Richard E. Grant

Richard E. Grant (born Richard Grant Esterhuysen; May 5, 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. Grant is also known for his roles in the feature films Warlock (1989), Henry & June (1990), Hudson Hawk (1991), Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992), The Age of Innocence (1993), The Portrait of a Lady (1996), The Little Vampire (2000), Gosford Park (2001), Penelope (2006), The Iron Lady (2011), Jackie (2016), Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019), and Saltburn (2023). He is also known for his roles in television, including Frasier (2004), Dig (2015), Game of Thrones (2016), Hang Ups (2018), A Series of Unfortunate Events (2019), and Suspect (2022). Description above from the Wikipedia article Richard E. Grant, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For: Acting

Born: Mbabane, Swaziland [now Eswatini], 1957-05-05

Died: null

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1987	Withnail & I	Withnail	73
2	1989	Here Is the News	David Dunhill	0
3	1989	How to Get Ahead in Advertising	Denis Dimbleby Bagley	63
4	1989	Warlock	Giles Redferne	62
5	1989	Killing Dad (Or How to Love Your Mother)	Berg	35
6	1990	Mountains of the Moon	Oliphant	65
7	1990	Henry & June	Hugo Guiler	61
8	1991	L.A. Story	Roland Mackey	65
9	1991	Hudson Hawk	Darwin Mayflower	57
10	1992	The Player	Tom Oakley	72
11	1992	The Other Side	Sherlock Holmes	0
12	1993	Franz Kafka's It's a Wonderful Life	Franz Kafka	68
13	1993	The Age of Innocence	Lawrence "Larry" Lefferts	70
14	1993	The Legends of Treasure Island	Long John Silver (voice)	80
15	1994	Calliope	The Producer	70
16	1994	Hard Times	James Harthouse	70
17	1994	Prêt-à-Porter	Cort Romney	52
18	1995	Empire of the Censors	Self - Host	35
19	1995	Jack & Sarah	Jack	67
20	1996	The Cold Light of Day	Viktor Marek	49
21	1996	In Search of Dracula	Self	0
22	1996	The Portrait of a Lady	Lord Warburton	60
23	1996	Twelfth Night	Sir Andrew Aguecheek	69
24	1996	An Evening with Lily Savage	Self - Audience Member	0
25	1997	The Serpent's Kiss	James Fitzmaurice	54
26	1997	Keep the Aspidistra Flying	Gordon Comstock	60
27	1998	St. Ives	Major Farquhar Chevening	57
28	1999	I Demand to Have Some Booze!	Self	0
29	1999	The Peculiar Memories of Bruce Robinson	Self	0
30	1999	Withnail and Us	Self	62
31	1999	The Match	Gorgeous Gus	62
32	1999	A Christmas Carol	Bob Cratchit	69
33	2000	The Miracle Maker	John The Baptist (voice)	60
34	2000	The Little Vampire	Frederick Sackville-Bagg	69
35	2001	Hildegarde	Wolf	45
36	2001	Gosford Park	George	68
37	2002	Robert Altman in England	Himself	0
38	2002	The Hound of the Baskervilles	Jack Stapleton	60
39	2003	Monsieur N.	Hudson Lowe	63
40	2004	The Story of an African Farm	Bonaparte Blenkins	49
41	2005	Corpse Bride	Barkis Bittern (voice)	76
42	2006	Penelope	Franklin Wilhern	67
43	2006	Above and Beyond		0
44	2006	The Secret Policeman's Ball: The Ball in the Hall	Self	67
45	2008	Garden of Eden	Colonel Philip Boyle	49
46	2009	Love Hurts	Ben Bingham	50
47	2010	Jackboots on Whitehall	The Vicar (voice)	49
48	2010	First Night	Adam	30
49	2011	Foster	Mr. Potts	67
50	2011	The Last Fashion Show	Federico Marinoni	49
51	2011	Horrid Henry: The Movie	Vic Van Wrinkle	53
52	2011	How to Stop Being a Loser	Ian	53
53	2012	Words of the Titanic	Reader	0
54	2012	Zambezia	Cecil (voice)	62
55	2012	For No Good Reason	Self	69
56	2013	Khumba	Bradley (voice)	60
57	2013	Dom Hemingway	Dickie Black	58
58	2014	Dirty Weekenders in France	Self - Presenter	0
59	2014	Queen & Country	Major Cross	60
60	2015	The Gospel of Luke	Narrator (voice) – New International Version	83
61	2019	The Space: Theatre of Survival	as Self	0
62	2019	Master Moley by Royal Invitation	The Gardener (voice)	58
63	2020	Groundhog Dave 2	Groundhog Dave (voice)	0
64	2021	Attack of the Hollywood Clichés!	Self - Actor	60
65	2021	Marvel Studios' 2021 Disney+ Day Special	Classic Loki (archive footage)	70
66	2021	An Audience with Adele	Self	83
67	2023	The Coronation Concert	Self	60
68		The Post Office Girl		0
69	2022	A Royal Grand Design	Host	0
70	2023	The Lesson	J.M. Sinclair	60
71	2023	Saltburn	Sir James Catton	70
72	2024	Argylle	Director Fowler	61
73	2025	Death of a Unicorn		0
74		Wildwood	(voice)	0
75	1986	Honest Decent & True	Moonee Livingstone	0
76		Nuremberg	Sir David Maxwell-Fyfe	0
77	1987	Hidden City	Brewster	51
78	1993	Suddenly, Last Summer	George Holly	68
79	1997	Portrait: Jane Campion and The Portrait of a Lady	Self	75
80	1997	Treasure Island	Long John Silver	0
81	1997	An Audience with Elton John	Self	0
82	1997	A Royal Scandal	George, Prince of Wales	70
83	1997	Food of Love	Alex Salmon	35
84	1997	Spice World	Clifford	49
85	1999	Doctor Who: The Curse of Fatal Death	The Quite Handsome Doctor	74
86	2000	Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings	Various Characters	66
87	2001	Strictly Sinatra	Himself	47
88	2002	Sherlock: Case of Evil	Mycroft	58
89	2003	Bright Young Things	Father Rothschild	63
90	2005	Colour Me Kubrick	Jasper	57
91	2007	Always Crashing in the Same Car	James Booth	67
92	2008	Filth and Wisdom	Prof Flynn	58
93	2010	The Man Who Married Himself	Olivier	80
94	2010	The Nutcracker	Father	51
95	2010	Cuckoo	Professor Julius Greengrass	45
96	2012	Doctor Who: The Snowmen	Dr. Walter Simeon	77
97	2015	Teeth		67
98		Savage House	Sir Chauncey Savage	0
99		The Queen of Fashion	Evelyn Delves Broughton	0
100		Wittgenstein's Poker	Ludwig Wittgenstein (voice)	0
101	2015	The Secret World of Lewis Carroll	Himself - Actor	55
102		The Thursday Murder Club		0
103	2011	The Iron Lady	Michael Heseltine	64
104	2016	Jackie	Bill Walton	65
105	2016	The Last Dragonslayer	Dragon (voice)	60
106	2017	Their Finest	Roger Swain	67
107	2017	Logan	Dr. Zander Rice	78
108	2017	The Hitman's Bodyguard	Seifert	69
109	2018	Can You Ever Forgive Me?	Jack Hock	68
110	2018	The Nutcracker and the Four Realms	Shiver	61
111		The Guinea Pig Club	Archie McIndoe	100
112	1988	Codename: Kyril	Laurence Sculby	0
113	1989	Thieves in the Night	Joseph	0
114	1992	Bram Stoker's Dracula	Dr. Jack Seward	74
115	1993	Innocence and Experience: The Making of 'The Age of Innocence'	Self	55
116	1994	Butter	Gerrard	80
117	1994	Pink Floyd: The Story	Narrator (voice)	100
118	1998	Cash in Hand	Sir Harry Parkins	0
119	2002	The Making of 'Gosford Park'	Self	50
120	2004	Tooth	Jarvis Jarvis	35
121	2004	The Story of Bohemian Rhapsody	Narrator (voice)	80
122	2005	The Story of ‘Fairytale of New York’	Narrator	72
123	2006	Pulp: The Story of Common People	Narrator	60
124	2006	Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties	Preston (voice)	56
125	2007	The Blood Is the Life: The Making of 'Bram Stoker's Dracula'	Self (archive footage)	80
126	2012	Cherrywood Cannon	(Voice)	0
127	2012	Kath & Kimderella	Alain the Page	53
128	2012	The Wildebeest Migration: Nature's Greatest Journey	Narrator	100
129	2013	About Time	Lawyer in Play (uncredited)	79
130	2013	Hello: A Portrait Of Leslie Phillips	Self / Larry Oliphant	83
131	2015	Wellington: The Iron Duke Unmasked	The Duke of Wellington	0
132	2019	7 Up & Me	Self	75
133	2019	An Accidental Studio	Self	64
134	2019	Palm Beach	Billy	53
135	2019	Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker	Allegiant General Pryde	63
136	2020	The Skywalker Legacy	Self	77
137	2020	Ben Platt: Live from Radio City Music Hall	Self	81
138	2021	Agatha & Poirot: Partners in Crime	Self - Host	40
139	2021	Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard	Seifert	67
140	2021	Everybody's Talking About Jamie	Hugo Battersby / Loco Chanelle	62
141	2021	Robin Robin	Magpie (voice)	71
142	2021	The Spine of Night	The Guardian	59
143	2022	Persuasion	Sir Walter Elliot	60
144		Fado!		0
145		The Honey Wars	(voice)	0
146		Ladies First		0
147		The One Hundred Nights of Hero		0
148	2024	Doctor Who at the Proms	The Doctor (archive footage)	100

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1959	No Hiding Place		37
2	1978	An Audience with...	Self	53
3	1983	Natural World		70
4	1984	Aspel & Company		0
5	1987	Lizzie's Pictures		0
6	1989	The Simpsons	British Voice / Julian (voice)	80
7	1990	Rab C. Nesbitt	Chingford Steel	69
8	1990	Have I Got News for You	Self	71
9	1991	Performance	Nurse	60
10	1992	Absolutely Fabulous	Dream Justin	75
11	1993	The Legends of Treasure Island	Long John Silver (voice)	74
12	1993	Frasier	Stephen Moon	77
13	1993	Shooting Stars	Self	76
14	1994	Hard Times	James Harthouse	0
15	1994	Room 101	Self	62
16	1995	Soccer AM	Self	60
17	1996	Dalziel & Pascoe		63
18	1996	Karaoke	Nick Balmer	69
19	1996	Cold Lazarus	Nick Balmer	68
20	1997	Captain Star		80
21	1997	Trial & Retribution		64
22	1998	Parkinson	Self	0
23	1998	The Heaven and Earth Show		32
24	1999	Home Farm Twins		0
25	1999	The Scarlet Pimpernel	Percy Blakeney/The Scarlet Pimpernel	72
26	1999	Let Them Eat Cake		68
27	2002	Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway	Self - Guest Announcer	59
28	2003	Posh Nosh	Simon Marchmont	67
29	2003	QI	Self	79
30	2003	Doctor Who: Scream of the Shalka	The Doctor (voice)	66
31	2004	90 Days in Hollywood		0
32	2004	Agatha Christie's Marple	Raymond West	76
33	2005	The Friday Night Project		58
34	2005	Doctor Who	The Great Intelligence	75
35	2005	Doctor Who	Dr Simeon	75
36	2005	8 Out of 10 Cats	Self	71
37	2006	The One Show	Self - Guest	46
38	2006	Above and Beyond	Don Bennett	60
39	2007	The Graham Norton Show	Self	72
40	2007	Would I Lie to You?	Self	77
41	2010	Downton Abbey	Simon Bricker	81
42	2011	The Crimson Petal and the White	Doctor Curlew	72
43	2011	Game of Thrones	Izembaro	85
44	2012	Girls	Jasper	63
45	2012	Gadget Man		70
46	2012	The Fear	Seb Whiting	67
47	2014	The Kumars	Self	50
48	2014	Late Night with Seth Meyers	Self	54
49	2015	Dig	Ian Margrove	62
50	2015	Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter	Self	57
51	2015	Jekyll and Hyde	Sir Roger Bulstrode	63
52	2017	A Series of Unfortunate Events	Man with Beard But No Hair	74
53	2017	Tate Britain's Great Art Walks	Self	0
54	2018	Hang Ups	Leonard Conrad	64
55	2020	Dispatches from Elsewhere	Octavio	67
56	2020	Between the Covers	Self	55
57	2020	Michael McIntyre's The Wheel	Self - Expert	58
58	2021	Marvel Studios Assembled	Self - Classic Loki	72
59	2021	Loki	Classic Loki	82
60	2021	Write Around the World with Richard E Grant	Self - Presenter	0
61	2021	Moley	The Gardener (voice)	60
62	2021	The Outlaws	The Earl	74
63	2022	Ant & Dec's Limitless Win	Self	75
64	2022	RuPaul's Drag Race UK vs The World	Self - Guest Judge	61
65	2022	Suspect	Harry	61
66		Too Much		0
67	2022	Frankly	Self	50
68	2024	Wheel of Fortune	Self - Celebrity Contestant	70
69	2024	The Franchise	Peter Fairchild	67
70	2024	Nautilus	The White Rajah	64