Stephen Fry Biography

Birthday: 1957-08-24
Place of Birth: Hampstead, London
Height: 6' 4½" (1.94 m)
Wiki Biography: Writer, actor, comedian, doer of good works, excellent good friend to the famous and not, Fry lives in his London SW1 flat and his Norfolk house when not traveling. Famous for his public declaration of celibacy in the "Tatler" back in the 1980s, Emma Thompson has characterised her friend as "90 percent gay, 10 percent other." He grew up in Norfolk (where his parents still reside) and attended Uppingham School and Stout's Hill. After his notorious three months in Pucklechurch prison for credit card fraud, he attended Queens College, Cambridge in 1979, finishing with a 2:1 in English in 1981/2. While at Cambridge, he was a member of the Cherubs drinking club, and Footlights with Thompson, Tony Slattery, Martin Bergman, and Hugh Laurie (to whom he was introduced by E.T.). His prolific writing partnership with Laurie began in 1981 with resulting Footlights revues for (among others) Mayweek, Edinburgh Festival, and a three month tour of Australia. In 1984, Fry was engaged to do the rewrite of the Noel Gay musical "Me and My Girl," which made him a millionaire before the age of 30. It also earned him a nomination for a Tony award in 1987. (Sidenote: It was upon SF's suggestion that Emma Thompson landed a leading role in the London cast of this show.) Throughout the 1980s, Fry did a huge amount of television and radio work, as well as writing for newspapers (e.g. a weekly column in the "Daily Telegraph") and magazines (e.g. articles for "Arena"). He is probably best known for his television roles in "Black-Adder II" (1986) and "Jeeves and Wooster" (1990).
His support of the Terence Higgins Trust through events such as the first "Hysteria" benefit, as well as numerous other charity efforts, are probably those works of which he is most proud. Fry's acting career has not been limited to films and television. He had successful runs in Alan Bennett's "Forty Years On," Simon Gray's "The Common Pursuit" with John Sessions, Rik Mayall, John Gordon Sinclair, and others. Michael Frayn's "Look Look" and Gray's "Cell Mates" were less successful for both Fry and their playwrights, the latter not helped by his walking out of the play after only a couple of weeks. Fry has published four novels as well as a collection of his radio and journalistic miscellanea. He has recorded audiotapes of his novels (an unabridged version of "The Liar" was released in 1995), as well as many other works for both adults and children.
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Filmography
TV Title | Appeared As | Year | Genre |
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Alfresco | 1983 | Comedy | |
Happy Families | Dr. De Quincy | 1985 | Comedy |
Happy Families (1985) | Dr. De Quincy | 1985 - 1985 | |
Saturday Live | Himself / ... | 1986 - 1987 | |
A Bit of Fry & Laurie | Various Characters | 1987 | Comedy |
A Bit of Fry and Laurie | 1987 | Comedy | |
This is David Lander | David Lander | 1988 | Comedy |
Friday Night Live | 1988 | Comedy | |
Jeeves and Wooster | Reginald Jeeves | 1990 - 1993 | Comedy |
Sunday Night Clive | Himself | 1994 - 1994 | |
Gormenghast | Professor Bellgrove | 2000 - 2000 | Adventure |
Baddiel's Syndrome | The Psychiatrist | 2001 | Comedy |
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy | The Guide | 2005 | Adventure |
Pocoyo | 2005 | Animation | |
The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy | Narrator / The Guide | 2005 | Adventure |
Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy | Narrator / The Guide | 2005 | Adventure |
Stephen Fry: HIV & Me | Himself | 2007 | |
Kingdom | Peter Kingdom | 2007 | Comedy |
Kingdom (UK) | Peter Kingdom | 2007 - | |
Stephen Fry in America | 2008 | Documentary | |
Last Chance to See | Himself - Presenter | 2009 | |
Frys Planet Word | Himself - Presenter | 2011 | |
Ocean Giants | Narrator | 2011 | |
Horrible Histories with Stephen Fry | Himself - Presenter | 2011 | History |
The Bleak Old Shop Of Stuff | 2011 | Comedy | |
Stephen Frys 100 Greatest Gadgets | 2011 | ||
Stephen Fry: Gadget Man | Himself - Presenter | 2012 | |
QI | 2018 | Comedy |
Movies Title | Appeared As | Year | Genre |
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Alice in Wonderland | Cheshire Cat | 1933 | 0, 0 |
Peter's Friends | Peter | 1992 | |
I.Q. | 1994 | Comedy, Romance | |
The Steal | Wimborne | 1995 | Comedy, Thriller |
Mr. Toad's Wild Ride | The Judge | 1997 | Adventure, Comedy, Family |
Wilde | Oscar Wilde | 1998 | Drama, History |
A Civil Action | 1999 | Drama | |
The Tichborne Claimant | Hawkins | 1999 | Drama |
Whatever Happened to Harold Smith? | Dr. Peter Robinson | 2000 | Comedy |
Best | Frazer Crane | 2000 | Biography, Drama |
Relative Values | 2000 | Comedy | |
Sabotage! | Wellington | 2000 | Comedy |
Fourplay | Nigel Steele | 2001 | Comedy |
The Discovery of Heaven | 2001 | Drama, Fantasy | |
Thunderpants | 2002 | Comedy, Family | |
Tom Brown's Schooldays | 2004 | ||
The Life and Death of Peter Sellers | Maurice Woodruff | 2004 | Drama |
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy | Narrator / The Guide | 2005 | Adventure, Comedy |
MirrorMask | 2005 | Adventure, Drama, Family | |
V for Vendetta | Deitrich | 2006 | 0, 0, Game Show |
50 Greatest Comedy Films | 2006 | Documentary | |
Tales of the Riverbank | Owl | 2008 | Animation, Family |
Eichmann | Minister Tormer | 2009 | Biography, Drama, History |
Animals United | Socrates | 2010 | Animation, Comedy, Family |
Benjamin Sniddlegrass and the Cauldron of Penguins | The Narrator | 2011 | Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy |
The Look of Love | Barrister | 2013 | Biography, Comedy, Drama |
Love and Friendship | Mr. Johnson | 2015 | Drama, Romance |
The Man Who Knew Infinity | Sir Francis Spring | 2015 | Biography, Drama |
Tomorrow | Chris | 2015 | Drama |
Rocky Horror Show Live | Narrator | 2015 | Comedy, Musical |