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Image:Hughgrantmug.jpg|thumb|Mugshot of Grant
taken when arrested in 1995 for engaging in oral
sex in public with Divine Brown

Hugh John Mungo Grant (born September 9, 1960 in
London, England) is a United Kingdom|British film
actor who tends to play the archetypal (some would
say stereotypical) Englishman.  Interestingly,
perhaps, Grant's father, James Grant, is
Scotland|Scottish.

After attending Latymer |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.  In 1991, he starred in the film
Impromptu as Frederic Chopin opposite Julian
Sands.  

One of his first major film roles was in The
Remains of the Day (film)|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,
California|Hollywood, having been caught having
oral sex with a prostitute, Divine Brown (American
prostitute)|Divine Brown, in a car. A public
apology on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno 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 (movie)|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,
Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason was released in
2004.

The boy who played "Sam" in Love Actually, Thomas
Sangster, is Grant's cousin.

Grant played cricket (sport)|cricket in his
younger days, and currently enjoys playing golf,
frequently taking part in pro-am tournaments and
receives tuition from Colin Montgomerie. He is a
fan of Fulham Football Club.

==Filmography==
*Privileged (1982)
*Maurice (1987)
*White Mischief (1987)
*The Lair Of The White Worm (1988)
*Remando al Viento (1988)
*La Nuit Bengali (1988)
*Nocturnes (1988)
*The Dawning (1988)
*Judith Krantz's Till We Meet Again  (1989)
*The Big Man (1990)
*Impromptu (1991 movie)|Impromptu (1991)
*Bitter Moon (1992)
*The Remains of the Day (film)|The Remains of the
Day (1993)
*Night Train to Venice (1993) USA: Night Train to
Hell
*Sirens (film)|Sirens (1994)
*Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994)
*An Awfully Big Adventure (1995)
*The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a
Mountain (1995)
*Nine Months (1995)
*Sense and Sensibility (film)|Sense and
Sensibility (1995)
*Restoration (movie)|Restoration (1995)
*Extreme Measures (1996)
*Notting Hill (movie)|Notting Hill (1999)
*Mickey Blue Eyes (1999)
*Small Time Crooks (2000)
*Bridget Jones's Diary (2001)
*About a Boy (2002)
*Two Weeks Notice (2002)
*Love Actually (2003)
*Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (movie)|Bridget
Jones: The Edge of Reason (2004)
*American Dreamz (2006)

==See also==
*Working Title Films - production company behind
many of Grant's best-known films.
* Sunset and Divine: The British Experience  aka 
Nine Minutes (1996) by Ron Jeremy. With Mark Davis
as Hugh and Divine Brown as herself .

==External links==
*http://www.workingtitlefilms.com/ Working Title
*http://groups.yahoo.com/groups/hereslookingathugh
/ A Yahoo! Hugh Grant fan group
*http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/showbiz/
3030498.stm The BBC's report on the Elton John
dinner auction
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