Hugh Grant - ©Theda Bara

The name I present to you in this post is Hugh Grant, a British actor who became famous for playing charming and vulnerable characters in romantic comedies and later began playing more dramatic characters. Hugh even auditioned to be the iconic character “James Bond - 007”, but was not chosen.

Throughout his career, Hugh received only one BAFTA award and a Golden Globe for Best Actor, in 1995, for the film “Four Weddings and a Funeral” (1994), character “Charles”.

Hugh John Mungo Grant was born on September 9, 1960, in the city of Hammersmith, London, United Kingdom. Today he is 64 years old.

Hugh Grant was married to British actress and model Elizabeth Jane Hurley from 1987 to 2000. The couple had no children, but Hurley and Grant remained good friends after their separation, so much so that Grant is the godfather of Hurley’s son, British actor and model Damian Charles Hurley (2002-), son of the American actor (now deceased) Stephen Leo Bing (1965-2020). But this happy-ending story, typical of the romantic comedies in which Hugh acts, could have had another ending, because, during Hurley and Grant’s long relationship, in the early hours of June 27, 1995, Hugh Grant was arrested with prostitute Estella Marie Thompson, also known as Divine Brown (1969-), who was performing oral sex on him inside the actor’s car, on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California. The actor was eventually charged with indecent exposure in a public place and received a $1,000 fine, two years of probation, and mandatory participation in a traffic education program. For these and other reasons, Hugh Grant was considered a controversial Hollywood heartthrob and was never even nominated for an Oscar, despite having made good films with famous actors. Grant also does not have a star on the Los Angeles Walk of Fame.

After Elizabeth Hurley, Hugh Grant had a brief relationship with Chinese actress Tinglan Hong (1979-), with whom he had two children: Tabitha Xiao Xi Grant (2011-) and John Mungo Grant (2012-). With his current wife, Swedish television producer Anna Elisabet Eberstein (1979-), to whom he has been married since 2018, the couple has three children: Felix Chang Hong Grant (2012-), born three months after his paternal brother John Mungo, Lulu Danger Grant (2015-) and Blue Grant (2018-).