
Hugh Laurie
11 FOLLOWERS • 70 CREDITS • JUN 11, 1959 • 66
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 miniseries 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.
Known For

Saturday Night Live

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

The Graham Norton Show

Family Guy

LIVE with Kelly and Mark

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

Friends

Late Night with Seth Meyers

Wogan

The Simpsons

American Idol

Parkinson

The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson

Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)

The Ellen DeGeneres Show

Spooks

Veep

The Jay Leno Show

Why Didn't They Ask Evans?

Tracey Takes On...

In the Know

Happy Families

Comic Relief

Catch-22

The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends

All the Light We Cannot See

Spice World

Omnibus Presents Comic Relief

Sense and Sensibility

Despicable Me 4

Tehran

The Man in the Iron Mask

Hop

The Personal History of David Copperfield

Dennis the Menace and Gnasher

Blackadder: The Cavalier Years

The Lenny Henry Show

Valiant

Stuart Little

Blackadder's Christmas Carol

101 Dalmatians

Stuart Little 2

Stuart Little: The Animated Series

Shrek's Thrilling Tales

Tomorrowland

Blackadder: Back & Forth

Street Kings

Peter's Friends

Mutant Pumpkins from Outer Space

Monsters vs Aliens

Stuart Little 3: Call of the Wild

Blackadder

The Young Visiters

Arthur Christmas

A Life On Screen: Stephen Fry

Jools Holland: My Life in Music

Mrs. Capper's Birthday

The Cellar Tapes

The Night Manager

Discovering the Real World of Harry Potter

The Amazing Maurice

Chance

Roadkill

Avenue 5

House
Production Credits
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