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11 unusual facts about Hugh Grant


Ann McPherson

Among those paying tribute to McPherson was the actor Hugh Grant, whom she had persuaded to become Patron to The DIPEx Charity.

Communal garden

One of the scenes in the 1999 film Notting Hill involves the two main characters, Anna (Julia Roberts) and William (Hugh Grant), breaking into private and locked communal gardens by climbing over the wall at night after a dinner party.

DMG Media

On 27 April 2007, Associated Newspapers was ordered to pay undisclosed damages to Hugh Grant.

Dursley

It has an 18 hole golf course, said to be a favourite of the actor Hugh Grant.

John Wolfe Ambrose

Under Brown's tutelage, Ambrose acquired the necessary knowledge of the Street Cleaning Department so that later when Mayor Hugh Grant decided to reorganize the Department, it was Ambrose who prepared a plan which was later adopted by the city.

Liberal Party of Canada candidates, 2004 Canadian federal election

After the 1995 provincial election resulted in a Progressive Conservative victory, Mahoney traveled the province on what he "wryly called the Hugh Grant apology tour'".

Rachel Rice

One of her most notable roles was an appearance alongside Hugh Grant in the 1993 Gothic horror Night Train to Venice when she was eight.

Small Time Crooks

She asks an art dealer named David (Hugh Grant) to train her and Ray so they can fit in with the American upper class.

Thor's Cave

It was used as a location in the 1988 film The Lair of the White Worm, directed by Ken Russell and starring Hugh Grant.

Tony Darrow

The following year, he appeared in Mickey Blue Eyes with Hugh Grant, and got another big role as mobster Larry Barese in the HBO hit series The Sopranos, which he was on for the entire series run (1999–2007).

Victoria Studd

She has had one acting role, playing Lucy in the independent film called Privileged in 1982, which introduced actors Hugh Grant and Imogen Stubbs.


Bugger

In the pre-watershed television version of Four Weddings and a Funeral the opening sequence is modified from repeated exclamations of "Fuck!" by Hugh Grant and Charlotte Coleman when they are late for the first wedding to repeated exclamations of "Bugger!".

Cover Her Face

BBC Radio 4 produced a radio serial, with Hugh Grant as Felix and Siân Phillips as Mrs Maxie, releasing it on CD shortly after airing.

David Haig

In 2002 he played the brother of Four Weddings co-star Hugh Grant in the romantic comedy Two Weeks Notice, alongside Sandra Bullock.

Did You Hear About the Morgans?

Golden Globe winners Hugh Grant and Sarah Jessica Parker portray the film's protagonists, Paul and Meryl Morgan, a recently separated New York power couple on the verge of divorce until they witness the murder of Meryl's client.

Felicity Montagu

Montagu's reputation in comedy character parts was enhanced by her film performance alongside Renée Zellweger and Hugh Grant in Bridget Jones's Diary as Perpetua, Bridget's unpleasant colleague.

Marie d'Agoult

She was portrayed by Geneviève Page in the 1960 film Song Without End, opposite Dirk Bogarde as Liszt, by Fiona Lewis in the 1975 Ken Russell film Lisztomania, opposite Roger Daltrey as Liszt, and by Bernadette Peters in the 1991 James Lapine film Impromptu, which last dramatized encounters between d'Agoult, Liszt (Julian Sands), Chopin (Hugh Grant), and George Sand (Judy Davis).

Mynydd y Glyn

It is the mountain which was used in The Englishman who went up a Hill and came down a Mountain in which Hugh Grant and Ian McNeice star as English cartographers.

Paul Delprat

In 1994, he created the paintings and drawings of Elle Macpherson, Portia de Rossi and Kate Fisher for another Lindsay inspired film, directed by John Duigan, Sirens starring Sam Neill and Hugh Grant.

Thomas Seckford

In the film About a Boy starring Hugh Grant the main character, Will, lives in a flat in No.1