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Hugh John Mungo Grant (born 9 September 1960) is an English actor and film producer. He has received a Golden Globe Award, a BAFTA, and an Honorary César. His movies have also earned more than $2.4 billion from 25 theatrical releases worldwide. Grant achieved international stardom after appearing in Richard Curtis's sleeper hit Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994). He used this breakthrough role as a frequent cinematic persona during the 1990s to deliver comic performances in mainstream films like Mickey Blue Eyes (1999) and Notting Hill (1999). By the turn of the century, he had established himself as a leading man skilled with a satirical comic talent. Since the 2000s, Grant has expanded his oeuvre with critically acclaimed turns as a cad in Bridget Jones's Diary (2001), About A Boy (2002), Love Actually (2003), and American Dreamz (2006). Within the film industry, Grant is cited as an anti-movie star who approaches his roles like a character actor, with the ability to make acting look effortless. Hallmarks of his comic skills include a nonchalant touch of irony/sarcasm and studied physical mannerisms as well as his precisely-timed dialogue delivery and facial expressions. The entertainment media's coverage of Grant's life off the big screen has often overshadowed his work as a thespian. He has been vocal about his disrespect for the profession of acting, his disdain towards the culture of celebrity, and hostility towards the media. In a career spanning 20 years, Grant has repeatedly claimed that acting is not a true calling but just a job he fell into.
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Hugh John Mungo Grant (born 9 September 1960) is an English actor and film producer. He has received a Golden Globe Award, a BAFTA, and an Honorary César. His movies have also earned more than $2.4 billion from 25 theatrical releases worldwide. Grant achieved international stardom after appearing in Richard Curtis's sleeper hit Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994). He used this breakthrough role as a frequent cinematic persona during the 1990s to deliver comic performances in mainstream films like Mickey Blue Eyes (1999) and Notting Hill (1999). By the turn of the century, he had established himself as a leading man skilled with a satirical comic talent. Since the 2000s, Grant has expanded his oeuvre with critically acclaimed turns as a cad in Bridget Jones's Diary (2001), About A Boy (2002), Love Actually (2003), and American Dreamz (2006). Within the film industry, Grant is cited as an anti-movie star who approaches his roles like a character actor, with the ability to make acting look effortless. Hallmarks of his comic skills include a nonchalant touch of irony/sarcasm and studied physical mannerisms as well as his precisely-timed dialogue delivery and facial expressions. The entertainment media's coverage of Grant's life off the big screen has often overshadowed his work as a thespian. He has been vocal about his disrespect for the profession of acting, his disdain towards the culture of celebrity, and hostility towards the media. In a career spanning 20 years, Grant has repeatedly claimed that acting is not a true calling but just a job he fell into.
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The Kelly Clarkson Show
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
Golden Globe Awards
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
The Graham Norton Show
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
The Oscars
El hormiguero
The Daily Show
The Nanny
Late Night with Seth Meyers
The Late Late Show with James Corden
The One Show
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
Parkinson
American Idol
Question Time
The Early Show
Today
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Top Gear
Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway
Performance
KAOS
Paddington in Peru
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
Cloud Atlas
A Grand Night In: The Story of Aardman
The Regime
The Gentlemen
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
Paddington 2
Doctor Who: The Curse of Fatal Death
Judith Krantz's Till We Meet Again
Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
The Remains of the Day
Unfrosted
Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre
Sense and Sensibility
Wonka
Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy
Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason
Bitter Moon
The Changeling
Bridget Jones's Diary
The Undoing
An Awfully Big Adventure
Scandalous: Phone Hacking on Trial
Notting Hill
Two Weeks Notice
Maurice
Did You Hear About the Morgans?
American Dreamz
The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists!
A Very English Scandal
Love Actually
Four Weddings and a Funeral
One Red Nose Day and a Wedding
About a Boy
The Trials of Oz
Sirens
Heretic
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