Richard E. Grant

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Known For

Acting

Born

1957-05-05

Place of Birth

Mbabane, Swaziland [now Eswatini]

Richard E. Grant

Biography

Richard E. Grant (born Richard Grant Esterhuysen; 5 May 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).

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Known For

The Simpsons

The Simpsons

Game of Thrones

Game of Thrones

Doctor Who

Doctor Who

Doctor Who

Doctor Who

Late Night with Seth Meyers

Late Night with Seth Meyers

The Graham Norton Show

The Graham Norton Show

Frasier

Frasier

Downton Abbey

Downton Abbey

Agatha Christie's Marple

Agatha Christie's Marple

Nuremberg

Nuremberg

Acting History

100 Nights of Hero as Birdman

Nuremberg as Sir David Maxwell-Fyfe

The Thursday Murder Club as Bobby Tanner

Too Much as Jonno Ratigan

Death of a Unicorn as Odell

Doctor Who at the Proms as The Doctor (archive footage)

Nautilus as The White Rajah

The Franchise as Peter Fairchild

Argylle as Director Fowler

Saltburn as Sir James Catton

The Lesson as J.M. Sinclair

The Coronation Concert as Self

Frankly as Self

A Royal Grand Design as Host

Persuasion as Sir Walter Elliot

Suspect as Harry

RuPaul's Drag Race UK vs The World as Self - Guest Judge

Ant & Dec's Limitless Win as Self

An Audience with Adele as Self

Marvel Studios' 2021 Disney+ Day Special as Classic Loki (archive footage)

The Spine of Night as The Guardian (voice)

The Outlaws as The Earl

Robin Robin as Magpie (voice)

Moley as The Gardener (voice)

Attack of the Hollywood Clichés! as Self - Actor

Everybody's Talking About Jamie as Hugo Battersby / Loco Chanelle

Write Around the World with Richard E Grant as Self - Presenter

Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard as Seifert

Loki as Classic Loki

Agatha & Poirot: Partners in Crime as Self - Host

Marvel Studios Assembled as Self - Classic Loki

Michael McIntyre's The Wheel as Self - Expert

Between the Covers as Self

Ben Platt: Live from Radio City Music Hall as Self

The Skywalker Legacy as Self

Dispatches from Elsewhere as Octavio

Groundhog Dave 2 as Groundhog Dave (voice)

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker as Allegiant General Pryde

Master Moley by Royal Invitation as The Gardener (voice)

Palm Beach as Billy

An Accidental Studio as Self

The Space: Theatre of Survival as as Self

7 Up & Me as Self

The Nutcracker and the Four Realms as Shiver

Can You Ever Forgive Me? as Jack Hock

Hang Ups as Leonard Conrad

The Hitman's Bodyguard as Seifert

Making 'Logan' as Self

Tate Britain's Great Art Walks as Self

Logan as Dr. Rice

Their Finest as Roger Swain

A Series of Unfortunate Events as Man with Beard But No Hair

The Last Dragonslayer as Dragon (voice)

Jackie as Bill Walton

Jekyll and Hyde as Sir Roger Bulstrode

Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter as Self

Wellington: The Iron Duke Unmasked as The Duke of Wellington

Dig as Ian Margrove

The Secret World of Lewis Carroll as Himself - Actor

Queen & Country as Major Cross

The Gospel of Luke as Narrator (voice) – New International Version

Dirty Weekenders in France as Self - Presenter

Late Night with Seth Meyers as Self

The Kumars as Self

Dom Hemingway as Dickie Black

Hello: A Portrait Of Leslie Phillips as Self / Larry Oliphant

About Time as Lawyer in Play (uncredited)

Khumba as Bradley (voice)

Doctor Who: The Snowmen as Dr. Walter Simeon

The Wildebeest Migration: Nature's Greatest Journey as Narrator

The Fear as Seb Whiting

For No Good Reason as Self

Kath & Kimderella as Alain the Page

Zambezia as Cecil (voice)

Girls as Jasper

Words of the Titanic as Reader

Cherrywood Cannon as (Voice)

The Iron Lady as Michael Heseltine

How to Stop Being a Loser as Ian

Horrid Henry: The Movie as Vic Van Wrinkle

Game of Thrones as Izembaro

The Crimson Petal and the White as Doctor Curlew

The Last Fashion Show as Federico Marinoni

Foster as Mr. Potts

Cuckoo as Professor Julius Greengrass

The Nutcracker as Father

First Night as Adam

Jackboots on Whitehall as The Vicar (voice)

Downton Abbey as Simon Bricker

The Man Who Married Himself as Olivier

Victoria Wood: Seen on TV

Love Hurts as Ben Bingham

Filth and Wisdom as Prof Flynn

Garden of Eden as Colonel Philip Boyle

Penelope as Franklin Wilhern

Elementary My Dear Viewer as Self - Presenter

The Blood Is the Life: The Making of 'Bram Stoker's Dracula' as Self (archive footage)

Would I Lie to You? as Self

Always Crashing in the Same Car as James Booth

The Graham Norton Show as Self

The Secret Policeman's Ball: The Ball in the Hall as Self

Above and Beyond as Don Bennett

Above and Beyond

The One Show as Self - Guest

The One Show as Self

Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties as Preston (voice)

Pulp: The Story of Common People as Narrator

The Story of ‘Fairytale of New York’ as Narrator

Colour Me Kubrick as Jasper

Corpse Bride as Barkis Bittern (voice)

8 Out of 10 Cats as Self

Doctor Who as The Great Intelligence

Doctor Who as Dr Simeon

The Friday Night Project as Self

Agatha Christie's Marple as Raymond West

The Story of Bohemian Rhapsody as Narrator (voice)

The Story of an African Farm as Bonaparte Blenkins

Tooth as Jarvis Jarvis

90 Days in Hollywood

Doctor Who: Scream of the Shalka as The Doctor (voice)

Bright Young Things as Father Rothschild

Posh Nosh as Simon Marchmont

Monsieur N. as Hudson Lowe

The Hound of the Baskervilles as Jack Stapleton

Sherlock: Case of Evil as Mycroft

The Making of Gosford Park as Self

Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway as Self - Guest Announcer

Robert Altman in England as Himself

Gosford Park as George

Hildegarde as Wolf

Strictly Sinatra as Himself

Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings as Various Characters

The Little Vampire as Frederick Sackville-Bagg

The Miracle Maker as John The Baptist (voice)

A Christmas Carol as Bob Cratchit

Let Them Eat Cake

The Match as Gorgeous Gus

Withnail and Us as Self

The Peculiar Memories of Bruce Robinson as Self

Doctor Who: The Curse of Fatal Death as The Quite Handsome Doctor

The Scarlet Pimpernel as Percy Blakeney/The Scarlet Pimpernel

Home Farm Twins

I Demand to Have Some Booze! as Self

The Heaven and Earth Show

Parkinson as Self

St. Ives as Major Farquhar Chevening

Cash in Hand as Sir Harry Parkins

Spice World as Clifford

Keep the Aspidistra Flying as Gordon Comstock

Trial & Retribution

Food of Love as Alex Salmon

A Royal Scandal as George, Prince of Wales

An Audience with Elton John as Self

Treasure Island as Long John Silver

The Serpent's Kiss as James Fitzmaurice

Portrait: Jane Campion and The Portrait of a Lady as Self

An Evening with Lily Savage as Self - Audience Member

Twelfth Night as Sir Andrew Aguecheek

The Portrait of a Lady as Lord Warburton

Vem Var Dracula as Self

The Cold Light of Day as Viktor Marek

Cold Lazarus as Nick Balmer

Karaoke as Nick Balmer

Dalziel & Pascoe

Bed as Nurse/Bed Head

Soccer AM as Self

Jack & Sarah as Jack

Empire of the Censors as Self - Host

Prêt-à-Porter as Cort Romney

Pink Floyd: The Story as Narrator (voice)

Room 101 as Self

Hard Times as James Harthouse

Hard Times as James Harthouse

Calliope as The Producer

Butter as Gerrard

Shooting Stars as Self

Frasier as Stephen Moon

The Age of Innocence as Lawrence "Larry" Lefferts

The Legends of Treasure Island as Long John Silver (voice)

The Legends of Treasure Island as Long John Silver (voice)

Innocence and Experience: The Making of 'The Age of Innocence' as Self

Suddenly, Last Summer as George Holly

Franz Kafka's It's a Wonderful Life as Franz Kafka

Bram Stoker's Dracula as Dr. Jack Seward

Absolutely Fabulous as Dream Justin

The Other Side as Sherlock Holmes

The Player as Tom Oakley

Performance as Nurse/Bed Head

Performance as George Holly

Hudson Hawk as Darwin Mayflower

L.A. Story as Roland Mackey

Have I Got News for You as Self

Henry & June as Hugo Guiler

Rab C. Nesbitt as Chingford Steel

Mountains of the Moon as Oliphant

The Simpsons as British Voice / Julian (voice)

Thieves in the Night as Joseph

Killing Dad (Or How to Love Your Mother) as Berg

Warlock as Giles Redferne

How to Get Ahead in Advertising as Denis Dimbleby Bagley

Here Is the News as David Dunhill

Codename: Kyril as Laurence Sculby

Codename: Kyril as Sculby

Hidden City as Brewster

Withnail & I as Withnail

Lizzie's Pictures

Honest Decent & True as Moonee Livingstone

Aspel & Company

An Audience with... as Self

Omnibus as Narrator (voice)

No Hiding Place

The Queen of Fashion as Evelyn Delves Broughton

Savage House as Sir Chauncey Savage

Wildwood as (voice)

Merry Christmas Aubrey Flint as Mr. Hopkins

The Honey Wars as (voice)

Wittgenstein's Poker as Ludwig Wittgenstein (voice)