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Portia De Rossi: Hugh Grant
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Portia de Rossi's first movie role was in the low-budget movie Sirens in 1993 opposite Hugh Grant. She ... appeared in Scream 2. In 1998, she joined the cast of Ally McBeal. Portia also starred in Fox TV's Arrested Development.
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Rumors regarding Portia de Rossi's sexual preference had circulated in Hollywood long before she sort of came out. When the Swedish newspaper "Aftonbladet" interviewed Hugh Grant, when 'Bridget Jone's Diary' had premiered, an English newspaper had speculated that he and Portia (whom are close friends) maybe was romantically linked. Hugh's reply when asked about it:
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After only a year of law school, de Rossi's life took a sharp turn when a casting director, impressed by her commercial work, auditioned her for a role in the John Duigan's 1994 film Sirens with Hugh Grant. De Rossi was cast as Giddy, a beautiful and virginal model. Though the film was fairly forgettable, it did include a homoerotic
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