Richard E. Grant
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Richard E. Grant (born Richard Grant Esterhuysen; May 5, 1957) is a Swaziland-born English actor and presenter. He made his film debut as Withnail in the comedy Withnail and I (1987). Grant received critical acclaim for his role as Jack Hock in Marielle Heller's drama film Can You Ever Forgive Me? (2018), winning various awards including the Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Male. He also received Academy Award, BAFTA, Golden Globe, and Screen Actors Guild Award nominations for Best Supporting Actor. Grant is also known for his roles in the feature films Warlock (1989), Henry & June (1990), Hudson Hawk (1991), Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992), The Age of Innocence (1993), The Portrait of a Lady (1996), The Little Vampire (2000), Gosford Park (2001), Penelope (2006), The Iron Lady (2011), Jackie (2016), Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019), and Saltburn (2023). He is also known for his roles in television, including Frasier (2004), Dig (2015), Game of Thrones (2016), Hang Ups (2018), A Series of Unfortunate Events (2019), and Suspect (2022). Description above from the Wikipedia article Richard E. Grant, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Richard E. Grant (born Richard Grant Esterhuysen; May 5, 1957) is a Swaziland-born English actor and presenter. He made his film debut as Withnail in the comedy Withnail and I (1987). Grant received critical acclaim for his role as Jack Hock in Marielle Heller's drama film Can You Ever Forgive Me? (2018), winning various awards including the Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Male. He also received Academy Award, BAFTA, Golden Globe, and Screen Actors Guild Award nominations for Best Supporting Actor. Grant is also known for his roles in the feature films Warlock (1989), Henry & June (1990), Hudson Hawk (1991), Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992), The Age of Innocence (1993), The Portrait of a Lady (1996), The Little Vampire (2000), Gosford Park (2001), Penelope (2006), The Iron Lady (2011), Jackie (2016), Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019), and Saltburn (2023). He is also known for his roles in television, including Frasier (2004), Dig (2015), Game of Thrones (2016), Hang Ups (2018), A Series of Unfortunate Events (2019), and Suspect (2022). Description above from the Wikipedia article Richard E. Grant, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
The Simpsons
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Frasier
The One Show
The Graham Norton Show
Doctor Who
Performance
Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway
Omnibus
Michael McIntyre's The Wheel
Agatha Christie's Marple
A Series of Unfortunate Events
Downton Abbey
Parkinson
Soccer AM
Marvel Studios Assembled
Loki
Would I Lie to You?
The Heaven and Earth Show
Room 101
Game of Thrones
RuPaul's Drag Race UK vs The World
Girls
The Outlaws
Absolutely Fabulous
Wheel of Fortune
Dalziel & Pascoe
Rab C. Nesbitt
Nautilus
Let Them Eat Cake
About Time
Doctor Who at the Proms
Marvel Studios' 2021 Disney+ Day Special
Gosford Park
Bright Young Things
Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard
The Skywalker Legacy
Argylle
Ben Platt: Live from Radio City Music Hall
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
Nuremberg
The Thursday Murder Club
The Secret World of Lewis Carroll
The Nutcracker and the Four Realms
Victoria Wood: Seen on TV
The Franchise
Corpse Bride
Bram Stoker's Dracula
Logan
The Nutcracker
Jackie
The Miracle Maker
Spice World
The Hitman's Bodyguard
Hudson Hawk
Everybody's Talking About Jamie
Honest Decent & True
Persuasion
Saltburn
Death of a Unicorn
Dispatches from Elsewhere
Suddenly, Last Summer
Suspect
Doctor Who: The Curse of Fatal Death
The Brave and the Bold
Home Farm Twins
Dom Hemingway
The Hound of the Baskervilles
Hard Times
Too Much
Robin Robin
Can You Ever Forgive Me?
Karaoke
The Story of Bohemian Rhapsody
Franz Kafka's It's a Wonderful Life
Write Around the World with Richard E Grant
The Lesson
Doctor Who: Scream of the Shalka
The Scarlet Pimpernel
Empire of the Censors
A Royal Scandal
Pulp: The Story of Common People
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