Stephen Fry - IMDb IMDb Official Photos » Writer, actor, comedian, doer of good works, excellent good friend to the famous and not, Fry lives in his London SW1 flat and his Norfolk house when not traveling. Famous for his public declaration of celibacy in the "Tatler" back in the 1980s, Emma Thompson has characterised her friend as "90 percent gay, 10 percent other." Stephen Fry was born ... See full bio » Born: a list of 40 people created 19 Dec 2010 a list of 36 people created 26 Jun 2013 a list of 35 people created 31 Oct 2015 a list of 25 people created 6 months ago a list of 30 people created 4 weeks ago Do you have a demo reel? Add it to your IMDbPage How much of Stephen Fry's work have you seen? User Polls Nominated for 1 Golden Globe. Another 8 wins & 16 nominations.

See more awards » Known For 2014-2017 Lily's Driftwood Bay (TV Series) Lord Stag 2016-2017 The Great Indoors (TV Series) Roland Narrator - The Ugly Duckling (voice) 2014 Marked (TV Short) 2014 LittleBigPlanet 3 (Video Game) Narrator (voice) 2014 American Dad! (TV Series) Mr. Cavendish 2014 This Is Jinsy (TV Series) Dr.

Bevelspepp 2013 Super Clyde (TV Movie) Randolph 2013 The Lonely Dodo (Video short) Narrator / Mascarene Grass Frog (voice) 2012 Doors Open (TV Movie) Professor Robert Gissing 2012 LittleBigPlanet Karting (Video Game) Narrator (voice) 2012 LittleBigPlanet PS Vita (Video Game) Narrator (voice) 2012 Playhouse Presents (TV Series) The European 2011 Holy Flying Circus (TV Movie) God 2011 Ros na Rún (TV Series) Tourist 2011 LittleBigPlanet 2 (Video Game) Narrator (voice) 2010 Little Crackers (TV Series) Headmaster 2010 Sackboy's Prehistoric Moves (Video Game) Narrator (voice) 2009 LittleBigPlanet PSP (Video Game) Narrator (voice) 2007 The Secret Show (TV Series) Lucky Leo The Narrator (English version, voice) 2005-2007 Pocoyo (TV Series) 2005 Dirty Tricks (TV

 Series) Owl 2001 Omnibus (TV Series documentary) Narrator - Extracts from The Harry Potter Books 2001 Da Mob (TV Series) Maurice (voice) 1999 The Magician's House (TV Series) Jasper the Owl (voice) 1998 In the Red (TV Series) Controller Radio 2 / Controller, Radio 2 1995 Laughter and Loathing (TV Movie) Juvenal 1990-1992 Screen Two (TV Series) Humphrey Taylor / Daniel Davenport 1989 The New Statesman (TV Series) Piers Lonsdale 1987 Filthy Rich & Catflap (TV Series) P'Farty 1983 The Crystal Cube (TV Movie) Dr.

Adrian Cowlacey / Various Roles - Episode #1.2 (1982) ... Narrator / Wally #4 / Mr. Luvvie / ... - Episode #1.1 (1982) ... Narrator / Colonel Sodom / Gannet's Manager / ... 1982 Cambridge Footlights Revue (TV Movie) Various Characters Singer in 'H.M.S. Pinafore' (uncredited) Hide 2011 The Settlement (Short) (co-writer) 2011 Fry's Planet Word (TV Series documentary) (written by - 5 episodes) - Uses and Abuses (2011) ... (written by) - Identity (2011) ... (written by) 2008 Stephen Fry in America (TV Mini-Series documentary) (written by - 6 episodes) - Pacific (2008) ... (written by) - Mountains and Plains (2008) ... (written by) - Mississippi (2008) ...

(written by) 2001 Lucky Break (book of musical play: "Nelson the Musical") 1999 Fire Island (TV Mini-Series documentary) (written by - 4 episodes) 1984 Pushing Up Daisies (TV Series) Alfresco (TV Series) (writer - 6 episodes, 1984) (additional material - 1 episode, 1983) 1979 Not the Nine O'Clock News (TV Series) (writer) Hide 2016 Out of the Village (Short) (associate producer) 2016 Tickled (Documentary) (associate producer) 2012-2015 Playhouse Presents (TV Series) (executive producer - 8 episodes) 2015 Two Down (executive producer) 2015 Nightstand (Short) (executive producer) 2014 Marked (TV Short) (executive producer) 2014 Sunday Roast (Short) (executive producer) 2012 Doors Open (TV Movie) (executive producer) 2011 Little Crackers (TV Series)

 (executive producer - 1 episode) 2003 Bright Young Things (executive producer) Hide 1990-1995 A Bit of Fry and Laurie (TV Series) (performer - 5 episodes) - Episode #4.4 (1995) ...

(performer: "The Polite Rap" - uncredited) - Episode #3.6 (1992) ... (performer: "Grease My Gristle, Blow My Whistle") - Episode #3.3 (1992) ... (performer: "Hey Jude" - uncredited) - Episode #3.2 (1992) ... (performer: "There Ain't but One Way" - uncredited) - Episode #2.1 (1990) ... (performer: "Move It On Out, Girl" - uncredited) 1992 Peter's Friends (performer: "Orpheus In the Underworld") 1983-1984 Alfresco (TV Series) (performer - 2 episodes) - Episode #2.2 (1984) ... (performer: "Mr. Tambourine Man") - Episode #1.7 (1983) ... (performer: "Deutschland Uber Alles") Hide 2007 The Man Who Loved Sherlock Holmes (TV Movie documentary) (narrator) 1989 Hysteria 2!

(TV Special) (stage director) 1988 Hysteria! Hysteria! Hysteria! (TV Special) (stage director) Hide - Episode #1.1 (1999) ... (With Thanks to) 1996 Hamlet (special thanks) 2016 Just Call Me Martina (TV Movie documentary) Himself 2016 Alan Davies: As Yet Untitled (TV Series) Himself - Panellist 2016 Larry King Now (TV Series) Himself - Guest - Mix and Match (2016) ... Himself - Host - Messy (2016) ...

Himself - Host 2015 Stephen Fry in Central America (TV Mini-Series documentary) Himself - Host 2015 Comic Relief 2015 (TV Special) Himself 2014 To Russia with Love (TV Movie documentary) Himself - Actor 2014 Click (TV Series documentary) Himself 2014 Tiny Giants 3D (Documentary short) Narrator 1992-2014 The South Bank Show (TV Series documentary) Himself 2014 World Championship Snooker (TV Series) Himself - Spectator 2014 Hidden Kingdoms (TV Mini-Series documentary) Narrator 2014 The Broadway.com Show (TV Series) Himself 2013 Charlie Rose (TV Series) Himself - Guest 2013 The Colbert Report (TV Series) Himself - Guest 2013 Stephen Fry: Out There (TV Mini-Series documentary) Himself - Presenter 2013 Alan Whicker: Journey's End (TV Movie documentary) Himself - Narrator (voice) 2013 Eye Spy (TV Series) Himself - Narrator 2013 Frost on Sketch Shows (TV Movie documentary)

 Himself 2012 Gadget Man (TV Series) Himself - Presenter 2012 Just a Minute (TV Series) Himself 2012 Frost on Interviews (TV Movie documentary) Himself 2012 CBS This Morning (TV Series) Himself 2012 Janela Indiscreta (TV Series) Himself 2012 The Story of Musicals (TV Series documentary) Himself 2012 The Making of the Borrowers (Video documentary short) Himself - Professor Mildeye 2011 Steve Jobs: Billion Dollar Hippy (TV Movie documentary) Himself 2011 Living the Life (TV Series) Himself 2011 Fry's Planet Word (TV Series documentary) Himself - Presenter - Uses and Abuses (2011) ...

Himself - Presenter - Identity (2011) ... Himself - Presenter 2008-2011 The One Show (TV Series) Himself - Guest / Himself 2011 QI Genesis (TV Movie documentary) Himself 2011 Wogan on Wodehouse (TV Movie documentary) Himself 2011 Stephen Fry's 100 Greatest Gadgets (TV Movie documentary) Himself - Presenter 2011 Ocean Giants (TV Series documentary) Himself - Narrator 2011 The Hour (TV Series) Himself 2011 March of the Dinosaurs (TV Movie documentary) Himself - Narrator (voice) 2011 Tamara Drewe: Red Carpet Special (Video documentary short) Himself (uncredited) 2011 In Confidence (TV Series documentary) Himself 2010 Fry and Laurie Reunited (TV Movie documentary) Himself 2010 The Great American Oil Spill (TV Movie documentary) Himself - Presenter 2009-2010 Last Chance to See (TV Series documentary) Himself - Presenter - Blue Whale (2009) ...

Himself - Presenter - Kakapo (2009) ... Himself - Presenter - Komodo Dragon (2009) ... Himself - Presenter - Aye-Aye (2009) ...

Himself - Presenter 2010 Legends (TV Series documentary) Himself 2010 BBC Proms (TV Series) Himself - Presenter 2010 The Genius of Design (TV Mini-Series documentary) Himself 2010 Stephen Fry on Wagner (TV Movie documentary) Himself - Presenter 2007-2010 This Morning (TV Series) Himself 2010 The Virtual Revolution (TV Series documentary) Himself 2010 The Bible: A History (TV Series documentary) Himself - Actor, Writer and Presenter 2010 National Television Awards (TV Special) Himself 2010 2010 Britannia Awards (TV Special) Himself 2009 Toy Stories (TV Series documentary) Himself 2009 Channel 4 News (TV Series) Himself 2009 BBC Proms (TV Series) Himself 2003-2009 Top Gear (TV Series) Himself 2009 Fawlty Exclusive: Basil's Best Bits (TV Movie documentary) Himself - Narrator (voice) 2009 Fawlty Towers: Re-Opened (TV Movie documentary) Himself - Narrator (voice

) 2009 2009 Britannia Awards (TV Special) Himself - Host 2008 Blackadder Rides Again (TV Special documentary) Himself 2008 Stephen Fry in America (TV Mini-Series documentary) Himself - Presenter - Mountains and Plains (2008) ...

Himself - Presenter - Mississippi (2008) ... Himself - Presenter 2008 Blackadder's Most Cunning Moments (TV Movie documentary) Himself 2008 Revealed (TV Series documentary) Himself - Narrator 1998-2008 Natural World (TV Series documentary) Himself - Narrator 2008 The Machine That Made Us (TV Movie documentary) Himself - Presenter 2007 Stephen Fry: HIV & Me (TV Movie documentary) Himself 2007 Stephen Fry: Guilty (TV Movie documentary) Himself 2007 Shrink Rap (TV Series) Himself 2004-2007 Arena (TV Series documentary) Himself - Narrator / Himself 2006 2006 BAFTA/LA Cunard Britannia Awards (TV Movie documentary) Himself - Host 2006 The Story of Light Entertainment (TV Mini-Series documentary) Himself - Narrator - Chat Shows (2006) ... Himself - Narrator (voice) - Impressionists (2006) ...

Himself - Narrator (voice) 2006 Sport Relief 2006 (TV Movie) Himself - Presenter: A Question of Sport Relief 2006 This Week (TV Series) Himself 2006 'V for Vendetta' Unmasked (TV Movie documentary) Himself 2006 Corazón de...

(TV Series) Himself 2006 The 50 Greatest Comedy Films (TV Movie documentary) Himself - Narrator (voice) 2005 QI: A Quite Interesting Game (Video Game) Himself - Presenter 2005 Tribute to John Mills (TV Movie documentary) Himself - Presenter 2005 Comedy Connections (TV Series documentary) Himself 2005 2005 BAFTA/LA Cunard Britannia Awards (TV Movie documentary) Himself 2004 Stephen Fry's Shorts (TV Movie) Himself 2004 Sport Relief 2004 (TV Special) Presenter: They Think It's All A Question Of Sport 2004 Bob Monkhouse: A BAFTA Tribute (TV Special documentary) Himself 2004 Britain's Best Sitcom (TV Series) Himself 2003 Rove Live (TV Series) Himself 2003 Imagine (TV Series documentary) Himself 2003 V Graham Norton (TV Series) Himself 2003 Rescuing the Spectacled Bear (TV Movie documentary) Himself 2003 Stephen Fry: Director Documentary (Video documentary short) Himself - Director 2

002 Airport (TV Series documentary) Himself 2002 40 Years of University Challenge (TV Movie documentary) Himself 2002 Sport Relief (TV Special) Presenter: They Think It's All A Question Of Sport 2002 Breakfast with Frost (TV Series) Himself 2002 Judi Dench: A BAFTA Tribute (TV Movie documentary) Himself 2002 The Making of Gosford Park (TV Short documentary) Himself 2001 Paddington Bear: The Early Years (TV Movie documentary) Himself 2001 The Sketch Show Story (TV Series documentary) Himself 1986-2001 Omnibus (TV Series documentary) Himself 2001 Bob Martin (TV Series) Himself 2001 Liquid News (TV Series) Himself 2001 Room 101 (TV Series) Himself - Guest 2001 Comic Relief Short Pants (TV Special short) Himself 2001 In Search of the Prisoner (TV Movie documentary) Himself 2000 The Priory (TV Series) Himself 1999 The Johnny Vaughan Film Show (TV Series documentary) Himself 19

99 Fire Island (TV Mini-Series documentary) Himself - Narrator 1999 Richard Whiteley Unbriefed (TV Series) Himself 1999 What a Performance!

(TV Series) Himself 1999 Geri (TV Movie documentary) Himself 1998 Stanley Baxter in Person (TV Movie documentary) Himself 1998 The Book Quiz (TV Short) Himself 1998 Late Lunch (TV Series) Himself 1998 Carry on Darkly (TV Movie documentary) Himself 1998 So Graham Norton (TV Series) Himself 1997-1998 Heroes of Comedy (TV Series documentary) Himself 1997 Venice Report (TV Short documentary) Himself 1996-1997 Shooting Stars (TV Series) Himself 1997 A Royal Gala (TV Special) Himself 1996 TFI Friday (TV Series) Himself 1996 A Royal Gala (TV Movie) Himself 1994 Clive James (TV Series) Himself 1993 Camp Christmas (TV Movie) Himself 1991 Mr.

Roadrunner (TV Movie) Himself - Narrator (voice) 1991 Saturday Night Clive (TV Series) Himself 1991 James Randi: Psychic Investigator (TV Series documentary) Himself 1991 Question Time (TV Series) Himself 1990 Aspel & Company (TV Series) Himself 1989 Hysteria 2! (TV Special) Himself 1989 The Secret Policeman's Biggest Ball (TV Movie documentary) Himself 1988 Hysteria! Hysteria! Hysteria! (TV Special) Himself 1988 Call My Bluff (TV Series) Himself 1987 Did You See..?

(TV Series documentary) Himself - Presenter 1986 Saturday Live (TV Series) Himself / Various 1984 Weekend in Wallop (TV Movie documentary) Himself 2015 The Drunken Peasants (TV Series) Himself 2014 Britain's Best Loved Double Acts (TV Movie documentary) Himself - Double Act 2011 Special Collector's Edition (TV Series) James Moreland 2011 Almost Famous IV (TV Movie documentary) Whitbread Commercial 2010 The Unforgettable Bob Monkhouse (TV Movie documentary) Himself (uncredited) 2010 Almost Famous III (TV Movie documentary) Himself 2009 Timeshift (TV Series documentary) Himself - Narrator 'Grandmaster Clash' 2008 The Comedy Map of Britain (TV Series documentary) Himself - Episode #2.5 (2008) ...

Himself (uncredited) 2007 Countdown (TV Series) 2007 Stephen Fry: 50 Not Out (TV Movie documentary) Himself 2005 The Unseen Spike Milligan (TV Movie documentary) Himself (uncredited) 2005 Greatest TV Comedy Moments (TV Movie documentary) Richard Whiteley (uncredited) 2004 Unsere Besten (TV Series) Himself / Host 2004 Who Killed Saturday Night TV? (TV Movie documentary) Himself 2003 Comedy from Merton to Enfield (TV Series documentary) Himself 2002 Arena (TV Series documentary) Himself 1992 Mai dire TV (TV Series) Himself 1982 Playing Shakespeare (TV Mini-Series documentary) Himself Book (w/ Hugh Laurie ): "A Bit of Fry & Laurie". See more » Publicity Listings: 1 Print Biography | 11 Interviews | 15 Articles | 1 Magazine Cover Photo | See more » Official Sites: Did You Know? Personal Quote: [in support of a proposed ban of the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics because of anti-gay legislation in Russia] I am gay.

I'm a Jew. My mother lost over a dozen of her family to Hitler's anti-semitism. Every time in Russia - and it is constantly - a gay teenager is forced into suicide, a lesbian 'correctively' raped, gay men and women beaten to death by neo-Nazi thugs while the Russian police stand ... See more » Trivia: Suffers from bipolar disorder. See more » Trademark: Often works with Hugh Laurie See more » Star Sign: Hugh Laurie (Actor) - Pics, Videos, Dating, & News Hugh Laurie Male Born Jul 11, 1959 James Hugh Calum Laurie, OBE, known as Hugh Laurie, is an English actor, comedian, writer, musician and director.

He first became known as one half of the Fry and Laurie double act, along with his friend and comedy partner Stephen Fry, whom he joined in the cast of Blackadder and Jeeves and Wooster from 1987 to 1999.… Read More related links Hugh Laurie Gets Star On Hollywood Walk Of Fame Reuters.com - Oct 26, 2016 'LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - British actor <mark>Hugh Laurie</mark>, best known for playing a cantankerous doctor in the TV series \'House\', received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on Tuesday.' British Actor Hugh Laurie Feted In Hollywood Reuters.com - Oct 26, 2016 'Television star <mark>Hugh Laurie</mark> is celebrated in Hollywood with a star on the Walk of Fame, in a ceremony alongside his ex-comedy partner Stephen Fry. Rough Cut - no reporter narration.

\n \n ' Hugh Laurie Gets Star On Hollywood Walk Of Fame Yahoo News - Oct 25, 2016 ' <mark>Hugh Laurie</mark>, the British comedian and star of \"The Night Manager,\" \"House\" and numerous movies, cemented his place among entertainment\'s elite Tuesday with a star on Hollywood\'s Walk of Fame. While numerous Hollywood stars have spoken out against Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, Laurie used the opportunity for a joke at the expense of 2012 GOP candidate Mitt Romney. Laurie won consecutive Golden Globes in 2006 and 2007 for \"House\" and has seven Emmy nominat... Whatâs On Tv Wednesday: Hugh Laurie In âChanceâ And The Third Presidential Debate NYTimes - Oct 19, 2016 '<mark>Hugh Laurie</mark> returns as a doctor, this one darker than ever, in âChanceâ; Hillary Clinton and Donald J. Trump face off in a final presidential debate.' Learn about the memorable moments in the evolution of Hugh Laurie. CHILDHOOD 1959 Birth Born on June 11, 1959.

TEENAGE 1977 18 Years Old Like his father, Laurie was an oarsman at school and university; in 1977, he was a member of the junior coxed pair that won the British national title before representing Britain's Youth Team at the 1977 Junior World Rowing Championships. TWENTIES Show Less In 1980, Laurie and his rowing partner, J.S. Palmer, were runners-up in the Silver Goblets coxless pairs for Eton Vikings rowing club. Later, Laurie also achieved a Blue while taking part in the 1980 Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race. … Read More Cambridge lost that year by five feet. During this time, Laurie was training for up to eight hours a day and was on course to become an Olympic-standard rower. Laurie is a member of Leander Club, one of the oldest rowing clubs in the world.

He was also a member of the Hermes Club and the Hawks' Club.<br /><br /> Forced to abandon rowing during a bout of glandular fever (mononucleosis), Laurie joined the Cambridge Footlights, the university dramatic club that has produced many well-known actors and comedians. There he met Emma Thompson, with whom he had a romantic relationship; the two remain good friends. She introduced him to his future comedy partner, Stephen Fry. Laurie, Fry and Thompson later parodied themselves as the University Challenge representatives of "Footlights College, Oxbridge" in "Bambi", an episode of The Young Ones, with the series' co-writer Ben Elton completing their team. Read Less In 1980â81, his final year at university, besides rowing, Laurie was president of the Footlights, with Thompson as vice-president. … Read More They took their annual revue, The Cellar Tapes, to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and won the first Perrier Comedy Award. The revue was written principally by Laurie and Fry, and the cast also included Thompson, Tony Slattery, Paul Shearer and Penny Dwyer. He states that he did not graduate from Cambridge.

The Perrier Award led to a West End transfer for The Cellar Tapes and a television version of the revue, broadcast in May 1982. It resulted in Laurie, Fry and Thompson being selected, along with Ben Elton, Robbie Coltrane and Siobhan Redmond to write and appear in a new sketch comedy show for Granada Television, Alfresco, which ran for two series.<br /><br /> Fry and Laurie went on to work together on various projects throughout the 1980s and 1990s. Among them were the Blackadder series, written by Ben Elton and Richard Curtis, starring Rowan Atkinson, with Laurie in various roles, but most notably Prince George and Lieutenant George. Other projects followed, of which one was their BBC sketch comedy series A Bit of Fry & Laurie; another project was Jeeves and Wooster, an adaptation of P. G. Wodehouse's stories, in which Laurie played Jeeves's employer, the amiable twit Bertie Wooster. He and Fry worked together at various charity stage events, such as Hysteria!

1, 2 & 3 and Amnesty International's The Secret Policeman's Third Ball, Comic Relief TV shows and the variety show Fry and Laurie Host a Christmas Night with the Stars. Read Less 1986 27 Years Old Laurie appeared in the music videos for the 1986 single "Experiment IV" by Kate Bush, and the 1992 Annie Lennox single "Walking on Broken Glass" in British Regency period costume alongside John Malkovich. THIRTIES Show Less Laurie's mother, Patricia (nÃ©e Laidlaw), died from motor neurone disease in Oxfordshire at the age of 73, in 1989, when Laurie was 30. … Read More According to Laurie, she endured the disease for two years; and she suffered "painful, plodding paralysis" while being cared for by Laurie's father, whom he called "the sweetest man in the whole world". Read Less Laurie married theatre administrator Jo Green on 16 June 1989, in Camden, London. … Read More They lived in Belsize Park, North London, with sons Charles (b. 1988) and William (b.

1991) and daughter Rebecca (b. 1992). In July 2008, Laurie bought a mansion in Hollywood, as they had planned to move the whole family to Los Angeles, because of the strain of being mostly separated for nine months each year, but ultimately decided against it. When he bought the mansion, he claimed he was in "virtual isolation" from his family.<br /><br /> Eldest son Charlie played a cameo part in A Bit of Fry & Laurie, in the last sketch of the episode, entitled "Special Squad", as baby William. Stephen and Hugh begin to "interrogate" the baby about "what he's done with the stuff", calling him a scumbag and telling him that he's been a very naughty boy. Daughter Rebecca had a role in the film Wit as five-year-old Vivian Bearing. Laurie's best friend, long-time comedy partner Stephen Fry, was best man at his wedding and is godfather to his children. Read Less 1998 39 Years Old In 1998, Laurie had a brief guest-starring role on Friends in "The One with Ross's Wedding".

… Read More Laurie's later film appearances include Sense and Sensibility (1995), adapted by and starring Emma Thompson; the Disney live-action film 101 Dalmatians (1996), where he played Jasper, one of the bumbling criminals hired to kidnap the puppies; Elton's adaptation of his novel Inconceivable, Maybe Baby (2000); Girl from Rio; the 2004 remake of The Flight of the Phoenix' <br /><br /> Since 2002, Laurie has appeared in a range of British television dramas, guest-starring that year in two episodes of the first season of the spy thriller series Spooks on BBC One. Read Less FORTIES 2003 44 Years Old In 2003, he starred in and also directed ITV's comedy-drama series fortysomething (in one episode of which Stephen Fry appears). … Read More In 2001, he voiced the character of a bar patron in the Family Guy episode "One If by Clam, Two If by Sea". Laurie voiced the character of Mr. Wolf in the cartoon Preston Pig.

He was a panellist on the first episode of QI, alongside Fry as host. Read Less Show Less On 23 May 2007, Laurie was awarded the Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE), in the 2007 New Year Honours, for services to drama. … Read More While appearing on Inside the Actors Studio in 2006, Laurie discussed his struggle with severe clinical depression. He told host James Lipton that he first concluded he had a problem whilst driving in a charity demolition derby, during which he realised that seeing two cars collide and explode in front of him caused him to be neither excited nor frightened, but bored. He continues to have regular sessions with his psychotherapist. "Boredom," he commented, "is not an appropriate response to exploding cars."<br /><br /> Laurie admires the writings of P. G. Wodehouse, explaining in a 27 May 1999 article in The Daily Telegraph how reading Wodehouse novels had saved his life.<br /><br /> In an interview in The Daily Telegraph, Laurie confirmed his atheism. He is also an avid motorcycle enthusiast.

He has two motorbikes, one at his London home and one at his Los Angeles home. His bike in the US is a Triumph Bonneville, his "feeble attempt to fly the British flag". Read Less In August 2007, Laurie appeared on BBC Four's documentary Stephen Fry: 50 Not Out, filmed in celebration of Fryâs 50th birthday. FIFTIES 2009 50 Years Old In 2009, Laurie returned to guest star in another Family Guy episode, "Business Guy", parodying Gregory House. House's Hugh Laurie Planning To Reunite With British Comedy Partner Stephen Fry - CINEMABLEND House's Hugh Laurie Planning To Reunite With British Comedy Partner Stephen Fry By Leslie Kasperowicz 4 years ago With the House finale only a week away, it looks like Hugh Laurie is looking forward to his next step – while looking back at where he came from. It seems he’ll be teaming back up with former comedy partner Stephen Fry, who leaked the news of a project in the works for the former partners via his Twitter account.

Fry and Laurie are “cooking up a project together”, Fry said in his tweet , going on to add that while he can’t spill any details just yet, he’ll be passing on more information as it’s available. Many House viewers aren’t aware of it, but Hugh Laurie actually is British, and is known in his native country as half of of a sketch comedy duo. Laurie and Fry put their act on together from 1989 – 1995 on the BBC sketch comedy show A Bit of Fry and Laurie. They’ve been working together since they met while attending Cambridge University, and have also appeared together in Peter’s Friends, a 1992 Kenneth Branagh film. So what are Dr. House and his former colleague planning? It’s anyone’s guess at this point, but apparently Fry’s Twitter account is the place to watch for updates. If you’re interested in what the dup were up to before Laurie spent eight years playing the rudest doctor on television here in the U.S., Netflix has A Bit of Fry and Laurie available to stream. Perhaps it will ease the pain of saying goodbye to House after the season finale airs next week.

Subscribe To Topics You're Interested In close Stephen Fry | Biography, News, Photos and Videos | Contactmusic.com Stephen Fry (born 24.8.1957) Stephen Fry is a British TV presenter, writer, actor, comedian and film director. Childhood: Stephen Fry was born to Marianne and Alan Fry, in Hampstead. His father was a physicist and inventor. He grew up in Booton, in Norfolk, having moved from Buckinghamshire as a child. He attended Cawston Primary School in Norfolk, then Uppingham School in Rutland. At the age of 15, he was expelled, and sent to Paston School, from which he was also expelled. Fry then studied at Norfolk College of Arts and Technologies. At the age of 17, having left college, he stole the credit card of a family friend and spent three months in prison. Vowing to change his ways, he signed up at City College, Norwich, vowing to study hard enough to gain entrance to Cambridge University. He did just that, winning a scholarship to Queens' College. At Cambridge, he was a member of the Cambridge Footlights and also appeared on University Challenge.

Life in the Public Eye: Stephen Fry began his TV career with The Cellar Tapes in 1982. The show also featured Hugh Laurie, Tony Slattery and Emma Thompson. The BBC soon offered Fry and Laurie their own show, which was named The Crystal Cube. They also appeared in The Young Ones, which starred Rik Mayall and Ade Edmondson as well as an appearance in Ben Elton's Happy Families. In 1986, the BBC commissioned the sketch show A Bit of Fry and Laurie. The series lasted for four series, between 1986 and 1995. During that time, Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie also appeared in the Blackadder comedy series, starring Rowan Atkinson and Tony Robinson. Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie then worked together again on Jeeves and Wooster, a series of adaptations of P.G. Wodehouse's writings. In 2000, Stephen Fry landed the role of Professor Bellgrove in the TV adaptation of Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast. The series also featured Johnathan Rhys Meyers and Christopher Lee.

2003 saw Stephen Fry begin to host the panel show QI, a hugely successful show, which features Alan Davies as a permanent panelist. Stephen Fry has also presented a number of documentaries, including 2006's The Secret Life of the Manic Depressive and 2007's HIV and Me. He has also been the subject of the BBC genealogy series Who Do You Think You Are? which traced his Slovak Jewish roots. In 2009, Fry featured in Last Chance to See, with Mark Carwardine, to honour the work that Carwardine had previously done with the author Douglas Adams. The ITV1 series Kingdom had Fry at the helm as executive producer. The show ran from 2007-9 and starred Hermione Norris, Karl Davies and Phyllida Law. Stephen Fry appeared in a number of films in the 1980s, including The Good Father and John Cleese's A Fish Called Wanda. In 1992, he starred in Kenneth Branagh's Peter's Friends. Two years later, he portrayed Oscar Wilde in Wilde.

He then went on to play a detective on Robert Altman's Gosford Park, which also starred Michael Gambon, Richard E. Grant, Maggie Smith and Helen Mirren. Fry's directorial film debut came in 2003 with Bright Young Things, an adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's Vile Bodies. The film starred Emily Mortimer, Michael Sheen and James McAvoy. In 2009, Stephen Fry appeared in Tim Burton's film version of Alice In Wonderland, alongside Helena Bonham Carter and Johnny Depp. Stephen Fry has also had a successful career, though one incident for which he is often remembered is his sudden departure from Simon Gray's 1995 play, Cell Mates. Fry disappeared for three days and later blamed the incident on severe stage fright. He is also the author of a number of works of fiction and non-fiction. His debut novel, The Liar, was published in 1993. He has also written Making History, The Star's Tennis Balls and The Ode Less Travelled: Unlocking the Poet Within. He now writes a technology column in the Saturday Guardian newspaper.

An enthusiast of the social networking site Twitter, he announced in 2010 that he was switching off his connections with the outside world, so that he could write a second volume of his autobiography. Biography by Contactmusic.com Hugh Laurie - Biography - IMDb Hugh Laurie Biography Showing all 90 items Jump to: Overview (3) | Mini Bio (1) | Spouse (1) | Trade Mark (2) | Trivia (44) | Personal Quotes (34) | Salary (5) Overview (3) 6' 2½" (1.9 m) Mini Bio (1) Hugh was born in Oxford, England on June 11, 1959, to Patricia (Laidlaw) and William George Ranald Mundell "Ran" Laurie, a doctor, both of Scottish descent. He was educated at Eton and Cambridge. Son of an Olympic gold medalist in the sport, he rowed for the England youth team (1977) and for Cambridge (1980). He met Emma Thompson at Cambridge in 1978 when both joined "Footlights" and was introduced to Stephen Fry by Emma in 1980.

Hugh is married and lives in Los Angeles. His wife and three children, who previously lived in London, are moving to Los Angeles to live with him. Besides acting and comedy, he has written the best-selling thriller The Gun Seller. A second novel, titled The Paper Soldier, is forthcoming. - IMDb Mini Biography By: Anonymous Spouse (1) ( 16 June 1989 - present) (3 children) Trade Mark (2) Fluent American accent from House (2004). Frequently plays upper-class and dimwitted English characters Trivia (44) Received his Third-Class Honours degree in anthropology and archaeology at Selwyn College, Cambridge University. Bought an all-black Triumph Bonneville motorcycle, a replica of the 1960s British model, in Los Angeles, upon getting the role on House (2004), but he was always an avid motorcyclist, even in England. He enjoys the anonymity the motorcycle helmet gives him. Attended the Dragon School, a renowned British "public" college preparatory school located in Oxford, England. Also attended by actress Emma Watson and tennis player Tim Henman .

Douglas Adams , author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005), originally wanted him to play Arthur Dent for the film adaptation. A deal was almost in place to have Hugh play Dent, along with Jim Carrey as Zaphod and Jay Roach directing, before Adams' untimely death. Won the National Junior Championship for rowing (coxed pair) (1977). In the same year, he and his rowing partner represented England in the World Junior Championship for rowing where they finished fourth place. He lives in a West Hollywood apartment rental while working on House (2004), but flies home to London to be with his family whenever he has a break in filming. He has said that he will move his whole family to America to be with him if the second season looks to be equally successful as the first. Has played the husband opposite Imelda Staunton 's characters in two films: Peter's Friends (1992) and Sense and Sensibility (1995). His father, William George Ranald Mundell Laurie, and his mother, Patricia, were both of Scottish descent. Is the youngest of four children, by six years.

He has a brother and two sisters, Charles (who works as a lawyer/shepherd in Scotland) Susan Lassen (who helped found the Save the Children Long Island, NY Volunteer Chapter and was a member of Save the Children's Board of Trustees) and Janet. His father won an Olympic gold medal for coxless pairs in the 1948 Games in London. Hugh also had a promising career as an oarsman, but he was forced to give it up while at Cambridge when he contracted glandular fever (mononucleosis). His brother was also an oarsman. Is an accomplished piano player. Entered the 1980 Silver Goblets and Nicklass Cup with his Eton rowing partner J.S. Palmer at the Henley Royal Regatta, becoming the only British crew to reach the final that year. They finished in second place behind the favored American crew. He was first cast in the role of Perry White in Superman Returns (2006). However, the popularity of his television series House (2004) caused schedule conflicts. Frank Langella was then cast. Auditioned for the role of Arnold Rimmer in Red Dwarf (1988).

Others to audition for the role were Norman Lovett , Lee Cornes , Alfred Molina , Alan Rickman and Craig Ferguson . The role went to Chris Barrie . He was a house captain (senior prefect) in his last year at Eton College. He also played percussion for the school's orchestra and was a "wet bob" - a member of Eton's prestigious rowing team. He received his first motorcycle when he was 16 as a present from his father. The same year he owned his first guitar, a Yamaha. Although his first name is James, he has never been called that. His third name, Calum, is the short form of 'Mael Calum', which translates from Gaidhlig (Scots Gaelic) to Scottish and English as 'Malcolm'. (The Gaeilge or Irish Gaelic form is 'Maol Colm', or 'Colm' in short form). His brother's full name is Charles Alexander Lyon Mundell Laurie. He took up diving. Is a huge fan of Clint Eastwood and Steve McQueen .

He was a member of Cambridge Footlights throughout his university years, serving as a writer and cast member for two years (1978-1980) and president during his last year (1980-1981). Emma Thompson was the vice president. Is a member of the Leander Club, one of the oldest rowing clubs in the world. His father once served as the club's president. His son William Laurie auditioned for a role in a Harry Potter film but was told he was too young. His daughter Rebecca Laurie starred in the film Wit (2001) as Emma Thompson 's character aged five. Plays keyboard in the band, "Poor White Thrash", with Lenny Henry , Shade Adejumo, Kate McKenzie , Sophie Elton (wife of Ben Elton ), Ken Bowley , Andy Gangadeen , John Thirkell and Phil Smith. Has three children: Charles Laurie (Charles Archibald Laurie, born November 1988), William Laurie (William Albert Laurie, born January 1991), and Rebecca Laurie (Rebecca Augusta Laurie, born September 10, 1993).

Directed some scenes of his film Maybe Baby (2000) when Ben Elton had to go to hospital for the birth of his children. He was a member of the Cambridge Footlights Revue and in 1981, along with Stephen Fry , Tony Slattery , Emma Thompson , Penny Dwyer and Paul Shearer , he became the winner of the first ever Perrier Award at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Stephen Fry is godfather of his three children. Is a published author. His novel, "The Gun Seller", was released in 1996. A follow-up novel, "The Paper Soldier" (UK title: "Paper Soldiers"), is forthcoming. He was awarded the OBE (Officer of the Order of the British Empire) in the 2007 Queen's New Year's Honours List for his services to drama. Great-great-nephew of George Alexander . When Bryan Singer cast Laurie as Gregory House on House (2004), he was unaware that Laurie is British. In the 1980s, he shared a house in London with Stephen Fry . They needed some plastering done.

The plasterers turned out to be Paul Whitehouse and Charlie Higson , who were inspired by Fry and Laurie to have a go at comedy. Longtime best friend Stephen Fry served as best man at Laurie's marriage to Joanne Green (1989). Stated on a British chat show that he doesn't like doing plays; he said that in the only play he'd ever done (Gasping, by Ben Elton), he "felt like [he] was going out of [his] mind", and that he had out of body experiences on stage. He also stated it was something he would never do again. Is a huge fan of the Fulham Football Club (English soccer club). Fellow fans include Elizabeth Hurley , Lily Allen , Pierce Brosnan , Hugh Grant , Benicio Del Toro , Daniel Radcliffe , Andrew Johnston and the late Michael Jackson . According to the Guinness Book of World Records (2012), Laurie is the most watched leading man on television due to the worldwide viewership of House (2004). Laurie is also the highest paid television actor, earning a reported $400K per episode as Dr. House (2011).

He sings and plays piano, guitar, drums, harmonica and saxophone. He was one of the highest-paid actors in a television drama, earning $409,000 per episode on House (2004). He was listed in the 2011 Guinness World Records as the most watched leading man on television. Has used his considerable musical talents to release two blues albums: "Let Them Talk" (2011) and "Didn't it Rain" (2013). The tracks consist of covers of songs from famous blues artists with Laurie being a huge blues fan. Laurie sang and performed both piano and guitar on both with his band who are known as The Copper Bottom Band. Both were released to favourable reviews and were some of the highest selling blues albums of their respective years. Received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6172 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California on October 25, 2016. Personal Quotes (34) [on Cambridge] I went there to row. I'll be blunt with it. It's been ten years, and I think the admissions tutor can take it now...

but that's really what I went for, and anthropology was the most convenient subject to read while spending eight hours a day on the river. [on the Oxford-vs.-Cambridge Boat Race] The year was 1980, I was #4 in this particular encounter, and the result was a loss by Cambridge by a distance of five feet, which is something which I will carry to my grave... in fact, I shouldn't really say this, because I still to this day wouldn't want to give any pleasure or satisfaction to the opposing crew. But yes, it's true, it was a very bitter defeat. [on picking up his new hobby] Boxing is fascinating. It's good for the soul to be made to feel clumsy. I swank around during the week thinking I'm a big cheese, but you don't feel like that when you're in the ring with a chap who knows what he's doing. It's ritual humiliation. I'm going to be slugged about and probably killed, but I love it and have to do something to keep fit. I picked a reverence for medicine because I rather hero-worshiped my father [a former doctor], and because I admire doctors, I admire study, empiricism and rational thought.

I don't admire crystals and chewing willow bark and herbal remedies. [on his late father's reaction to his character Dr. Gregory House] He would be absolutely appalled. He was an endlessly polite, generous and soft-spoken man. He was no pushover, but he would never hurt, shock or outrage people just for the hell of it. At the same time, I hope he would be entertained and see that science and logic are like a religion to House. He'd approve of that. [on what he misses about England] The buildings and the cruelty. They're very harsh people, the British: hard to impress, very tough on each other, but I rather like that. It's not that the British are more honest - you're just under no illusion with them. L.A. runs on optimism, enthusiasm and flattery. I think you can go a little bit crazy. I've heard people say there's a limit to the number of years you can stay in this city without going slightly mad. It's just too damn sunny in every dimension - weather-wise, socially and professionally. I travel to work on my motorcycle, so it's jeans, boots and a brown Aero leather jacket that weighs as much as I do.

If it were black, it would seem like I've got a [ Marlon Brando ] idea going on, which I don't. [on raising his daughter] Girls are complicated. The instruction manual that comes with girls is 800 pages, with chapters 14, 19, 26 and 32 missing, and it's badly translated, hard to figure out. I grew up with an impatience with the anti-scientific. So I'm a bit miffed with our current love affair with all things Eastern. If I sneeze on the set, 40 people hand me echinacea. But I'd no sooner take that than eat a pencil. Maybe that's why I took up boxing. It's my response to men in white pajamas feeling each other's chi. [on the difficulty of performing with an American accent] It's as if you're playing left-handed. Or like everyone else is playing with a tennis racket and you have a salmon. [his speech after winning a Golden Globe Award for House (2004)] I am absolutely speechless. Seriously, I don't have a speech.

People are falling all over themselves to send you free shoes and free cuff links and colonic irrigations for two. Nobody ever offers you a free acceptance speech. There just seems to be a gap in the market. I would love to be able to pull out a speech by Dolce & Gabbana. Guilt I can do. If [I have] any expertise at all, it's in the area of guilt. I have a black belt in guilt. If you ever want a guilt-off, the next time we meet let's see how we match up. I'm pretty confident in that area. Obviously you are in a very vulnerable position when you give an interview. You are putting your testicles on a chopping board. I get anxious about a lot of things, that's the trouble. I get anxious about everything. I just can't stop thinking about things all the time. And here's the really destructive part - it's always retrospective. I waste time thinking of what I should have said or done. I can't bear going through the same f***ing dance of despair.

On living in America while filming House (2004): I do feel very foreign there, as if I'm on safari, looking at the exotic animals and the way they behave. Then again America is made up of people who don't feel American until they do, so I'm not alone in that. When asked if living in America would make him any less pessimistic or miserable: Oh, I hope nothing would ever do that. I won't let go of my roots. I admit I can't shake the idea that there is virtue in suffering, that there is a sort of psychic economy, whereby if you embrace success, happiness and comfort, these things have to be paid for. Celebrity is absolutely preposterous. Entertainment seems to be inflating. It used to be the punctuation to your life, a film or a novel or a play, a way of celebrating a good week or month. Now it feels as if it's all punctuation. The people I admire are those blokes in Fair Isle sweaters with pencils behind their ears who knew how to design mechanical things better than anybody else in the world. Something in me says you shouldn't have toys.

Recalling his father winning a gold medal in rowing at the 1948 Olympics in London: He was in a coxless pair with a man called Jack Wilson. I've got a fantastic picture on my desk of the two of them getting their medals on a pontoon at Henley. I imagine they were playing the national anthem and my dad is very rigid, "This is the way to behave", and Jack Wilson is loose and groovy and looks like he should be mixing a martini. I sometimes wished my father could take that pleasure in himself. [after he received his 2009 Screen Actors Guild Awards] I actually had a 100 dollars on James Spader , this is just not my night. [on the novel "The Paper Soldier", his sequel to his bestselling "The Gun Seller"]: My second novel will be coming out two years ago. [on living at the Chateau Marmont during the first season of House (2004)]: I was so convinced the whole thing was going to fail, I couldn't contemplate committing to any long-term arrangement. I thought a hotel was a safe bet.

[Was he shocked at the success of House (2004)]: I still am. There are a lot of days when I feel as if I have been woken from a coma and told six years have gone by, and I have no awareness of it. Is Queen Elizabeth II still on the throne? Do we still drive on the left? Do we still have pounds? [on working nine-to-ten-hour days, five days a week in Hollywood]: It's a way of living that, had you described it to me 10 years ago, I would have just found absurd beyond belief, inconceivable. But here we are. Yes, there were plenty of times when it was pretty overwhelming, I think for everybody. Like anybody completely absorbed in a single thing, it's rather unhealthy. It's the sort of thing you can do for a certain period of time - in a sort of emergency state - but you can't live like that indefinitely because you start popping rivets. Look, it sounds like I'm moaning. I am constantly aware of my good fortune. But the thing is, almost nothing in this life is as easy as it looks.

I did work very, very hard - I do still - but it has been very rewarding, very enjoyable, and I work with a terrific bunch of people. So I feel blessed. I used to worry much more about the prospect of failure. That 200 people were going to be out of a job. That shame and disgrace would attach, and I would have my acting uniform stripped from me. Yes, I still like him [ House (2004)] very, very much. I know he has problems, and he is not necessarily a good man. But I realised long ago that one doesn't only like good people. Sometimes one doesn't even like good people. [What does he like most about House (2004)?]: I suppose I am drawn to people who worry, who are tortured. I find I am always faintly suspicious of happy people. I always think there is something going wrong or missing somewhere. They would probably argue that I am the one with the thing missing, and that may be so. But the fact that he is not happy makes a lot of his mis­demeanours more forgivable.

If someone is behaving badly, yet remains unhappy and tortured, the bad behaviour is very often its own punishment, so it's hard to be too upset by it. [on the possibility of staying in Los Angeles after House (2004)]: I can certainly imagine it, in a way I couldn't have done before. It held no appeal for me before, but I do have an affection for the place now. Maybe once the show finishes, I will see it in a different way. For now, I'm in a gilded cage. [BBC, May 2011 on his record deal] In life, you don't regret the things you do, you regret the things you don't do. [on jamming in a jazz club in New Orleans] I can't deny it was, without a doubt, the most frightening thing I've done. To stand up and play music to an audience is a very, very daunting but wonderful experience. Many things in life are daunting and wonderful if your survive them. Being attacked by a lion is probably brilliant, but the survival part is important. I sometimes think that in this YouTube age - God, I sound like such an old fart - history has gone vertical rather than horizontal.

You can click on "St. James Infirmary", let's say [and] see a hip-hop version of that done three months ago or hear Louis Armstrong from nearly 100 years ago. And there's almost no sense of separation or context, or of a progression through time. [on performing the blues] Let the record show that I am a white, middle-class Englishman, openly trespassing on the music and myth of the American South. I know how it must look. I suppose, in my defence, I was trying to get people to examine what authenticity means. Is it authentic to have American actors playing Shakespeare? Or indeed to have an Englishman play an American doctor? [as presenter at the 2008 BAFTA Awards] Screenwriting is the most prized of all the cinematic arts. Actually, it isn't, but it should be. The point is that it should be. The original screenplay is the most precious commodity of all. In the original screenplay, the writer creates the heart, the mind, the skeleton, the sinew, the epithelial membrane, if you will, of the show.

The great trap for non-American actors trying to play Americans, I think, is to start thinking of American-ness as a characteristic. It isn't. It is no more a character trait than height. It is just a physical fact, and that's all there is to it. Salary (5) Hugh Laurie | House Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia Episode All Episodes "All heroic deeds require a cost otherwise they’re not really heroic. There has to be a dragon, there has to be risk, there has to be pain…and he endures that pain, and fights that dragon. And he pays that price in lots of different ways. And he pays it for the sake of seeking out this bigger truth." ―Hugh Laurie about House James Hugh Calum Laurie OBE (born June 11, 1959) is a Golden Globe-winning English actor, comedian, musician and writer. Laurie is best known in the United Kingdom, Australia and parts of Europe for his roles in Blackadder and for his long-running comedy collaboration with Stephen Fry which has included A Bit of Fry and Laurie and Jeeves and Wooster . In the United States, he is best known for playing Dr. Gregory House on House, M.D. .

In 2006 and 2007, Laurie won the Golden Globe for Best Actor in a Television Drama and won the 2007 SAG Award in the same category, all for his work in House, MD. In 2005 and 2007-2011, he was nominated for an Emmy Award for the role. Contents Edit Laurie was born in Oxford in 1959. His father, William George Ranald Mundell "Ran" Laurie , was a doctor and also won an Olympic gold medal in the coxless pairs at the 1948 London Games. Laurie was brought up in Oxford and attended the Dragon School, a prestigious preparatory school. He later went on to Eton and then to Selwyn College, Cambridge, where he achieved a Third-Class Honors degree (roughly the equivalent of a "C" average for a four-year program in the United States) in archaeology and anthropology.

Laurie later admitted that the only reason he chose Cambridge was that it gave him a chance to keep rowing (he was a world class junior rower at Eton) and he read archeology because it gave him plenty of time to row. Like his father, Laurie was a rower at school and university; in 1977, he was half of the junior coxed pair that won the English national title before representing England's Youth Team at the 1977 World Championships. Later, he also achieved a Blue taking part in the 1980 Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race. Cambridge lost that year by five feet (1.5 m). Laurie is a member of the Leander Club, one of the oldest rowing clubs in the world. Forced to abandon rowing during a bout of glandular fever (mononucleosis), he joined the Cambridge Footlights, which has been the starting point for many successful British comedians. There he met Emma Thompson , with whom he had a romantic relationship and is still good friends. She introduced him to his future comedy partner, Stephen Fry .

Laurie, Fry and Thompson later parodied themselves as the University Challenge representatives of "Footlights College, Oxbridge" in "Bambi", an episode of The Young Ones, with the series' co-writer Ben Elton completing their team. In 1980–81, his final year at university, Laurie managed to find time alongside his rowing to be president of the Footlights, with Thompson as vice-president. They took their annual revue, The Cellar Tapes, written principally by Laurie and Fry, the cast also including Thompson, Tony Slattery, Paul Shearer and Penny Dwyer, to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and won the first Perrier Comedy Award for comedy. Career Hugh Laurie - Inside the Actor's Studio (Part 1) Hugh Laurie on Inside The Actor's Studio It was recently announced that Hugh Laurie's comedy partner, Stephen Fry, would make a cameo appearance in House, but due to commitments in England, Fry is unable to do so for now.

[3] On October 28, 2006, Laurie hosted NBC's Saturday Night Live where he famously, mostly to internet fans, dressed in drag in a sketch about a black man (Kenan Thompson) with a broken leg who accuses his doctor of being dishonest. Laurie played the black man's wife. On January 28, 2007 Hugh Laurie received the Screen Actor's Guild Award for Best Actor in a Television Drama. In August 2007, Laurie appeared on BBC Four's documentary Stephen Fry: 50 Not Out, filmed in celebration of Fry’s 50th birthday. In 2008, Laurie appeared as Captain James Biggs in Street Kings, opposite Keanu Reeves and Forest Whitaker, and then in 2009 as the eccentric Dr. Cockroach, PhD in DreamWorks' Monsters vs. Aliens. He also hosted Saturday Night Live for the second time on the Christmas show in which he sang a medley of three-second Christmas songs to close his monologue. In 2009, Laurie returned to guest star in another Family Guy episode, "Business Guy", parodying Gregory House and himself assuming an American accent.

In 2010, Laurie filmed an independent feature called The Oranges with Leighton Meester . In 2010, Laurie guest starred in The Simpsons "Treehouse of Horror XXI" as Roger, a castaway who is planning a murder scheme on a ship during Homer and Marge's second honeymoon. Laurie began taking a role behind the House camera in 2009. He is credited with an executive producer title for several episodes of the last few seasons, starting with " Broken ". He also directed the Season 6 episode " Lockdown ". He will again direct the upcoming Season 8 episode, " The C Word ". Personal life Edit Hugh Laurie married Jo Green, a theater administrator, in June 1989. They live in north London with their daughter, Rebecca (born 1993), and two sons, Bill (born 1991) and Charlie (born 1988). Rebecca had a role in the film Wit as five-year-old Vivian Bearing. The starring role of the adult Vivian was played by Emma Thompson, a close friend of Laurie since their years at Cambridge. His friend Stephen Fry is his children's godfather.

However, like his character, Laurie is an atheist. He stated on BBC Radio 2 in an interview with Steve Wright in January 2006 that he is currently living in an apartment in West Hollywood while he is in the United States working on House. Laurie is a skilled musician. He can play the piano, guitar, harmonica and saxophone. He has displayed his musical talents in episodes of several series, most notably A Bit of Fry and Laurie, Jeeves and Wooster, House and when he hosted Saturday Night Live on October 28, 2006. In 2011, he released his first album, Let Them Talk, which was followed by Didn't It Rain in 2013. Laurie was awarded an Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2007 New Year Honors List for his services to drama.

[4] Awards 2005 - Nominated - Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series 2007 - Nominated - Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series 2008 - Nominated - Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series 2009 - Nominated - Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series 2010 - Nominated - Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series 2011 - Nominated - Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series Golden Globe Awards 2006 - Winner - Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series - Drama 2007 - Winner - Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series - Drama 2008 - Nominated - Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series - Drama 2009 - Nominated - Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series - Drama 2010 - Nominated - Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series - Drama 2011 - Nominated - Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series - Drama Satellite Awards 2005 - Winner - Outstanding Actor in a Series, Drama 2006 - Winner - Outstanding Actor in a Series, Drama 20

07 - Nominated - Outstanding Actor in a Series, Drama Screen Actors Guild Awards 2006 - Nominated - Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series 2007 - Winner - Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series 2008 - Nominated - Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series 2009 - Winner - Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series 2009 - Nominated - Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series 2010 - Nominated - Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series 2011 - Nominated - Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series Television Critics Association 2005 - Winner - Individual Achievement in Drama 2006 - Winner - Individual Achievement in Drama 2007 - Nominated - Individual Achievement in Drama 2009 - Nominated - Individual Achievement in Drama Annie Awards 2010 - Nominated - Voice Acting in a Feature Production for Monsters vs.

Aliens People's Choice Awards 2009 - Won - Favorite Male TV Star 2011 - Won - Favorite TV Drama Actor 2011 - Won - Favorite TV Doctor 2012 - Nominated - Favorite TV Drama Actor Prism Awards 2006 - Nominated - Performance in a Drama Series Episode 2007 - Nominated - Performance in a Drama Series - Multi-Episode Storyline 2010 - Nominated - Performance in a Drama Series Episode Teen Choice Awards 2006 - Nominated - TV Choice Actor 2007 - Won - Choice TV Actor: Drama 2011 - Nominated - Choice TV Actor: Drama Young Artist Awards 1999 - Nominated - Best Performance in a Featured Film - Young Ensemble for The Borrowers Quotes Edit Emma Thompson on Laurie: "He is very very lovable.

He is one of those rare people who manages to be lugubriously sexy, like a well-hung eel." [5] On the birth of his second son during filming for Jeeves and Wooster: "We were halfway through a scene and the phone call came from the hospital — I didn't even know she was pregnant, it was such a shock — and I had to, we'd done all my bit, with the camera pointing my way, so I ran off to the hospital in my costume, which was very exciting, well, vaguely exciting, and poor old Stephen was left to do the rest of the scene just to thin air. Which was probably preferable, I dunno." Stephen: "Yes, thin air's a better actor." Hugh: "Yeah, not so wooden." [6] Christopher Buckley, The New York Times Book Review, on Laurie's book The Gun Seller: "As a writer, Mr. Laurie is smart, charming, warm, cool (if need be) and high-spirited [...] This is a genuinely witty and sophisticated entertainment." On winning his second Golden Globe for House: "I'm speechless.

I am, literally, without a speech." Trivia Edit Admitted in an interview with Rolling Stone and during a guest appearance on The Tonight Show that he once tried Vicodin as part of his preparation for the role of Dr House. Has struggled with severe clinical depression off and on over the course of his life, and continues to receive regular treatment from a psychotherapist. He stated in an interview that he first concluded he had a problem while on a movie set in 1996, when he realized that the car chase he was filming neither excited nor frightened him (he said that he felt, in fact, bored). [7] "Boredom," he commented in an interview on Inside the Actors Studio, "is not an appropriate response to exploding cars." Was cast as Daily Planet editor Perry White in the film Superman Returns but had to bow out of the project due to his involvement in House (incidentally, the series is produced by Bad Hat Harry Productions, which is owned by Superman Returns director Bryan Singer ). Laurie admires the writings of P.G. Wodehouse : he explained in a 27 May 1999 article in The Daily Telegraph how reading Wodehouse novels had saved his life.

[8] Is close friends with his House co-star Robert Sean Leonard . Is a "Port" side sweep rower, rowing in 4 seat for the 1980 Boat Race When executive producer Bryan Singer cast him as Greg House, Singer was unaware Laurie was British. Was on record predicting the Giants to beat the Patriots just before Super Boxl XLII. Selected filmography

Question: What British comedian partnered with Stephen Fry before starring as Dr. House?
Answer: Hugh Laurie