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Born. Richard Grant Esterhuysen(1. May 1. 95. 7 (age 6. Mbabane, Swaziland. Residence. London, England. Nationality. British and Swazi[1]Other names. Richard Grant. Occupation. Actor, screenwriter, director.
Years active. 19. Spouse(s)Joan Washington (1. Children. 2Websitewww. Richard E. Grant (born Richard Grant Esterhuysen; [2][3] 5 May 1. Swazi- English actor, screenwriter, director and perfumier.[4] He came to public attention in 1. Withnail in the film Withnail and I, and achieved recognition as John Seward in the 1.
Bram Stoker's Dracula. More recently he played Dr. Zander Rice in the 2. Logan. He is also known for his role as Izembaro in the sixth season of the HBO series Game of Thrones. Early life[edit]Grant was born Richard Grant Esterhuysen in Mbabane, Swaziland. His father, Henrik Esterhuysen, was head of education for the British government administration in the British Protectorate of Swaziland.[5][6] His father had English and Dutch/Afrikaner ancestry and his mother was of English and German descent.[7][8]As a boy, Grant went to primary school at St Mark's, a local government school in Mbabane that had only recently become racially integrated.
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When Grant was ten years old, he witnessed his mother commit adultery on the back seat of a car with his father's best friend, which subsequently led to his parents' divorce.[9] This event inspired Grant to keep a daily diary, which he has continued to do ever since.[1. Grant wears a watch on each wrist, one given to him by his dying father, permanently set on Swaziland time.[1. He is a dual citizen of the United Kingdom and Swaziland.[1]Grant attended secondary school at Waterford Kamhlaba United World College of Southern Africa (UWCSA), an independent school just outside Mbabane, where he was a day scholar. Grant studied English and drama at the University of Cape Town. He adopted his stage name when he moved to Britain as an adult and registered with Equity.
Grant was a member of the Space Theatre Company in Cape Town before moving to London in 1. He later stated, "I grew up in Swaziland when it was mired in a 1.
The kind of English spoken where I grew up was a period English sound and when I came to England people said, 'how strange'. Charles Sturridge, who directed Brideshead Revisited for TV, said, 'you speak English like someone from the 1. Grant's first film role was the perpetually inebriated title character in Withnail and I, which has established a large cult following. Following this film, Grant started appearing in Hollywood films, quickly establishing himself as a powerful character actor in a wide array of films, from blockbuster studio movies to small independent projects.
Over the past twenty years, Grant has had strong supporting roles in the films Henry & June, L. A. Story, The Player, The Age of Innocence, The Portrait of a Lady, Spice World, Gosford Park, Bright Young Things, and Penelope. While filming L. A. Story with Steve Martin, the pair communicated by fax in what became for both an hilarious dialogue: "I kept these faxes, which grew to a stack more than 2in thick, because they entertained me, and because I thought they were valuable aesthetic chunks from a screeching mind, a stream- of- consciousness faucet spewing sentences – sometimes a mile long – none of it rewritten, and bearing just the right amount of acid and alkaline."[1. In 1. 99. 5, Grant starred as the titular character in Peter Capaldi's short film Franz Kafka's It's a Wonderful Life. The film won the 1. Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film.
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Grant has twice portrayed the Doctor from Doctor Who, both outside the main continuity. In the comedy sketch Doctor Who and the Curse of Fatal Death, he portrayed a version of the Tenth Doctor, referred to as the Quite Handsome Doctor. He also voiced a version of the Ninth Doctor for the BBC original animated webcast Scream of the Shalka. The latter had intended to be the official Ninth Doctor prior the revival of the TV series. In August, 2. 01.
BBC announced that Grant would join the cast of Doctor Who for "The Snowmen", in which he plays a villain, Dr. Walter Simeon.[1. He appeared again in the following episode, "The Bells of Saint John" as the Great Intelligence, one of the Second Doctor's most infamous villains and, prior to "The Snowmen" (played by Ian Mc. Kellen), was last seen in The Abominable Snowmen and The Web of Fear.
Grant reprises the role in the series 7 finale, "The Name of the Doctor". Grant as The Voice for 2+2+2 at Heavy Entertainment, London. On 1 December 2. 00. Grant turned real life investigator when, with the help of BBC Newsnight, he exposed a $9. AIDS cure.[1. 5][1.
Grant appeared as "The Voice" in 2+2+2 at American Nights at The King's Head Theatre, from 3 to 2. July 2. 00. 7, and in 2. London- based comedy Filth and Wisdom. On 2. 2 November 2. North London Collegiate School in north London as part of their Performing Arts Centre Opening Festival,[1.
Laurence Olivier Awards.[1. In 2. 00. 8, he made his musical theatre debut with Opera Australia, playing the role of Henry Higgins in My Fair Lady, at the Theatre Royal, Sydney, a role he reprised in 2. Lyric Opera of Chicago. In 2. 00. 9. he played Alain Reille in Yasmina Reza's one- act play God of Carnage at the Theatre Royal, Bath: and subsequently at Cheltenham, Canterbury, Richmond, Brighton and Milton Keynes.[1.
In 2. 01. 0 he made his only appearance in a music video, when short lived Bristol band The Chemists hired him to appear in their video for "This City"; the band split the same year. This appearance also followed up his previous involvement with the band the year before, in which he spoke the lyrics to "This City" to background music, as part of the intro and outro tracks on their only album Theories of Dr. Lovelock. Grant has written an autobiography and a novel called By Design that is set in Hollywood.
Richard E. Grant was a mentor on the British Airways Great Britons Programme.[2. In March 2. 01. 3 Grant starred as intelligence analyst Brian Jones in David Morley's drama The Iraq Dossier, with Peter Firth, Anton Lesser, David Caves, and Lindsay Duncan. It recounted the story of how British Ministry of Defence Intelligence expert Jones had tried to warn that his government's September Dossier on Iraq's Weapons of Mass Destruction was inaccurate.[2. On 9 May 2. 01. 5 Grant gave a reading at VE Day 7. A Party to Remember in Horse Guards Parade, London. In 2. 01. 6 joined the HBO series Game of Thrones in Season 6 as Izembaro.[2. In 2. 01. 7, he starred as the main antagonist of Logan, in which he gained positive critical reception for his performance.
Wah- Wah[edit]Grant wrote and directed the 2. Wah- Wah, loosely based on his own childhood experiences. A screenwriter recommended he write a screenplay, after reading Grant's memoirs of his Withnail and I experience.
The film took him over seven years to complete,[2. Nicholas Hoult in the lead role, with Gabriel Byrne, Miranda Richardson, Julie Walters and Emily Watson. Grant kept a diary of the experience, later published as a book (The Wah- Wah Diaries). The book received positive reviews from critics, many of whom were impressed by the honesty of the tale, especially in regard to his difficult relationship with the "inexperienced" producer Marie- Castille Mention- Schaar.[2. Grant stated in subsequent interviews that she was a "control freak out of control", and that he would "never see her again as long as [he] live[s]."[2. In a BBC interview, he again mentioned his "disastrous" relationship with Mention- Schaar.
He related that he had received only five emails from her in the last two months of pre- production, and that she rarely turned up on the set at all. She failed to obtain clearance firstly for song rights, and secondly to actually film in Swaziland. For the last infraction Grant was eventually forced to meet with the King of Swaziland to seek clemency.[2.
Steve Buscemi Biography - Childhood, Life Achievements & Timeline Steve Buscemi is a famous American actor, writer and director who is best- known for his role in a number of commercially successful hits and indie films including, ‘New York Stories’, ‘Mystery Train’, ‘Parting Glances’ and ‘Reservoir Dogs’. Apart from acting in films, he has also carved a place for himself in the world of television and has directed many works including, ‘Lonesome Jim’, ‘The Sopranos’, ‘Oz’ and ’3. Walk’. He earned a number of prestigious awards for the television series, ‘Boardwalk Empire’. Before his acting career took off, he was in fact, a firefighter at ‘Engine Company 5. Little Italy’ neighborhood in New York City. He is particularly known for his ‘bad- guy’ roles, some of which catapulted him to international stardom. He has made audiences laugh and cry with his extraordinary character portrayal on shows and the unique roles that he chose to play in critically- acclaimed hits like ‘The Sopranos’, ‘Reservoir Dogs’, ‘Fargo’ and ‘The Big Lebowski’ to name a few.
Throughout his career, Buscemi has been a flag- bearer in terms of doing off- beat films and also playing interesting comical and/or villainous roles in commercial blockbusters. Childhood & Early Life. Steven Vincent Buscemi was born to Dorothy and John Buscemi in Brooklyn, New York. He is of English- Dutch- Italian descent and was raised as a staunch Roman Catholic. He studied at the Valley Stream Central High School from where he graduated in 1.
When he was in school, he wrestled for the varsity group and was also a member of the drama troupe at the same time. He enrolled at Nassau Community College for a short spell before moving to Manhattan to study theatre at the Lee Strasberg Institute. After he completed his education, he gave a civil service test in 1. New York City firefighter with ‘Engine Company 5. Career. One of his initial films was ‘Parting Glances’ in 1. He also starred in an episode of the television series, ‘Miami Vice’, where he portrayed the character of Rickles. In 1. 98. 7, he starred in ‘Kiss Daddy Goodnight’ and ‘Heart’, followed by ‘Call Me’ and ‘Heart of Midnight the next year.
His other early films include, ‘Slaves of New York’ and ‘Tales from the Darkside’. Starting with 1. 99. Hollywood when he appeared in ‘Kings of New York’ and ‘Millers Crossing’. The latter became the first of the six films in which Buscemi would work with the Coen Brothers. In 1. 99. 1, he was seen in another Coen Brothers film, ‘Barton Fink’, where he played the role of a bellboy, Chet. He bagged his first lead roles in the films, ‘In the Soup’ and in Quentin Tarantino’s hit film, ‘Reservoir Dogs’ the next year. From 1. 99. 3 to 1.
Rising Sun’, ‘The Adventures of Pete & Pete’, ‘The Hudsucker Proxy’, ‘Pulp Fiction’, ‘Floundering’, ‘Billy Madison’ and ‘Desperado’. He appeared in some of the most important films of his life in 1. He was seen in the movies, ‘Fargo’, ‘Escape from L. A.’, ‘Trees Lounge’ and ‘Kansas City’. From 1. 99. 7 to 1. Con Air’, ‘The Big Lebowski’, ‘The Imposters’, ‘The Wedding Singer’ and ‘Big Daddy’. In most of these films, he often played characters that were neurotic and paranoid.
The year 2. 00. 1 proved to be an extremely momentous one for the actor. He won numerous awards for his role as Seymour in ‘Ghost World’, which is considered one of his most successful movies till date. He also starred in ‘The Grey Zone’, ‘Double Whammy’ and ‘Monsters, Inc’ the same year.
In 2. 00. 2, he contributed the single, ‘Broadway Song’ to Lou Reed’s album, ‘The Raven’. He also contributed the poems, ‘Old Poe’ and ‘The Cask’. The next year, he made a guest- appearance as himself on ‘The Simpsons’. The same year, he was seen in ‘The Laramie Project’, ’1. Moons’ and ‘Mr. Deeds’. In 2. 00. 4, he joined the cast and crew of ‘The Sopranos’ as Tony Blundetto, a role which earned him an Emmy Award nomination. He had previously directed an episode of the show, which went on to become one of the most critically- acclaimed episodes.
He also provided the voice for ‘Wesley’ in ‘Home on the Range’. He directed and starred in ‘Interview’ and also appeared as ‘Dwight’ on an episode of ‘The Simpsons’ in 2.
More television appearances followed when he was seen in five episodes of ’3. Rock’ the same year. One of his films, ‘Romance & Cigarettes’ had mixed reviews. In 2. 00. 9 and 2. John Rabe’, ‘The Messenger’, ‘Handsome Harry’ and ‘Grown Ups’. However, he got his biggest career breakthrough in the television series, ‘Boardwalk Empire’, for which he won numerous awards as well.
Up until 2. 01. 3, he appeared in ‘On the Road’, ‘Hotel Transylvania’, ‘The Incredible Burt Wonderstone’, ‘Monsters University’, ‘Grown Ups 2’ and ‘Khumba’. Major Works. He starred in the 2.
Ghost World’, which became a commercial success and congregated a cult following. The film went on to collect a total of $8,7. He won a number of prestigious awards and nominations for this film, which is largely considered one of his major works.‘Boardwalk Empire’, a television series that aired on HBO from 2. He played the role of Enoch ‘Nucky’ Thompson in the series and received a number of distinguished honors for his role including the Screen Actors Guild Awards and the Golden Globe Awards. The series received tremendously positive feedback and earned a number of Emmy Awards and nominations. Awards & Achievements. He won the Independent Spirit Award for ‘Best Supporting Actor’ for ‘Reservoir Dogs’, in 1.
In 2. 00. 1, he won the Chicago Film Critics Association Award for ‘Best Supporting Actor’ for ‘Ghost World’. He also received the Vancouver Film Critics Circle Award for ‘Best Actor’ for the same movie. He won a Golden Globe Award for ‘Best Actor- Television Series Drama’ for ‘Boardwalk Empire’, in 2. This role also earned him two Screen Actors Guild Awards for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series for ‘Boardwalk Empire’ (2. Personal Life & Legacy. He has been married to Jo Andres since 1. He currently lives in Brooklyn.
In 2. 00. 3, he was arrested following the protesting of the shutting of his previous firehouse. He also gave a speech supporting higher wages for firefighters. Trivia. This famous Hollywood actor and Norm Mac. Donald voiced the gingerbread men in the renowned AT& T Christmas commercial.