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Hugh Laurie
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James Hugh Calum Laurie CBE is an English actor, director, singer, musician, comedian, and author. He is known for portraying the title character on the Fox medical drama series House (2004–2012), for which he received two Golden Globe Awards and nominations for numerous other awards. He was listed in the 2011 Guinness World Records as the most watched leading man on television and was one of the highest-paid actors in a television drama, earning £250,000 ($409,000) per episode of House. His other television credits include arms dealer Richard Onslow Roper in the miniseries The Night Manager (2016), for which he won his third Golden Globe Award, and Senator Tom James in the HBO sitcom Veep (2012–2019), for which he received his 10th Emmy Award nomination. Forced to abandon rowing during a bout of glandular fever, he joined the Cambridge Footlights, a university dramatic club that has produced many well-known actors and comedians. There he met Emma Thompson, with whom he had a romantic relationship, which later ended yet they remain good friends. She introduced him to his future comedy partner, Stephen Fry. Laurie, Fry and Thompson later parodied themselves as the University Challenge representatives of "Footlights College, Oxbridge" in "Bambi", an episode of The Young Ones, with the series' co-writer Ben Elton completing their team.
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James Hugh Calum Laurie CBE is an English actor, director, singer, musician, comedian, and author. He is known for portraying the title character on the Fox medical drama series House (2004–2012), for which he received two Golden Globe Awards and nominations for numerous other awards. He was listed in the 2011 Guinness World Records as the most watched leading man on television and was one of the highest-paid actors in a television drama, earning £250,000 ($409,000) per episode of House. His other television credits include arms dealer Richard Onslow Roper in the miniseries The Night Manager (2016), for which he won his third Golden Globe Award, and Senator Tom James in the HBO sitcom Veep (2012–2019), for which he received his 10th Emmy Award nomination. Forced to abandon rowing during a bout of glandular fever, he joined the Cambridge Footlights, a university dramatic club that has produced many well-known actors and comedians. There he met Emma Thompson, with whom he had a romantic relationship, which later ended yet they remain good friends. She introduced him to his future comedy partner, Stephen Fry. Laurie, Fry and Thompson later parodied themselves as the University Challenge representatives of "Footlights College, Oxbridge" in "Bambi", an episode of The Young Ones, with the series' co-writer Ben Elton completing their team.
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Saturday Night Live
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
Family Guy
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
The Graham Norton Show
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Late Night with Seth Meyers
The Simpsons
American Idol
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
SNL Digital Shorts
Blackadder
Spooks
Veep
The Jay Leno Show
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In the Know
Catch-22
Why Didn't They Ask Evans?
Spice World
Despicable Me 4
Sense and Sensibility
Tehran
The Man in the Iron Mask
Hop
The Personal History of David Copperfield
Valiant
Stuart Little
101 Dalmatians
Stuart Little 2
Blackadder's Christmas Carol
Stuart Little: The Animated Series
All the Light We Cannot See
Shrek's Thrilling Tales
Tomorrowland
Street Kings
Stuart Little 3: Call of the Wild
Friends
Monsters vs Aliens
Mutant Pumpkins from Outer Space
Arthur Christmas
The Night Manager
House
The Amazing Maurice
Avenue 5
Chance
Production Credits
House
The Night Manager
Chance
Why Didn't They Ask Evans?
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