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50 free Hugh Grant trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
Hugh Grant spent a decade as the stammering, floppy-haired Englishman of Four Weddings and a Funeral, Notting Hill and Love Actually, then spent the next one gleefully dismantling that image as a cannibal in Cloud Atlas, a disgraced politician in A Very English Scandal, a preening villain in Paddington 2 and a cynical Oompa-Loompa in Wonka. This quiz covers the whole arc. The easy questions are the films everyone has seen at Christmas: who he played, who he was paired with, which franchise keeps bringing Daniel Cleaver back. The medium and hard ones dig into the against-type work, the Guy Ritchie collaborations, the composers and poets he played before he was famous, and the real-life headlines from the 1995 Los Angeles arrest to his campaign against tabloid phone hacking. The expert tier is for people who know the name of his 1980s sketch troupe and which Warhol print he flipped for a fortune. Fifty questions, four options each, with a short explanation after every answer. No sign-up, and the card at the end is made for sharing.
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Q 01In which city was Hugh Grant born?
London
He grew up in Chiswick, West London, where his father ran a carpet business and painted watercolours.
Q 02Grant played the British Prime Minister in which 2003 ensemble comedy?
Love Actually
Grant reportedly pushed to make the character more authoritative and less haplessly charming than earlier Curtis leads.
Q 03Grant starred opposite Julia Roberts in which 1999 film?
Notting Hill
With $363 million worldwide it overtook Four Weddings as the biggest British hit in cinema history at the time.
Q 04Which 1994 comedy made Grant an overnight international star?
Four Weddings and a Funeral
He was 32 and on the brink of quitting acting when the script arrived; it won him a Golden Globe and a BAFTA.
Q 05Grant plays womanising publisher Daniel Cleaver in which film series?
Bridget Jones
He returned to the part in 2004 and again in 2025's Mad About the Boy, a script he said made him cry.
Q 06Grant read English literature at which university?
Oxford
He later turned down a PhD place in art history at the Courtauld Institute because he could not get funding.
Q 07Grant began a 13-year relationship with which actress in 1987?
Elizabeth Hurley
They split in May 2000; he later made her head of development at his production company and is godfather to her son.
Q 08Grant played what kind of character in Wonka (2023)?
An Oompa-Loompa
Director Paul King said he re-read Dahl's cynical, sarcastic Oompa-Loompa poems and thought, 'That's sort of a bit like Hugh!'
Q 09Which 2024 A24 horror film earned Grant a BAFTA nomination?
Heretic
Variety called it yet another 'wildly against-type' role in the second half of his career.
Q 10Who was Grant's co-star in Two Weeks Notice (2002)?
Sandra Bullock
He played a spoiled billionaire property developer; Grant has since named Bullock among the co-stars he genuinely liked.
Q 11Which author created Daniel Cleaver, the cad Grant played in 2001?
Helen Fielding
The Washington Post found him perfectly cast as 'a cruel, manipulative cad, hiding behind the male god's countenance'.
Q 12Who wrote and starred in Sense and Sensibility (1995) alongside Grant?
Emma Thompson
Her screenplay won the Oscar; Grant played the shy Edward Ferrars.
Q 13In which year was Hugh Grant born?
1960
That made him 33 when Four Weddings came out, older than the eternal bachelor he seemed to be playing.
Who co-starred with Grant in Music and Lyrics (2007)?
Q 21Who directed Sense and Sensibility (1995)?
Ang Lee
It was the Taiwanese director's first English-language film, made before Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.
Q 22Grant's 1995 arrest came two weeks before the release of which Julianne Moore comedy?
Nine Months
He kept his Tonight Show booking and told Jay Leno simply: 'I did a bad thing. And there you have it.'
Q 23Grant played which politician in A Very English Scandal (2018)?
Jeremy Thorpe
It was his first TV role in a quarter of a century and brought him a Primetime Emmy nomination.
Drew Barrymore
Grant later admitted they did not get on during filming, though he thought the tension gave the chemistry 'a good crackle'.
Q 15Which football club does Grant support?
Fulham
As a young man he worked as an assistant groundsman at the club, and he also follows Italian side Como.
Q 16About a Boy was adapted from a novel by which author?
Nick Hornby
The film also marked the end of his trademark floppy hair; critics noted he looked older and 'it looked good on him'.
Q 17Who starred opposite Grant in HBO's The Undoing?
Nicole Kidman
His slippery doctor accused of murder earned him Golden Globe, SAG and Critics' Choice nominations.
Q 18What is the name of Grant's villain in Paddington 2?
Phoenix Buchanan
IndieWire ranked the washed-up actor with a closet of disguises as the 22nd greatest film performance of the 2010s.
Q 19Grant played St. Clair Bayfield opposite which star in Florence Foster Jenkins?
Meryl Streep
Pundits widely predicted his first Oscar nomination for the role; it never came.
Q 20Who directed Grant in The Gentlemen (2019)?
Guy Ritchie
They teamed up a third time for Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre in 2023.
Q 24Which screenwriter's romantic comedies is Grant most associated with?
Richard Curtis
Grant found it an inside joke that audiences assumed he shared the personality of the writer, who famously writes about himself.
Q 25In The Gentlemen, what is the job of Grant's character Fletcher?
Private investigator
He based the character on tabloid reporters who, he said, 'used to be my enemies and now they're my friends'.
Q 26How many characters did Grant play in Cloud Atlas (2012)?
Six
One was a cannibal 2,000 years in the future; he recalled standing on a German mountaintop in a cannibal skirt thinking 'Just give me a witty line!'
Q 27Grant's first leading film role, in 1987, adapted a novel by which author?
E. M. Forster
He played Clive Durham, the Cambridge friend who retreats into a conventional marriage.
Q 28Grant played which composer in Impromptu (1991)?
Frédéric Chopin
Critics later cited the 'very quiet, dignified' performance as proof he could do straight drama.
Q 29Who co-starred with Grant in the 2009 flop Did You Hear About the Morgans?
Sarah Jessica Parker
He has said its failure is what finally pushed him out of romantic comedies: 'I got old and ugly... which has been a great blessing.'
Q 30Grant married which Swedish TV producer in 2018?
Anna Eberstein
Three of his five children are with her; the wedding came 31 years after he first became a tabloid fixture.