
Stephen Fry
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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.
Known For

Bones

American Dad!

24

Doctor Who

The Graham Norton Show

The Simpsons

Wogan

Golden Globe Awards

The One Show

Legends

The Morning Show

Harley Quinn

Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg

Veep

The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson

The Sandman

The Jonathan Ross Show

Fawlty Towers

The Mr. Peabody & Sherman Show

Blackadder

Top Gear

Room 101

Parkinson

Star Wars: Skeleton Crew

The Story of Musicals

Extras

Who Do You Think You Are?

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver

Just a Minute

Sex Education

It's a Sin

Missing

The Thin Blue Line

Comic Relief

Heartstopper

In Conversation with Alan Yentob

Country Tracks

The Dropout

Apple & Onion

Doctor Who at the Proms

Chariots of Fire

Bright Young Things

The Boys from Brazil: Rise of the Bolsonaros

Spice World

Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts

Don't Crash: The Documentary of the Making of the Movie of the Book of the Radio Series of 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'

The Celebrity Traitors

Gosford Park

The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies

The Look of Love

A Fish Called Wanda

A Civil Action

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Everything Now

Omnibus Presents Comic Relief

Love & Friendship

Red, White & Royal Blue

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows

Alice in Wonderland

Alice Through the Looking Glass

Vivian Stanshall: The Canyons of his Mind

I.Q.

The Kate Bush Story: Running Up That Hill

Doctor Who: Death Comes to Time

Stormbreaker

Too Much

Cold Comfort Farm

Common Pursuit

The Magician's House

V for Vendetta

Blackadder's Christmas Carol

Missing Link

Danger Mouse

Blackadder: Back & Forth

What's the Matter with Tony Slattery?

Blackadder: The Cavalier Years

Jools Holland: My Life in Music

The Great Indoors

The Borrowers

Peter's Friends

Oscar

Wagner & Me

Wilde

Dancing with the Birds

Fantastic Beasts: A Natural History

The Machine That Made Us

Sir David Frost: That Was the Life That Was

Stephen Fry: Guilty

Stephen Fry in America

Britain's Great Gay Buildings

The Cellar Tapes

Happy Families

Jeopardy!

Old Flames

Ocean Giants

Hidden Kingdoms

A Life On Screen: Stephen Fry

Tiny Giants 3D
Production Credits
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