Skip to content
227,683 profiles ranked

Stephen Fry

British comedian, actor, writer, presenter, and activist · United Kingdom · On the map · Comedians · Born 1957 · age 69

Sir Stephen John Fry is an English actor, comedian, writer, and broadcaster. He began his career on the sketch comedy series Alfresco (1983-1984) and the sitcom Blackadder (1986-1989), before gaining recognition as part of the comedy duo Fry and Laurie alongside Hugh Laurie, appearing together in A Bit of Fry & Laurie...

Stephen Fry is read about 5,795 times a day, in 56 languages.

A typical day, 30 days to 9 November 2026

The middle day of the days counted, so one week of news cannot move it. The line under it is the last 400 days, one point a day.

Something wrong?
Compare Claim

A life in dates

2025Knight BachelorAward2021Commander of the Order of the PhoenixAward2019Fellow of the Royal Society of LiteratureAward2018Richard Dawkins AwardAward2014“I was called by my agent, who said "Would you like to record a track with Kate Bush?" To which there is only F-ing one possible answer. Unless its me singing.”In their wordsStephen Fry, talking about his work with Kate on 50 Words for Snow, and the credits on the album.

“Aquinas and Augustus of Hippo both proposed this extraordinary idea that babies who were unbaptised would not know heaven.”In their wordsQuotes from Intelligence Squared (2014)

2010“The powers of the placebo are so strong that it may be morally wrong to call homeopathy a lie because the moment you say it then a placebo falls to pieces and loses its power.”In their words"Last Chance to Think" Interview (2010) by Kylie Sturgess in Skeptical Inquirer. Vol 34 (1)

“Wit can be beautiful, because it expresses and distils an idea.”In their wordsOn the subject of criteria he used to judge in The Most Beautiful Tweet contest, Hay Festival 2010

2009“I genuinely believe that the Catholic church is not, to put it at its mildest, a force for good in the world...”In their words7 November 2009"The Catholic church is a force for good in the world", November 7th 2009, Abridged Intelligence² debate speech.

2004Pipe Smoker of the YearAward2001“[On libraries] What's great about them is that anybody can go into them and find a book and borrow it free of charge and read it. They don't have to steal it from a bookshop...”In their wordsRoom 101 (2001)

1998Sidewise Award for Alternate HistoryAward1957Born24 August 1957

People around Stephen

Also in Deutsch Français

Media & music

In their own words 4

,
Stephen Fry
,
4 statements, newest first

  1. She has a very intense poetic mind. That's what makes it - that voice that comes in.

    2014 · While listening to 50 Words for Snow, Own words

  2. The beauty of the brain is that you can still be as greedy as you like for knowledge and it doesn’t show.

    2013 · Radio Times interview (2013), Own words

  3. All the cold-reading clairvoyants and the nonsensical astrologers and absurd ESP merchants and other such people who talk about vibrations and energies....

    2010 · "Last Chance to Think" Interview (2010) by Kylie Sturgess in Skeptical Inquirer. Vol 34 (1), Own words

Wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0

Awards

Knight Bachelor2025
Commander of the Order of the Phoenix2021
Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature2019
Richard Dawkins Award2018
Pipe Smoker of the Year2004
Sidewise Award for Alternate History1998

About this person

He began his career on the sketch comedy series Alfresco (1983-1984) and the sitcom Blackadder (1986-1989), before gaining recognition as part of the comedy duo Fry and Laurie alongside Hugh Laurie, appearing together in A Bit of Fry & Laurie (1989-1995) and Jeeves and Wooster (1990-1993). His later television roles include Kingdom (2007-2009), Bones (2007-2017), and It's a Sin (2021). Fry was the original host of the comedy panel show QI (2003-2016), for which he was nominated for six British Academy Television Awards. In 2006, the British public ranked Fry number 9 in ITV's poll of TV's 50 Greatest Stars.

Country
United Kingdom
Category
Comedians
Type
Comedian
Status
Living
Dates
Born 1957 · age 69

Where to find them

XstephenfryInstagramstephenfryactuallyIMDbWebsitestephenfry.com

In the same film or series as Stephen

Natalie PortmanAlso in V for Vendetta (2006)Heidi KlumAlso in The Life and Death of Peter Sellers (2004)Jamie Lee CurtisAlso in A Fish Called Wanda (1988)Uma ThurmanAlso in Red, White & Royal Blue (2023)Robbie ColtraneAlso in Stormbreaker (2006)