Hugh Bonneville
Hugh Bonneville
Hugh Richard Bonneville Williams, known professionally as Hugh Bonneville, is a British stage, television and film actor. He is best known for playing Robert Grantham in the ITV period drama series Downton Abbey from 2010 until 2015, and has been nominated for BAFTA, Emmy and Golden Globe awards...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth10 November 1963
CityLondon, England
couple ideas keys
You have no idea what's going to happen [in Downton Abbey] until you get the script. We roughly knew a couple of the key points that were going to happen, but when I got the last episode, I turned to the last page to check that I was still alive.
girlfriend mind lasts
I had girlfriends, but settling down was the last thing on my mind.
soap want reason
The press mainly want to destroy a program by revealing what's coming up. For some reason, soaps like doing that.
dream athletic
Am I athletic? In my dreams.
compass excellent internals
I have an excellent internal compass.
two done goes-on
We were all expecting to finish [Downton Abbey] after Series 1, actually. And then, it got extended to Series 3, and that's when two of our much loved and much missed friends left. And then, it was going to be done with Series 5, but Julian Fellowes said, "I'd like to do one more." So it's been a series of extensions, rather than wondering how much longer we can go on for.
years careers people
It's never happened to me before, in my career, and never will again. It's a one-off experience. It's a rare treat to have a cast together for six years. Crews come and go, and a few of them have been there throughout, but not many. It's rare, in my experience, after 26 years, to have had a proper company in a show that enjoys each other's company, and who is such a fine bunch of people and actors. To have struck a chord with people, and to have had that combination, is extremely rare.