Stephen Fry

Stephen Fry

66 · Born: Aug 24, 1957

Personal Details

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Height 6' 4"
Born Aug 24, 1957 Hampstead, London, England, UK
Parents
  • Marianne Fry
  • Alan Fry
Relatives
  • Roger (Sibling)
  • Jo Foster (Sibling)

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.

Career

2024
Treasure
Treasure as Edek
2023
Mind Games - The Experiment
Mind Games - The Experiment as Narrator
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The Inventor
The Inventor as Leonardo da Vinci (voice)
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Willem & Frieda
Willem & Frieda
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Red, White & Royal Blue
Red, White & Royal Blue as King James III
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The Canterville Ghost
The Canterville Ghost as Sir Simon De Canterville (voice)
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Dinosaur - with Stephen Fry
Everything Now
Everything Now as Dr Nell
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The Dinosaur Hour
The Dinosaur Hour
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2022
The Dropout
The Dropout as Ian Gibbons
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2021
The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Picture of Dorian Gray as The Interviewer
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It's a Sin
It's a Sin as Arthur Garrison
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2020
Doctor Who
Doctor Who as C
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The Simpsons
The Simpsons as Terrance / Hazel / MI5 Man (voice)
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2019
Tomorrow
Tomorrow as Chris
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Dancing with the Birds
Dancing with the Birds as Narrator
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Almost Human
Almost Human as Narrator
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Missing Link
Missing Link as Lord Piggot-Dunceby (voice)
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver as Winston Churchill (voice)
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2018
M.C. Escher: Journey to Infinity
M.C. Escher: Journey to Infinity as Narrator
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The Con is On
The Con is On as Sidney
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Duck Duck Goose
Duck Duck Goose as Frazier (voice)
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Apple & Onion
Apple & Onion as Onion's Dad (voice)
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2017
50 Years Legal
50 Years Legal
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Sixteen Legs
Sixteen Legs
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Veep
Veep as Nikolai Genidze
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American Dad!
American Dad! as John Michael Heaton (voice)
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2016
Love & Friendship
Love & Friendship as Mr. Johnson
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The Great Indoors
The Great Indoors as Roland
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Yonderland
Yonderland as Cuddly Dick
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2015
Rocky Horror Show Live
Rocky Horror Show Live as Narrator
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The Man Who Knew Infinity
The Man Who Knew Infinity as Sir Francis Spring
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Danger Mouse
Danger Mouse as Colonel K (voice)
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2014
That Sugar Film
That Sugar Film as The Sugar Family Sketch
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Our Gay Wedding: The Musical
Tiny Giants 3D
Tiny Giants 3D as Narrator
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Mahout: The Great Elephant Walk
Mahout: The Great Elephant Walk as Narrator
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Lily's Driftwood Bay
Lily's Driftwood Bay as Lord Stag (voice)
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24
24 as Alastair Davies P.M.
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2013
Super Clyde
Super Clyde as Randolph
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The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug as The Master of Laketown
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The Look of Love
The Look of Love as Barrister
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2012
Doors Open
Doors Open as Professor Robert Gissing
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Gadget Man
Gadget Man as Presenter
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The Bleak Old Shop of Stuff
The Bleak Old Shop of Stuff as Skulkingworm
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2011
The Borrowers
The Borrowers as Professor Mildeye
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Ocean Giants
Ocean Giants as Narrater
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March of the Dinosaurs
March of the Dinosaurs as Narrator (UK)
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Holy Flying Circus
Holy Flying Circus as God
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Benjamin Sniddlegrass and the Cauldron of Penguins
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows as Mycroft Holmes
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Ocean Giants
Ocean Giants as Narrator
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Fry's Planet Word
Fry's Planet Word
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2010
Stephen Fry Live at the Sydney Opera House
Lost Connection
Lost Connection as Dad
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Alice in Wonderland
Alice in Wonderland as The Cheshire Cat (voice)
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Conference of Animals
Conference of Animals as Socrates
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2009
House of Boys
House of Boys as Dr. Marsh
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Fawlty Towers: Re-Opened
Fawlty Towers: Re-Opened as Narrator
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Last Chance to See
2008
Tales of the Riverbank
Tales of the Riverbank as Owl (voice)
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2007
Eichmann
Eichmann as Minister Tormer
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Kingdom
Kingdom as Peter Kingdom
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2006
V for Vendetta
V for Vendetta as Gordon Deitrich
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Stormbreaker
Stormbreaker as Smithers
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Bones
Bones as Dr. Gordon Wyatt
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2005
Tom Brown's Schooldays
Tom Brown's Schooldays as Dr. Thomas Arnold
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy as Narrator/The Guide
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Mirrormask
Mirrormask as Librarian
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Pocoyo
Pocoyo as Narrator
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2004
A Bear Named Winnie
A Bear Named Winnie as Protheroe
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Tooth
Tooth as Pedro
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The Life and Death of Peter Sellers
The Life and Death of Peter Sellers as Maurice Woodruff
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2003
Absolute Power
Absolute Power as Charles Prentiss
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Top Gear
Top Gear as Star in a Reasonably-Priced Car
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2002
Surrealissimo: The Scandalous Success of Salvador Dali
Thunderpants
Thunderpants as Sir Anthony Silk
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2001
The Discovery of Heaven
The Discovery of Heaven as Onno Quist
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Fourplay
Fourplay as Nigel Steele
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Paddington Bear: The Early Years
2000
Relative Values
Relative Values as Frederick Crestwell
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Tell Me the Truth About Love
Tell Me the Truth About Love as Narrator
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Sabotage!
Sabotage! as Wellington
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Whatever Happened to Harold Smith?
Whatever Happened to Harold Smith? as Dr. Peter Robinson
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Gormenghast
Gormenghast
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Longitude
Longitude as Sir Kenhelm Digby
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1999
Watership Down
Watership Down as Cowslip
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The Magician's House
The Magician's House as Jasper the Owl (voice)
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1998
The Tichborne Claimant
The Tichborne Claimant as Hawkins
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In the Red
In the Red as Controller, Radio 2
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1997
Wilde
Wilde as Oscar Wilde
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1996
Mr. Toad's Wild Ride
Mr. Toad's Wild Ride as The Judge
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1995
The Steal
The Steal as Wimborne
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Cold Comfort Farm
Cold Comfort Farm as Mybug
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The Thin Blue Line
1994
I.Q.
I.Q. as James Moreland
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An Audience with Bob Monkhouse
1993
Stalag Luft
Stalag Luft as Wing Commander James Forrester
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1992
Peter's Friends
Peter's Friends as Peter Morton
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The Borrowers
The Borrowers
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Screen Two
Screen Two as Humphrey Taylor
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1990
Jeeves and Wooster
Jeeves and Wooster as Jeeves
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1989
A Bit of Fry and Laurie
The New Statesman
The New Statesman as Piers Lonsdale
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1988
This Is David Lander
1987
The Laughing Prisoner
The Laughing Prisoner as No. 2
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1986
Comic Relief
Comic Relief
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Blackadder
Blackadder as Lord Melchett
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1985
The Good Father
The Good Father as Creighton
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Happy Families
Happy Families
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1983
The Crystal Cube
The Crystal Cube as Dr. Adrian Cowlacey
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Alfresco
Alfresco as Various
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1982
Cambridge Footlights Revue
Cambridge Footlights Revue as various
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There's Nothing to Worry About!
There's Nothing to Worry About! as Various
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2024
Jeopardy!
Jeopardy!
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2023
Blackadder: A Cunning Story
2022
David Baddiel: Jews Don't Count
Fantastic Beasts: A Natural History
Stand Out: An LGBTQ+ Celebration
A Year on Planet Earth
2021
Sparkling: The Story of Champagne
Agatha & Poirot: Partners in Crime
Hating Peter Tatchell
2020
Horizon
Horizon
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Greed
Greed
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2019
Bill Turnbull: Staying Alive
Churchill and the Movie Mogul
2018
2017
Battle of Soho
Battle of Soho
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Queer as Art
Queer as Art
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2016
The Killing$ of Tony Blair
A Fanatic Heart: Geldof On Yeats
2015
A Life on Screen: Stephen Fry
Stephen Fry in Central America
2014
Stephen Fry Live: More Fool Me
Hidden Kingdoms
Hidden Kingdoms
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2013
Stephen Fry's Key to the City
Frost on Sketch Shows
Stephen Fry: Out There
2012
Wagner & Me
Wagner & Me
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Stephen Fry's 100 Greatest Gadgets
2011
Botham: The Legend of '81
Wogan on Wodehouse
The Jonathan Ross Show
2010
Fry and Laurie Reunited
2009
Last Chance to See
Fawlty Exclusive: Basil's Best Bits
Not Again: Not the Nine O'Clock News
The Graham Norton Show
2008
The Machine That Made Us
Blackadder's Most Cunning Moments
Blackadder Rides Again
Stephen Fry in America
2007
J.K. Rowling: A Year in the Life
Stephen Fry: HIV & Me
Stephen Fry: Guilty
Stephen Fry: HIV & Me
2006
The Story of Light Entertainment
2003
QI
QI
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2002
The Making of Gosford Park
1999
Geri
Geri
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1993
Camp Christmas
Camp Christmas
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1989
The Secret Policeman's Biggest Ball
1988
Whose Line Is It Anyway?
1987
The Secret Policeman's Third Ball
1986
Wogan
Wogan
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2017
The Hippopotamus
The Hippopotamus as Novel
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2013
Stephen Fry: Out There
Stephen Fry: Out There as Writer
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2007
Stephen Fry: HIV & Me
Stephen Fry: HIV & Me as Writer
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2006
The Magic Flute
The Magic Flute as Writer
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1987
The Laughing Prisoner
The Laughing Prisoner as Writer
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1983
The Crystal Cube
The Crystal Cube as Writer
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Alfresco
Alfresco as Writer
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1982
Cambridge Footlights Revue
Cambridge Footlights Revue as Writer
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2003
Bright Young Things
Bright Young Things as Director, Screenplay
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2011
Fry's Planet Word
Fry's Planet Word as Creator
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1989
A Bit of Fry and Laurie
A Bit of Fry and Laurie as Creator
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1982
There's Nothing to Worry About!
There's Nothing to Worry About! as Creator, Writer
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