Hugh Laurie

Acting · 3.8 popularity

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Born: June 11, 1959
From: Oxford, England, UK
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Biography

James Hugh Calum Laurie CBE (born June 11, 1959), known professionally as Hugh Laurie, is an English actor, director, singer, musician, comedian, and author. He is known for portraying the title character on the Fox medical drama series House (2004–2012), for which he received two Golden Globe Awards and nominations for numerous other awards. He was listed in the 2011 Guinness World Records as the most watched leading man on television and was one of the highest-paid actors in a television drama, earning £250,000 ($409,000) per episode of House. His other television credits include arms dealer Richard Onslow Roper in The Night Manager (2016), for which he won his third Golden Globe Award, and Senator Tom James in the HBO sitcom Veep (2012–2019), for which he received his 10th Emmy Award nomination. Forced to abandon rowing during a bout of glandular fever, he joined the Cambridge Footlights, a university dramatic club that has produced many well-known actors and comedians. There he met Emma Thompson, with whom he had a romantic relationship, which later ended yet they remain 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.

Works

96 films

Monsters vs Aliens

20096.3

Hop

20115.8

Tomorrowland

20156.3

101 Dalmatians

19965.9

Sense and Sensibility

19957.4

Stuart Little

19996.1

Street Kings

20086.7

The Man in the Iron Mask

19986.7

Arthur Christmas

20116.8

Valiant

20055.7

Holmes & Watson

20184.3

Stuart Little 2

20025.8

The Borrowers

19976.1

The Amazing Maurice

20226.6

The Canterville Ghost

20236.7

Flight of the Phoenix

20046.0

Stuart Little 3: Call of the Wild

20055.2

Spice World

19974.9

The Personal History of David Copperfield

20196.4

Mutant Pumpkins from Outer Space

20096.0

The Oranges

20115.5

SNL Presents: A Very Gilly Christmas

20097.4

Blackadder Exclusive: The Whole Rotten Saga

20087.8

Shrek's Thrilling Tales

20126.7

Plenty

19855.7

Peter's Friends

19926.6

Mr. Pip

20126.2

Cousin Bette

19985.5

Maybe Baby

20005.4

Experiment IV

20264.0

Dreamworks Spooky Stories

20126.4

Blackadder: A Cunning Story

20237.7

The Funny Blokes of British Comedy

20056.5

FOX 25th Anniversary Special

20127.8

B.O.B.'s Big Break

20095.9

House: Swan Song

20128.0

Blackadder: The Cavalier Years

19887.2

The Secret Policeman’s Third Ball

19877.5

Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings

20007.0

The Legends of Treasure Island

19938.0

Blackadder's Christmas Carol

19887.5

Blackadder: Back & Forth

19997.0

Employees From Hell

1989

Treasure Island

1997

The Ugly Duckling

19975.7

The Big Empty

20057.3

The Secret Policeman’s Biggest Ball

19897.7

The Young Visiters

20035.3

White Bear's Secret

1992

The Snow Queen

19956.5

Monsters vs Aliens Stories

20137.8

Happy Families

1985

House M.D.: The Doctor Directs

201210.0

Fry and Laurie Reunited

20106.8

Blackadder Rides Again

20087.5

Up Line

1987

Brown Bear's Wedding

1991

Dangerous Brothers Present: World of Danger

19866.6

Blackadder's Most Cunning Moments

20084.5

The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends: The Tale of Two Bad Mice and Johnny Town-Mouse

1996

Second Star to the Left

20016.8

Lounge Act

200010.0

Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Tribute

19886.5

Santa's Last Christmas

19995.0

A Life On Screen: Stephen Fry

2015

Remember the Secret Policeman's Ball?

20044.8

Stuart Little: Making It Big

199910.0

The Adventures of Toad

1996

The Cellar Tapes

19827.0

Stephen Fry: 50 Not Out

20078.0

Bayou Maharajah: The Tragic Genius of James Booker

20137.1

A Pin for the Butterfly

19955.6

The Tale of Jack Frost

20048.0

The Amazing Maurice: The Waters of Life

2026

The Snow Queen's Revenge

19965.7

Colleagues From Hell

1989

Hugh Laurie: Down by the River

20118.7

The Laughing Prisoner

19874.7

Chica de Río

20015.6

Teams from Hell

1989

Annie Lennox: Totally Diva

19929.5

The Adventures of Mole

19957.5

Jools Holland: My Life in Music

2012

Band from TV: Hoggin' All the Covers

2008

Mrs Capper's Birthday

19854.0

Baldrick's Video Diary - A Blackadder in the Making

20016.0

Carnivale

20006.1

The Comic Relief Utterly Utterly Rude Video Live

19868.0

Hugh Laurie: Copper Bottom Blues

2013

Interviewers From Hell

1989

Customer Service From Hell

1989

Strapless

19897.4

Hugh Laurie: Live on the Queen Mary

20136.1

Let Them Talk: A Celebration of New Orleans Blues

20115.2

Discovering the Real World of Harry Potter

20016.9

Lost in the Snow

2002