The net worth of British actor Hugh Grant is as swoon-worthy as the charming movies he has starred in to etch an enduring mark in the hearts of rom-com fans.
A successful film career with a string of heart-warming romantic comedies — Notting Hill (1999), Bridget Jones’s Diary (2001), Two Weeks Notice (2002) and Love Actually (2003) — established him in leading roles. However, his recent outings as Oompa Loompa in Wonka (2023) and the psychotic Mr Reed in Heretic (2024) show that romantic comedy isn’t the only thing that makes Hugh Grant the virtuoso he is.
He transitioned into darker characters with Paddington 2 (2017), the British historical drama miniseries A Very English Scandal (2018) and the American psychological thriller show The Undoing (2020). He challenged his rom-com image further with Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (2022), Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves (2023) and Heretic, the latter of which is a horror movie by A24. We cannot help but admire this career renaissance and the various roles.
Besides his charming onscreen presence, he is a film producer and has also written comedy sketches.
How has all these impacted Grant’s net worth? Let’s find out.
What is the net worth of Hugh Grant?
Celebrity Net Worth states that Grant’s estimated net worth is around USD 150 million in 2024. His professional journey began in the early 1980s with small roles in theatre and television. Maurice (1987) became Grant’s first noted credited film role in which he played Clive Durham. It earned him the Best Actor Award at the Venice Film Festival alongside co-star James Wilby. Since then there has been no looking back.
Today, Hugh Grant has become a brand in himself at Hollywood. A smooth transition from a quintessential rom-com star to a character actor portraying thrilling and eerie roles proves he is far from slowing down.
Hugh Grant’s early life and the beginning of his film career
Before Maurice, Grant studied literature English literature. In 1982, he appeared in the student film Privileged and joined the Oxford University Dramatic Society. He graduated the same year and occasionally performed in radio commercials. He even tried writing a novel but eventually found his calling in acting.
Parade states that during those days, Grant worked several jobs as an assistant groundsman at Fulham Football Club, tutoring, producing radio commercials and writing comedy sketches for TV shows. He even started a sketch-comedy group called The Jockeys of Norfolk, which grew fairly successful after tours of the London pub circuit and the 1985 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
While Maurice set him up in the acting arena, the 1994 hit romantic comedy Four Weddings and a Funeral catapulted him to stardom.
How much did Hugh Grant make for Four Weddings and a Funeral?
Four Weddings and a Funeral is a milestone film in Hugh Grant’s successful career. It stars Andie MacDowell, James Fleet and Simon Callow and has an IMDb rating of 7.1. Grant plays a handsome English bachelor Charles, who comes across the beautiful American woman Carrie (MacDowell) and falls in love. However, his timid nature and the inability to express his feelings thwart all possibilities of a relationship, until fate brings them together again and again.
The film was a massive box-office success. According to Box Office Mojo, it made over USD 245.7 million and is considered among the highest-grossing British movies. Reportedly, Grant took home a salary of around USD 100,000 for playing the lead role.
Hugh Grant won Best Actor at the BAFTA and Golden Globe Awards while the film was nominated for two Oscars.
In 1995, Hugh Grant played Samuel Faulkner, a child psychologist who freaks out upon finding his girlfriend Rebecca Taylor (Julie Moore) is pregnant in Nine Months. The critically acclaimed film earned him between USD 5 million to USD 7 million, states The Richest.
Hugh Grant’s salary grows manifold with Notting Hill and Mickey Blue Eyes
Another brilliant box-office collection of his career came in 1999 with Notting Hill. Hugh Grant’s net worth saw a big boost as he reportedly took home a salary between USD 7 million to USD 10 million to star opposite Julia Roberts in the iconic love story. Box Office Mojo reports that the film raked in over USD 363.8 million.
Grant plays William Thacker, a regular bookstore owner in Notting Hill. Roberts plays popular movie star Anna Scott who falls in love with him. However, her public life and the paparazzi following complicate their relationship. Of all the movies Hugh Grant has starred in, Notting Hill is arguably the most iconic.
The same year, Grant appeared in Mickey Blue Eyes as art auctioneer Michael Felgate who falls in love with Gina Vitale (played by Jeanne Tripplehorn). While he is smitten by her, Gina’s gangster family’s criminal dealings pose a roadblock. According to The Richest, Grant also made USD 7.5 million from this film.
Such projects and lucrative earnings contributed to the colossal net worth of Hugh Grant.
Grant’s career advances and salary goes up with Two Weeks Notice, Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason and Love Actually
By the early 2000s, Hugh Grant had become a household name. In 2002, he played the role of George Wade, a womanising head of a legal firm who uses a cohort of beautiful ladies with questionable legal knowledge as his counsel in Two Weeks Notice. Sandra Bullock plays lawyer Lucy Kelson who despises George’s firm. Yet, she joins it to destroy it from within. However, when Lucy is about to leave, she realises, she has fallen for George.
The Richest states that Hugh Grant collected a salary of around USD 12.5 million for this role, adding to his soaring net worth.
The following year, Grant played the British Prime Minister in Love Actually, depicting the lives of eight different couples. The romantic Christmas movie boosted Hugh Grant’s net worth by USD 5 million, states The Richest.
The 2001 Bridget Jones movie, which saw him as the handsome womaniser Daniel Cleaver, was a blockbuster hit and earned over USD 272.5 million. Grant was so brilliant that it is hard to choose between him and Collin Firth on screen. He reprised his character in 2004 in Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason. Despite his comparatively smaller role, The Richest states he took home USD 5 million.
Although he was not a part of the third film Bridget Jones’s Baby (2016), he will return for the fourth instalment of Renée Zellweger-led Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy, releasing in February 2025.
Hugh Grant’s Music and Lyrics salary boosted his net worth
Hugh Grant paired with Drew Barrymore for Music and Lyrics (2007). He plays singer Alex Fletcher who’s in his twilight years. While his melodies are great, his lyrics need work. Enter Sophie Fisher (Barrymore) who helps reinvent his lyrics. According to The Richest, the rom-com boosted Hugh Grant’s net worth by USD 10 million.
Hugh Grant reinvents himself with Paddington 2 and Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
In the new innings of his career, Hugh Grant aimed to thwart his image as a master of the romantic comedy genre and challenged himself with different roles that earned him new laurels.
In 2016, Grant worked alongside Meryl Streep in Florence Foster Jenkins. He played Sir Clair Bayfield, partner of the titular character. While his salary from the film is not known, Grant received immense critical acclaim along with Golden Globe, SAG, Critics Choice and BAFTA nominations. This implies he must have received a big slice of the pie that added to Hugh Grant’s net worth.
The following year he made yet another massive mark with Paul King’s Paddington 2. He played Phoenix Buchanan, the thief neighbour of the Brown family who stole a rare book from Samuel Gruber’s antique shop. His supporting role earned him a salary of USD 5 million, according to The Richest.
In 2019, he was part of Guy Ritchie’s multi-star cast ensemble of The Gentlemen. The film has a reported budget of around USD 22 million, implying his earnings were perhaps not as high as other projects.
The 2022 comedy thriller movie, Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery sees Hugh Grant in a cameo. While his salary for the brief appearance as the domestic partner of detective Benoit Blanc is not known, it cemented his career renaissance.
Hugh Grant’s Wonka earnings
Next follows Wonka in 2023. Koimoi revealed Grant earned about USD 10 million for playing Oompa Loompa, the mystical lilliput chocolate factory worker in the Timothée Chalamet-led reimagination. However, the experience wasn’t good for him.
In a press conference, Grant remarked about wearing the special suit and wig — “It was like a crown of thorns, very uncomfortable.” “I made a big fuss about it. I couldn’t have hated the whole thing more,” he added.
Hugh Grant’s television productions
Besides being a leading man in popular and critically acclaimed films, the Unfrosted actor has worked in several television series. Some of the most popular ones include The Last Place on Earth (1985), Till We Meet Again (1989), The Nanny (1993-1999) A Very English Scandal (2018), The Undoing (2020) and The Regime (2024).
All these projects have catapulted Hugh Grant’s net worth to higher reaches.
Real estate assets and car collection
Over the years, the British actor has indulged in several luxury properties in England and Sweden. In 2023, Mirror reported that he owns a six-bedroom home in a posh Chelsea neighbourhood. Reportedly, he paid GBP 17.5 million (around USD 22 million) four years ago. The Victorian-style mansion has frame sash windows and a brick exterior.
The outlet also mentions he owns a lavish property in Notting Hill which he rents out for GBP 7,000 (around USD 9,000) for a week. He bought it for GBP 10 million (around USD 12 million) in 2016 with his wife.
Mirror also reports that he owns another property in Sweden’s Torekov village. According to a 2015 report by The Local Sweden, the white bungalow with a large garden boasts 122 m sq. Grant lapped it up for USD 704,000 in October of that year.
The staggering net worth of Hugh Grant also makes way for a robust car collection — including a Ferrari F12 TDG, worth GBP 240,000 (around USD 305,500), an Audi R8, an Aston Martin Vanquish and a Ferrari California.
Hugh Grant’s personal life
Hugh John Mungo Grant was born on 9 September 1960. While he has kept his personal life private, Grant has been linked to several women throughout his career. He dated actor-model Elizabeth Hurley in the 2000s.
Later, Grant was involved with Tinglan Hong, a businesswoman of Chinese descent. The former couple share two children — daughter Tabitha born in September 2011 and son Felix born in December 2012, states Marie Claire.
Around the same time, rumours about him dating Anna Eberstein, co-founder of Ace Slippers, a London-based Scandinavian sock company were also afloat. She gave birth to their first child, John in early 2012. The couple had another child in 2015 and a third baby arrived in 2018, a few months before they tied the knot.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Hugh Grant has three children with wife Anna Eberstein and two with former partner Tinglan Hong.
The 1994 romantic comedy film ‘Four Weddings and a Funeral’ made Hugh Grant a household name. He is also famous for iconic rom-coms like ‘Notting Hill’, ‘Two Week's Notice’ and the ‘Bridget Jones’ franchise.
According to ‘Celebrity Net Worth’, Hugh Grant has a net worth of 150 million.
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