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Hugh Grant's Biography

In 1994, HUGH GRANT (William Thacker) became an international star with his role in Four
Weddings and a Funeral, directed by Mike Newell and co-starring Andie MacDowell. His
performance earned him a Golden Globe Award and a British Academy Award. In the same year he
also starred in Roman Polanski’s Bitter Moon opposite Kristin Scott Thomas, and in Sirens, directed
by John Duigan. 

Most recently he was seen in the thriller Extreme Measures with Gene Hackman. This was the first
feature from Simian Films, the development company Grant and Elizabeth Hurley set up in partnership
with Castle Rock Entertainment. The company has several other projects in various stages of
development, including Mickey Blue Eyes, starring Grant, Jeanne Tripplehorn and James Caan. 

Grant first came to notice in 1982 while at Oxford University, when he made the movie Privileged.
But it was the 1987 Merchant-Ivory production of E.M. Forster’s Maurice, where Grant first received international acclaim, as
well as the Best Actor Award at the Venice Film Festival. 

This led to a succession of roles including The Dawning with Anthony Hopkins, Ken Russell’s The Lair of the White Worm,
The Big Man opposite Joanne Whalley-Kilmer and the role of Chopin in James Lapine’s Impromptu. Grant was reunited with
director James Ivory in 1993 in The Remains of the Day, starring Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson. 

In 1995, he appeared as Edward Ferrers in the Oscar-winning adaptation of Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility, as the
nervous father-to-be in Chris Columbus’ Nine Months, and in the critically-acclaimed The Englishman Who Went up a Hill
But Came Down a Mountain, written and directed by Christopher Monger. Grant was also seen in the British comedy An
Awfully Big Adventure, directed by Mike Newell, and had a cameo role in the 17th century romp Restoration. His other film
credits are White Mischief, Bengali Nights and Rowing in the Wind. 

Grant’s television credits include The Changeling and The Trials of Oz, both for the BBC, ABC’s Our Sons with Julie
Andrews and Ann-Margret and CBS’ Dangerous Love and Till We Meet Again. On the stage, Grant has worked with
director Richard Wilson in An Inspector Calls at Manchester’s Royal Exchange Theatre, and with Richard Digby Day in Lady
Windermere’s Fan, Hamlet and Coriolanus at the Nottingham Playhouse. 

Hugh Grant's Biography