Hugh Laurie
English actor, comedian, director, musician and writer · United Kingdom · On the map · Actors · Born 1959 · age 67
James Hugh Calum Laurie is an English actor, comedian, and musician. Laurie first gained professional recognition as a member of the English comedy double act Fry and Laurie with Stephen Fry.
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The Canterville GhostFilm, Grim Reaper / Gardener / Swordsman / Monster / Old Duke (voice)2019
The Personal History of David CopperfieldFilm, Mr. Dick2018
Holmes & WatsonFilm, Mycroft Holmes (uncredited)2017Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor - Series, Miniseries or Television FilmAward2016
The Night ManagerSeries, Producer2014
Late Night with Seth MeyersSeries2013
Monsters vs Aliens StoriesFilm2011
Arthur ChristmasFilm, Steve (voice)2010
ConanSeries2009Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama SeriesAward
B.O.B.'s Big BreakFilm, 2009Dr. Cockroach Ph.D. (voice)2007Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Television Series DramaAwardScreen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama SeriesAward, 2007Teen Choice Award for Choice TV Actor DramaAward2006Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Television Series DramaAwardSatellite Award for Best Actor - Television Series DramaAwardTCA Award for Individual Achievement in DramaAward2005Satellite Award for Best Actor - Television Series DramaAwardTCA Award for Individual Achievement in DramaAward
Stuart Little 3: Call of the WildFilm, 2005Mr. Little (voice)2004
HouseSeries, Director, Producer2002
American IdolSeries
Stuart Little 2Film, 2002Mr. Little2000
Maybe BabyFilm, Sam Bell1999
Blackadder: Back & ForthFilm, George1997
Spice WorldFilm, Poirot1996“This was the tricky bit. The really tricky bit, trickiness cubed.”In their wordsThe Gun Seller (1996)“The first item was fighting under the name ‘Crostini of Mealed Tarroce, with Benatore Potatoes’ and weighed in at an impressive twelve pounds sixty-five.”In their wordsThe Gun Seller (1996)“We were walking through Hyde Park, going nowhere in particular, holding hands for a bit, then letting go as if holding hands wasn't one of life's big deals.”In their wordsThe Gun Seller (1996)“People talk about nightfall, or night falling, or dusk falling, and it's never seemed right to me. Perhaps they once meant befalling. As in night befalls. As in night happens.”In their wordsThe Gun Seller (1996)“I found a cab eventually, and told the driver in fluent English that I wanted Wenceslas Square.”In their wordsThe Gun Seller (1996)“They said it was a sitting-room, but I don’t know why they’d decided to confine its purpose just to sitting.”In their wordsThe Gun Seller (1996)1995
Sense and SensibilityFilm, Mr. Palmer1994
FriendsSeries, Gentleman on the Plane1992
Peter's FriendsFilm, Roger Charleston1989
The SimpsonsSeries, Roger (voice)1985
PlentyFilm, Michael1983
BlackadderSeries, The Prince Regent1981
Wetten, dass..?Series1971
Great PerformancesSeries1959Born11 June 1959People around Hugh
Stephen Fry Professional partner
Rowan Atkinson Directed Blackadder
Emma Thompson Hugh directed Maybe Baby (2001)
Imelda Staunton Also in Sense and Sensibility and The Snow Queen
Jim Broadbent Also in The Borrowers and The Young Visiters
Jesse Spencer Bandmate in Band from TV
David Anders Bandmate in Band from TV
Ben Elton Wrote Happy Families, directed Maybe Baby (2001)
Douglas Wick Produced Stuart Little and Stuart Little 2
Patrick Barlow Also in The Snow Queen's Revenge (1996)
Richard Curtis Directed Blackadder
Tim McInnerny Also in Blackadder and Blackadder: Back & Forth
Kiefer Sutherland Also in Night of the Living Carrots (2011)
Jennifer Saunders Also in Spice World (1998)
Dawn French Hugh directed Maybe Baby (2001)- Rik Mayall Also in The New Statesman and The Snow Queen
Rob Minkoff Directed Stuart Little and Stuart Little 2
David Hare Directed Strapless (1989)
Joe Henry Produced Let Them Talk and Didn't It Rain
Kevin S. Bright Directed The One with Ross's Wedding (1998)
Bob Spiers Directed Spice World and A Bit of Fry & Laurie
Tony Robinson Also in Blackadder and Blackadder: Back & Forth
George Clooney Directed Catch-22, also in Tomorrowland (2015)
Michael J. Fox Also in Stuart Little 2 and Stuart Little
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Sense and Sensibility 1995
Blackadder: The Cavalier Years 1988
Blackadder: Back & Forth 1999
Arthur Christmas 2011
The Amazing Maurice 2022
Also in Deutsch
Filmography 40
209 credits on file
Television 24
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In their own words 4
, There’s an undeniable pleasure in stepping into an open-top sports car driven by a beautiful woman. It feels like you’re climbing into a metaphor.
Death and disaster are at our shoulders every second of our lives, trying to get at us. Missing, a lot of the time. A lot of miles on the motorway without a front wheel blow-out.
I was definitely getting the hang of this skating thing. I'd started to copy a fancy cross-over turn from a German girl in front of me, and it was working pretty well.
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Fry and Laurie acted together in several projects during the 1980s and 1990s, including the BBC sketch comedy series A Bit of Fry & Laurie and the P. G. Wodehouse adaptation Jeeves and Wooster. From 1986 to 1989, Laurie appeared in three series of the period comedy Blackadder.
