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Hugh Laurie
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James Hugh Calum Laurie CBE (born June 11, 1959), known professionally as Hugh Laurie, 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 (born June 11, 1959), known professionally as Hugh Laurie, 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
The Graham Norton Show
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Friends
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Wogan
The Simpsons
American Idol
Parkinson
Blackadder
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Spooks
Veep
The Jay Leno Show
Tracey Takes On...
In the Know
Happy Families
Comic Relief
Catch-22
The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends
Why Didn't They Ask Evans?
Spice World
Omnibus Presents Comic Relief
Sense and Sensibility
Despicable Me 4
Tehran
The Man in the Iron Mask
Hop
Dennis the Menace and Gnasher
The Personal History of David Copperfield
Blackadder: The Cavalier Years
Valiant
101 Dalmatians
The Lenny Henry Show
Blackadder's Christmas Carol
Stuart Little
Stuart Little: The Animated Series
Blackadder: Back & Forth
Tomorrowland
Street Kings
All the Light We Cannot See
Peter's Friends
Shrek's Thrilling Tales
Stuart Little 2
Monsters vs Aliens
Mutant Pumpkins from Outer Space
Stuart Little 3: Call of the Wild
Jools Holland: My Life in Music
The Young Visiters
Arthur Christmas
The Night Manager
Mrs. Capper's Birthday
A Life On Screen: Stephen Fry
The Cellar Tapes
Avenue 5
Discovering the Real World of Harry Potter
The Amazing Maurice
Chance
House
Roadkill
Jeeves and Wooster
Production Credits
The Cellar Tapes
House
The Night Manager
Chance
Why Didn't They Ask Evans?
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