In the late 1970s Grant was an influential figure on the London and New York club scene, where he worked as an actor and singer. In the early 1980s Grant became part of the
New Romantic movement in London, and in 1984, at the age of 23, was named “London's youngest club entrepreneur” by
Time Out magazine for establishing the new concept of ‘One Nighters’ at Legends in
Mayfair, London. This included the hugely successful 'Fresh' on Thursdays. By 1986 Grant had moved into property and project development. In 1993 he started working with Thompson Holdings overseeing several of the group's main interests, such as
Windsor Racecourse,
Queens Park Rangers F.C. premier league football club and the Portuguese luxury resort
Quinta Do Lago. Grant and Richard Thompson then co-founded the film production company Pagoda (1998) with producer
Norma Heyman, which in 2000 saw its first commercial success with the film
Gangster No. 1 starring
Paul Bettany and
Malcolm McDowell. Grant left Thompson Holdings in 2004, to become an independent filmmaker and to establish the film production company Shipwreck Film, where he shot four short films, as well as his first feature ''What's Your Name 41?'' (2005) starring
Con O'Neill and
Ann Mitchell. The film was shown at several international film festivals, including
Raindance Film Festival, the
Berlin International Directors Lounge and the California Independent Film Festival. Grant subsequently wrote, directed and produced three further feature films:
Just Inès (2010);
Coffee Sex You (2014); and the soon to be released
Open My Eyes (2024) starring
Oliver Tobias and
Alissa Jung.
Just Inès starring
Daniel Weyman and the French actress
Caroline Ducey had its world premier at the
Mannheim-Heidelberg International Film Festival (2010) and was then screened at the
Cairo International Film Festival and
FEST Belgrade Serbia. He is currently filming 'Dead Right for Bloomsbury' a documentary film about 'London... a journey through the eyes of a Londoner', and the feature film 'I Want to Marry Someone who has Never been Kissed in a Car' starring
Caroline Ducey.
Soho House commissioned Grant to direct and produce their
Electric Cinema's How To Behave, starring
Benedict Cumberbatch,
Natalie Dormer,
Michael McIntyre,
Nigella Lawson,
James Corden,
Rafe Spall,
Emilia Fox, amongst others. == References ==