
Hugh Laurie
10 FOLLOWERS • 51 CREDITS • JUN 11, 1959 • 65
Biography
James Hugh Calum Laurie CBE (known professionally as Hugh Laurie; born 11 June 1959) 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

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

The Graham Norton Show

LIVE with Kelly and Mark

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

Saturday Night Live

Late Night with Seth Meyers

The Simpsons

American Idol

The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson

SNL Digital Shorts

Family Guy

Spooks

Veep

The Jay Leno Show

Tracey Takes On...

In the Know

Catch-22

Why Didn't They Ask Evans?

Spice World

Sense and Sensibility

Despicable Me 4

The Man in the Iron Mask

Tehran

Hop

The Personal History of David Copperfield

Blackadder's Christmas Carol

101 Dalmatians

Stuart Little 2

Stuart Little

Valiant

Shrek's Thrilling Tales

All the Light We Cannot See

Stuart Little: The Animated Series

Tomorrowland

Street Kings

Stuart Little 3: Call of the Wild

Friends

Mutant Pumpkins from Outer Space

Monsters vs Aliens

Blackadder

The Night Manager

Arthur Christmas

The Amazing Maurice

House

Discovering the Real World of Harry Potter

Chance

Avenue 5
Production Credits
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