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Hugh Laurie
9 FOLLOWERS • 47 CREDITS • JUN 11, 1959 • 65
Biography
James Hugh Calum Laurie CBE 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
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Saturday Night Live
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The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
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Family Guy
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The Graham Norton Show
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LIVE with Kelly and Mark
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The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
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Friends
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Late Night with Seth Meyers
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The Simpsons
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American Idol
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The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
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Spooks
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Veep
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The Jay Leno Show
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Why Didn't They Ask Evans?
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Tracey Takes On...
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In the Know
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Catch-22
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All the Light We Cannot See
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Spice World
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Sense and Sensibility
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Despicable Me 4
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The Man in the Iron Mask
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Hop
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The Personal History of David Copperfield
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Stuart Little
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Stuart Little 2
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Blackadder's Christmas Carol
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Valiant
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101 Dalmatians
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Tomorrowland
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Street Kings
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Stuart Little: The Animated Series
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Blackadder
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Mutant Pumpkins from Outer Space
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Stuart Little 3: Call of the Wild
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Monsters vs Aliens
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Arthur Christmas
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The Night Manager
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Avenue 5
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The Amazing Maurice
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House
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Chance
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