Hugh Grant Trivia
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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
London: he was born in Hammersmith, and in 2023 he spent Christmas Day back in the borough serving lunch to elderly residents who would otherwise have eaten alone.
Q 02Grant played the British Prime Minister in which 2003 ensemble comedy?
Love Actually
Love Actually has him dance through 10 Downing Street to the Pointer Sisters, a scene he dreaded filming and has since called "absolute hell".
Q 03Grant starred opposite Julia Roberts in which 1999 film?
Notting Hill
Notting Hill casts him as a bookseller who, mistaken for a reporter at the film star's press junket, claims to write for Horse & Hound magazine.
Q 04Which 1994 comedy made Grant an overnight international star?
Four Weddings and a Funeral
Four Weddings and a Funeral arrived when, at 32, he was close to giving up acting; it became the most successful British film up to that time.
Q 05Grant plays womanising publisher Daniel Cleaver in which film series?
Bridget Jones
Bridget Jones: he returned as Cleaver in 2004 and again, two decades later, in Mad About the Boy, after reading a script that he says made him cry.
Q 06Grant read English literature at which university?
Oxford
Oxford, where he treated acting as a hobby yet ended up in his first film, a drama made by fellow students and paid for by the university's film foundation.
Q 07Grant began a 13-year relationship with which actress in 1987?
Elizabeth Hurley
Elizabeth Hurley met him on a Spanish film set in 1987, and after they parted in 2000 the two stayed close enough for him to become godfather to her son.
Q 08Hugh Grant played what kind of character in Wonka (2023)?
An Oompa-Loompa
An Oompa-Loompa: director Paul King reread Roald Dahl's poems, heard a cynical, sarcastic voice in them and thought, "That's sort of a bit like Hugh!"
Q 09Which 2024 A24 horror film earned Grant a BAFTA nomination?
Heretic
Heretic casts him as Mr Reed, a genial homeowner who invites two young missionaries in to talk about faith and then tells them the front door is locked on a timer.
Q 10Who was Grant's co-star in Two Weeks Notice (2002)?
Sandra Bullock
Sandra Bullock plays the lawyer who hands in her notice after her billionaire boss calls her away from a friend's big day to help him decide what to wear.
Q 11Which author created Daniel Cleaver, the cad Grant played in 2001?
Helen Fielding
Helen Fielding based her novel loosely on Pride and Prejudice, which is why Cleaver's rival for the heroine is a stuffy barrister named Darcy.
Q 12Who wrote and starred in Sense and Sensibility (1995) alongside Grant?
Emma Thompson
Emma Thompson has said she wrote the part of Edward Ferrars with Grant in mind; her screenplay went on to win an Oscar.
Q 13Hugh Grant voiced the Pirate Captain in a 2012 stop-motion comedy from which studio?
Aardman
Aardman, the studio behind Wallace and Gromit, cast him as a hapless captain who will try anything to win the Pirate of the Year award.
Q 21Who directed Hugh Grant in Sense and Sensibility (1995)?
Ang Lee
Ang Lee, a co-star recalled, was taken aback when Grant and the other actors offered suggestions on set, something he was not used to from a cast, until the two sides adjusted.
Q 22Grant's 1995 arrest came two weeks before the release of which Julianne Moore comedy?
Nine Months
Nine Months was his first Hollywood lead; instead of hiding he went ahead with the publicity tour and apologised in interview after interview.
Q 23Grant played which politician in A Very English Scandal (2018)?
Jeremy Thorpe
Jeremy Thorpe, the Liberal leader tried in 1979 for conspiring to have his former lover murdered, was acquitted but never held office again; the part brought Grant back to British television after decades away.
Q 14Who co-starred with Grant in Music and Lyrics (2007)?
Drew Barrymore
Drew Barrymore plays the woman hired to water his plants, who turns out to be a far better lyricist than the professional his washed-up pop star is working with.
Q 15Which football club does Grant support?
Fulham
Fulham: long before he was famous he spent a summer working as an assistant groundsman at Craven Cottage, the club's home ground.
Q 16Hugh Grant's 2002 film About a Boy was adapted from a novel by which author?
Nick Hornby
Nick Hornby's hero, played by Grant, has never had to work: he lives off the royalties from a hit Christmas song his father wrote.
Q 17Who starred opposite Grant in HBO's The Undoing?
Nicole Kidman
Nicole Kidman plays a psychologist whose husband, Grant's charming cancer doctor, drops out of contact after a murder and becomes the prime suspect.
Q 18What is the name of Grant's villain in Paddington 2?
Phoenix Buchanan
Phoenix Buchanan, a vain actor whose career has dried up, steals a valuable pop-up book and lets Paddington go to prison for the theft.
Q 19Grant played St. Clair Bayfield opposite which star in Florence Foster Jenkins?
Meryl Streep
Meryl Streep plays the tone-deaf soprano, and Grant's Bayfield protects her by hand-picking her audiences and buying up every copy of a newspaper that pans her.
Q 20Who directed Grant in The Gentlemen (2019)?
Guy Ritchie
Guy Ritchie cast him against type as Fletcher, who has turned a gangster's secrets into a film script and offers to sell it back for £20 million.
Q 24Which screenwriter's romantic comedies is Grant most associated with?
Richard Curtis
Richard Curtis is often called his alter ego: Grant says that at the first rehearsal of their first film he looked at the writer, thought "I see, it's you", and simply copied him.
Q 25In The Gentlemen, what is the job of Grant's character Fletcher?
Private investigator
Private investigator: a tabloid editor hires Fletcher to dig up dirt on a drug baron, but he offers to sell what he finds to the baron's own men instead.
Q 26Hugh Grant played six roles in which 2012 film?
Cloud Atlas
Cloud Atlas reuses its cast across six eras, and Grant, usually the charmer, got a run of dark roles; he recalled standing on a German mountain in a cannibal's skirt wishing for "a witty line".
Q 27Grant's first leading film role, in 1987, adapted a novel by which author?
E. M. Forster
E. M. Forster kept the novel, a love story between two men, unpublished in his lifetime because of attitudes to homosexuality; it appeared only in 1971, after his death.
Q 28Grant played which composer in Impromptu (1991)?
Frédéric Chopin
Frédéric Chopin is the frail, timid genius here; it is the novelist George Sand, played by Judy Davis in men's clothes, who does all the pursuing.
Q 29Who co-starred with Grant in the 2009 comedy Did You Hear About the Morgans?
Sarah Jessica Parker
Sarah Jessica Parker and Grant play a separated New York couple hidden in small-town Wyoming after witnessing a murder; after it, he has said, he turned away from romantic comedies.
Q 30Whom did Hugh Grant marry in 2018, his first marriage at 57?
Anna Eberstein
Anna Eberstein, a Swedish television producer, already had three children with him by the time they married in May 2018.