Where did Cary Grant grow up and live?

📍15 Hughenden Road, Horfield, Bristol BS7 8LT, England

1904 – 1920

“I was born Archibald Alexander Leach on the 18th of January 1904 in Horfield, Bristol, in a terraced house in a working-class neighbourhood. My father was a trouser presser, our home modest. My mother Elsie was committed to a mental institution when I was nine, and my father told me she had gone on holiday and then later said she had died. I discovered the truth when I was thirty-one. In the meantime I had run away to join an acrobatic troupe at fourteen, reinvented myself so completely that Archibald Leach of Horfield became Cary Grant of Hollywood, and constructed a persona of such elegant ease that the world never suspected it was constructed at all.”

👍 LovedThe physical training with the acrobatic troupe that gave me the grace and timing that became my screen presence. The Bristol working-class directness that lurked beneath the Hollywood polish.

👎 DislikedMy mother's disappearance and my father's deception — the central wound of my life. The poverty of the Horfield childhood. The construction of a persona so complete I sometimes lost track of where it ended.

Map showing where Cary Grant lived — 15 Hughenden Road, Horfield, Bristol BS7 8LT, England

🗺️ Approximate location today

Street view of Cary Grant's home at 15 Hughenden Road, Horfield, Bristol BS7 8LT, England

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Sources: McCann, G. Cary Grant: A Class Apart (1996), Fourth Estate; Nelson, N. Cary Grant: A Biography (2004), Harmony Books