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