Richard E. Grant: Movies, Awards & Box Office
- films
- 100
- on screen
- 1986–2026
- box office
- $2.58B
- award win
- 1
- average score
- 60
- Born
- May 5, 1957 (age 69)
- Birthplace
- Mbabane, Swaziland (now Eswatini)
- Full name
- Richard Grant Esterhuysen
- Citizenship
- Swazi, British
- Occupations
- Actor, Presenter, Perfumer
- Years active
- 1980-present
- Spouses
- Joan Washington
- Children
- 1
The Best Richard E. Grant Movies
The highest-rated films Richard E. Grant is credited on, by the Movie Echo Score that blends critic reviews, audience ratings and lasting impact. Robin Robin (2021) scores highest, at 88. The full ranking adds the biggest box office hits and the most awarded films.
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Movie Echo Score: Score 88 Robin Robin 2021 · Magpie -
Movie Echo Score: Score 88 Everybody's Talking About Jamie 2021 · Hugo Battersby -
Movie Echo Score: Score 78 Nuremberg 2025 · Sir David Maxwell-Fyfe -
Movie Echo Score: Score 76 Savage House 2026 · Sir Chauncey Savage -
Movie Echo Score: Score 74 Can You Ever Forgive Me? 2018 · Jack Hock -
Movie Echo Score: Score 74 Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard 2021 · Seifert
Richard E. Grant's Career in Numbers
Richard E. Grant's films in numbers — as an actor, not counting appearances as themselves: when they were made, the genres Richard E. Grant works in most and the milestones along the way. The filmography runs from Honest Decent & True (1986) to Ladies First (2026), and the 2010s were the busiest decade.
Richard E. Grant Movies by Decade
- 1980s 7
- 1990s 21
- 2000s 12
- 2010s 23
- 2020s 17
The 2010s were Richard E. Grant's busiest decade, with 23 films.
Richard E. Grant Movies by Genre
- Comedy 22
- Drama 20
- Adventure 8
- Action 7
- Biography 4
- Documentary 4
- Fantasy 3
- Thriller 3
- Animation 3
- Horror 1
Comedy is the genre Richard E. Grant has worked in most, with 22 films, ahead of drama (20).
Richard E. Grant Career Milestones
- First film
- Honest Decent & True 1986
- Biggest box office hit
- Star Wars: Episode IX - The Rise of Skywalker $1.08B worldwide
- Best-rated film
- Robin Robin Movie Echo Score 88
- Newest film
- Ladies First 2026
Richard E. Grant Filmography: Every Movie
Every film Richard E. Grant is credited on, newest first, with the role, the box office and the Movie Echo Score. Rated films average a score of 60. Re-order the list to see the best-rated films or the biggest hits first.
Richard E. Grant Movies as an Actor
80- 2026 Savage House as Sir Chauncey Savage · Comedy Worldwide box office: $571K Movie Echo Score: 76
- 2026
Ladies First Comedy Movie Echo Score: 44 - 2025
100 Nights of Hero as Birdman · Fantasy Worldwide box office: $496K Movie Echo Score: 44 - 2025 Nuremberg as Sir David Maxwell-Fyfe · Biography Worldwide box office: $71.1M Movie Echo Score: 78
- 2025
The Thursday Murder Club as Bobby Tanner · Comedy Movie Echo Score: 73 - 2025
Death of a Unicorn as Odell · Comedy Worldwide box office: $16.5M Movie Echo Score: 40 - 2023
Saltburn as Sir James Catton · Comedy Worldwide box office: $21M Movie Echo Score: 62 - 2023
The Lesson as J.M. Sinclair · Thriller Worldwide box office: $546K Movie Echo Score: 72 - 2022
Persuasion as Sir Walter Elliot · Drama Worldwide box office: $4.8K Movie Echo Score: 45 - 2021 Robin Robin as Magpie · Adventure Worldwide box office: $154 Movie Echo Score: 88
- 2021
Marvel Studios’ 2021 Disney+ Day Special as Classic Loki (archive footage) · Documentary - 2021
The Spine of Night as The Guardian · Action Movie Echo Score: 72 - 2021 Everybody's Talking About Jamie as Hugo Battersby · Biography Movie Echo Score: 88
- 2021
The Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard as Seifert · Action Worldwide box office: $70.1M Movie Echo Score: 53 - 2021 Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard as Seifert · Comedy Movie Echo Score: 74
- 2021
Earwig and the Witch as The Mandrake · Fantasy Worldwide box office: $843K Movie Echo Score: 27 - 2020
Groundhog Dave 2 as Groundhog Dave (voice) · Adventure Worldwide box office: $17.8K - 2019
Star Wars: Episode IX - The Rise of Skywalker as General Pryde · Action Worldwide box office: $1.08B Movie Echo Score: 41 - 2019
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker as Allegiant General Pryde · Adventure Movie Echo Score: 46 - 2019
Master Moley by Royal Invitation as The Gardener (voice) · Animation - 2018
The Nutcracker and the Four Realms as Shiver · Adventure Worldwide box office: $174M Movie Echo Score: 54 - 2018 Can You Ever Forgive Me? as Jack Hock · Biography Worldwide box office: $12.4M Movie Echo Score: 74
- 2017
The Hitman's Bodyguard Action Worldwide box office: $183M Movie Echo Score: 53 - 2017
Logan Action Worldwide box office: $619M - 2016
The Last Dragonslayer as Dragon (voice) · Fantasy - 2015
Teeth Horror - 2014
Queen & Country as Major Cross · Drama Worldwide box office: $156K - 2014
Dom Hemingway Drama Worldwide box office: $1.32M - 2013
1st Night Comedy - 2012
Doctor Who: The Snowmen as Dr. Walter Simeon · Drama - 2012
Kath & Kimderella as Alain the Page · Comedy Worldwide box office: $6.15M - 2012
Zambezia as Cecil (voice) · Adventure - 2012
The Fear as Seb Whiting · Crime Worldwide box office: $10.5K - 2011
How to Stop Being a Loser as Ian · Comedy Worldwide box office: $4.56K - 2011
Horrid Henry: The Movie as Vic Van Wrinkle · Family Worldwide box office: $11M - 2011
The Last Fashion Show as Federico Marinoni · Drama Worldwide box office: $566K - 2011
The Crimson Petal and the White as Doctor Curlew · Drama - 2010
First Night as Adam · Comedy Worldwide box office: $32.7K - 2010
Jackboots on Whitehall as The Vicar (voice) · Comedy Worldwide box office: $20.8K - 2010
The Man Who Married Himself as Olivier · Comedy - 2008
Garden of Eden as Colonel Philip Boyle · Drama - 2007
Always Crashing in the Same Car as James Booth · Drama - 2006
Pulp: The Story of Common People as Narrator · Documentary - 2005
The Story of ‘Fairytale of New York’ as Narrator · Music - 2004
The Story of Bohemian Rhapsody as Narrator (voice) · Documentary - 2004
Tooth as Jarvis Jarvis · Comedy Worldwide box office: $2.35M - 2003
Doctor Who: Scream of the Shalka as The Doctor (voice) · Animation - 2002
The Hound of the Baskervilles as Jack Stapleton · Thriller - 2002
Sherlock: Case of Evil as Mycroft · Adventure - 2001
Hildegarde as Wolf · Adventure - 2000
Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings as Various Characters · Comedy - 2000
The Little Vampire Adventure Worldwide box office: $28M - 1999
The Miracle Maker as John The Baptist (voice) · Animation - 1999
The Match as Gorgeous Gus · Comedy Worldwide box office: $175K - 1999
Doctor Who: The Curse of Fatal Death as The Quite Handsome Doctor · Tv movie - 1998
St. Ives as Major Farquhar Chevening · Drama - 1997
Keep the Aspidistra Flying as Gordon Comstock · Comedy - 1997
A Royal Scandal as George, Prince of Wales · Drama - 1996
Twelfth Night as Sir Andrew Aguecheek · Romance Worldwide box office: $589K - 1996
The Cold Light of Day as Viktor Marek · Drama - 1996
Cold Lazarus as Nick Balmer · Drama - 1995
Jack & Sarah as Jack · Drama Worldwide box office: $219K - 1994
Prêt-à-Porter as Cort Romney · Comedy - 1994
Pink Floyd: The Story as Narrator (voice) · Documentary - 1994
Butter as Gerrard · Comedy - 1994
Hard Times as James Harthouse · Drama - 1993
Suddenly, Last Summer as George Holly · Drama - 1993
Franz Kafka’s It’s a Wonderful Life as Franz Kafka · Comedy - 1992
Bram Stoker's Dracula Drama Worldwide box office: $216M - 1991
L.A. Story Drama Worldwide box office: $28.9M - 1991
Warlock Action - 1990
Henry & June Biography Worldwide box office: $23.5M - 1990
Mountains of the Moon as Oliphant · Drama Worldwide box office: $4.01M - 1989
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Killing Dad (Or How to Love Your Mother) as Berg · Comedy - 1989
Warlock as Giles Redferne · Action Worldwide box office: $9.09M - 1989
How to Get Ahead in Advertising as Denis Dimbleby Bagley · Comedy Worldwide box office: $418K - 1989
How to Get Ahead in Advertising as Denis Dimbleby Bagley · Comedy Worldwide box office: $418K - 1987
Hidden City as Brewster · Thriller - 1987
Withnail & I Drama Worldwide box office: $1.95M - 1986
Honest Decent & True as Moonee Livingstone · Drama
Richard E. Grant in Documentaries & Specials
20- 2023
The Coronation Concert as Self · Music - 2021
An Audience with Adele as Self · Documentary - 2021
Attack of the Hollywood Clichés! as Self - Actor · Documentary Movie Echo Score: 64 - 2021
Agatha & Poirot: Partners in Crime as Self - Host · Documentary - 2021
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Loki as Self - Classic Loki · Documentary - 2020
Ben Platt: Live from Radio City Music Hall as Self · Documentary - 2020
The Skywalker Legacy as Self · Documentary - 2019
7 Up & Me as Self · Documentary - 2019
An Accidental Studio as Self · Documentary - 2015
The Secret World of Lewis Carroll as Himself - Actor · History - 2007
The Blood Is the Life: The Making of ‘Bram Stoker’s Dracula’ as Self (archive footage) · Documentary - 2006
The Secret Policeman’s Ball: The Ball in the Hall as Self · Comedy - 2002
The Making of ‘Gosford Park’ as Self · Documentary - 1999
Withnail and Us as Self · Documentary - 1999
The Peculiar Memories of Bruce Robinson as Self · Documentary - 1999
I Demand to Have Some Booze! as Self · Documentary - 1997
Portrait: Jane Campion and The Portrait of a Lady as Self · Documentary - 1996
Vem Var Dracula as Self · Documentary - 1995
Empire of the Censors as Self - Host · Documentary - 1993
Innocence and Experience: The Making of ‘The Age of Innocence’ as Self · Documentary Worldwide box office: $9.4K
Richard E. Grant: Awards & Nominations
1 win from 6 nominations across 6 award bodies, from 2019 to 2019. Every ceremony is listed newest first, with the category and the film.
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Spirit Awards 1 win from 1 nomination -
Oscars 1 nomination -
BAFTA 1 nomination -
Critics' Choice 1 nomination -
Actor Awards (SAG) 1 nomination -
Golden Globes 1 nomination
- 91st Academy Awards
- Richard E. Grant: Nominated Best Supporting Actor Can You Ever Forgive Me?
- 72nd British Academy Film Awards
- Richard E. Grant: Nominated Best Supporting Actor Can You Ever Forgive Me?
- 24th Critics' Choice Awards
- Richard E. Grant: Nominated Best Supporting Actor Can You Ever Forgive Me?
- 25th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards
- Richard E. Grant: Nominated Outstanding Supporting Male Actor Can You Ever Forgive Me?
- 76th Golden Globe Awards
- Richard E. Grant: Nominated Best Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture Can You Ever Forgive Me?
- 34th Film Independent Spirit Awards
- Richard E. Grant: Win Best Supporting Male Can You Ever Forgive Me?
Who Is Richard E. Grant?
Richard E. Grant was born in Mbabane, Swaziland (now Eswatini) in 1957 and is 69 years old. Credited on films since 1986, as an actor. The background, training and the roles that shaped the career.
Richard E. Grant, born as Richard Grant Esterhuysen on 5th May 1957, is a renowned Swaziland-born English actor, presenter, and perfumer. He started his career with local theater, notably as a member of the Space Theatre Company in Cape Town. His debut in Hollywood was the iconic film Withnail and I (1987), where he played the perennially inebriated character Withnail.
He received widespread recognition for his role as Jack Hock in Marielle Heller's drama Can You Ever Forgive Me? (2018), which led to him bagging the Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Male. He also earned nominations for prestigious awards such as the Academy Award, BAFTA, Golden Globe, and Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Supporting Actor. Over the years, his prowess has been exhibited in films like Warlock (1989), The Age of Innocence (1993), Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019), and numerous others.
Additionally, Grant starred in TV series including Frasier (2004) and Game of Thrones (2016). Remarkably, he took the mantle of directing, with his 2005 film Wah-Wah, loosely based on his childhood experiences. Beyond his acting career, he launched his unisex perfume, JACK, and penned notable works such as The Wah-Wah Diaries: The Making of a Film and A Pocketful of Happiness.
Who Richard E. Grant Makes Movies With
The actors and directors Richard E. Grant shares the most films with. Gary Oldman comes first, with 7 films together, followed by Samuel L. Jackson (6).
Richard E. Grant: Questions & Answers
How many movies Richard E. Grant has made, the biggest hit, the best-rated film, the award record and more, answered from the filmography above.
How many movies has Richard E. Grant been in?
Richard E. Grant is credited on 100 films, from 1986 to 2026. The filmography on this page lists every one of them, newest first, with the role and the Movie Echo Score.
What is Richard E. Grant's highest-grossing movie?
Star Wars: Episode IX - The Rise of Skywalker (2019) is Richard E. Grant's biggest box office hit, with $1.08B worldwide, ahead of Logan (2017) ($619M). Across every film with box office figures, Richard E. Grant's movies have made $2.58B.
Richard E. Grant's biggest hits What is the best Richard E. Grant movie?
By the Movie Echo Score, which blends critic reviews, audience ratings and lasting impact, Richard E. Grant's best-rated film is Robin Robin (2021) with a score of 88, followed by Everybody's Talking About Jamie (2021) (88).
Best Richard E. Grant movies, ranked Has Richard E. Grant won an Oscar?
Richard E. Grant has been nominated for an Oscar but has not won one yet. Across every ceremony in the awards database, Richard E. Grant has 1 win from 6 nominations.
How old is Richard E. Grant?
Richard E. Grant is 69 years old, born on May 5, 1957 in Mbabane, Swaziland (now Eswatini).
What is Richard E. Grant's newest movie?
The most recent film on Richard E. Grant's filmography is Savage House (2026), in the role of Sir Chauncey Savage.
Who does Richard E. Grant work with most often?
Richard E. Grant shares the most films with Gary Oldman (7 films), Samuel L. Jackson (6 films) and Bill Paterson (4 films).
The Best Richard E. Grant Movies, Ranked
Top rated, most awarded and biggest box office hits from 100 credits.
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