Richard E. Grant: Biography, Movies & Photos

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1Father of Olivia Grant.
2One stepson, Tom.
3Studied English and drama at university in Cape Town, South Africa.
4His father was the last minister of education in the British colony of Swaziland before independence in 1968.
5Played The Doctor in a line of BBC animated Doctor Who (1963) adventures showcased on the Internet.

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6Had a piano suite composed for him by Canadian artist Emm Gryner.
7He was one of the guests at King Charles III's and Queen Camilla's wedding.
8Took part in a special celebrity edition of Blind Date on The Prince's Trust 30th Birthday: Live (2006). He and actor Sir Roger Moore lost to The X Factor UK (2004)'s Chico Slimani, who got to date Barry Humphries.
9He has two roles in common with both David Collings and David Warner. 1) Collings played Bob Cratchit in Scrooge (1970), Warner played him in A Christmas Carol (1984) and Grant played him in A Christmas Carol (1999). 2) Grant played The Doctor in Comic Relief: Doctor Who - The Curse of Fatal Death (1999) and Doctor Who: Scream of the Shalka (2003), Collings played him in the Big Finish audio drama "Full Fathom Five" and Warner played him in the Big Finish audio dramas "Sympathy for the Devil" and "Masters of War".
10He was also the narrator/performer for Bram Stoker's Dracula Book on tape.
11Is allergic to alcohol. He can have a drink and keep it down for about 10 minutes, but will be severely ill for 24 hours afterward.
12Loves new smells. Richard believes that smells evoke memories, so he loves to smell new books, cars, sofas, people.
13Wears two watches. The one on his right wrist was given to him by his late father and has Swaziland time. The one on his left wrist is set to British time.
14The initial E in his name came about because there was already someone registered with Equity as Richard Grant. Richard was born Richard Grant Esterhuysen. So with permission of the other Richard Grant and Equity, he added the E. to his name.
15According to his Wah-Wah Diaries, he was offered a major role in the remake of Flight of the Phoenix (2004).
16He has two roles in common with his Corpse Bride (2005) co-star Christopher Lee. 1) Lee played Sherlock Holmes in Sherlock Holmes and the Deadly Necklace (1962), Sherlock Holmes and the Leading Lady (1991), and Sherlock Holmes: Incident at Victoria Falls (1992), while Grant played him in The Other Side (1992). 2) Lee played Holmes' brother Mycroft Holmes in The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1970) while Grant played him in Sherlock (2002).
17Unlike other actors to take on the role of The Doctor from Doctor Who in their careers, he is the only one to play the role ("Scream of the Shalka") before returning as another major character in the series ("The Snowmen" as Dr. Simeon/The Great Intelligence).
18Attended the wedding of media mogul Rupert Murdoch to former model Jerry Hall in 2016.
19Stated in The Secret World of Lewis Carroll (2015) that Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll is one of his favorite books and that he has re-read it every year since he was seven.
20As a struggling actor in 1983, he was renting a Notting Hill bedsit in London for £30 per week. Thirty-six years later, he stood outside that very same residence to announce on his Twitter feed that he'd been Oscar-nominated for Can You Ever Forgive Me? (2018), his very first nomination.

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