History Creator / HughGrant

* StarMakingRole:[[invoked]] ''Film/FourWeddingsAndAFuneral'', ''Film/BitterMoon'' and ''{{Film/Sirens}}'' all came out around the same time, and turned him into a star internationally.

* UnbuiltCastingType:[[invoked]] Before his typecasting as that charmingly desirable English gentleman wooing an American love interest, he starred in ''{{Film/Sirens}}''. There he plays a well-meaning but poor husband whose marriage lacks passion because of his idolization of his repressed wife. He in fact has to learn how to put passion back into their marriage.

* ''Film/{{Sirens}}'' (1994)

** Defied with ''Film/CloudAtlas''. Despite the film's polarizing reception, he's expressed how much he loved being in it.

** ''Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason'' (2004)

There's also his turn as the well-meaning St Clair Bayfield in ''Film/FlorenceFosterJenkins'' (a combo performance with Creator/MerylStreep, [[AwesomeDearBoy which they've clearly mutually enjoyed]]). It was this experience that got him back into acting full time[[note]]Plus, he learned just how much money Creator/SimonHelburg made off of ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'' and wanted some of that dough, himself[[/note]], leading to his memorable performance as LargeHam Phoenix Buchanan in ''Film/Paddington2'' and portrayal of Jeremy Thorpe in ''Literature/AVeryEnglishScandal.''

* HostilityOnTheSet:[[invoked]] Mildly between him and Julia Roberts while making ''Film/NottingHill'' (he famously complained about having to kiss her because of her "large mouth"). She has since forgiven him and said she'd be willing to work with him again.

* DoingItForTheArt:[[invoked]] He learned sign language for scenes with David Bower (who is deaf) in ''Film/FourWeddingsAndAFuneral''.

* ''Series/TheRegime'' (2023)

* OldShame: He's referred to ''Film/NineMonths'' as a mistake.

Recently, Grant's acting career has gone on the back burner due to his involvement in the campaign for tighter restrictions on the British media (including giving evidence for the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leveson_Inquiry Leveson Inquiry]]). This, however, hasn't prevented him from appearing in a few recent films, such as ''Film/CloudAtlas'', the film remake of ''Film/TheManFromUNCLE2015'', as well as in the 2014 rom-com ''Film/TheRewrite''. There's also his turn as the well-meaning St Clair Bayfield in ''Film/FlorenceFosterJenkins'' (a combo performance with Creator/MerylStreep, [[AwesomeDearBoy which they've clearly mutually enjoyed]]), as well as his memorable turn as LargeHam Phoenix Buchanan in ''Film/Paddington2'' and portrayal of Jeremy Thorpe in ''Literature/AVeryEnglishScandal.''

* ''Film/OperationFortuneRuseDeGuerre'' (2023)
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Hugh John Mungo Grant (born 9 September 1960) is an English actor.

He is best known for his long association with writer Creator/RichardCurtis in a string of wildly successful British {{Rom Com}}s, including ''Film/FourWeddingsAndAFuneral'', ''Film/NottingHill'', and ''Film/LoveActually''. His standard role in these films was as a bumbling but well-meaning quintessentially British UpperClassTwit, who had to overcome his BritishStuffiness and repression to win the heart of a (usually American) female love interest. In the late 1990s, he began taking roles that had him actively PlayingAgainstType, often as a jaded English cad, such as Daniel Cleaver (an {{Expy}} of ''Film/PrideAndPrejudice'''s George Wickham) in ''Film/BridgetJonesDiary'', and ''Film/AboutABoy'', while occasionally blending the two types together (such as in ''Film/MusicAndLyrics''). In another big instance of PlayingAgainstType, he played ([[ActingForTwo among other characters]]) a slave-trading reverend, a {{Jerkass}} and vindictive husband who sends his brother in a retirement home against his will, and the chief of a CannibalTribe in ''Literature/CloudAtlas''. He also did ''Film/DidYouHearAboutTheMorgans.''

Recently, Grant's acting career has gone on the back burner due to his involvement in the campaign for tighter restrictions on the British media (including giving evidence for the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leveson_Inquiry Leveson Inquiry]]). This, however, hasn't prevented him from appearing in a few recent films, such as the polarizing 2012 film ''Film/CloudAtlas'', Alexander Waverley in the film remake of ''Film/TheManFromUNCLE2015'' (which was not exactly well received), as well as in the 2014 rom-com ''Film/TheRewrite'' (which while not being groundbreaking, speaks well for his performance). Better-received both financially and critically would be his turn as the well-meaning St Clair Bayfield in ''Film/FlorenceFosterJenkins'' (in a critically-appreciated combo performance with Creator/MerylStreep, [[AwesomeDearBoy which they've clearly mutually enjoyed]]), as well as his memorable turn as LargeHam Phoenix Buchanan in ''Film/Paddington2'' and critically-acclaimed portrayal of Jeremy Thorpe in ''Literature/AVeryEnglishScandal.''

He is best known for his long association with writer Richard Curtis in a string of wildly successful British {{Rom Com}}s, including ''Film/FourWeddingsAndAFuneral'', ''Film/NottingHill'', and ''Film/LoveActually''. His standard role in these films was as a bumbling but well-meaning quintessentially British UpperClassTwit, who had to overcome his BritishStuffiness and repression to win the heart of a (usually American) female love interest. In the late 1990s, he began taking roles that had him actively PlayingAgainstType, often as a jaded English cad, such as Daniel Cleaver (an {{Expy}} of ''Film/PrideAndPrejudice'''s George Wickham) in ''Film/BridgetJonesDiary'', and ''Film/AboutABoy'', while occasionally blending the two types together (such as in ''Film/MusicAndLyrics''). In another big instance of PlayingAgainstType, he played ([[ActingForTwo among other characters]]) a slave-trading reverend, a {{Jerkass}} and vindictive husband who sends his brother in a retirement home against his will, and the chief of a CannibalTribe in ''Literature/CloudAtlas''. He also did ''Film/DidYouHearAboutTheMorgans.''

* ''WesternAnimation/ThePiratesInAnAdventureWithScientists'' (2012)

* AdamWesting: In ''Film/Paddington2'', he plays a washed-up actor whose GloryDays are long behind him.

* ''Series/AVeryPeculiarPractice'' (1986)(1 episode)