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Hugh Laurie

Birth name: James Hugh Calum Laurie

Birth date: 11.06.1959

Laurie was born in Oxford. His father, William George Ranald Mundell "Ran" Laurie, was a doctor who also won an Olympic gold medal in the coxless pairs at the 1948 London Games. His mother, Patricia Laidlaw, died when Laurie was 29. Laurie was raised in the Presbyterian religion. He was brought up in Oxford and attended the Dragon School, a prestigious preparatory school. He later went on to Eton and then to Selwyn College, Cambridge, where he achieved a Third-Class Honours degree in archaeology & anthropology. Like his father, Laurie was a rower at school and university; in 1977, he was half of the junior coxed pair that won the English national title before representing England's Youth Team at the 1977 World Championships. Later, he also achieved a Blue taking part in the 1980 Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race. Cambridge lost that year by five feet (1.5 m). Laurie is a member of the Leander Club, one of the oldest rowing clubs in the world. Forced to abandon rowing during a bout of glandular fever (mononucleosis), he joined the Cambridge Footlights, which has been the starting point for many successful British comedians. There he met Emma Thompson, with whom he had a romantic relationship and is still 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. In 1980–81, his final year at university, Laurie managed to find time alongside his rowing to be president of the Footlights, with Thompson as vice-president. They took their annual revue, The Cellar Tapes, written principally by Laurie and Fry, the cast also including Thompson, Tony Slattery, Paul Shearer and Penny Dwyer, to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and won the first Perrier Comedy Award for comedy. The Perrier Award led to a West End transfer for The Cellar Tapes and a television version of the revue, broadcast in May 1982. It also resulted in Laurie, Fry and Thompson being selected along with Ben Elton, Robbie Coltrane and Siobhan Redmond to write and appear in a new sketch comedy show for Granada Television, Alfresco, which ran for two series. Hugh Laurie as Lieutenant George in Blackadder Goes Forth. Hugh Laurie as Lieutenant George in Blackadder Goes Forth. Laurie and Fry went on to work together on various projects throughout the 1980s and 1990s. Among them were the Blackadder series, written by Ben Elton and Richard Curtis and starring Rowan Atkinson, with Laurie in various roles, but most notably Prince George and Lieutenant George; their BBC sketch comedy series, A Bit of Fry and Laurie; and Jeeves and Wooster. The latter was an adaptation of P. G. Wodehouse's stories, in which Laurie played Jeeves' employer, the amiable twit Bertie Wooster. It was a role for which Laurie was considered particularly well suited, displaying his talent as a pianist and singer, alongside his celebrated 'posh' voice. He and Fry also worked together at various charity stage events, such as Hysteria! 1, 2 & 3 and Amnesty International's The Secret Policeman's Third Ball, Comic Relief TV shows and the variety show Fry and Laurie Host a Christmas Night with the Stars. They also collaborated on the film Peter's Friends. Laurie also appeared in an early 1980s British television commercial for Polaroid. Laurie appeared in the music video for the 1992 single "Walking on Broken Glass" by Annie Lennox, in full Regency-period costume as in Blackadder the Third (and opposite John Malkovich, similarly reprising Dangerous Liaisons). He also appears as a scientist in the video for "Experiment IV" by Kate Bush. Laurie's later film appearances include Sense and Sensibility (1995), adapted by and starring Emma Thompson; the Disney live-action movie 101 Dalmatians (1996), where he played Jasper, one of the bumbling criminals hired to kidnap the puppies; Ben Elton's adaptation of his novel Inconceivable, Maybe Baby (2000); Girl From Rio; the 2004 remake of The Flight of the Phoenix; and the three Stuart Little films. In 1996 Laurie's first novel, The Gun Seller, a spoof of the thriller genre, was published and became a best seller. He has since been working on the screenplay for a movie version and on a second novel, The Paper Soldier. In 1998, Laurie had a brief guest-starring role on Friends in the episode "The One with Ross's Wedding, Part Two" as a man seated next to Rachel on a flight to London. With the popularity of House, his short scenes in the episode have become favourites of fans of both series, largely due to his comically disdainful use of the name 'Pheebs'. Since 2002, Laurie began appearing in a range of British television dramas, guest-starring that year in two episodes of the first season of the spy thriller series Spooks on BBC One. In 2003, he starred in and also directed ITV's comedy-drama series Fortysomething (in one episode of which Stephen Fry appears). In 2001, he also voiced the character of a bar patron in the Family Guy episode "One If by Clam, Two If by Sea". Laurie was the character of Mr Wolf in the cartoon Preston Pig. He was also a panelist on the first episode of QI, alongside Fry as host. In 2004, Laurie guest-starred as a professor in charge of a space probe called Beagle, on The Lenny Henry Show. Although Laurie has been a household name in Britain since the 1980s, he only really came to the attention of the American public in 2004, when he first starred as the acerbic attending physician Dr Gregory House in the popular FOX medical drama, House. For his portrayal, Laurie assumes an American accent. As the story goes, Laurie was in Namibia filming Flight of the Phoenix and recorded the audition tape for the show in the bathroom of the hotel, the only place he could get enough light. His US accent was so convincing that the executive producer, Bryan Singer, who was unaware at the time that Laurie is British, pointed to him as an example of just the kind of compelling American actor he had been looking for. Laurie also adopts the voice between takes on the set of House, as well as during script read-throughs. In July 2005, Laurie was nominated for an Emmy Award for his role in House. Although he did not win, he did receive a Golden Globe in 2006 for his work on the series. Laurie has also been awarded a large increase in salary, from what was rumoured to be a mid-range five-figure sum to $300,000 per episode. His House contract was also extended for an additional year, allowing for at least a fourth season to be produced.[3] Laurie was not nominated for the 2006 Emmys, apparently to the "outrage" of Fox executives.[4] At the 2006 Primetime Emmy Awards, Laurie appeared in a scripted, pre-taped intro. He parodied his House character by rapidly diagnosing host Conan O'Brien and then proceeded to grope him as the latter stepped into one of Princeton-Plainboro Teaching Hospital's many clinic rooms asking for help to get to the Emmys on time. He would later go on to speak in French whilst presenting an award with Dame Helen Mirren on stage. Laurie was cast as Daily Planet editor Perry White in the film Superman Returns but had to bow out of the project due to his involvement in House (incidentally, the series is produced by Bad Hat Harry Productions, which is owned by Superman Returns director Bryan Singer). In July 2006, Laurie appeared on Bravo's Inside the Actors Studio, where he also performed one of his own songs, "Mystery", on the piano with vocal accompaniment. Laurie's comedy partner, Stephen Fry, has expressed a desire to make a cameo appearance in House, but due to commitments in England, Fry is unable to do so for now.[5] On October 28, 2006, Laurie hosted NBC's Saturday Night Live where he famously, mostly to internet fans, dressed in drag in a sketch about a man (Kenan Thompson) with a broken leg who accuses his doctor of being dishonest. Laurie played the man's wife. Laurie won a second Golden Globe on January 15, 2007, for Best Actor in a Drama for his work in House. He also received the Screen Actors' Guild Award on January 28, 2007, similarly for Best Actor in a Television Drama.

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House M.D. Season 6 - Episode #6.4 (2009) TV episode .... Dr. Gregory House - The Tyrant (2009) TV episode .... Dr. Gregory House - Epic Fail (2009) TV episode .... Dr. Gregory House - Broken (2009) TV episode .... Dr. Gregory House - Both Sides Now (2009) TV episode .... Dr. Gregory House (110 more) # Monsters vs Aliens movie download page (2009) (voice) .... Dr. Cockroach Ph.D. ... aka Monsters vs Aliens movie download page: A Monstrous IMAX 3D Experience (USA: IMAX version) # Band from TV: Hoggin' All the Covers (2008) (V) # Street Kings movie download page (2008) .... Captain James Biggs # The Big Empty (2005) .... Doctor #5 # Stuart Little 3: Call of the Wild (2005) (V) (voice) .... Mr. Frederick Little # Valiant (2005) (voice) .... Gutsy # The Tale of Jack Frost (2004) (TV) (voice) .... Narrator # Flight of the Phoenix movie download page (2004) .... Ian # "The Lenny Henry Show" .... Professor (1 episode, 2004) - Episode #1.1 (2004) TV episode .... Professor # The Young Visiters (2003) (TV) .... Lord Bernard Clark # "Fortysomething" .... Paul Slippery (6 episodes, 2003) - Episode #1.6 (2003) TV episode .... Paul Slippery - Episode #1.5 (2003) TV episode .... Paul Slippery - Episode #1.4 (2003) TV episode .... Paul Slippery - Episode #1.3 (2003) TV episode .... Paul Slippery - Episode #1.2 (2003) TV episode .... Paul Slippery (1 more) # "Stuart Little" .... Mr. Fredrick Little (1 episode, 2003) - The Meatloaf Bandit (2003) TV episode (voice) .... Mr. Fredrick Little # Lost in the Snow (2002) (V) (voice) .... Teddy # Stuart Little 2 (2002) .... Mr. Frederick Little # "Spooks" .... Jools Siviter (2 episodes, 2002) ... aka "MI-5" (USA) - The Rose Bed Memoirs (2002) TV episode (uncredited) .... Jools Siviter - Traitor's Gate (2002) TV episode (uncredited) .... Jools Siviter # Dragans of New York (2002) (TV) # Second Star to the Left (2001) (TV) (voice) .... Archie the Bunny # "Family Guy" .... Bar Patron (1 episode, 2001) ... aka "Padre de familia" (USA: Spanish title) - One If by Clam, Two If by Sea (2001) TV episode (voice) .... Bar Patron # Chica de Río (2001) .... Raymond ... aka Girl from Rio (UK) # The Piano Tuner (2001) .... Charles # Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows (2001) (TV) .... Vincente Minnelli ... aka Judy Garland: L'ombre d'une étoile (Canada: French title) # "Preston Pig" (2000) TV series (voice) .... Mr. Wolf (2000) # "Dominion" (2000) TV series .... Freleng # "Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)" .... Dr. Lawyer (1 episode, 2000) - Mental Apparition Disorder (2000) TV episode .... Dr. Lawyer # Maybe Baby (2000) .... Sam Bell # Carnivale (2000) (voice) .... Cenzo ... aka Carnivale (France) # The Journal of Edwin Carp (2000) (voice) .... Edwin Carp # "Little Grey Rabbit" (2000) TV series (voice) .... Hare # Lounge Act (2000) (voice) # The Nearly Complete and Utter History of Everything (1999) (TV) .... French Ambassador # Blackadder Back & Forth (1999) .... Viscount George Bufton-Tufton / Georgius # Stuart Little (1999) .... Mr. Fredrick Little # Santa's Last Christmas (1999) (TV) (voice) .... Geoffrey the Seagull # Cousin Bette (1998) .... Baron Hector Hulot # "Friends" .... The Gentleman on the Plane (1 episode, 1998) - The One with Ross's Wedding: Part 2 (1998) TV episode .... The Gentleman on the Plane # The Man in the Iron Mask (1998/I) .... King's Advisor # "The Bill" .... Harrap (1 episode, 1998) - Good Faith: Part 1 (1998) TV episode .... Harrap # Spice World (1997) .... Poirot # The Borrowers (1997) .... Police Officer Steady # The Place of Lions (1997) (TV) .... Steve Harris # The Ugly Duckling (1997) (voice) .... Tarquin # Treasure Island (1997) (V) (voice) .... Squire Trelawney # 101 Dalmatians (1996) .... Jasper # "Murder Most Horrid" .... Jerry Bryce (1 episode, 1996) - The Body Politic (1996) TV episode .... Jerry Bryce # "Tracey Takes On..." .... Timothy 'Timmy' Bugge (2 episodes, 1996) - Death (1996) TV episode .... Timothy 'Timmy' Bugge - Royalty (1996) TV episode .... Timothy 'Timmy' Bugge # The Snow Queen's Revenge (1996) (voice) # Sense and Sensibility (1995) .... Mr. Palmer # "Look at the State We're In!" (1995) TV mini-series .... Director / ... (unknown episodes) # "A Bit of Fry and Laurie" .... Various Characters (26 episodes, 1987-1995) - Episode #4.7 (1995) TV episode .... Various Characters - Episode #4.6 (1995) TV episode .... Various Characters - Episode #4.5 (1995) TV episode .... Various Characters - Episode #4.4 (1995) TV episode .... Various Characters - Episode #4.3 (1995) TV episode .... Various Characters (21 more) # The Snow Queen (1995) (voice) .... Peeps # The Adventures of Mole (1995) (TV) .... Toad ... aka The Wind in the Willows Collection: The Adventures of Mole (USA: video title) # "The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends" .... 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Bertie Wooster - Arrested in a Night Club (1993) TV episode .... Bertie Wooster - Honoria Glossop Turns Up (1993) TV episode .... Bertie Wooster - Lady Florence Craye Arrives in New York (1993) TV episode .... Bertie Wooster (18 more) # Peter's Friends (1992) .... Roger Charleston # Brown Bear's Wedding (1991) (TV) (voice) .... Owl/Mice # "Blackadder Goes Forth" .... Lieutenant The Honourable George Colthurst St. Barleigh (6 episodes, 1989) - Goodbyeee (1989) TV episode .... Lieutenant The Honourable George Colthurst St. Barleigh - General Hospital (1989) TV episode .... Lieutenant The Honourable George Colthurst St. Barleigh - Private Plane (1989) TV episode .... Lieutenant The Honourable George Colthurst St. Barleigh - Major Star (1989) TV episode .... Lieutenant The Honourable George Colthurst St. Barleigh - Corporal Punishment (1989) TV episode .... Lieutenant The Honourable George Colthurst St. Barleigh (1 more) # Strapless (1989) .... Colin # "The New Statesman" .... 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