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Hugh Grant (born September 9, 1960, London, England) is a British actor.
He was born
Hugh John Mungo Grant in London, and tends to play the archetypal Englishman, although his father, James Grant, is Scottish.
After attending Latymer Upper School for boys, Grant studied English at New College, Oxford. He made his film debut in 1982 with Oxford-financed Privileged. Television came later, in 1985. One of his first major film roles was in The Remains of the Day (1993), and he became simultaneously known as the partner of actress
Elizabeth Hurley whom he had been dating since 1987 or earlier, but it was Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994) which turned him into a major star.
Not long after gaining the starring role in Sense and Sensibility in 1995, Grant was arrested near Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood, having been caught having oral_sex with a prostitute, Divine Brown, in a car. A public apology on Jay Leno's Tonight Show helped win back public support. Although he was forgiven by Hurley, they broke up some years later. He is presently involved with British heiress Jemima Khan, former wife of Pakistani political figure and cricket star Imran Khan and a daughter of Sir Jimmy Goldsmith.
Grant kept a low profile until 1999, when he starred in Notting Hill opposite
Julia Roberts, and followed up with major successes in Bridget Jones's Diary (2001), About a Boy (2002) and Two Weeks Notice (2002) opposite
Sandra Bullock. He returned to partnership with Richard Curtis in the 2003 romantic comedy, Love Actually
. The sequel to Bridget Jones's Diary, ' was released in 2004.
The boy who played "Sam" in Love Actually, Thomas Sangster, is Grant's cousin.
His brother is a banker who works in New York. At a dinner party, Grant's mother was once asked "Do you have children?" "Yes, we have two," she replied. "One is a moviestar and the other is a banker." "Oh, that's very interesting," the other person said. "Which bank?"
Grant also enjoys playing golf, frequently taking part in pro-am tournaments and receives tuition from Colin Montgomerie.
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