English actor known for romantic comedies in the 1990s and 2000s and a later turn to character work in dramas and thrillers.
Background
Born in London, England, Grant attended Latymer Upper School and New College, Oxford, where he was a member of the Oxford University Dramatic Society.
Career
He came to attention in Merchant Ivory’s “Maurice” and broke through internationally in Richard Curtis’s “Four Weddings and a Funeral,” followed by “Notting Hill,” “About a Boy,” “Bridget Jones’s Diary,” and “Love Actually.” He has since taken character turns in “Paddington 2,” “Florence Foster Jenkins,” and the BBC series “A Very English Scandal.”
Style
Grant became identified with awkward, charming English leads and has continued to reshape that screen persona in his later character work.
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