy Love Actually, headlined Grant when British Prime Minister. A Christmas release of Working Title Films, the movie was promoted as "the ultimate romantic comedy" and accumulated $ 246,000,000 at the international box office hit. It marks the directorial debut of Richard Curtis, who told the New York Times that Grant relentlessly tempered the characterization of the role that his character more authoritative and less haplessly charming than previous incarnations Curtis. Roger Ebert claimed that "Grant has flowers in an absolutely wonderful romantic Comedian "and has" so much self confidence that he plays the British prime minister, as if he took the role, be a good sport. "Film critic Rex Reed, on the contrary, as Grant's performance "an oversexed bachelor spin on Tony Blair", as the stars "with himself in the paroxysm of self-love his style of play has flirted. "

A speech delivered by Grant in Love Actually – where he extols the virtues of Great Britain and refuses to cave to the pressure of his long-time ally, the United States – was the transatlantic memory as a satirical, wishful thinking on statement the same time, Bush-Blair relationship etched. Tony Blair responded by saying: "I know it's a bit of us that would like a Hugh Grant in Love Actually say and do, America, where I have to quit. But the difference between a good film and real life is that in real life, there the next day, the next Year to the next life, consider the ruinous consequences of easy applause. "

Grant as angry for TV personality, Martin Tweed, in American Dreamz.

In 2004, Grant reprized his role as Daniel Cleaver for a small role in "Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason, which, like its predecessor, the more than $ 262,000,000 commercial. Gone from the screen for two years, Grant reteamed next to Paul Weitz (About a Boy) for the black comedy American Dreamz (2006). Grant starred as the host of a bitter American Idol-like reality show where, according to Caryn James of The New York Times, nothing is real … needs outside the black hole in the center of the host's heart, as Mr. Grant, Mr. Cowell villainous act to its limit. "American Dreamz not financially, but Grant was praised generously. He played his self-respect aggrandizing character, an amalgam of Simon Cowell and Ryan Seacrest, with smarmy self-loathing. The Boston Globe suggested that this "only the great comic role that has eluded Hugh Grant always be," and critic Carina Chocano said: "He's twice as pleasant as the brush of evil, as he was a bumbling good guy. "

2007 Grant played opposite Drew Barrymore in a parody of pop culture and the music industry called Music and Lyrics. The Associated Press described it as "a strange mixture of little romantic comedy that also the fluffy and not whimsical enough. "Although he neither listens to music nor owns any CDs to sing Grant learned to play piano dancing, (some manners steps) and studied the mannerisms of prominent musicians for his role as pop singer has been free to work on Andrew Ridgeley. The Star-Ledger dismissed the performance, writing that "paper dolls have more depth." The film, with its sales of $ 145,000,000, leaving Grant to mock disposable pop stars and fleeting celebrity through his washed-up protagonist. After the San Francisco Chronicle, "Grant strikes precisely the right tone in terms of Alex's career: He is too intelligent to not a little embarrassing, but it is much too bold, something like feeling shame." In 2009 she starred with Grant Sarah Jessica Parker in the romantic comedy You Hear the Morgans?, One commercial and a critical mistake.

Filmmaker

In July 1994, Grant signed a two-year contract with Castle Rock Entertainment production in October He was founder and director of the British Simian Films Limited. He appointed his then-girlfriend, Elizabeth Hurley, to look as director of development for future projects. Simian Films produced two Grant vehicles in the 1990s and got an offer to produce About a Boy to Robert De Niro's TriBeCa Productions. The company closed its U.S. office in 2002 and became a director Grant in December 2005. Since then, he has said that his main interest in film production, as is, "The acting is at best an interpretative Thing It's like a musician, playing someone else's music I have ever .. wanted to write music. "In 2000, Grant joined the Supervisory Board of IM International Media AG mighty Munich film and media companies. He has also served on the advisory board of the Mark and Kami Naghdi Milln British production company, Hogarth paintings.

Approach to acting

Grant has been called, a successful actor made a mistake and reiterated his hope that the movie star would only "a stage of" speaking in his life, a maximum term of ten years. A self-confessed "committed and passionate" perfectionist on a film set, Grant has always chosen to himself as a reluctant actor, be neutral about his career and works mostly chooses to describe with friends from previous collaborations. Telling the New York Times that he truly love something before he can do it, he showed that he chooses projects based on how well they wrote and whether the character he is asked to represent a comic angle to his personality.

A majority of popular films Grant's follow a similar act that an optimistic, cocky bachelor experience a series of embarrassing incidents recorded to find the true love, often to an American. In previous films, Grant was adept at plugging into the stereotype of a repressed Englishman for humorous effects, which he gently satirize his characters, as he holds the same time and played against type. His screen presence of the later films gradually in a cynical, self-hatred CAD developed. With his facial contortions and an affected stammer for varied comic purposes, Grant once admitted his inability to cry on cue, with the help of menthol. His preference for levity Dramatic series has been a controversial topic in establishment circles led him to say:

I have never tried the part where I cry or get AIDS or save to do get some people from the concentration camp only good reviews. I really think, comedy, light comedy acting is, as hard as, if not harder than serious acting, and it does not really bother me that all prices and good reviews automatically by knee-jerk reaction go to the deepest, darkest, performances and heavy parts. It makes me laugh.

In interviews, Grant published his detailed Remember disinterest in acting on two different thoughts: first, that he drove in the job as temporary joke at the age of 23 and finds it an immature way for a have been grown man to spend his time, and secondly, because he believes he already has a remarkable comic performance he had hoped to create on the screen. Calling most Lame scripts, has said Grant, act that, unlike him, most actors really love and that makes them blind to the fact that the rest of the pretentious Nonsense, he says, it is very common. He said, "Vanity Fair" in 2003, that an actor of a certain age is nothing but a "sign-Dame" So unworthy of an adult time.

Critical and peer review

Grant is recognized as a divisive Movie star in two critical reviews, and media profiles. He has the genre of comedy, put above all the romantic comedy for the whole of his film career Mainstream Ventures and never to play characters that are not British. While some film critics, such as the respected Roger Ebert, the limited selection defended his appearances, others have dismissed it as a one-trick pony. Eric Fellner, co-owner of Working Title Films and a longtime employee of Grant said: "His range is not yet complete tested, but each performance is unique. "A majority, however, tend to change their opinion of Grant from film to film, especially the distinction between his roles as his alter ego Richard Curtis' and the cynical, smart and sometimes sleazy rogue of several films released in the new millennium.

In the 1990s, the services Grant as presumptuous, in the words of Washington Post's Rita Kempley, for his "comic overreactionshe robbery . Stuttering, the fluttering eyelids, "she added." He has more than tics Benny Hill "Grant's preference for the transport of his characters' feelings with manners, but as a direct emotions, one of the leading objections have been raised against his acting style. Stephen Hunter of The Washington Post once noted, that to be effective as a comic performer, he has to "his jiving and removal of control." Film historian David Thompson wrote in The New Biographical Dictionary of film about how it is merely itchy mannerisms that Grant meets with screen acting. In the new millennium celebrated Claudia Puig of USA Today, the observation that at last "Gone [were] the self-conscious" I'm unlovable "mannerisms that seemed endearing at the beginning of the film [Grant] career, but grown sweet in more recent films. "

Repeated allegations that have eased only in recent years have targeted what the critics claim, Grant's tendency is to make his characters likable rather than complex. In 1999 stated that Stephanie Zacharek "At the time of Four Weddings and a Funeral, would he crumpled to a simpler, dull, Cord-style acting on, "perhaps because she chided," Why play a character when just a stereotype monkey? "After Carina Chocano among film critics, are the two most common tropical place with Grant, that he invented his screen persona in Bridget Jones again Diary and About a Boy and dreads the possibility of a parody of itself. Echoing a widely accepted assessment that Grant plays the same role over and again and again when he came to international fame in 1994, The Observer, Philip French has said. "His range is as narrow as a cigarette paper"

Grant's colleagues, though, have often defended his skills. Emma Thompson, working with him in Sense and Sensibility, wrote in "Sense and Sensibility Screenplay and Diaries that Grant "is as big as an actor, I've always thought. and yet so easy to feel very much." Colin Firth, who with him on more than one Opportunity has been suggested that only very few can create Grant's relaxed irony on screen. Scottish actress Sharon Small, a co-star Grant in About a Boy, discovered it. "… is a truly versatile actor, the people tend to put him in a box and say," That's all he does, " but when we turned I watched him closely and he was taken very subtle and very different in each individual. "

Work ethic

A 2007 Vogue profile of Grant described him as a man with a "professionally misanthropic mystique." The observation followed facts such as that Grant brings his own films, publishes his conduct interviews alone (without editors) is to be politically incorrect and outrageous riffs in the Public, and mocked focus groups, market research and overriding emphasis on known opening weekend. Grant decided to let go of his agent in 2006, ending a 10-year relationship with CAA. In addition to proudly proclaim in interviews never heard of outside opinion of his career, he said, he does not require hand-holding a party provides. A few months before the fire his agent, he said, "you have known for years that I have total control known. I have never taken advice to nothing. "

It was reported that Grant has a good reputation is not always bonding with his fellow actors and crew members. Being a "severe, sharp and intense" presence on film sets, has brings the method behind his appearances as the exact opposite of the ease and simplicity He described his characters. According to The New York Times, Grant is in the film industry as a meticulous performer who takes his time known to prepare for a role. Having said that the only thing he is "the fear of fear itself," his working style is apparently a tendency to assume control testified. Richard Curtis, a frequent Staff revealed that Grant is not liquid unrelaxed about filmmaking process and tends to, while his shooting because he did not feel as if he in the Director's Hands, and instead prefer to take the responsibility of giving a definitive performance.

Grant is for employees demanding endless established continues until it reaches the desired recording according to their own standard. Although known for being inventive on film sets ("The greatest laughs that my characters in the movies get to be more improvised lines, "he said), he related to the work of an actor's restrictive, said there" tell other peoples lines all the time – it is always – practice "Media accounts of Grant on film sets present him as an actor, not to abdicate responsibility to has his production team, but is instead involved in the rule. with various aspects of his projects, including script development, selecting the camera, acting, and then the processing and marketing. Journalist David Chater, reviewing a Channel 4 production entitled Britons go to Hollywood, remarked that the Hugh Grant of the popular image is wholly inaccurate. He won a scholarship to Oxford, he is highly articulate, he has been working non-stop and is expressed with relentless self-criticism. "

Celebrity and media relations

According to The Boston Globe, Grant has repeatedly about his boredom with playing the celebrity in the press spoken. About the culture of celebrity, he told Vogue: "My theory is that it's like bodybuilders who inject testosterone, which means that create their own strengths to testosterone down always means closed. The fake appreciation that you feel in the eyes of the public to like Self-esteem, but really down to produce your own forces. The stuff that really matters is your own. And that is I think why people go crazy. "

Once labeled the "neither a keen actor, nor an avid celebrity," Grant's Stubbornness, and contempt for the fourth estate is widely observed and documented. While the promotion Mickey Blue Eyes in 1999, Grant said: "I am also "Said to be" in conversation with the British press, which is amazing. Not ready to play the game "with the media is often indifferent as he appears described and press junkets to promote his gruff films. He has many injured, including one meets paparazzi with his car in America.

Journalists interview with him brought expressed exasperation at Grant's habit have support personal questions. Grant's nonchalance and sarcasm are for interviewers Inability to distinguish between whether the debt he is serious or playing at any given time. On probing, he has remained steadfast in unbelievable "offers a dead Bat to every question he does not feel sufficiently general. "Jessica Callan, a former gossip columnist for the Daily Mirror said that in the days when nice are to gossip columnists, they are usually nice back, but she said: "Hugh Grant as a grumpy guy: You think, God, let Wind Him Up".

Another entertainment media figure, Kiki King, who have claimed to be met Grant, described him as "the most least friendly and most unappealing celebrity I've ever met. "Showbiz media personalities in his native use him as a model for the referential totality a reluctant celebrity displeasing. Former editor of British tabloid the News of the World and the Daily Mirror, Piers Morgan, his advice for Grant to stop making films when he wrote not appreciate the limelight.

Grant accounting at the London premiere of "Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2004), with him allegedly" refused to talk to journalists or pose with his girlfriend Jemima Khan, and decided to to be dark, "was the subject of much criticism by the press, the long waited for had to talk to him. He decided to ban all British press from the New Yorker Starting his film American Dreamz in 2006. The film was also refused a first in London and Grant was only "a handful of newspaper interviews in connection with Dreamz" is a step show, responsibility of exhibitors for the movie box office was poor. In February 2007, Grant had a controversial interview on BBC Breakfast where he was angered by the interviewer Inquire about the status of his relationship with his girlfriend. His answer to the landlord, "I thought that was a classy show. I am ashamed of you," said in increased editorial disapproval of his gruff behavior in England.

Libel lawsuits

In 1996, Grant won substantial damages from News (UK) Ltd over what his lawyers released a "highly defamatory" article in January 1995. The company now defunct Today newspaper had incorrectly claimed that Grant verbally abused a young extra with a "filthy language flogging" on the set of The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain.

To 27 April 2007, Grant was revealed damage from the Associated Newspapers over claims about his relationships with his former friends made in three separate tabloid articles that were published in the Daily Mail and The Mail on Sunday on 18, 21 and 24 February. His lawyer said that all items "allegations and factual assertions are false." Grant said in a written statement that he took the action because: "I was publishing the Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday papers almost entirely fictional articles about my private life tired for their own financial gain. "He went on to stress the opportunity to take" I also hope that this statement in court because people could Remember that the so-called "good friends" or "close sources' on which these stories claim to exist almost never. "

Mocking British newspapers have become a "little gossip industry," Grant has on various occasions, claimed that trying the popular press, Fabricate scandal on the slightest pretext and are his own words through various media before he misquoted repeatedly filtered.

Personality

Grant, once known as "unofficial mayor of London," is often referred to in the press Phrases that describe him as a "human right line," the "full of charisma." He has been portrayed by acquaintances as a complicated man with an anarchic and sharp Constitution. Grant is known for his tendency teasingly insulting everyone, which won the public reputation of someone who can bring " Down, you put on and take off you in the established, has the same sentence. "" There are at least as much of Hugh that charismatic, intellectual, and his tongue "Said Mike Newell," is perhaps too clever for his own good, since it is delightful to him and the kind of woolly and flubsy. "

Grant's interview with Oprah Winfrey to 22 October 2004, high in the discussed media for his outspoken wit, the extemporaneous quips that his description produced by Julia Roberts as included "very big mouth." He said. "Literally, physically, she has a very big mouth … when I they kiss, I was aware of a faint echo. "When Winfrey defended Roberts as" one of the nicest people I ever met, "Grant deadpanned:" No, well, I would not go that far. "Such incidents of stories about alleged insensitivity Grant's. Filmmaker Paul Weitz were accompanied and Grant asked really funny to watch that "he perceives flaws in himself and others, and he takes care of their humanity anyway."

It is often written that Grant an impulsive habit Ocky employs irony in public relations. Grant in the press as sometimes "very resolved," presented at social events, with British newspapers regularly referred to him as a bad tempered, arrogant, rude and surly. According to his colleagues and public appearances, is not Grant about how his bad temper is concerned perceived public with his moodiness openly on display on television and published interviews.

Personal life

Grant is known in popular media for his guarded privacy, as he rarely describes his life in public and chooses instead to defend personal Questions with humor. Grant is a supporter of Marie Curie Cancer Care, whose great Daffodil Appeal in March, he promoted 2008th

In 1987, while playing Lord Byron in a Spanish production called Remando Al Viento (1988) met Grant a little-known actress Elizabeth Hurley, in a supporting role was cast as Byron's former lover Claire Clairmont. Grant began in the emerging model of the shooting, and because of its growing fame, the latter half of their relationship was spent in the global media spotlight. After 13 years together, the two made "a mutual and amicable decision" split in May 2000. With a Grant single man, according to Vogue ", which were virtually all accounts of the women of London stabbing each other with forks at social events are too close to him." In 2004 he began dating socialite Jemima Khan under the intense scrutiny of the British tabloid press. Three years later, in February 2007, Grant's publicist announced that the couple had "decided to split amicably." The spokesman added: "Hugh has nothing but positive to say about Jemima."

Public scandals

On 27 June 1995, Grant was in an LA vice sting operation not far from Sunset Boulevard was arrested for misdemeanor lewd Behavior in public with Hollywood prostitute Divine Brown. He pleaded no contest and was fined $ 1,180, to two years probation Summary down and was asked to complete an AIDS education program.

The arrest occurred about two weeks before the release the first major studio film Grant's nine months he was expected to promote at several American TV shows. The Tonight Show with Jay Leno had him booked for the same week, and as in former employee Don Sweeney's memoirs recalls: "Despite his arrest, was Hugh Grant's appointment on Jay's show . Seem to "The interview was a career-making hit for Leno and Grant was not for excuses for the incident He emphasized once said.:

I think you know in life, which is a good thing to do and what a bad thing, and I have a bad thing. And there you have it.

On Larry King Live, Grant was the host Larry King's repeated invitations to probe his mind and said that psychoanalysis was "more of an American syndrome" and he himself was "a bit old fashioned." He said the host, ". I have no excuses," Grant's management of the scandal was as unusual. for He was a celebrity for "values its refreshing honesty" as he "faced the music and treated it with his tongue [in] cheek." The incident registered strongly in the global cultural conscience and tarnished Grant's healthy image. In fiscal 2006, CBS TV series Love Monkey, the character called Shooter (Larenz Tate), the phenomenon of male discontent declared "Grant's Law." Referring to Hugh Grant, he said that the star had " the hottest, sexiest and most beautiful woman waiting for him at home. And what does Hugh do? He takes a cut-rate whore on Hollywood Boulevard. "This, he believed, showed that "We, as human beings, can never be satisfied."

In April 2007, Grant on charges of assault by paparazzo Ian Whittaker was arrested. Grant made no official statement and not comment on the incident. The fees were on 1 June by the Crown Prosecution fall on the grounds of "insufficient evidence."

Sports

Grant's sports Passions have often profiled by newspapers and television media. A famous "golfing addict", Grant is a scratch golfer and is a regular at Pro-Am Tournaments with membership of the Sunningdale Golf Club. He is often depicted by the paparazzi at the famous Scottish golf courses in St Andrews, Kingsbarns and Carnoustie. High Competitiveness, it is played with a lot of money to play. As a boy, Grant was known as "a real killer, very fast, very aggressive" on the sports field, played rugby union for his school first XV team in the middle and played football as an avid fan of Fulham FC. He is also a fan of the Scottish side Rangers FC to his grandfather, The Scottish was. He continued, in a Sunday-morning football league in South West London and play on the institution remains "a passionate fan of Fulham." On the set of About a Boy reminded informed, Nicholas Hoult as cricket and snooker by Grant. Hoult said, "if we do not act we'd all play cricket. … We had a great Game at the end of filming, and Hugh was pretty good. A really good tennis player "actress Alicia Witt (Two Weeks Notice) has also described Grant as" frightening good. "He used to football as a child with John Isaacs, Jeremy Isaacs son play.

Filmography

Main article Hugh Grant filmography

Prizes and awards

Main article: Honors Hugh Grant

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