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Known For

Acting

Birthdate

1957-08-24 (Age: 69)

Place of Birth

Hampstead, London, England, UK

Stephen Fry

Biography

Stephen John Fry is an English actor, screenwriter, author, playwright, journalist, poet, comedian, television presenter and film director, and a director of Norwich City Football Club. He first came to attention in the 1981 Cambridge Footlights Revue presentation "The Cellar Tapes", which also included Hugh Laurie, Emma Thompson and Tony Slattery. With Hugh Laurie, as the comedy double act Fry and Laurie, he co-wrote and co-starred in A Bit of Fry & Laurie, and the duo also played the title roles in Jeeves and Wooster. As a solo actor, Fry played the lead in the film Wilde, was Melchett in the BBC television series Blackadder, starred as the title character Peter Kingdom in the ITV series Kingdom, and is the host of the quiz show QI. He also presented a 2008 television series Stephen Fry in America, which saw him travelling across all 50 U.S. states in six episodes. Fry has a recurring guest role as Dr. Gordon Wyatt on the Fox crime series Bones. Apart from his work in television, Fry has contributed columns and articles for newspapers and magazines, and has written four novels and two volumes of autobiography, Moab Is My Washpot and The Fry Chronicles. He also appears frequently on BBC Radio 4, starring in the comedy series Absolute Power, being a frequent guest on panel games such as Just a Minute, and acting as chairman for I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue, where he was one of a trio of hosts who succeeded the late Humphrey Lyttelton. Fry is also known in the UK for his audiobook recordings, including as reader for all seven Harry Potter novels.

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Stephen Fry

Biography

Filmography (228)

The Three Urns

Joke

Finding Father Christmas

This Ordinary Thing

Christmas Karma

Recall Me Maybe

The Castle, Rebuilding History

A Friend of Dorothy

Time Travel Is Dangerous!

Douglas Adams: The Man Who Imagined Our Future

Doctor Who at the Proms

About a Hero

Black Samphire

This Is Not Hollywood (The Unfinished Story of The Ibarretxe Brothers)

We Are Home

The Big Fat Quiz of Telly

Treasure

We Work for the Dead

Bottom: Exposed

U.Me: The Musical

The Canterville Ghost

The Inventor

Red, White & Royal Blue

Blackadder: A Cunning Story

The Big Fat Quiz of Sport

Willem and Frieda: Defying the Nazis

John Craxton: A Life of Gifts

Mind Games - The Experiment

Mr Bear's Christmas

Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba

David Baddiel: Jews Don't Count

Meat Loaf - A Celebration Of Life

The Fringe, Fame and Me

George Michael: Portrait of an Artist

Fantastic Beasts: A Natural History

Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts

Hating Peter Tatchell

It's Always Something

Listening through the Lens: The Christopher Nupen Films

Sparkling: The Story Of Champagne

Night of the Living Dread

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Dancing on Thin Ice with Torvill & Dean

Cold War Steve Meets the Outside World

Fear of Dancing

What's the Matter with Tony Slattery?

The Big Night In

Scandal & Beauty: Mark Gatiss on Aubrey Beardsley

Bill Turnbull: Staying Alive

Dancing with the Birds

Tomorrow

Greed

Missing Link

Almost Human

Churchill and the Movie Mogul

Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood

The Con Is On

M. C. Escher: Journey to Infinity

Pocoyo's Easter Picnic

Duck Duck Goose

And the Winner Isn't

All Families Have Secrets: Patrick Gale's Art of Fiction

Queer as Art

50 Years Legal

Battle of Soho

Elton John: The Nation's Favourite Song

Wild Africa / Tiny Giants

Santa Forgot

The Killing$ of Tony Blair

Love & Friendship

Alice Through the Looking Glass

Pocoyo's Halloween

The Man Who Knew Infinity

A Fanatic Heart: Geldof On Yeats

The Not So Secret Life of the Manic Depressive: 10 Years On

A Life On Screen: Stephen Fry