"Growing up in suburbia, Hugh Grant won a scholarship to Oxford, going up to New College in 1979. Though considering a career as an art historian, here he tried his hand at student drama, at one point featuring in Hamlet -- performed in Star Trek costumes.

"Before this, his efforts onstage had only served to bring about his greatest humiliation. During a school play, he was called upon to sing 'If They Could See Me Now,' but came in way out-of-key, having to stop and start again. He still recalls the laughing, and the pointing..."