Hugh Grant Filmography

American Dreamz

Actors: Dennis Quaid, Hugh Grant, Mandy Moore, Willem Dafoe, Chris Klein

Synopsis: The President of the United States (Dennis Quaid) seems to be having a nervous breakdown after picking up a newspaper for the first time in four years, and when his Chief of Staff (Willem Dafoe) determines to get the Commander in Chief out of his pajamas and back into the spotlight, the stage is Read More

Housewarming

Actors: Carole Bouquet, Giulia Dussolier, Ferdinand Chesnais, Sotigui Kouyaté, Jean-Pierre Castaldi

Synopsis: In Housewarming (the original title of which translates as Remodeling: You Know When It Starts...), Carole Bouquet stars as Chantal Letellier, a wealthy, powerful, and happily divorced Paris attorney who devotes a lot of her time to helping the city's poorly treated immigrants. Chantal literally Read More

Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason

Actors: Renée Zellweger, Hugh Grant, Colin Firth, Jim Broadbent, Gemma Jones

Synopsis: Based on author Helen Fielding's sequel to Bridget Jones's Diary, Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason picks up four weeks after the original film left off, with Bridget (Renée Zellweger) emotionally satisfied at long last with Mark Darcy (Colin Firth), her barrister boyfriend. Stability in Bridget's Read More

Love Actually

Actors: Alan Rickman, Bill Nighy, Colin Firth, Emma Thompson, Hugh Grant, Laura Linney, Liam Neeson, Martine McCutcheon, Keira Knightley, Rowan Atkinson, Andrew Lincoln

Synopsis: All of London is in love -- or longing to be -- in Four Weddings and a Funeral writer Richard Curtis' first directorial effort. Billed as "the ultimate romantic comedy," Love Actually involves more than a dozen main characters, each weaving his or her way into another's heart over the course of Read More

Two Weeks Notice

Actors: Sandra Bullock, Hugh Grant, Alicia Witt, Dana Ivey, Robert Klein

Synopsis: A woman finds herself attempting to foil one office romance while debating if she should take a chance on another in this romantic comedy. Lucy Kelton (Sandra Bullock) is a top-flight attorney who has risen to the position of Chief Legal Counsel for one of New York's leading commercial real estate Read More

About a Boy

Actors: Hugh Grant, Nicholas Hoult, Toni Collette, Rachel Weisz

Synopsis: London's most frequently eligible bachelor gets some lessons in growing up from a maladroit 12-year-old boy in this third big-screen adaptation of a Nick Hornby novel, directed and co-written by siblings Chris and Paul Weitz of American Pie fame. About a Boy concerns the parallel coming-of-age Read More

Robbie the Reindeer: Legend of the Lost Tribe

Actors: Ben Stiller, Ardal O'Hanlon, Jane Horrocks, Britney Spears, Steve Coogan, Hugh Grant, Paul Whitehouse, Brad Garrett, Jerry Stiller, Harry Enfield

Bridget Jones's Diary

Actors: Renée Zellweger, Colin Firth, Hugh Grant, Gemma Jones, Jim Broadbent

Synopsis: Based on Helen Fielding's hugely popular novel, this romantic comedy follows Bridget (Renee Zellweger), a post-feminist, thirty-something British woman who has a penchant for alcoholic binges, smoking, and an inability to control her weight. While trying to keep these things in check and also deal Read More

Small Time Crooks

Actors: Woody Allen, Tracey Ullman, Hugh Grant, Elaine May, Michael Rapaport

Synopsis: Thirty-one years after Take the Money and Run, Woody Allen returns to a life of crime in this broad comedy. Allen plays Ray Winkler, a low-brow con man who is married to Frenchy (Tracy Ullman), a former stripper. Ray and his buddies concoct a scheme to rob a bank by digging a tunnel from a defunct Read More

Mickey Blue Eyes

Actors: Hugh Grant, James Caan, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Burt Young, James Fox

Synopsis: Would you believe Hugh Grant as a violent Mafioso from Kansas City? Don't worry if you can't: that's part of the joke in this romantic comedy. Michael Felgate (Hugh Grant) is a British expatriate living in Manhattan who runs a successful auction house dealing in rare and valuable art. When Read More

Notting Hill

Actors: Julia Roberts, Hugh Grant, Hugh Bonneville, Emma Chambers, James Dreyfus, Gina McKee

Synopsis: Can a beautiful and internationally famous American actress find happiness with a frumpy British bookstore clerk? She can -- at least for a while, it seems -- in Notting Hill. William Thacker (played by Hugh Grant) is a bookseller at a shop in the Notting Hill district in West London, who shares a Read More

Doctor Who: The Curse of Fatal Death

Actors: Rowan Atkinson

Robbie the Reindeer: Hooves of Fire

Actors: James Woods, Robbie Williams, Ardal O'Hanlon, Ben Stiller, Paul Whitehouse, Brad Garrett, Jane Horrocks, Britney Spears, Steve Coogan, Hugh Grant

Synopsis: Already a holiday favorite in Britain, Robbie the Reindeer: Hooves of Fire features the voice of comedian Ardal O'Hanlon as a plucky reindeer eager to become one of Santa's chosen sleigh-pullers. To achieve his goals, however, he has to overcome the slings and arrows of Blitzen, who feels Read More

Extreme Measures

Actors: Hugh Grant, Gene Hackman, Sarah Jessica Parker, David Morse, Bill Nunn

Synopsis: Comic leading man Hugh Grant gets serious in this drama about a physician who uncovers a truly disturbing secret. Guy Luthan (Hugh Grant), a British doctor serving a residence in a hospital in New York City, is very puzzled by a patient brought to the emergency room one night. Naked, disoriented Read More

The Englishman Who Went up a Hill But Came Down A Mountain

Actors: Hugh Grant, Tara Fitzgerald, Colm Meaney, Ian McNeice, Ian Hart

Synopsis: A proud Welsh community finds their civic pride and sense of community threatened by a team of surveyors in this charmingly eccentric comedy. Reginald Anson (Hugh Grant) and George Garrard (Ian McNeice) are a pair of British cartographers with Her Majesty's Ordnance Survey Office, who arrive in Read More

Nine Months

Actors: Hugh Grant, Julianne Moore, Tom Arnold, Joan Cusack, Jeff Goldblum

Synopsis: A single man faces the terrifying prospect of seeing his carefree life dashed by a visit from the stork in this comedy. Samuel Falkner (Hugh Grant) is a child psychiatrist who has no kids of his own and doesn't want any, which leaves him a bit shaken when his girlfriend of five years, Rebecca Read More

Sense and Sensibility

Actors: Gemma Jones, Elizabeth Spriggs, Emma Thompson, Alan Rickman, Kate Winslet, Hugh Grant, James Fleet, Greg Wise

Synopsis: The recipient of seven Oscar® nominations, this film version of Jane Austen's classic 1811 novel stars Emma Thompson as Elinor Dashwood. With her mother and sisters, Elinor struggles financially after the death of her father, who bequeathed the Dashwood estate to his oafish son by an earlier Read More

The Changeling

Actors: Elizabeth McGovern

Synopsis: A fiancee goes to great length to get out of her impending marriage in this British made-for-television movie, which is based on the play of the same name. Elizabeth McGovern stars as a woman about to get married, who meets her one true-love -- who is not her fiancé -- and devises a murderous plot Read More

Restoration

Actors: Robert Downey, Jr., Sam Neill, David Thewlis, Polly Walker, Meg Ryan

Synopsis: This lavish historical drama based on the acclaimed novel by Rose Tremain won Oscars for Costume Design and Art Direction. Robert Downey, Jr. stars as Robert Merivel, a gifted medical student of the 17th century who ignores his studies in favor of pursuing debauched fun -- much to the Read More

Sirens

Actors: Hugh Grant, Tara Fitzgerald, Sam Neill, Elle MacPherson, Portia de Rossi

Synopsis: Sex, religion, and morality are the key ingredients in this Australian comedy set in the 1930s. Rev. Anthony Campion (Hugh Grant) is a liberal, forward-thinking Anglican priest who is sent on an unusual assignment. Norman Lindsay (Sam Neill) is a popular and highly controversial artist whose Read More

Four Weddings and a Funeral

Actors: Hugh Grant, Andie MacDowell, Kristin Scott Thomas, Simon Callow, James Fleet, John Hannah

Synopsis: This acclaimed British comedy centers on the intermittent romance between a charming (if slightly bumbling) Englishman and a beautiful American woman, who seem to always run into each other at weddings. Indeed, it is at the first of the title's four weddings that Charles (Hugh Grant) and Carrie (Andie McDowell Read More

An Awfully Big Adventure

Actors: Alan Rickman, Hugh Grant, Georgina Cates, Alun Armstrong, Peter Firth

Synopsis: A misleading title and a different type of performance from Hugh Grant are two of the offbeat features of An Awfully Big Adventure. Virginal theatre fanatic Stella (Georgina Cates), who speaks with her dead mother by phone, joins a theatrical troupe in 1947 England headed by manipulative director Read More

The Remains of the Day

Actors: Anthony Hopkins, Emma Thompson, James Fox, Christopher Reeve, Peter Vaughan, Hugh Grant

Synopsis: Filmed with the usual meticulous attention to period and detail of films from Ismail Merchant and James Ivory, The Remains of the Day is based on a novel by Kazuo Ishiguro. Anthony Hopkins plays Stevens, the "perfect" butler to a prosperous British household of the 1930s. He is so unswervingly Read More

Night Train to Venice

Actors: Hugh Grant, Tahnee Welch, Malcolm McDowell, Kristina Soderbaum

Synopsis: Everyone on the train to Venice is quite naturally wrapped up in their own concerns. Martin (Hugh Grant), a journalist, is determined to see to it that his book on the neo-Nazis gets into the right hands. Others are on their way to celebrate the Carnivale in Venice, a huge city-wide costume party. Read More

Bitter Moon

Actors: Peter Coyote, Emmanuelle Seigner, Hugh Grant, Kristin Scott Thomas, Victor Banerjee

Synopsis: A perverse, dark-humored comedy drama, Bitter Moon crosses the line into intentional camp more often than not in its tale of a kinky cripple Oscar (Peter Coyote) and his beautiful wife Mimi (Emmanuelle Seigner). Oscar ensnares a proper British man, Nigel (Hugh Grant) on an ocean-liner and makes Read More

Crossing the Line

Actors: Liam Neeson, Joanne Whalley, Ian Bannen, Billy Connolly, Maurice Roeves

Synopsis: Filmmaker David Leland handled the directing chores on this British drama that stars Liam Neeson as an unemployed Scotsman whose inability to find a job threatens his family's wellbeing. Against his better judgement, Neeson is coerced into a bare-knuckle boxing match. Crossing the Line's Read More

Impromptu

Actors: Judy Davis, Hugh Grant, Mandy Patinkin, Bernadette Peters, Julian Sands

Synopsis: Amandine Aurore Lucie Dupin, better known in the literary world as George Sand, not only took a man's name, but trotted around wearing pants and smoking cigars in public. No great shakes today, but in the 1800s she was perhaps the most famous (or infamous) woman in the world. One of the first Read More

Our Sons

Actors: Julie Andrews, Ann-Margret, Hugh Grant

Synopsis: Julie Andrews and Ann-Margaret combine their not inconsiderable talents for Our Sons. In her TV-movie debut, Ms. Andrews plays a San Diego businesswoman and self-styled liberal whose open-mindedness is put to the test when she discovers that her son (Hugh Grant) is homosexual. This brings Andrews Read More

The Dawning

Actors: Anthony Hopkins, Rebecca Pidgeon, Jean Simmons, Trevor Howard, Tara Mac Gowran

Synopsis: A young woman in her late teens is caught up in the political unrest of Southern Ireland in the 1920s in this drama that features an excellent cast. Nancy (Rebecca Pidgeon) befriends the pistol packing stranger she dubs Cassius (Anthony Hopkins) while he hides in a beach hut. He talks the naive Read More

Champagne Charlie

Actors: Hugh Grant, Megan Gallagher, Megan Follows, Georges Descrieres

Synopsis: Charles Heidseick's fight to introduce and popularize French bubbly in the 19th-century US provides the basis of this romantic made-for-TV biography. It was not an easy task as Champagne Charlie met with considerable resistance from American vintners. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Till We Meet Again

Actors: Barry Bostwick, Lucy Gutteridge, Mia Sara

Synopsis: Originally titled Judith Krantz' Till We Meet Again, this two-part soaper covers forty-three years in the lives of three women. In 1913, French chanteuse Lucy Gutteridge embarks upon a successful showbiz career. She marries a champaigne heir and bears two daughters, played by Courtney Cox and Mia Read More

The Lady and the Highwayman

Actors: Hugh Grant, Oliver Reed, Emma Samms

Synopsis: Adaptation of Barbara Cartland's novel featuring a 17th century adventure romance between an aristocrat and an endangered noblewoman. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

The Lair of the White Worm

Actors: Amanda Donohoe, Hugh Grant, Catherine Oxenberg, Sammi Davis, Peter Capaldi

Synopsis: Ken Russell's Lair of the White Worm uses Dracula author Bram Stoker's final novel as the basic springboard into a surreal and dark-humored tale concerning a bizarre cult and a series of sacrificial murders in honor of an ancient pagan god. When archeologist Angus Flint (Peter Capaladi) discovers Read More

White Mischief

Actors: Greta Scacchi, Charles Dance, Sarah Miles, Joss Ackland, John Hurt

Synopsis: Based on one of the most scandalous murders in British history, White Mischief transpires in Kenya at a time just before the beginning of World War II. Jock Broughton (Joss Ackland) is a wealthy rancher who becomes taken with a young gold-digger named Diana (Greta Scacchi). Even though he is fully Read More

The Bengali Night

Actors: Hugh Grant, Supriya Pathak, Shabana Azmi, John Hurt, Soumitra Chatterjee

Synopsis: A British engineer and a young Bengali woman feel the backlash of cultural divisiveness in this uneven romantic drama. Allan (Hugh Grant) falls in love with the Gayatri (Supriya Pathak), the beautiful teenage daughter of his hostess Indira Sen (Shabana Azmi) while he recovers from an illness. When Read More

Maurice

Actors: James Wilby, Hugh Grant, Rupert Graves, Denholm Elliott, Simon Callow

Synopsis: Director James Ivory brings his subdued, "Masterpiece Theater" style to a forbidden subject -- homosexual love. Maurice is based on E.M. Forster's suppressed 1914 novel that was held back from publication until after his death. The film takes place at Cambridge, before World War I, when Read More

Rowing with the Wind

Actors: Hugh Grant, Lizzy McInnerny, Valentine Pelka, Elizabeth Hurley, José Luis Gómez

Synopsis: The events that led Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley to write her horror masterpiece Frankenstein provide the basis of this haunting, romantic drama. The story opens aboard a beat up schooner as it carefully makes its way through a massive broken ice pack near the North Pole. There Shelley writes her Read More

Shades of Darkness: The Demon Lover

Actors: Dorothy Tutin, Hugh Grant, Miranda Richardson, Robert Hardy

Jenny's War

Actors: Hugh Grant, Dyan Cannon

Synopsis: Dyan Cannon stars in this 4-hour TV drama as Jenny Baines, an American woman of the pre-WW II era. Anxious to learn the fate of her son, a pilot who was shot down over Germany, Jenny travels to Berlin. Here she is reunited with her husband Hartmut Becker, who is now a high-ranking Nazi officer. Read More

Privileged

Actors: Hugh Grant, Imogen Stubbs

Synopsis: This British drama is thought to be the first student feature film made at Oxford University. It is also notable for marking the film debut of actors Hugh Grant, Imogen Stubbs, and James Wilby. The story is focused on a group of undergraduates, one of whom considers himself a fine actor. During a Read More