Richard E Grant Bio Wiki Age Height Wife Movies Loki and Net Worth

Richard E Grant is a renowned Swazi-English actor and presenter. He had his film debut as Withnail in the comedy Withnail and I. He also appeared as Jack Hock in Marielle Heller’s drama film Can You Ever Forgive Me? For his role, he won various awards including the Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Male.

Moreover, he received Academy Awards, BAFTA, Golden Globe, and Screen Actors Guild Award nominations for Best Supporting Actor. Grant also had supporting roles in the feature films How to Get Ahead in Advertising, L.A. Story, Hudson Hawk, The Player, Bram Stoker’s Dracula, and The Age of Innocence. In addition, he is known for his roles in television like Doctor Who, Downton Abbey, Girls, Game of Thrones, and Loki.

He was born on May 5, 1957, in Mbabane, Swaziland (now Eswatini). Grant is65 years old.

He is a man of tall stature. Grant stands at the height of6 ft 2 in(Approx 1. 85 m).

He was born to his hardworking parents in Mbabane, Swaziland. Grant’s parents areHenrik Esterhuysenwho was head of education for the British government administration in the British protectorate of Swaziland andLeonne. He holds Swazi-English nationality and is of English, Dutch/Afrikaner, and German ancestry. Grant grew up with his younger brother, Stuart, an accountant in Johannesburg, from whom he is estranged. When he was 10, he witnessed his mother commit adultery in a car with his father’s best friend, which subsequently led to his parent’s divorce.

He was hitched to his loving wife voice coachJoan Washingtonin 1986. Joan and Grant had one daughterOlivia, and a stepson,Tom. His wife Joan died on September 2, 2021, after being diagnosed with stage four lung cancer. Moreover, he used to wear a watch on each wrist, one given to him by his dying father, permanently set on Swaziland time. Also, he is an atheist and an avid supporter of Premier League football club West Ham United.

Grant launched his new unisex perfume, JACK, exclusively at Liberty of Regent Street, London in April 2014. In collaboration with his daughter, he runs the perfume business. In addition, he released a memoir, A Pocketful of Happiness, mostly written in the last year of his wife’s life in September 2022.

He studied in a primary school at St Mark’s, a local government school in Mbabane. Later, he joined the secondary school at Waterford Kamhlaba United World College of Southern Africa, an independent school near Mbabane. Grant arrived at the University of Cape Town to study English and drama in May 1976.

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Grant joined the cast of the Disney+ and Marvel Cinematic Universe series Loki as Classic Loki, an older variant of Loki in March 2020. Classic Loki faked his death to escape being killed by Thanos and decided to live his life in seclusion until he became lonely. He has the ability to conjure larger, more elaborate illusions than Loki. Further, the series takes place after the events of the film Avengers: Endgame.

Grant appeared in three episodes as Izembaro in 2016 in the HBO series Game of Thrones in Season 6. Game of Thrones is fantasy drama television series created by David Benioff and D. B. Weiss for HBO. Moreover, the show concluded on May 19, 2019, with 73 episodes broadcast over eight seasons.

He appeared as Allegiant General Enric Pryde in the 2019 epic space opera film, Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. Allegiant is a high-ranking general & second-in-command of the First Order (later the Final Order), who previously served in the Galactic Empire.

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. His first official Doctor Who appearance in the 2012 Christmas special, titled “The Snowmen”, in which he plays the villain, Walter Simeon. Later, he reprised the role in “The Bells of Saint John” and in the Series 7 finale, “The Name of the Doctor”.

Grant is a renowned Swazi-English actor and presenter who has an estimated net worth of$4 Million.

Grant is a man of tall stature and is 6 ft 2 in.

He has an estimated net worth of $4 Million attained from working as a Swazi-English actor and presenter since 1980.