H
ugh Grant's creative approach to his career has yielded a significant financial return. The actor, known for his extensive character backstories, revealed on the Howard Stern show that he once invented an agent, James Howe Ealy, using the surname of an old crush and creating a separate email account. This ruse allowed him to save money by not paying an actual agent's fees. "I saved a fortune," Grant quipped.

    Grant has leveraged his acting career, real estate investments, and art collecting to amass a net worth of around $150 million. He made a significant profit from selling an Andy Warhol painting of Elizabeth Taylor for $25.5 million, which he had purchased for $2.5 million. His involvement in hit films like "Four Weddings And A Funeral," "Notting Hill," and "Love Actually" collectively grossed over $3 billion worldwide, earning him between $10 million and $15 million per film at the height of his rom-com fame.

    Grant's career resurgence began with "Florence Foster Jenkins" in 2016, followed by diverse films and mini-series such as HBO's "The Undoing," Netflix's "A Very British Scandal," and "Paddington 2." He recently settled a lawsuit with Rupert Murdoch's The Sun newspaper for an undisclosed sum.