How much is Hugh Grant worth?
| Net Worth: | $120 Million |
|---|---|
| Profession: | Professional Actor |
| Date of Birth: | September 9, 1960 (age 62) |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Height: | 5 ft 10 in (1.8 m) |
About Hugh Grant
Hugh John Mungo Grant was born on September 9, 1960 and is an English actor with an estimated net worth of $120 million. Hugh Grant became famous in the early 90s, scoring romantic comedy movies left, right, and center thanks to his polite British charm and unusual good looks.
Though he has had his fair share of negative tabloid coverage, and is just as well known for the gallery of women he’s dated as he is for his filmography, Grant has overcome the media, continues to score huge roles, and is able to demand millions of dollars per movie. The Oxford educated actor has also become somewhat of a real estate guru, making millions from flipping English mansions.
Grant’s best known films include Four Weddings and a Funeral, Notting Hill, Bridget Jones’ Diary, and Love Actually. He has said, “I dreaded the dance scene in ‘Love Actually’ more than having my teeth extracted.”
Though Grant is Oxford educated and he never expected to work in the entertainment industry, as he only took up acting for fun, the now professional actor fell forwards in to a role that made him world famous over night. His first major role was in Four Weddings and a Funeral, which was penned by Grant’s would-be favorite collaborator, Richard Curtis.
The film was a huge success and it turned Grant in to the most sought after actor for a romantic comedy lead. The following movies he starred in after would pair him with the most famous actresses in Hollywood, such as with Julianne Moore in Nine Months, Julia Roberts in Notting Hill, and Renée Zellweger in Bridget Jones’ Diary.
The actor has also made headlines in the tabloids across the world throughout most of his career. In 1995, not long after his big break in Four Weddings’, Grant was caught receiving oral sex in a public place in Hollywood from a prostitute, which delivered a “blow” to Grant’s image according to a report at the time.
While soliciting a prostitute may be legal in the UK, in America this is illegal in every state aside from certain legal locations in Nevada. Grant was promptly arrested, charged with “lewd conduct in a public place” with a woman who police described as a “known prostitute”. The officer said the actor was performing “safe sex”, and was “extremely embarrassed” but a “real gentleman” when he was arrested. Grant did not attend court, but was ordered to pay a fine of $1,000, according to The Guardian. In terms of the controversy, Grant confronted rumors head on by appearing on The Late Show with Jay Leno, explaining himself and apologizing to his fans.
Then in the 2000s, he allegedly clashed with a paparazzo photographer with a “tub of baked beans”, according to The Guardian. However, in the 2010s, Grant turned the tables on the journalists that so often stalked his every move, even attempting to expose a journalist for phone-hacking, according to BBC.
Aside from his iconic roles in rom-coms and his alleged actions as heavily reported by tabloids, Grant is known for being much like the many characters that he plays; a polite, charming, wealthy Englishman. Thanks to this, his dating life has been heavily documented and he is known almost as well for the women he has been photographed with as he is for his movie roles. Most famously, the actor started dating Elizabeth Hurley in the late 1980s after they starred in Remando Al Viento together, and they went on to become a Hollywood power couple for the next 12 years. Grant has had a long list of beautiful girlfriends over the years, that’s all over now (at least we hope) as he married Anna Eberstein in 2018.
In total, Grant’s movies have made over three billion dollars worldwide, and his first leading role in Four Weddings and a Funeral was the primary reason why the movie was so successful. With a budget of just $4.4 million, the film made almost 100 times its budget, earning $245.7 million worldwide, which equaled a net profit that’s almost unheard of in the movie industry.
After that one movie alone, Grant went from making an estimated $100,000 per movie to demanding as much as $10 million per movie. The highest salary Grant ever earned, to our knowledge, was for Two Weeks Notice, which co starred Sandra Bullock, and earned him a massive $12.5 million.
Although Grant has been slowing down likely enjoying his life in London. He is still in enough to be able to demand $5 million per movie, which is what he made for last year’s Paddington 2 and The Gentlemen with Matthew Mcconaughey.
Grant has also seen great financial success outside of acting thanks to his newfound hobby of flipping houses. His real estate portfolio is massive, and at one point, made up a substantial portion of his net worth with literally dozens of properties. Grant regularly buys mansions in and around London, such as in 2000 when he bought for an estimated £3 million mansion in Chelsea, and in 2006 when he purchased a £15 million home in the same area.
Just three years later he sold that same home for an estimated £22 million, making an insane £7 million profit. And coincidentally, Grant owns an estimated £8 million pound home in Notting Hill. However, he doesn’t just buy properties in the UK, he has also invested in properties all over the US and Europe, including a multimillion dollar resort property in Sweden.
In 2019, Hugh Grant bought a £17.5 million six-bedroom semi-detached home in Chelsea.
Back in the ’90s when he was gaining notoriety in the industry, there was no other actor that could do a “Grant role” like Grant could do. Hugh Grant was a young, polite, handsome, and charming Englishman who could hold his own against superstars. Because of this, he became typecast to that exact character, but he wouldn’t complain as writers were creating projects where the protagonist were Hugh Grant-type characters “Grant roles” because there was so much money in it. In fact having this type of role added to an ok-script could turn a movie with moderate chances of success, into a certified hit.
The actor has a great working relationship with Richard Curtis, as they have both served each other remarkably. Grant makes Curtis’ dialogue pop on-screen and Curtis has written roles specifically for Grant for decades. Together, the director-actor duo have worked together on five huge projects, including Four Weddings And A Funeral, Notting Hill, Bridget Jones’ Diary, Love Actually, and Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason.
Grant is known for being extremely guarded and though the press has seemingly tried to antagonize him and find out as much about his personal life as possible, very little is actually known about the actor, which makes him more interesting and alluring. His guarded personality and mysterious lifestyle massively helped his box office numbers in the 1990s and early 2000s, though he has claimed that he doesn’t care one iota about box office numbers. We’d beg to differ.
“It’s very true that you can be both selfless and selfish at the same time. What we tend towards, particularly in filmmaking, is this binary sort of, ‘This is a good guy, this is a bad guy.’ And I quite like the fact that life is a bit more complex than that.” Hugh Grant
Summing-Up
Thanks to Grant’s charisma and playing up his Britishness, Grant was the go to Englishman in Hollywood for all things romantic. And with his ambitious real estate portfolio that spans the whole world, Hugh Grant has earned incredible wealth.
In 2020, Grant could be seen starring in the HBO television show, The Undoing, which costars Nicole Kidman and is based on the hit 2014 novel, You Should Have Known.
