Hugh Grant
Hugh Grant was born on 9 September 1960 in London.
Hugh Grant went to New College, Oxford, and whilst there appeared in his first film, Privileged.
In the late 1980s, Hugh Grant got various parts in films and on TV, some of them with his then girlfriend, Liz Hurley.
Grant's roles in films like Maurice and Bitter Moon would prove to be a stepping stone to his huge breakthrough in Richard Curtis's Four Weddings And A Funeral in 1994, where his character Charles would be of a type that Hugh Grant would reprise a few times in his career: for example, he would be a charming, posh Englishman in Nine Months and Notting Hill.
On June 27, 1995, Hugh Grant was arrested In Los Angeles "on suspicion of lewd conduct in a public place". He had been caught in his car on Sunset Strip in the company of prostitute Divine Brown.
Hugh Grant's relationship with Liz Hurley survived the Divine Brown incident, but in May 2000 they split up after 13 years together.
The 21st century saw more success for Hugh Grant in romantic comedies like About A Boy, Love Actually, Bridget Jones's Diary, and Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason.
In 2004, Hugh Grant started dating Jemima Khan, however they split up in February 2007.
April 2007 was a busy time for Hugh Grant away from the big screen. On the one hand he accepted undisclosed libel damages (which he donated to charity) from Associated Newspapers over their false claims about the end of his relationship with Jemima Khan; on the other hand, a photographer Ian Whittaker accused him of making a verbal and physical assault. Allegations that Hugh Grant denied and that the CPS said that there was insufficient evidence to charge him over.
