Stephen Fry

Known for ActingBorn 1957-08-24 (age 68)Hampstead, London, England, UK

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.Read more

Movies & web series

China's Wild Secrets

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

David Baddiel: Jews Don't Count

Wimbledon: 2015 Official Film Review

Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plot

29 Minutes of Fame

Just a Minute

The BAFTA Awards

The Big Night In

Inside 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'

The Two Loves of Anthony Trollope

Paddington Bear: The Early Years

An Audience with Elton John

The Secret Show

Hugh Laurie: Down by the River

Heartstopper

Doctor Who: Death Comes to Time

The Tichborne Claimant

Frost on Sketch Shows

Douglas Adams: The Man Who Imagined Our Future

Harley Quinn

Fawlty Towers: Re-Opened

Sex Education

Stephen Fry: The Secret Life of the Manic Depressive

The Celebrity Traitors

Fry's Planet Word

Bones

It's Always Something

Sparkling: The Story Of Champagne

Fear of Dancing

London Zoo: An Extraordinary Year

Ponyboi

Elton John: The Nation's Favourite Song

Britain's Great Gay Buildings

Red, White & Royal Blue

It's a Sin

Hidden Kingdoms

A Life on Screen

The Lonely Dodo

Ocean Giants

The Sandman

Stephen Fry: Guilty

Stephen Fry: HIV & Me

'V for Vendetta' Unmasked

Vivian Stanshall: The Canyons of his Mind

Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba

A Profile of 'The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp'

Jeeves and Wooster