Grant attend university inside Cape Town, South Africa and moved to London in 1982.

Films
Withnail and I (1987) Warlock (1989) How to Get Ahead in Advertising (1989) Mountains of the Moon (1990) Hudson Hawk (1991) L.A. Story (1991) ''Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992) Jack and Sarah (1995) Keep the Aspidistra Flying (1997) (also known in the America as A Merry War) The Little Vampire (2000) Gosford Park (2001) Monsieur N. (2003) TV
Captain Star (1997) Captain Jim Star The Scarlet Pimpernel (1998) as Sir Percy Blakeney Let Them Eat Cake (1999) Marquis de Sade Doctor Who and the Curse of Fatal Death (1999) The (Quite Handsome) 10th Doctor The Hound of the Baskervilles (2002) Jack Stapleton 90 Days in Hollywood (2004) narrator

Animation
Doctor Who: Scream of the Shalka ([http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/doctorwho/shalka/ online]) The Miracle Maker - stop motion story of Jesus Christ

Books
With Nails: The Film Diaries of Richard E. Grant By Design: A Hollywood Novel''