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  • Hugh Grant seeking damages over hacking allegations - 14 September 2012
    -Actor Hugh Grant is taking legal action against media mogul Rupert Murdoch's News International empire over the hacking scandal which rocked the press last year (11).-The Four Weddings and a Funeral star was one of the leading celebrity campaigners against press in


  • Hurley's son finally allowed to see godfather Grant in a movie - 23 March 2012
    -Actress/model Elizabeth Hurley's son has finally seen his godfather Hugh Grant in a movie after years of missing out because of the actor's onscreen swearing.-The Notting Hill star voices the lead seafaring character in new animated film The Pirates! In An Adventur


  • Grant embracing evil roles for Cloud Atlas - 16 February 2012
    -Hugh Grant is set to shrug off his nice guy image to play a series of "incredibly evil" characters in his new film Cloud Atlas.-The Four Weddings and a Funeral star is set to appear opposite Tom Hanks, Halle Berry and Susan Sarandon in the new film by The Wachowski

Hugh Grant - what members say


  • Four Weddings And A Funeral
  • Four Weddings And A Funeral review by from Camden
    Rated - 5.0 stars A love story with a lotta laughs 25 September 2003
    ...gs and a Funeral is a light-hearted British romantic comedy of manners starring Hugh Grant as a much sought after bachelor who attends the weddings of all his friends but...   Read customer review
  • Notting Hill
  • Notting Hill review by HD from WEST BROMWICH
    Rated - 4.0 stars 12 July 2004
    ...A rather appealing love story about the lowly owner (Hugh Grant) of a London-based travel book store whose happiness has slowly withered away until a well-known movie sta...   Read customer review
  • Sense and Sensibility
  • Sense and Sensibility review by from Bury, Lancashire.
    Rated - 4.0 stars well-worth persevering with 29 June 2004
    ...s. Alan Rickman is simply excellent; he improves virtually any movie he's in. Hugh Grant is good without making a lasting impression - he's only on screen a short time ...   Read customer review

Hugh Grant - filmography


  • Cloud Atlas (2012)
    Starring: Tom Hanks,  Halle Berry,  Hugh Grant
    Director: Tom Tykwer,  Andy Wachowski
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    An exploration of how the actions of individual lives impact one another in the past, present and future, as one soul is shaped from a killer into a hero, and an act of kindness ripples across centuries to inspire a revolution.
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 232 members
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  • Music and Lyrics - Blu-ray (2007)
    Starring: Brad Garrett,  Haley Bennett,  Kristen Johnston
    Director: Marc Lawrence
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
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    Romantic comedy starring Hugh Grant and Drew Barrymore. Alex Fletcher (Grant) was a popular musician in the 1980s, but these days he's lucky to get a gig playing at the local county fair. Just when it seems as if things couldn't get any bleaker for Alex, reigning pop diva Cora Corman (Haley Bennett)..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 2,802 members
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  • Music and Lyrics on DVD (2007)
    Starring: Hugh Grant,  Drew Barrymore,  Scott Porter
    Director: Marc Lawrence
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
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    First you're hot, than you're not... and then you're Alex Fletcher. So when the sizzlingest tween queen on the charts asks the has-been '80s pop sensation to write her a song, he grabs for another chance at stardom. Problem: Alex can say it with music but he sure can't say it with words. Enter ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 50,093 members
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  • American Dreamz on DVD (2006)
    Starring: Hugh Grant,  Dennis Quaid,  Mandy Moore
    Director: Paul Weitz
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    In the world of right-now, it seems as if literally everybody wants to be famous. Thanks to the global phenomenon of reality television, literally anyone can be. From the Director of American Pie & About a Boy, Hugh Grant has never been better as the sleazy, self-centred host of the hugely popular ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 46% from 10,889 members
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  • Love Actually - Blu-ray (2003)
    Starring: Hugh Grant,  Liam Neeson,  Colin Firth
    Director: Richard Curtis
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Richard Curtis (writer of 'Four Weddings and a Funeral' and 'Notting Hill') turns his hand to directing with this British rom-com. Eight stories involving the love lives of more than a dozen characters are brought together over one Christmas and climax on Christmas Eve; from the recent widower ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 72% from 844 members
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  • Love Actually on DVD (2003)
    Starring: Joanna Page,  Lucia Moniz,  a
    Director: Richard Curtis
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Richard Curtis (writer of 'Four Weddings and a Funeral' and 'Notting Hill') turns his hand to directing with this British rom-com. Eight stories involving the love lives of more than a dozen characters are brought together over one Christmas and climax on Christmas Eve; from the recent widower ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 83,922 members
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  • Two Weeks Notice on DVD (2002)
    Starring: Sandra Bullock,  Dorian Missick,  Hugh Grant
    Director: Marc Lawrence
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
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    Romantic comedy with Sandra Bullock and Hugh Grant. High-flying attorney, Lucy Kelton (Bullock) is driven to distraction by her boss, George Wade (Grant), who just cannot seem to make a decision (day or night) without her input. In a fit of pique she hands in her notice, two weeks, which Wade ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 25,518 members
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  • About A Boy on DVD (2002)
    Starring: Victoria Smurfit,  Nicholas Hoult,  Isabel Brook
    Director: Paul Weitz,  Chris Weitz
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Will is a 36-year-old underachiever with a fear of commitment that leads him to seek out relationships with single mothers, on the assumption that they are more desperate. However, plans go awry when he befriends with Marcus, the weird 12-year-old son of his latest target. Soon, Will and Marcus ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 32,926 members
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  • Bridget Jones's Diary on DVD (2001)
    Starring: Sally Phillips,  Honor Blackman,  Jim Broadbent
    Director: Sharon Maguire
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Pity poor Bridget Jones (Renee Zellweger). She's the 1990s British everywoman: single, weight-obsessed, and very probably drunk on mid-price white wine. Her life goes from middling to worse when she embarks on a doomed affair with silver-tongued boss Daniel Cleaver (Hugh Grant). In the background ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 48,253 members
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  • Small Time Crooks (2000)
    Starring: Woody Allen,  Tracey Ullman,  Elaine Stritch
    Director: Woody Allen
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Small-time ex-con Ray Winkler (Woody Allen) plans a heist by leasing a shop next to a bank and tunnelling in from below. His wife Frenchie (Tracey Ullman) provides cover by opening a cookie business in the vacant shop, and, oddly enough, when Ray's ambitious heist plans come to nothing, it is the ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 2,685 members
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  • Notting Hill on DVD (1999)
    Starring: Tim McInnerny,  Rhys Ifans,  Hugh Bonneville
    Director: Roger Michell
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    The team behind the hugely successful 'Four Weddings and a Funeral' returns for this romantic comedy, which is now the biggest grossing British film of all time. Anna Scott (Julia Roberts) is the world's most famous movie star, whilst divorcĆ©e William Thacker (Hugh Grant) owns an ailing travel ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 47,690 members
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  • Mickey Blue Eyes on DVD (1999)
    Starring: Joe Viterelli,  James Caan,  Gerry Becker
    Director: Kelly Makin
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Hugh Grant stars as Michael Felgate, an Englishman working at an upmarket auction house in New York. He falls in love with Gina Vitale (Jeanne Tripplehorn), a schoolteacher from Queens, and proposes to her. However, Gina refuses to get married as she fears that Michael will be corrupted by her ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 55% from 8,877 members
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  • Notting Hill - Blu-ray (1999)
    Starring: Rhys Ifans,  Hugh Bonneville,  Gina McKee
    Director: Roger Michell
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    The team behind the hugely successful 'Four Weddings and a Funeral' returns for this romantic comedy, which is now the biggest grossing British film of all time. Anna Scott (Julia Roberts) is the world's most famous movie star, whilst divorcĆ©e William Thacker (Hugh Grant) owns an ailing travel ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 73% from 333 members
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  • Extreme Measures on DVD (1996)
    Starring: Paul Guilfoyle,  David Morse,  Gene Hackman
    Director: Michael Apted
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Comic leading man Hugh Grant gets serious in this drama about a physician who uncovers a truly disturbing secret. Guy Luthan (Hugh Grant), a British doctor serving a residence in a hospital in New York City, is very puzzled by a patient brought to the emergency room one night. Naked, disoriented, ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 3,029 members
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  • Nine Months on DVD (1995)
    Starring: Joan Cusack,  Tom Arnold,  Robin Williams
    Director: Chris Columbus
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    When Sam Faulkner (Hugh Grant) is informed by his girlfriend Taylor (Julianne Moore) that he is to become a father his life is turned upside down, and for the next nine months he is left to undergo the trials and tribulations of impending fatherhood. Things get worse for him when he meets an ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 54% from 7,861 members
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  • The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Ca... (1995)
    Starring: Hugh Grant,  Tara Fitzgerald,  Colm Meaney
    Director: Christopher Monger
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
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    English mapmaker Reginald Anson (Hugh Grant) manages to offend an entire Welsh town when he rules that their prized landmark is not a mountain but a hill. Anson is soon to find, however, that the locals will stop at nothing to defend their honour, and spearheading their efforts with young barmaid ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 64% from 2,119 members
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  • Sense and Sensibility on DVD (1995)
    Starring: Emma Thompson,  Kate Winslet,  Alan Rickman
    Director: Ang Lee
    Certificate: Certificate: U
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    The recipient of seven OscarĀ® nominations, this film version of Jane Austen's classic 1811 novel stars Emma Thompson as Elinor Dashwood. With her mother and sisters, Elinor struggles financially after the death of her father, who bequeathed the Dashwood estate to his oafish son by an earlier ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 74% from 14,282 members
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  • Sense and Sensibility - Blu-ray (1995)
    Starring: Emma Thompson,  Kate Winslet,  Alan Rickman
    Director: Ang Lee
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Watch now: Unavailable
    Emma Thompson stars in and provides the screenplay for this adaptation of Jane Austen's classic novel. Thompson plays Elinor, the eldest of sisters who are reduced in means when their father dies and his estate passes on to his son from his first marriage. They are soon accepted into their new ..read more »
    4.5 stars out of 5 88% from 5 members
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  • Sirens on DVD (1994)
    Starring: Katie Fischer,  Tara Fitzgerald,  Sam Neill
    Director: John Duigan
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Idealistic young clergyman Anthony Campion (Hugh Grant) arrives in Australia with his wife Estella (Tara Fitzgerald). His mission is to convince bohemian artist Norman Lindsay (Sam Neill) not to exhibit his painting of a naked woman on a cross. Living with Lindsay are his three models, Pru, Sheela ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 53% from 1,920 member
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  • Four Weddings And A Funeral on DVD (1993)
    Starring: Rowan A,  Hugh Grant,  Andie MacDowell
    Director: Mike Newell
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    This hugely popular comedy established Hugh Grant as Hollywood's favourite bumbling Brit and garnered Oscar nominations for Best Picture and Richard Curtis' screenplay. Shy Londoner Charles (Grant) meets American Carrie (Andie MacDowell) at a friend's wedding and enjoys a one-night stand with her. ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 56,432 members
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  • The Remains of the Day on DVD (1993)
    Starring: Emma Thompson,  Anthony Hopkins,  Lena Headey
    Director: James Ivory
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Watch now: Unavailable
    Filmed with the usual meticulous attention to period and detail of films from Ismail Merchant and James Ivory, The Remains of the Day is based on a novel by Kazuo Ishiguro. Anthony Hopkins plays Stevens, the perfect butler to a prosperous British household of the 1930s. He is so unswervingly ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 72% from 11,533 members
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  • Train To Hell on DVD (1993)
    Starring: Tahnee Welch,  Malcolm McDowell,  Hugh Grant
    Director: Carlo U. Quinterio
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Hugh Grant stars in this thriller set on board the Orient Express. Grant plays Martin Gamil, a young writer who has written a book exposing a group of neo-Nazi thugs, and is on his way to deliver the manuscript to his publisher in Venice. However, on the night train, Grant starts to realise that ..read more »
    1.5 stars out of 5 29% from 182 members
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  • Four Weddings And A Funeral - Blu-ray (1993)
    Starring: Rowan A,  Hugh Grant,  Andie MacDowell
    Director: Mike Newell
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    This hugely popular comedy established Hugh Grant as Hollywood's favourite bumbling Brit and garnered Oscar nominations for Best Picture and Richard Curtis' screenplay. Shy Londoner Charles (Grant) meets American Carrie (Andie MacDowell) at a friend's wedding and enjoys a one-night stand with her. ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 72% from 92 members
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  • Bitter Moon on DVD (1992)
    Starring: Kristin Scott-Thomas,  Victor Banerjee,  Hugh Grant
    Director: Roman Polanski
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Watch now: Unavailable
    A perverse, dark-humored comedy drama, Bitter Moon crosses the line into intentional camp more often than not in its tale of a kinky cripple Oscar (Peter Coyote) and his beautiful wife Mimi (Emmanuelle Seigner). Oscar ensnares a proper British man, Nigel (Hugh Grant) on an ocean-liner and makes him ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 58% from 2,500 members
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  • Impromptu on DVD (1990)
    Starring: Emma Thompson,  Judy Davis,  George Corraface
    Director: James Lapine
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Judy Davis and Hugh Grant star in this comic tale in which George Sand, one of the most celebrated and infamous writers of her time, pursues the composer Fredric Chopin. Her notorious lifestyle and reputation make it a difficult task but she eventually seduces him in Paris.
    2.5 stars out of 5 54% from 474 members
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  • Lair of the White Worm (1988)
    Starring: Amanda Donohoe,  Hugh Grant
    Director: Ken Russell
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    A giant skull is found at a castle in England, which is eventually linked to a legendary dragon-like worm, a peculiar religion, a vampiress' estate, and more...
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 120 members
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  • The Bengali Night on DVD (1988)
    Starring: Hugh Grant,  Shabana Azmi,  Supriya Pathak
    Director: Nicolas Klotz
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Allan (Hugh Grant) is an engineer working in 1930s Calcutta. He is invited to stay with the family of his boss, Narendra Sen (Soumitra Chatterjee) which includes his wife, Indira (Shabana Azmi) and daughter Gayatri (Supriya Pathak). Gayatri and Allan become romantically involved leading to tragedy.
    2 stars out of 5 36% from 19 members
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  • The Lady And The Highwayman on DVD (1987)
    Starring: Oliver Reed,  Michael York,  Gareth Hunt
    Director: John Hough
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Swashbuckling romance, adapted from Barbara Cartland's novel 'Cupid Rides Pillion' set in 17th century England. Lady Panthea Vyne (Lysette Anthony) gets married to the evil and brutish Drysdale (Ian Bannen), only to be rescued from his cruelty that very same day by a dashing and mysterious ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 51% from 258 members
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  • Maurice on DVD (1987)
    Starring: James Wilby,  Patrick Godfrey,  Ben Kingsley
    Director: James Ivory
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    At Cambridge, Clive Durham [Grant] is immediately attracted to a fellow student, Maurice Hall [James Wilby]. The love between them is platonic but intense and, in a society that both persecutes and prosecutes homosexuals, guilt and fear lead to Clive's breakdown and a bitter rift between the two ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 2,980 members
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Hugh Grant facts

5 most recent films

The Pirates! In An Adventure With Scientists - 3D Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
Cloud Atlas - 3.5 stars
The Pirates! In An Adventure With Scientists - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
The Pirates! In An Adventure With Scientists - 3.5 stars
Did You Hear About the Morgans? - Blu-ray - 3.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

Sense and Sensibility - 4.0 stars
Notting Hill - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
Love Actually - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
Four Weddings And A Funeral - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
The Remains of the Day - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

The Bengali Night - 2.0 stars
Sense and Sensibility - Blu-ray - 4.5 stars
Train To Hell - 1.5 stars
American Dreamz - 2.5 stars
The Lady And The Highwayman - 2.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Emma Thompson - 8 times - show films
Gemma Jones - 7 times - show films
Imelda Staunton - 6 times - show films
Gemma Jones - 6 times - show films
Colin Firth - 6 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Marc Lawrence - 9 times - show films
James Ivory - 4 times - show films
Mike Newell - 3 times - show films
Peter Lord - 3 times - show films
Roman Polanski - 3 times - show films