Birth Name : Hugh John Mungo Grant Birthplace: London, England Occupations: Actor, Producer Family: Father: James, carpet salesman, artist Mother: Fynvola, teacher Brother: James, banker; older Awards: 1987: Venice Film Festival: Best Actor, Maurice 1994: Chicago Film Critics Association: Most Promising Actor, Four Weddings and a Funeral and Sirens 1994: Golden Globe: Best Actor in a Motion Picture (Musical or Comedy), Four Weddings and a Funeral 1994: BAFTA: Best Actor, Four Weddings and a Funeral Education: New College, Oxford University, Oxford, England (majored in literature) Chosen by Empire magazine as one of the 100 Sexiest Stars in film history (#43). [1995] His production company is 'Simian Films'. Grant was arrested for lewd conduct after cops found him with Divine Brown, a prostitute, in his car. He pleaded no contest and got a $1,180 fine and two years' probation. [1995] Opted not to do a nude scene in Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994) when a make up artist asked if he wanted definition painted on his body. Graduated from Oxford University with a degree in English. On the set of "Mickey Blue Eyes", James Caan gave Hugh the nickname of Whippy, because Caan said he worried about everything like "the little whippet dogs that get nervous and you got to put a sweater on them when they're cold." Got his start by performing a British comedy sketch group, The Jockeys of Norfolk. Features in the 1996 paperback "Mug Shots" that includes many other celebrities who've been arrested for one reason or another. Back together with former girlfriend Elizabeth Hurley [September 2000] Hugh Grant was voted fourth in the Orange 2001 Film Survey of Greatest British film actors. Usually dubbed in French versions by actor Vincent Cassel Hugh Grant's Filmography Love Actually (2003) Two Weeks Notice (2002) About a Boy (2002) Bridget Jones's Diary (2001) Small Time Crooks (2000) Mickey Blue Eyes (1999) Notting Hill (1999) Junket Whore (1998) Extreme Measures (1996) Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain, The (1995) Restoration (1995) Sense and Sensibility (1995) Nine Months (1995) Awfully Big Adventure, An (1995) Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994) Sirens (1994) Night Train to Venice (1993) Remains of the Day, The (1993) Bitter Moon (1992) Impromptu (1991) Big Man, The (1990) Dawning, The (1988) Nocturnes (1988) Nuit Bengali, La (1988) Lair of the White Worm, The (1988) Remando al viento (1987) White Mischief (1987) Maurice (1987) Privileged (1982)