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Stephen Fry

Stephen Fry

Acting1957Hampstead, London, England, UK

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.

Acting History

Future
The Liar
Executive Producer
2025
Christmas Karma
as Radio Presenter (Voice)
Time Travel Is Dangerous!
as Narrator (voice)
Lubach
TVas Self
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg
TVas Self – writer and comedian / Self - Writer and Comedian / Self – Writer and broadcaster1 eps
The Jonathan Ross Show
TVas Self - Guest / Self1 eps
Too Much
TVas Simon Remen10 eps
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?
TVas Self - Contestant1 eps
Harley Quinn
TVas Brainiac (voice)7 eps
Star Wars: Skeleton Crew
TVas Supervisor (voice)2 eps
The Celebrity Traitors
TVas Self - Contestant
2024
We Work for the Dead
as Pruitt (voice)
Treasure
as Edek
2023
Red, White & Royal Blue
as King James III
The Inventor
as Leonardo da Vinci (voice)
The Canterville Ghost
as Sir Simon de Canterville (voice)
The Morning Show
TVas Leonard Cromwell5 eps
The Canterville Ghost
Executive Producer
2022
Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts
as Chapter Passages Narrator (voice)
Heartstopper
TVas Headmaster Barnes (voice)5 eps
The Sandman
TVas Gilbert6 eps
The Dropout
TVas Ian Gibbons4 eps
2021
Hating Peter Tatchell
as Self (Actor, Comedian & Writer)
It's a Sin
TVas Arthur Garrison2 eps
The Simpsons
TVas Terrance / Hazel / MI5 Man (voice)1 eps
Firebird
Thanks
2020
Sex Education
TVas NSQC Quizmaster1 eps
Doctor Who
TVas C2 eps
2019
Greed
as Self
Tomorrow
as Chris
Missing Link
as Lord Piggot-Dunceby (voice)
Almost Human
as Narrator
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
TVas Winston Churchill (voice)1 eps
Ponyboi
Executive Producer
2018
Duck Duck Goose
as Frazier (voice)
The Con Is On
as Sidney
Apple & Onion
TVas Onion's Dad (voice)3 eps
The Last Leg
TVas Self2 eps
2017
The Mr. Peabody & Sherman Show
TVas Uncle Duke ​(voice)1 eps
Veep
TVas Nikolai Genidze1 eps
2016
Alice Through the Looking Glass
as Cheshire Cat (voice)
Love & Friendship
as Mr. Johnson
The Man Who Knew Infinity
as Sir Francis Spring
Santa Forgot
as Narrator
The Great Indoors
TVas Roland22 eps
Tickled
Executive Producer
2015
Danger Mouse
TVas Colonel K (voice)100 eps
Nightstand
Executive Producer
2014
That Sugar Film
as The Sugar Family Sketch
Marked
as Father Christmas
Tiny Giants 3D
as Narrator
24
TVas Alastair Davies8 eps
Hidden Kingdoms
TVas Narrator
American Dad!
TVas Mr. Cavendish (voice) / John Michael Heaton (voice)1 eps
Lily's Driftwood Bay
TVas Lord Stag (voice)
2013
2012
Doors Open
as Professor Robert Gissing
Cicada Princess
as Narrator (voice)
Twelfth Night
as Malvolio
Gadget Man
TVas Presenter
Kulturzeit
TVas self1 eps
Walking the Dogs
Executive Producer
Doors Open
Executive Producer
2009
House of Boys
as Dr. Marsh
Last Chance to See
TVas Self - Presenter6 eps
The Graham Norton Show
TVas Self8 eps
2007
St Trinian's
as Stephen Fry
Eichmann
as Minister Tormer
Snow White: The Sequel
as The Narrator (voice)
Bones
TVas Gordon Wyatt6 eps
Kingdom
TVas Peter Kingdom18 eps
Kingdom
TVExecutive Producer18 eps
2005
A Cock and Bull Story
as Patrick Curator / Parson Yorick
MirrorMask
as Librarian
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
as Narrator / The Guide (voice)
Tom Brown's Schooldays
as Dr. Thomas Arnold
Meet Pocoyo!
as Narrator
The Funny Blokes of British Comedy
as General Sir Anthony Melchett (archive footage) (uncredited)
Pocoyo & Friends
as Narrator
Pocoyo
TVas Narrator212 eps
29 Minutes of Fame
TVas Self - Panelist
2003
Le Divorce
as Piers Janely
Top Gear
TVas Self2 eps
Fortysomething
TVas Derek1 eps
QI
TVas Self - Presenter200 eps
Absolute Power
TVas Charles Prentiss
Bright Young Things
Executive Producer
2002
2001
Four Play
as Nigel Steele
Gosford Park
as Inspector Thompson
Room 101
TVas Self1 eps
The BAFTA Awards
TVas Host12 eps
Baddiel's Syndrome
TVas The Psychiatrist14 eps
2000
Best
as Frazer Crane
Relative Values
as Frederick Crestwell
Sabotage!!
as Wellington
Longitude
as Sir Kenelm Digby
Click
TVas Self
1999
Geri
as Self
Watership Down
TVas Cowslip (voice)
Parkinson
TVas Self5 eps
Golden Globe Awards
TVas Self - Nominee1 eps
1998
So Graham Norton
TVas Self1 eps
Natural World
TVas Narrator3 eps
1997
Wilde
as Oscar Wilde
Spice World
as Judge
1996
Shooting Stars
TVas Self2 eps
1995
The Steal
as Wimborne
The Thin Blue Line
TVas Blaster Sump1 eps
1994
I.Q.
as James Moreland
An Audience with...
TVas Self2 eps
1993
Stalag Luft
as Wing Commander James Forrester
Camp Christmas
as Santa Claus
1992
Peter's Friends
as Peter Morton
Screen Two
TVas Humphrey Taylor1 eps
Have I Got News for You
TVas Self3 eps
1990
Old Flames
as Daniel Davenport
Jeeves and Wooster
TVas Jeeves23 eps
1988
Blackadder's Christmas Carol
as Lords Melchett / Frondo
Whose Line Is It Anyway?
TVas Self5 eps
1987
Blackadder
TVas General Sir Anthony Cecil Hogmanay Melchett / Lord Melchett / The Duke of Wellington1 eps
1985
The Good Father
as Creighton
1984
The Young Ones
TVas Lord Snot1 eps
1983
Alfresco
TVas Various
Alfresco
TVWriter
1982
Wogan
TVas Self
1981
Chariots of Fire
as Cambridge Student at Society Day (uncredited)

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Personal Info

Known For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
8/24/1957(68 years old)
Place of Birth
Hampstead, London, England, UK
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