Actor: Hugh Grant

Hugh Grant built a career on charming diffidence in Four Weddings and a Funeral, Notting Hill and Love Actually, and was frank that he found the work unsatisfying.

The second career is much more interesting. About a Boy began it, and Florence Foster Jenkins, Paddington 2, A Very English Scandal and Heretic have all cast him as men whose charm is a weapon or a symptom.

He was a leading campaigner in the Hacked Off press regulation movement following the phone hacking scandal, in which he was personally a victim.