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Lanky, British player who has had some success in mainstream Hollywood features. Grant began acting in his native South Africa, where he founded the multi-ethnic Troupe Theater Company. In 1982, he moved to London to stomp the boards in fringe and repertory productions. Grant made his English TV-film debut in Les Blair's improvisational satire, "Honest, Decent and True" (1985). The next year, he entered films as the star of "Withnail & I" (1986), writer-director Bruce Robinson's brilliant observation of the eccentricities of English actors in the 1960s....

Filmography

The Garden of Eden - ( - Cast / / Announced / )
Filth and Wisdom - ( Professor Flynn / 2008 / Lensing/Awaiting Release / )
HangingOutHookingUpFallingInLove - ( Ben Bingham / / Lensing/Awaiting Release / )
Jackboots On Whitehall - ( Voice of The Vicar / / Lensing/Awaiting Release / )
The Nutcracker: The True Story - ( Father / / Lensing/Awaiting Release / )
Color Me Kubrick - ( Jasper / 2006 / Released / )
Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties - ( Voice of Preston / 2006 / Released / )
Penelope - ( Franklin Wilhern / 2006 / Released / )
Wah-Wah - ( Director / 2006 / Released / )
Wah-Wah - ( Screenplay / 2006 / Released / )
Bustin Bonaparte - ( Bonaparte Blenkins / 2005 / Released / )
Monsieur N - ( Hudson Lowe / 2005 / Released / )
Bright Young Things - ( Father Rothschild / 2004 / Released / )
Tooth - ( Jarvis / 2004 / Released / )
Gosford Park - ( George / 2001 / Released / Icon Entertainment International )
Hildegarde - ( / 2001 / Released / UIP The Film Consortium )
St. Ives - ( Major Chevening / 2001 / Released / )
Strictly Sinatra - ( / 2001 / Released / )
The Match - ( Gorgeous Gus / 2001 / Released / )
The Little Vampire - ( Frederick / 2000 / Released / )
The Player - ( Tom Oakley / 2000 / Released / Alliance Releasing )
A Merry War - ( Gordon Comstock / 1998 / Released / )
Cash in Hand - ( / 1998 / Released / )
Spice World - ( Clifford / 1998 / Released / Gaga Entertainment )
Food of Love - ( Alex Salmon / 1997 / Released / )
The Serpent's Kiss - ( James Fitzmaurice / 1997 / Released / Dan Films )
Withnail and I - ( Withnail / 1997 / Released / )
Jack and Sarah - ( Jack / 1996 / Released / Svensk Filmindustri (SF) )
The Portrait of A Lady - ( Lord Warburton / 1996 / Released / )
Twelfth Night - ( Sir Andrew Aguecheek / 1996 / Released / )
Franz Kafka's "It's a Wonderful Life" - ( Franz Kafka / 1995 / Released / )
The Cold Light of Day - ( / 1995 / Released / )
Ready to Wear - ( Cort Romney--Fashion Designer / 1994 / Released / Alliance Releasing )
The Age of Innocence - ( Larry Lefferts / 1993 / Released / )
Bram Stoker's Dracula - ( Dr Jack Seward / 1992 / Released / )
Hudson Hawk - ( Darwin Mayflower / 1991 / Released / Svensk Filmindustri Norge )
L.A. Story - ( Roland / 1991 / Released / Svensk Filmindustri Norge )
Warlock - ( Giles Redferne / 1991 / Released / Hoyts Distribution )
Henry & June - ( Hugo / 1990 / Released / Glinwood Films Ltd )
Mountains of the Moon - ( Lord Oliphant / 1990 / Released / Toho-Towa Company )
How to Get Ahead in Advertising - ( Dennis Dimbleby Bagley / 1989 / Released / Festival Films Ltd )
Killing Dad - ( Alistair Berg / 1989 / Released / )
Hidden City - ( Brewster / 1987 / Released / )
Honest, Decent and True - ( Moonee / 1985 / Released / )
St. Trinian's - ( - Cast / / Released / )
TV Credits
Miss Marple Series III ( 2007 / Released ): Actor
Deadwood ( 2004 / Released ): Actor
Regency House Party ( 2004 / Released ): Narrator
Case of Evil ( 2002 / Released ): Actor
The Hound Of The Baskervilles ( 2002 / Released ): Actor
The Kumars At No. 42 (BBC) ( 2001 / Released ): Actor
The Miracle Maker ( 2000 / Released ): Voice
A Christmas Carol ( 1999 / Released ): Actor
Scarlet Pimpernel ( 1999 / Released ): Actor
A Royal Scandal ( 1997 / Released ): Actor
Cold Lazarus ( 1997 / Released ): Actor
Karaoke ( 1997 / Released ): Actor
Hard Times ( 1995 / Released ): Actor
Absolutely Fabulous ( 1994 / Released ): Actor
Frasier ( 1993 / Released ): Actor
Suddenly Last Summer ( 1993 / Released ): Actor
Codename: Kyril ( 1988 / Released ): Actor
Oscar's Orchestra ( Released ): Voice
Full Biography (Back to top)

Lanky, British player who has had some success in mainstream Hollywood features. Grant began acting in his native South Africa, where he founded the multi-ethnic Troupe Theater Company. In 1982, he moved to London to stomp the boards in fringe and repertory productions. Grant made his English TV-film debut in Les Blair's improvisational satire, "Honest, Decent and True" (1985). The next year, he entered films as the star of "Withnail & I" (1986), writer-director Bruce Robinson's brilliant observation of the eccentricities of English actors in the 1960s. As the acerbic Withnail, Grant conveyed the great likability of a mostly vile character. He reteamed with Robinson for "How to Get Ahead in Advertising" (1988), a scathing comic indictment of the industry's morals or lack thereof. Here he was Dennis Dimbleby Bagley, an ad exec whose head is taken over by an evil boil.

Grant's American film credits in the early 90s include some of Hollywood's more notorious productions. He co-starred as the husband of Anais Nin in "Henry & June" (1990), the first film to receive the NC-17 rating. He also played the mad English villain opposite Bruce Willis in the much-maligned "Hudson Hawk" (1991). Grant had supporting roles in Robert Altman's "The Player", as the English filmmaker who initially refuses to compromise his "artistic integrity", and Francis Ford Coppola's florid "Bram Stoker's Dracula" (both 1992), as Dr. Seward. He worked with another one of cinema's titans, Martin Scorsese, in the opulent adaptation of Edith Wharton's "The Age of Innocence" (1993), as a smug member of turn-of-the-century New York's high society. He reteamed with Altman for "Ready-to-Wear (Pret-a-Porter)" (1994) as an eccentric homosexual and portrayed a grieving widower coping with a newborn in "Jack and Sarah" (1995). The following year, he played a wealthy suitor to Nicole Kidman's Isabel Archer in Jane Campion's "Portrait of a Lady" and appeared as Sir Andrew Aguecheek in Trevor Nunn's film adaptation of Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night". Also in 1996, Grant published "With Nails: The Film Diaries of Richard E Grant" in England.


Profession(s):
Actor, waiter
Sometimes Credited As:
Richard Grant Esterhusyen
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Family
brother:Stuart Esterhuysen (Estranged from Grant)
daughter:Tiffany Grant (Died within half-hour of her birth)
daughter:Olivia Grant (Born c. 1988; mother, Joan Washington)
father:Henrik Esterhuysen (Minister of Education for the British Ministry in South Africa; died in 1981 at age 51 from lung and brain cancer)
step-son:Tom (Ffrom Joan Washington's previous marriage)
wife:Joan Washington (Met in 1982; married Nov. 1, 1986; previously married and had a son Tom from that marriage)
Companion(s)
Fiona Ramsey , Companion , ```..First met in 1975 at university; later lived together for seven years


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Education
Waterford Kamhlaba Mbabane, Swaziland
University of Cape Town Cape Town, South Africa BA English 1979
Awards (Back to top)
Broadcast Film Critics Association Award Best Acting Ensemble "Gosford Park" 2001
Florida Film Critics Circle Award Best Ensemble "Gosford Park" 2001
Online Film Critics Society Award Best Ensemble "Gosford Park" 2001
Screen Actors Guild Award Outstanding Performance by the Cast of a Theatrical Motion Picture "Gosford Park" 2001

Milestones (Back to top)
2008 Co-starred in "Penelope"; produced by and co-starred Reese Witherspoon
2006 Feature writing and directing debut with "Wah-Wah" an autobiographical piece about growing up in Swaziland at the time of independence
2005 Voiced Barkis Bittern in Tim Burton's "Corpse Bride"
2004 Cast in the final two episodes of "Frasier" (NBC)
2003 Cast in Stephen Fry's "Bright Young Things"
2001 Portrayed a lecherous footman in Robert Altman's "Gosford Park"
1999 Played title role in three TV-movies (aired on A&E in the USA) based on "The Scarlet Pimpernel"
1999 Cast as Bob Cratchit in the TNT remake of "A Christmas Carol"
1998 Co-starred as the manager of the Spice Girls in "Spiceworld"
1998 Published first novel "By Design"
1997 Starred opposite Helen Bonham Carter in "A Merry War/Keep the Aspidistra Flying"
1996 Published memoir "With Nails: The Film Diaries of Richard E Grant"
1995 Starred as a widower raising a baby in "Jack and Sarah"
1994 Had small role in Altman's "Ready to Wear (Pret-a-Porter)"
1993 Returned to the stage as Algernon Moncrieff in a revival of Oscar Wilde's "The Importance of Being Earnest"
1992 Had supporting role in Robert Altman's superb Hollywood satire "The Player"
1991 Offered a comically villainous turn in "Hudson Hawk"
1989 American feature debut, "Warlock"
1988 American TV debut, "Codename: Kyril" (Showtime)
1988 Reteamed with Bruce Robinson for "How to Get Ahead in Advertising"
1986 Feature acting debut, "Withnail and I"; directed by Bruce Robinson
1985 British TV-movie debut, "Honest, Decent and True"
1984 Began appearing at the Open Air Theatre in Regent's Park
1982 Moved to London from Swaziland
1980 Appeared in David Hare's "Fanshen" in Cape Town
1979 Formed touring Troupe Theatre Company with actors from Cape Town University and Cape Town's Space Theatre
Born and raised in Mbabane, Swaziland
While an undergraduate at Univeristy of Cape Town, dropped surname
Worked as a "dogsbody" on Jonathan Miller's production of "Hamlet" at the Donmar Warehouse
Worked as a waiter at Covent Garden
British TV series debut, "Sweet Sixteen"


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