Hugh Grant

Hugh Grant
Birth date:	9 September 1960
Work in the DWU
Main roles:	Alternative Twelfth Doctor
Main jobs:	Actor
Stories:	The Curse of Fatal Death
Main time period active:	1999
Career highlights
Notable non-DWU work:	The Last Place on Earth, Maurice, The Lair od the White Worm, Twelfth Night, The Remains of the Day, Four Weddings and a Funeral, Sense and Sensibility, Notting Hill, Bridget Jones films, About a Boy, Love Actually, Movie Connections, The Piarates! In an Adventure with Scientists!, W1A, Paddington 2, A Very English Scandel
Twitter
IMDb profile

Hugh Grant (born 9 September 1960) played a version of the Twelfth Doctor in The Curse of Fatal Death written by Steven Moffat.

An internationally popular light comic actor, Grant's films have included the Richard Curtis-written Four Weddings and a Funeral, Notting Hill, and Bridget Jones' Diary, along with The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain and Sense and Sensibility.

Grant is also known for his long-time relationship with actress Elizabeth Hurley and for a 1995 sex scandal that led to Grant making what would become a widely remembered appearance on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. His mea culpa on that show resulted in Leno's show regaining late-night dominance after a shaky start following the retirement of Johnny Carson. It also helped restore Grant's career. His Doctor Who appearance occurred four years later.

Russell T Davies approached Grant to play the Ninth Doctor but he turned down the role, thinking the show would not take off. He expressed deep regret in 2007 after seeing how successful the show had become. He had also been one of many names put forward for the parts of the Eighth Doctor and Borusa in the 1996 TV Movie.

In 2018, he worked with Russell T Davies on the drama mini-series A Very English Scandal alongside Ben Whishaw.

In the DWU

Hugh Grant is mentioned in passing in the novel Psi-ence Fiction.

External links

• Hugh Grant at the Internet Movie Database
• Official Twitter account