Stephen Fry

Acting · Born 1957-08-24 in Hampstead, 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…

Filmography

• A Fish Called Wanda as Hutchison
• V for Vendetta as Deitrich
• Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts as Chapter Passages Narrator (voice)
• The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug as The Master of Laketown
• Red, White & Royal Blue as King James III
• Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows as Mycroft Holmes
• The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies as Master of Laketown
• The Man Who Knew Infinity as Sir Francis Spring
• The Discovery of Heaven as Onno Quist
• Mind Games - The Experiment as Narrator

TV

• A Bit of Fry & Laurie
• Jeeves and Wooster as Jeeves
• It's a Sin as Arthur Garrison
• The Simpsons as Terrance / Hazel / MI5 Man (voice)
• QI as Self - Presenter
• Extras as Stephen Fry
• Blackadder as Lord Melchett
• Blackadder as General Sir Anthony Cecil Hogmanay Melchett
• The Morning Show as Leonard Cromwell
• The Young Ones as Lord Snot