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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.
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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.
Known For
Bones
American Dad!
Doctor Who
The Graham Norton Show
The Simpsons
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg
Wogan
Golden Globe Awards
The One Show
Legends
The Morning Show
Harley Quinn
Veep
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
The Jonathan Ross Show
Blackadder
Fawlty Towers
The Mr. Peabody & Sherman Show
Parkinson
Room 101
Top Gear
Star Wars: Skeleton Crew
Extras
Who Do You Think You Are?
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
Just a Minute
Sex Education
It's a Sin
Missing
Comic Relief
The Thin Blue Line
In Conversation with Alan Yentob
Country Tracks
Heartstopper
The Dropout
Doctor Who at the Proms
Chariots of Fire
Bright Young Things
The Boys from Brazil: Rise of the Bolsonaros
Spice World
Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts
24
Don't Crash: The Documentary of the Making of the Movie of the Book of the Radio Series of 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'
The Sandman
Gosford Park
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
A Fish Called Wanda
The Look of Love
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
A Civil Action
Everything Now
Omnibus Presents Comic Relief
Love & Friendship
Red, White & Royal Blue
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
Alice in Wonderland
Alice Through the Looking Glass
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
I.Q.
Vivian Stanshall: The Canyons of his Mind
The Kate Bush Story: Running Up That Hill
Doctor Who: Death Comes to Time
Stormbreaker
Cold Comfort Farm
Common Pursuit
Missing Link
Danger Mouse
V for Vendetta
The Magician's House
Too Much
Blackadder's Christmas Carol
Blackadder: Back & Forth
Blackadder: The Cavalier Years
Jools Holland: My Life in Music
What's the Matter with Tony Slattery?
Oscar
The Great Indoors
The Borrowers
Peter's Friends
Dancing with the Birds
Hidden Kingdoms
Wagner & Me
Britain's Great Gay Buildings
Stephen Fry: Guilty
Ocean Giants
The Cellar Tapes
Wilde
Tiny Giants 3D
The Machine That Made Us
A Life On Screen: Stephen Fry
Fantastic Beasts: A Natural History
Old Flames
Stephen Fry in America
Happy Families
Sir David Frost: That Was the Life That Was
Jeopardy!
Production Credits
Jeopardy!
The Liar
Firebird
Stephen Fry in America
Bright Young Things
Sense and Sensibility
Lucky Break
The Cellar Tapes
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