{"id":5559,"count":4,"description":"Hugh John Mungo Grant\u00a0(born 9 September 1960) is an English actor. He established himself early in his career as a charming, vulnerable romantic\u00a0leading man and has since transitioned into a\u00a0character actor.\u00a0He has received\u00a0several accolades, including a\u00a0British Academy Film Award and a\u00a0Golden Globe Award, as well as nominations for two\u00a0Primetime Emmy Awards. He received an\u00a0Honorary C\u00e9sar\u00a0in 2006.\u00a0In 2022,\u00a0Time Out magazine\u00a0listed Grant as one of Britain's 50 greatest actors of all time.\u00a0As of 2025, his films have grossed over US$4\u00a0billion\u00a0worldwide.\n\nGrant made his feature film acting debut in\u00a0Privileged\u00a0(1982), followed by the romantic drama\u00a0Maurice\u00a0(1987), for which he gained acclaim and won the\u00a0Volpi Cup for Best Actor. He then acted in a string of successful period dramas such as\u00a0The Remains of the Day\u00a0(1993),\u00a0Sense and Sensibility\u00a0(1995) and\u00a0Restoration\u00a0(1995). Grant emerged as a star with\u00a0Richard Curtis's romantic comedy\u00a0Four Weddings and a Funeral\u00a0(1994), for which he won the\u00a0Golden Globe\u00a0and\u00a0BAFTA Award for Best Actor. He starred in further romantic comedies such as\u00a0Notting Hill\u00a0(1999),\u00a0Bridget Jones's Diary\u00a0(2001) and its\u00a02004\u00a0and\u00a02025 sequels,\u00a0About a Boy\u00a0(2002),\u00a0Two Weeks Notice\u00a0(2002),\u00a0Love Actually\u00a0(2003) and\u00a0Music and Lyrics\u00a0(2007).\n\nGrant began taking on\u00a0against-type\u00a0parts, earning three\u00a0BAFTA Award\u00a0nominations for his roles as\u00a0St. Clair Bayfield\u00a0in the biopic comedy\u00a0Florence Foster Jenkins\u00a0(2016), a haughty actor in the family film\u00a0Paddington 2\u00a0(2017), and a charming yet sinister man in the horror film\u00a0Heretic (2024). He has also acted in the science fiction epic\u00a0Cloud Atlas\u00a0(2012), the crime comedy\u00a0The Gentlemen\u00a0(2019), the fantasy comedy\u00a0Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves\u00a0(2023), and the musical fantasy\u00a0Wonka\u00a0(2023). He earned two\u00a0Primetime Emmy Award\u00a0nominations for his roles as\u00a0Jeremy Thorpe\u00a0in the\u00a0BBC\u00a0miniseries\u00a0A Very English Scandal\u00a0(2018) and a man accused of murder in the\u00a0HBO\u00a0miniseries\u00a0The Undoing\u00a0(2020).\n\nGrant has been outspoken about his antipathy toward acting, his disdain for celebrity culture, and his hostility toward the media.\u00a0He emerged as a prominent critic of\u00a0Rupert Murdoch's\u00a0News Corporation\u00a0during the\u00a0News International phone hacking scandal.\n\nDescription above from the Wikipedia article Hugh Grant, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.","link":"https:\/\/theromcomcatalog.com\/staging\/actor\/hugh-grant\/","name":"Hugh Grant","slug":"hugh-grant","taxonomy":"actor","meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theromcomcatalog.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/actor\/5559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theromcomcatalog.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/actor"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theromcomcatalog.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/actor"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/theromcomcatalog.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/movie?actor=5559"},{"href":"https:\/\/theromcomcatalog.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?actor=5559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}