Hugh Laurie
Acting
Born 1959-06-11
Oxford, England, UK
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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.
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Filmography
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The Simpsons
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
House
Family Guy
Friends
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Saturday Night Live
Conan
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
The Graham Norton Show
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
Great Performances
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
Wetten, dass..?
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Veep
The Night Manager
Wogan
American Idol
Spooks
QI
Parkinson
Tehran
The Reichen Show
TFI Friday
Blackadder
Hop
Monsters vs Aliens
Tomorrowland
The Bill
Jeeves and Wooster
101 Dalmatians
The Jay Leno Show
All the Light We Cannot See
Stuart Little
Sense and Sensibility
Avenue 5
Shooting Stars
Street Kings
Catch-22
The Young Ones
The Man in the Iron Mask
The Culture Show
Murder Most Horrid
Arthur Christmas
Stuart Little: The Animated Series
Holmes & Watson
A Bit of Fry & Laurie
Valiant
Tracey Takes On...
Why Didn't They Ask Evans?
Chance
Stuart Little 2
The Amazing Maurice
The New Statesman
The Borrowers
Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)
Roadkill
The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends
Flight of the Phoenix
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