Hugh Grant

Grant also enjoys playing golf, frequently taking part in pro-am tournaments and receives tuition from Colin Montgomerie. The Painted Stream, Robin Armstrong, Dent, 1985, ISBN: 0460047027 (forword by Hordern). "Which bank?". In later years, he had a house on Dartmoor, where he enjoyed fly fishing. "One is a moviestar and the other is a banker." "Oh, that's very interesting," the other person said. On television, he played Tartuffe for the BBC and appeared in several classic drama serials, one of his last performances being in Middlemarch (1994). At a dinner party, Grant's mother was once asked "Do you have children?" "Yes, we have two," she replied. G. Wodehouse's famous indefatigable butler Jeeves in several series in the 1970s.

His brother is a banker who works in New York. White's The Sword in the Stone (1982); and P. The boy who played "Sam" in Love Actually, Thomas Sangster, is Grant's cousin. H. The sequel to Bridget Jones's Diary, Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason was released in 2004. On radio he played Gandalf in the BBC's radio adaptation of Tolkien's Lord of the Rings (1981); another great wizard, Merlin, in an adaptation of T. He returned to partnership with Richard Curtis in the 2003 romantic comedy, Love Actually. In 1937, he made his professional stage début, playing a minor role in Othello, and he appeared in many Shakespearean productions after World War II, taking roles such as Polonius in Hamlet and Malvolio in Twelfth Night.

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. Pancras People's Theatre before going into the profession. A public apology helped win back public support, but the break-up with Hurley came soon afterwards -- though they later got back together for a short time. Hordern was born in Berkhamsted, and acted as an amateur with the St. 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 an Afro-American prostitute in a car. As narrator of FilmFair Production's Paddington Bear, his soothing voice will be familiar to TV audiences everywhere. 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, but it was Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994) which turned him into a major star. For much of his career, Hordern was mainly known for comic roles, such as Mr Toad in Toad of Toad Hall on stage, but in his later years, his King Lear was much acclaimed.

Television came later, in 1985. Michael Hordern (October 3, 1911-May 2, 1995) was a British actor, knighted in 1983 for his services to the theatre. He made his film debut in 1982 with Oxford-financed Privileged. After attending Latymer Upper School for boys, Grant studied English at New College, Oxford. He was born Hugh John Mungo Grant in London, England, and tends to play the archetypal Englishman, and is of Scottish ancestry.

Hugh Grant (born September 9, 1960, London, England) is an English actor. Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2004). Love Actually (2003). Two Weeks Notice (2002).

About A Boy (2002). Bridget Jones's Diary (2001). Small Time Crooks (2000). Mickey Blue Eyes (1999).

Notting Hill (1999). Extreme Measures (1996). Restoration (1995). Sense and Sensibility (1995).

Nine Months (1995). The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down A Mountain (1995). An Awfully Big Adventure (1995). Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994).

Sirens (1994). Night Train to Venice (1993) USA: Night Train to Hell. The Remains Of The Day (1993). Bitter Moon (1992).

Impromptu (1991). The Big Man (1990). Judith Krantz's Till We Meet Again (1989). The Dawning (1988).

Nocturnes (1988). La Nuit Bengali (1988). Remando al Viento (1988). The Lair Of The White Worm (1988).

White Mischief (1987). Maurice (1987). Privileged (1982).