Trivias Of Hugh Grant
- His ancestors include Sir Walter Raleigh, William Drummond, 4th Viscount Strathallan, James Stewart, John Murray, 1st Marquess of Atholl, Heneage Finch, 1st Earl of Nottingham, Sir Evan Nepean, and a sister of former Prime Minister Spencer Perceval.
- His mother died of pancreatic cancer at the age of 67.
- He spent many of his childhood summers shooting and fishing with his grandfather in Scotland.
- IndieWire ranked his performance in Paddington 2, the 22nd greatest movie performance of the decade in 2019.
- A self-confessed "committed and passionate" perfectionist, he is noted by co-workers for demanding endless takes until he achieves the desired shot according to his own standard.
- He dropped his agent in 2006, ending a 10-year relationship with CAA.
- He won substantial damages from News (UK) Ltd in 1996 after the company's newspaper Today falsely claimed article published in January 1995 that Grant verbally abused a young extra with a "foul-mouthed tongue lashing" on the set of The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain.
- He accepted undisclosed damages from Associated Newspapers in April 2007 over claims made about his relationships with his former girlfriends in three separate tabloid articles published in the Daily Mail and The Mail on Sunday.
- He was arrested in Los Angeles, California in June 1995 in a police vice operation near Sunset Boulevard for receiving oral sex in a public place from Hollywood prostitute Divine Brown. He pleaded no contest and was fined $1,180 placed on two years' summary probation, and was ordered to complete an AIDS education program.
- Assault charges on Grant made by paparazzo Ian Whittaker were dropped in April 2007 on the grounds of "insufficient evidence".
- In April 2011, Grant published an article in the New Statesman titled "The Bugger, Bugged" about a conversation (following an earlier encounter) with Paul McMullan, a former journalist, and paparazzo for News of the World.
- During the 2019 UK general election Grant campaigned for tactical voting to stop a Conservative majority and Brexit.
