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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!
24
Doctor Who
The Graham Norton Show
The Simpsons
Wogan
Golden Globe Awards
The One Show
Legends
The Morning Show
Harley Quinn
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg
Veep
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
The Sandman
The Jonathan Ross Show
Fawlty Towers
The Mr. Peabody & Sherman Show
Blackadder
Parkinson
Room 101
Top Gear
Star Wars: Skeleton Crew
The Story of Musicals
Extras
Who Do You Think You Are?
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
Just a Minute
Sex Education
It's a Sin
Missing
The Thin Blue Line
Comic Relief
The Dropout
In Conversation with Alan Yentob
Country Tracks
Apple & Onion
Heartstopper
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
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 Celebrity Traitors
Gosford Park
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
A Fish Called Wanda
The Look of Love
A Civil Action
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Everything Now
Omnibus Presents Comic Relief
Red, White & Royal Blue
Love & Friendship
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
Alice Through the Looking Glass
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
Alice in Wonderland
I.Q.
Vivian Stanshall: The Canyons of his Mind
The Kate Bush Story: Running Up That Hill
Doctor Who: Death Comes to Time
Stormbreaker
The Magician's House
Too Much
Blackadder's Christmas Carol
Danger Mouse
V for Vendetta
Missing Link
Cold Comfort Farm
Common Pursuit
Blackadder: Back & Forth
Jools Holland: My Life in Music
Blackadder: The Cavalier Years
What's the Matter with Tony Slattery?
Peter's Friends
The Borrowers
Oscar
The Great Indoors
Tiny Giants 3D
Stephen Fry in America
A Life On Screen: Stephen Fry
Old Flames
Jeopardy!
The Machine That Made Us
Sir David Frost: That Was the Life That Was
Britain's Great Gay Buildings
Wagner & Me
The Cellar Tapes
Happy Families
Dancing with the Birds
Stephen Fry: Guilty
Wilde
Ocean Giants
Hidden Kingdoms
Fantastic Beasts: A Natural History
Production Credits
Bright Young Things
Sense and Sensibility
Lucky Break
The Liar
The Cellar Tapes
Jeopardy!
Stephen Fry in America
Firebird
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