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Hugh John Mungo Grant is an English actor and film producer. He has received a Golden Globe Award, a BAFTA, and an Honorary César. His films... have earned more than $2.4 billion from 25 theatrical releases worldwide. Grant achieved international stardom after appearing in Richard Curtis's sleeper hit Four Weddings and a Funeral . He used this breakthrough role as a frequent cinematic persona during the 1990s to deliver comic performances in mainstream films like Mickey Blue Eyes and Notting Hill . By the turn of the 21st century, he had established himself as a leading man skilled with a satirical comic talent. Since the 2000s, Grant has expanded his oeuvre with critically acclaimed turns as a cad in Bridget Jones's Diary , About A Boy , Love Actually , and American Dreamz . Within the film industry, Grant is cited as an anti-film star who approaches his roles like a character actor, with the ability to make acting look effortless. Hallmarks of his comic skills include a nonchalant touch of irony/sarcasm and studied physical mannerisms as well as his precisely-timed dialogue delivery and facial expressions.
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Adam Thirlwell is a British novelist. His work has been translated into thirty languages. Thirlwell was educated at the independent Haberdashers'... Aske's Boys' School, Elstree. He read English at New College, Oxford, where he got the top first. He was a Prize Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford between 2000 and 2007, and worked as assistant editor at the literary magazine Areté. He now lives in London. In 2011 he was the S Fischer Guest Professor of Comparative Literature at the Freie University in Berlin. Thirlwell is the author of two novels, Politics and The Escape described by Milan Kundera as "a novel where the humour is melancholic, the melancholy mischievous, and the talent startling.". He is also the author of a project on the novel and translation, first published in 2007, which was chosen as a book of the year by Tom Stoppard in The Guardian and A. S. Byatt in the Times Literary Supplement. An experimental book with unfolding pages called Kapow! is to be published by Visual Editions. His writing is published in the New York Times, Le Monde, and La Repubblica, as well as the New York Review of Books, the New Republic, and The Believer.
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Herbert Albert Laurens Fisher OM, FRS, PC was an English historian, educator, and Liberal politician. He served as President of the Board of... Education in David Lloyd George's 1916 to 1922 coalition government. Fisher was born in London, the eldest son of Herbert William Fisher , author of Considerations on the Origin of the American War and his wife Mary Louisa Jackson . His sister Adeline Maria Fisher was the first wife of the composer Ralph Vaughan Williams, another sister Florence Henrietta Fisher married both Frederic William Maitland and Francis Darwin. Fisher was a first cousin of Virginia Woolf and her sister Vanessa Bell. He was educated at Winchester and New College, Oxford, where he graduated with a first class degree in 1888 and was awarded a fellowship. Fisher was a tutor in modern history at the University of Oxford. His publications include Bonapartism , The Republican Tradition in Europe and Napoleon . In September 1912, he was appointed as a member of the Royal Commission on the Public Services in India of 1912–1915.
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