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Who is Hugh Grant?

by Ratan Srivastava
Hugh Grant

Hugh Grant is indeed an actor from England. A Golden Globe, a BAFTA, as well as an Honorary César have all been bestowed to him. His movies have made almost $3 billion globally from 29 theatrical releases since about 2018.

He originally gained notoriety for his roles in costume plays such as Merchant-Maurice Ivory’s (1987), The Remains of the Day (1993), Sense as well as Sensibility (1995), and Restoration (1995), about which he won the Volpi Cup (1995). Following his role in Mike Newell’s romantic comedy film Four Weddings as well as a Funeral (1994), in which he won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy as well as the British Academy Film Award for Best Actor, Grant became a worldwide star. Grant rose to prominence in the film as just a charming, vulnerable, and humorous romantic protagonist.

Grant established himself as both a leading figure with scathing comedy flair just after success of Four Weddings as well as a Funeral. Notting Hill (1999), Bridget Jones’s Diary (2001), About a Boy (2002), Two Weeks Notice (2002), Love Actually (2003), and Music and Lyrics (2003) were among Grant’s romantic comedies (2007).

Grant began playing roles that were beyond of his comfort zone, beginning with various roles inside The Wachowskis’ epic science fiction movie Cloud Atlas. He gained critical acclaim for his roles as St. Clair Bayfield and Meryl Streep in Stephen Frears’ Florence Foster Jenkins (2016). Grant was nominated for just a British Academy Film Award, a Golden Globe Award, as well as a Screen Actors Guild Award for his work. The following year, he played as the antagonist, Phoenix Buchanan, inside the family comedy Paddington 2 (2017), for that he was nominated for such a British Academy Film Award for Best Supporting Actor.

He was nominated for just a Primetime Emmy Award for Best Actor inside a Limited Series for his role as Jeremy Thorpe inside the BBC miniseries A Very English Scandal in 2018. Grant additionally featured in The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (2015) and The Gentlemen (2015), both action pictures (2019). Grant has recently acted alongside Nicole Kidman in HBO’s psychological thriller miniseries The Undoing.

Grant is recognised for being a careful performer who tackles his jobs like such a character actor, putting in a lot of effort to make his performance look natural. A casual touch of sarcasm, as well as refined physical gestures, are hallmarks of his humorous abilities. His performance as just an actor has sometimes been eclipsed by the entertainment media’s portrayal of his personal life.

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