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Hugh John Mungo Grant was born September 9, 1960 in London, England, UK.
This boyish, tongue-tied Brit struggled for ten years before becoming an international leading man in the mid-1990s. The London-born Grant went to Latymer in Chiswick, spent a year backpacking through Italy, then attended New College, Oxford University. It was there he got his first film job, in "Privileged " (1982), but for the next few years he worked solely in TV, rep theater and a comedy group, The Jockeys of Norfolk. He eked out his living by working as an advertising copywriter.
Grant's return to films came with a leading role as the bisexual Clive Durham in Merchant/Ivory's "Maurice " (1987). After the success of "Maurice ", Grant became a familiar face in British cinema, appearing in many critically acclaimed films which simply did not attract major audiences. Specializing in aristocratic roles, his credits include Ken Russell's "Lair of the White Worm " (1988), in which he played Lord James D'Ampton, and "Impromptu " (1991), where he portrayed composer Frederic Chopin. Grant also co-starred in Roman Polanski's erotic thriller "Bitter Moon " (1992), as an uptight newlywed who is simultaneously entranced and repulsed by a wheelchair-bound Peter Coyote, and in the Merchant/Ivory production "Remains of the Day " (1993). Grant also received some attention with the erotic social satire "Sirens " (1994).
Grant also appeared in a number of TV projects, notably "Jenny's War " (a syndicated miniseries, 1985), "Champagne Charlie " (as Charles Heidsieck in a syndicated miniseries, 1989), "Judith Krantz's 'Till We Meet Again '" (CBS, 1989), as Julie Andrews?' son in the AIDS drama "Our Sons " (ABC, 1991) and in the Jacobean play "The Changeling " (Bravo, 1994).
But it was the light-hearted English comedy “Four Weddings and a Funeral ” (1994) which finally brought Grant worldwide stardom, as well as comparisons to an earlier Grant (Cary) and David Niven. Grant came in for some extremely embarrassing publicity in the summer of 1995 when arrested for “an act of lewd conduct” with a prostitute in Los Angeles. He pled guilty and publicly apologized (“I did a bad thing, and there you have it”).
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