Hugh Grant to marry TV producer Anna Eberstein

Actor, who currently stars in BBC drama 'A Very English Scandal', is set to wed the mother of three of his children

Anna Eberstein with Hugh Grant (Getty)

Hugh Grant is set to marry for the first time, according to reports, with Swedish TV producer Anna Eberstein.

The Four Weddings and a Funeral star is reportedly marrying the 39-year-old, who is the mother of three of his children.

A photograph of the wedding banns has been posted in several newspapers, according to the BBC, which was posted at Kensington and Chelsea register office near the couple's home in west London.

Grant, 57, has five children in total, including two - Tabitha and Felix - with former partner Tinglan Hong.

Eberstein gave birth to her first child with Grant, a son, in 2012. The couple then had a daughter, whose name has not been revealed, in December 2015.

In March this year, Grant's ex-girlfriend Liz Hurley - with whom he is still good friends - revealed that he and Eberstein had recently welcomed a third child, but the sex is unknown.

Grant has starred in films including Four Weddings, Maurice, Notting Hill, and Paddington 2, and currently stars in BBC drama A Very English Scandal opposite Ben Whishaw as disgraced MP Jeremy Thorpe - for which he has received critical acclaim.

The Independent's TV critic Sean O'Grady commented: "As Hugh Grant’s alternately languid, energetic and intense portrayal in this BBC drama makes painfully apparent, Thorpe, for all his talents and fame, charm and sincere political principles, was a basically highly selfish man who eventually damaged everyone who came into contact with him: his family, friends, boyfriends, parliamentary colleagues, the entire Liberal Party, business acquaintances, financial benefactors, alleged co-conspirators (to murder, no less), and, most grievously of all, Scott. One way or another all had cause to regret ever bumping into Jeremy.

"Much of the credit for this dramatisation obviously goes to the stellar cast, most notably Grant, an inspired choice by producer Russell T Davies. Perhaps because Grant has had a few furtive sexual skirmishes himself, and been subjected to brutal press intrusion and persecution, or perhaps simply because he is such a fine, and still underestimated, actor that he was so well suited to the role of Thorpe. Anyway, he is cast against type, compelling to watch as the very antithesis of a romcom hero."