Person
Richard E. Grant
Born 5 May 1957 69 years old Mbabane, Swaziland [now Eswatini] Who else is 69? → TMDB ↗
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.
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2age in their first credit on record (1959)
68years on screen and counting
9credits in 2012, their busiest year
168dated credits on record
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Movie credits
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The Queen of Fashion
as Evelyn Delves Broughton
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Wittgenstein's Poker
as Ludwig Wittgenstein (voice)
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Fado!
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Margot & Rudi
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The Man Who Stole Portugal
The Honey Wars
as (voice)
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Age: 69 Rose's Baby
2027as Dr. Abaras
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Age: 69 Merry Christmas Aubrey Flint
2026as Mr. Hopkins
Age: 69 Wicker
2026as Doctor
Age: 69 Wildwood
2026as (voice)
Age: 69 Savage House
2026as Sir Chauncey Savage
Age: 69 Ladies First
2026as Pigeon Man
Age: 68 100 Nights of Hero
2025as Birdman
Age: 68 Nuremberg
2025as Sir David Maxwell-Fyfe
Age: 68 The Thursday Murder Club
2025as Bobby Tanner
Age: 67 Death of a Unicorn
2025as Odell
Age: 67 Doctor Who at the Proms
2024as The Doctor (archive footage)
Age: 66 Argylle
2024as Director Fowler
Age: 66 Saltburn
2023as Sir James Catton
Age: 66 The Lesson
2023as J.M. Sinclair
Age: 65 Persuasion
2022as Sir Walter Elliot
Age: 64 Marvel Studios' 2021 Disney+ Day Special
2021as Classic Loki (archive footage)
Age: 64 The Spine of Night
2021as The Guardian (voice)
Age: 64 Robin Robin
2021as Magpie (voice)
Age: 64 Everybody's Talking About Jamie
2021as Hugo Battersby / Loco Chanelle
Age: 64 Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard
2021as Seifert
Age: 62 Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
2019as Allegiant General Pryde
Age: 62 Master Moley by Royal Invitation
2019as The Gardener (voice)
Age: 62 Palm Beach
2019as Billy
Age: 62 The Space: Theatre of Survival
2019as as Self
Age: 61 The Nutcracker and the Four Realms
2018as Shiver
Age: 61 Can You Ever Forgive Me?
2018as Jack Hock
Age: 60 The Hitman's Bodyguard
2017as Seifert
Age: 59 Logan
2017as Dr. Rice
Age: 59 Their Finest
2017as Roger Swain
Age: 59 The Last Dragonslayer
2016as Dragon (voice)
Age: 59 Jackie
2016as Bill Walton
Age: 58 Wellington: The Iron Duke Unmasked
2015as The Duke of Wellington
Age: 57 Teeth
2015
Age: 57 Queen & Country
2015as Major Cross
Age: 57 The Gospel of Luke
2015as Narrator (voice) – New International Version
Age: 56 Dom Hemingway
2013as Dickie Black
Age: 56 About Time
2013as Lawyer in Play (uncredited)
Age: 56 Khumba
2013as Bradley (voice)
Age: 55 Doctor Who: The Snowmen
2012as Dr. Walter Simeon
Age: 55 Kath & Kimderella
2012as Alain the Page
Age: 55 Zambezia
2012as Cecil (voice)
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Age: 54 Words of the Titanic
2012as Reader
Age: 54 Cherrywood Cannon
2012as (Voice)
Age: 54 The Iron Lady
2011as Michael Heseltine
Age: 54 How to Stop Being a Loser
2011as Ian
Age: 54 Horrid Henry: The Movie
2011as Vic Van Wrinkle
Age: 53 The Last Fashion Show
2011as Federico Marinoni
Age: 53 Foster
2011as Mr. Potts
Age: 53 Cuckoo
2010as Professor Julius Greengrass
Age: 53 The Nutcracker
2010as Father
Age: 53 First Night
2010as Adam
Age: 53 Jackboots on Whitehall
2010as The Vicar (voice)
Age: 52 The Man Who Married Himself
2010as Olivier
Age: 52 Victoria Wood: Seen on TV
2009
Age: 52 Love Hurts
2009as Ben Bingham
Age: 51 Filth and Wisdom
2008as Prof Flynn
Age: 50 Garden of Eden
2008as Colonel Philip Boyle
Age: 50 Penelope
2007as Franklin Wilhern
Age: 50 Always Crashing in the Same Car
2007as James Booth
Age: 49 Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties
2006as Preston (voice)
Age: 48 Colour Me Kubrick
2005as Jasper
Age: 48 Corpse Bride
2005as Barkis Bittern (voice)
Age: 47 The Story of Bohemian Rhapsody
2004as Narrator (voice)
Age: 47 The Story of an African Farm
2004as Bonaparte Blenkins
Age: 46 Tooth
2004as Jarvis Jarvis
Age: 46 Bright Young Things
2003as Father Rothschild
Age: 45 Monsieur N.
2003as Hudson Lowe
Age: 45 The Hound of the Baskervilles
2002as Jack Stapleton
Age: 45 Sherlock: Case of Evil
2002as Mycroft
Age: 44 Gosford Park
2001as George
Age: 44 Hildegarde
2001as Wolf
Age: 43 Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings
2000as Various Characters
Age: 43 The Little Vampire
2000as Frederick Sackville-Bagg
Age: 42 The Miracle Maker
2000as John The Baptist (voice)
Age: 42 A Christmas Carol
1999as Bob Cratchit
Age: 42 The Match
1999as Gorgeous Gus
Age: 41 Doctor Who: The Curse of Fatal Death
1999as The Quite Handsome Doctor
Age: 40 St. Ives
1998as Major Farquhar Chevening
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Age: 40 Cash in Hand
1998as Sir Harry Parkins
Age: 40 Spice World
1997as Clifford
Age: 40 Keep the Aspidistra Flying
1997as Gordon Comstock
Age: 40 Food of Love
1997as Alex Salmon
Age: 40 A Royal Scandal
1997as George, Prince of Wales
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Age: 40 Treasure Island
1997as Long John Silver
Age: 40 The Serpent's Kiss
1997as James Fitzmaurice
Age: 39 Twelfth Night
1996as Sir Andrew Aguecheek
Age: 39 The Portrait of a Lady
1996as Lord Warburton
Age: 39 The Cold Light of Day
1996as Viktor Marek
Age: 38 Franz Kafka's It's a Wonderful Life
1995as Franz Kafka
Age: 38 Bed
1995as Nurse/Bed Head
Age: 38 Jack & Sarah
1995as Jack
Age: 37 Prêt-à-Porter
1994as Cort Romney
Age: 37 Pink Floyd: The Story
1994as Narrator (voice)
Age: 36 Hard Times
1994as James Harthouse
Age: 36 Calliope
1994as The Producer
Age: 36 Butter
1994as Gerrard
Age: 36 The Age of Innocence
1993as Lawrence "Larry" Lefferts
Age: 36 The Legends of Treasure Island
1993as Long John Silver (voice)
Age: 35 Suddenly, Last Summer
1993as George Holly
Age: 35 Bram Stoker's Dracula
1992as Dr. Jack Seward
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Age: 35 The Other Side
1992as Sherlock Holmes
Age: 35 The Player
1992as Tom Oakley
Age: 34 Hudson Hawk
1991as Darwin Mayflower
Age: 33 L.A. Story
1991as Roland Mackey
Age: 33 Henry & June
1990as Hugo Guiler
Age: 32 Mountains of the Moon
1990as Oliphant
Age: 32 Thieves in the Night
1989as Joseph
Age: 32 Killing Dad (Or How to Love Your Mother)
1989as Berg
Age: 32 Warlock
1989as Giles Redferne
Age: 32 How to Get Ahead in Advertising
1989as Denis Dimbleby Bagley
Age: 31 Here Is the News
1989as David Dunhill
Age: 30 Codename: Kyril
1988as Laurence Sculby
Age: 30 Hidden City
1987as Brewster
Age: 30 Withnail & I
1987as Withnail
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Age: 28 Honest Decent & True
1986as Moonee Livingstone
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TV credits
Age: 68 The Other Bennet Sister
2026as Mr. Bennet
Age: 68 Too Much
2025as Jonno Ratigan
Age: 67 Nautilus
2024as The White Rajah
Age: 67 The Franchise
2024as Peter Fairchild
Age: 65 Suspect
2022as Harry
Age: 64 The Outlaws
2021as The Earl
Age: 64 Moley
2021as The Gardener (voice)
Age: 64 Loki
2021as Classic Loki
Age: 62 Dispatches from Elsewhere
2020as Octavio
Age: 61 Hang Ups
2018as Leonard Conrad
Age: 59 A Series of Unfortunate Events
2017as Man with Beard But No Hair
Age: 58 Jekyll and Hyde
2015as Sir Roger Bulstrode
Age: 57 Dig
2015as Ian Margrove
Age: 56 Psychobitches
2013as Matthew Hopkins
Age: 55 The Fear
2012as Seb Whiting
Age: 55 Gadget Man
2012
Age: 54 Girls
2012as Jasper
Age: 54 Playhouse Presents
2012as Stephen / Tony
Age: 53 Game of Thrones
2011as Izembaro
Age: 53 The Crimson Petal and the White
2011as Doctor Curlew
Age: 53 Downton Abbey
2010as Simon Bricker
Age: 50 British Film Forever
2007
Age: 49 Above and Beyond
2006as Don Bennett
Age: 47 Doctor Who
2005as The Great Intelligence
Age: 47 Doctor Who
2005as Dr Simeon
Age: 47 Agatha Christie's Marple
2004as Raymond West
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Age: 46 90 Days in Hollywood
2004
Age: 46 Doctor Who: Scream of the Shalka
2003as The Doctor (voice)
Age: 45 Posh Nosh
2003as Simon Marchmont
Age: 42 Let Them Eat Cake
1999
Age: 41 The Scarlet Pimpernel
1999as Percy Blakeney/The Scarlet Pimpernel
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Age: 41 Home Farm Twins
1999No poster
Age: 41 The Heaven and Earth Show
1998
Age: 40 Trial & Retribution
1997as Stephen Warrington
Age: 40 Captain Star
1997
Age: 38 Karaoke
1996as Nick Balmer
Age: 36 Hard Times
1994as James Harthouse
Age: 36 Frasier
1993as Stephen Moon
Age: 36 The Legends of Treasure Island
1993as Long John Silver (voice)
Age: 35 Absolutely Fabulous
1992as Dream Justin
Age: 34 Performance
1991as Nurse/Bed Head
Age: 34 Performance
1991as George Holly
Age: 33 Rab C. Nesbitt
1990as Chingford Steel
Age: 32 The Simpsons
1989as British Voice / Julian (voice)
Age: 30 Codename: Kyril
1988as Sculby
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Age: 30 Lizzie's Pictures
1987
Age: 27 Screen Two
1985as Moonee Livingstone
Age: 27 Screen Two
1985as David Dunhill
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Age: 27 Aspel & Company
1984
Age: 26 Natural World
1983
Age: 10 Omnibus
1967as Narrator (voice)
Age: 10 Omnibus
1967
Age: 2