Hugh grant

The son of a carpet seller and a teacher, John Mungo Grant was born on September 9, 1960 in the British capital. The boy comes from a ‘good family’, the Grants of Glenmoriston, which throughout history has produced prestigious doctors and soldiers. As he corresponds to such an exquisite lineage, the boy studied at an exclusive British school, Latymer Upper School, only for men, where he triumphed in typically ‘British’ sports such as cricket. He could not study anywhere other than Oxford University, where he graduated in English Literature. His charisma was already being noticed on campus, where he was devastating with his talents as a born seducer. “I met Hugh Grant at a party in Oxford. He had something magical. He was already a star without having done anything,” actress Anna Chancellor commented., who was his co-star in Four Weddings and a Funeral . During her student years she discovered her acting skills after joining the Oxford drama club to hang out. Before finishing, she had already made her film debut with Privileged , in whose credits he appeared as Hughie Grant.

After working all sorts of jobs, including book reviewer, television scriptwriter and radio ad producer, Hugh Grant founded his own theater company, ‘The Jockeys of Norfolk’, with a couple of actor cronies. In addition, he played roles in theatrical productions of works such as ‘An inspector calls’. It was director James Ivory who gave him his first big break in Maurice , the adaptation of EM Forster ‘s novel that described the homosexual passion of two fellow English college students. Together with James Wilby –who embodied the character alluded to in the title– he won the award for best performance at the Venice Festival. The following year he was the perfect Lord Byron inRowing the Wind , the best film by Spanish director Gonzalo Suárez , about the night Mary Shelley wrote ‘Frankenstein’. During filming, he fell in love with a co-star, the model Elizabeth Hurley , with whom he had a relationship that lasted until the year 2000. And that she seemed to have forgiven him after the scandal that arose when Grant was arrested in Los Angeles for hire a prostitute

After an intense dramatic role in Cold Moons , Grant was tapped by James Ivory to play a supporting character in The Remains of the Day . The great turning point in his career was Four Weddings and a Funeral that catapulted him to stardom. This original film by Mike Newell – with a script by Richard Curtis – about an English bachelor who falls in love with an American woman with whom he meets again at the ceremonies alluded to in the title, became the biggest international success of British cinema up to that time. . Grant was awarded the BAFTA and the Golden Globe. He then reprized with Newell in the low-key drama An Unusual Adventure .

For a while, Grant combined period roles, in films like Restoration and especially Sense and Sensibility , with comedy ( Nine Months , The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill but Came Down a Mountain ) and even did his first steps as a producer on the terrain of the thriller with When crossing the limit , where he was also the protagonist. But the commercial failure of this last film made him pigeonhole himself completely in the genre where he had the most pull, the romantic comedy. From then on, Grant had a keen eye for projects where he could play himself, for the benefit of the film, such as Notting Hill .(with his memorable journalistic junket), Mickey blue eyes , Love with notice or American Dreamz . Woody Allen knew how to accentuate his ‘cheeky’ side in Medium-haired Rogues , and since then Grant has parodied himself a bit in tapes such as Bridget Jones’s Diary –where he was a womanizer with few scruples–, his sequel Bridget Jones: I will survive , the adaptation of Nick Hornby ‘s novel A Grown Up Boy – in which he does some of his best work, as a shameless cynic living the high life off the family income – and You the lyrics, I the music., where he was a rundown eighties pop star. In Love Actually , she reprized her usual approach to bring to life the most unlikely British Prime Minister in film history. And in the French Homework he made a small cameo as the new neighbor.