Richard E. Grant

Richard E. Grant fascinates me because he treats a career as a long act of gratitude. Born in Mbabane, far from any film industry, he turned an outsider's hunger into Withnail, one of cinema's great debuts, then spent decades being reliably brilliant in other people's stories. When recognition finally flooded in for Can You Ever Forgive Me?, he greeted it with an unguarded joy most actors are too cool to show. I find that openness — the diaries, the giddy enthusiasm, the refusal to become jaded — more remarkable than the awards. He reminds me that delight is a professional skill.

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Name (English)

Richard E. Grant

Name (Japanese)

リチャード・E・グラント

Reading

りちゃーど・E・ぐらんと

Born

May 5, 1957 (age 69)

Origin

Mbabane, Eswatini

Occupation

explorer / diarist / paleontologist / stage actor / film actor

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Taurus / Rooster

University

University of Cape Town

• Official sitehttps://www.richard-e-grant.com
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/richard.e.grant/
• Xhttps://x.com/RichardEGrant
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20E.%20Grant
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AA%E3%83%81%E3%83%A3%E3%83%BC%E3%83%89%E3%83%BBE%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B0%E3%83%A9%E3%83%B3%E3%83%88
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q380856

Tags

• explorer
• diarist
• paleontologist

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.