Stephen Fry
- Acting
- August 24, 1957 · Hampstead, London, England, UK
Biography
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
Filmography
- Hexed · Elias Quire (Voice)
- Frank and Percy
- Rik Mayall: Magnificent B'Stard · Self
- Rik Mayall's Sketches: Rare And Unseen · Narrator (Voice)
- Touché · Narrator (Voice)
- The Three Urns · Bookseller
- Joke
- The Twelfth Night Reunion · Self
- Finding Father Christmas · Self
- This Ordinary Thing · Self
- Christmas Karma · Radio Presenter (Voice)
- China's Wild Secrets · Narrated
- The Celebrity Traitors · Self
- Recall Me Maybe · Kevin
- Not Only Fred Dagg But Also John Clarke · Self
- The Castle, Rebuilding History · Narrator
- Too Much · Simon Remen
- A Friend of Dorothy · Dickie
- The Assembly · Self
- Time Travel Is Dangerous! · Narrator (Voice)
- Lubach · Self
- Douglas Adams: The Man Who Imagined Our Future · Self
- Doctor Who at the Proms · C (archive footage)
- Star Wars: Skeleton Crew · Supervisor (Voice)
- About a Hero
- Black Samphire · Mari's Boss
- This Is Not Hollywood (The Unfinished Story of The Ibarretxe Brothers) · Self
- Mozart: Rise of a Genius · Self
- We Are Home · Self
- Treasure · Edek
- We Work for the Dead · Pruitt (Voice)
- Jeopardy! Australia · Host
- Bottom: Exposed · Narrator (Voice)
- U.Me: The Musical · Narrator
- Jeopardy! · Self, Executive producer
- The Dinosaur Hour · Self
- Everything Now · Dr Nell
- The Canterville Ghost · Sir Simon de Canterville (Voice), Executive producer
- The Inventor · Leonardo da Vinci (Voice)
- Red, White & Royal Blue · King James III
- Blackadder: A Cunning Story · Self
- George Michael: Portrait of an Artist · Self
- The Big Fat Quiz of Sport · Self
- Willem and Frieda: Defying the Nazis
- 1939: Secrets of Hollywood's Golden Year · Self
- Dinosaur with Stephen Fry
- John Craxton: A Life of Gifts · John Craxton (Voice)
- Mind Games - The Experiment · Narrator
- A Year on Planet Earth · Self
- Mr Bear's Christmas · Narrator
- Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba · Self
- David Baddiel: Jews Don't Count · Self
- Stuff the British Stole · Self
- In Conversation with Alan Yentob · Self
- Meat Loaf - A Celebration Of Life · Self
- Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg · Self
- The Fringe, Fame and Me · Self
- The Sandman · Gilbert
- Heartstopper · Headmaster Barnes (Voice)
- The Dropout · Ian Gibbons
- Fantastic Beasts: A Natural History · Self
- Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts · Chapter Passages Narrator (Voice)
- Hating Peter Tatchell · Self
- Firebird · Thanks
- It's Always Something · Narrator
- Listening through the Lens: The Christopher Nupen Films · Narrator
- Sparkling: The Story Of Champagne · Self / Sir Fopling Flutter
- Night of the Living Dread · Meditation Guru (Voice)
- The Picture of Dorian Gray · The Interviewer
- It's a Sin · Arthur Garrison
- Dancing on Thin Ice with Torvill & Dean · Narrator
- Cold War Steve Meets the Outside World · Self
- London Zoo: An Extraordinary Year · Narrator (Voice)
- Fear of Dancing · Self
- What's the Matter with Tony Slattery? · Self
- The Big Night In · Lord Melchett
- Scandal & Beauty: Mark Gatiss on Aubrey Beardsley · Self
- Harley Quinn · Brainiac (Voice)
- The Morning Show · Leonard Cromwell
- Bill Turnbull: Staying Alive · Self