Biographic - Sunday May 17, 2020 Comic Strip Licensing and Permissions

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Hugh John Mungo Grant was born in London on September 9, 1960 to a family with extensive roots in the military and the aristocracy, Hugh graduated with honors from Oxford University, having made his screen debut with a starring role in 1982's "Privileged" a movie produced by the Oxford University Film Foundation. He subsequently took a variety of jobs. From groundskeeper for London's Fulham soccer club to creating radio commercials, while establishing his acting credentials by appearing in provincial repertory theater and forming a comedy troupe. Despite extensive tv and film work, he was unable to make a major breakthrough. Until 1994's "Four Wedding and a Funeral" was a huge hit, and the film grossed more than $244 million and earned Hugh a Golden Globe. His career survived the worldwide media glare that greeted an embarassing 1995 escape that brought him into contact with Los Angeles Law Enforcement. His long-term romance with british model and actress Elizabeth Hurley ended in 2000 with an amicable parting of the ways. He has since become a father of five, including three children with Swedish TV producer Anna Eberstein, whom he married in 2018. Box-office hits such as 1999s "Notting Hill" the first two "Bridget Jones" films, 2003's "Love Actually" and the 2007 movie "Music and Lyrics" crowned Hugh the king of the rom-com entering his fifties, he changed gears, following the animated "The Pirates! Band Of Misfits" with "Cloud Atlas" in which he played a clutch of villains, including a fierce cannibal! In 2015, he played Alexander Waverly in "The Man from U.N.C.L.E a reworking of the cult 1960s TV series. He received Golden Globe nominations for the movie "Florence Foster Jenkins" and the tv miniseries "A Very English Scandal." and earned rave reviews for his work in "Paddington 2" following last year's "The Gentlemen" he will be seen opposite Nicole Kidman in the HBO miniseries "The Undoing"

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