42 years ago, I emigrated from Swaziland 2 England, with 1 suitcase, 25 cassettes, Sony Walkman, head full of dreams & a 5 year plan to make it by 30! Waitered in Covent Garden, rented a bedsit for £30 a week, & after 6 months got small acting roles - SWEET DREAMS R MADE OF THIS

We're thrilled to welcome Academy-Award nominated actor Richard E. Grant for an evening of anecdotes & musings as he discusses his brand new memoir #APocketfulOfHappiness , a reflection on finding happiness even on the darkest days.

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Happy 82nd Birthday to Barbra Streisand - When I told her I’d commissioned a 2 foot tall sculpture of her head, she quipped ‘You’re crazy’ ‘I know’ ‘No, you ARE crazy!’ Happily so!! ❤️🎂❤️🎂❤️🎂❤️🎂❤️🎂❤️🎂❤️

Flying solo

A week of night shooting and eyes look like poached oysters and memory cells a spaghetti junction trying to remember lines at 2.20am! 😳😂

DELIGHTED to co-present BEST NEW MUSICAL Olivier Awards this evening with my DragRace pal michelle visage , hosted by Hannah Waddingham. to Operation Mincemeat OPERATION MINCEMEAT!! 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

A few degrees warmer and it finally feels like Spring has sprung! 👌🐝😀🌹

Leaving Leavesdon Studios - love the industrial nature of filming inside these vast faceless warehouses, where you get to make ye olde movie magic inside. Joy of a 4 day week & 2 days off!! Vroom Vrooooooooooooooom 🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀

Learning lines, learning lines …..always that lurking worry that when I wake up, they’ll have abracadabra’d off somewhere unreachable! 😳😂🤞

Ol’ Lizard warming himself up in the Easter Sunshine, having mown the lawn & sprayed the Box plants against yellow caterpillar plague, listening to the incomparable Barbra Streisand

Happy Easter! 🐣🐣🐣🐣🌞🌞🐣🐣

Bye bye Budapest. Big thanks for having me and like Arnie famously quipped ‘I’ll be back’! 👋👋👋👋👋👋👋👋👋👋

Sunday night at the Budapest Opera House 🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶

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In the company of Strangers ……

St Patrick’s celebrations led by Imelda May & hosted by the unstoppable Life Enhancing force that is Clodagh McKenna & Harry Herbert at their Broadspear farm ☘️☘️☘️☘️☘️☘️

In the Pink - 🎶On a Clear Day🎶Barbra Streisand

On the road to the studios in beautiful Budapest to work with Rami Malek, Russell Crowe, Michael Shannon, Leo Woodall, Colin Hanks, Mark O’Brien, John Slattery & Wrenn Schmidt on NUREMBERG

So so proud of Olivia Grant ⭐️🌟⭐️

Celebrating Women's Day and most especially my daughter Olivia Grant on her triumphant win last night for the Zeitgeist Award for her casting work on BARBIE! 👌👏👏👏👏❤️👏👏👏👏