
Hugh Laurie
10 FOLLOWERS • 70 CREDITS • JUN 11, 1959 • 66
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

Saturday Night Live

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

Family Guy

Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)

The Ellen DeGeneres Show

Blackadder

Spooks

Veep

The Jay Leno Show

Why Didn't They Ask Evans?

Tracey Takes On...

Happy Families

In the Know

Comic Relief

Catch-22

The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends

All the Light We Cannot See

Spice World

Omnibus Presents Comic Relief

Despicable Me 4

Sense and Sensibility

The Man in the Iron Mask

Tehran

Hop

Blackadder: The Cavalier Years

The Personal History of David Copperfield

Dennis the Menace and Gnasher

101 Dalmatians

The Lenny Henry Show

Stuart Little 2

Stuart Little

Valiant

Blackadder's Christmas Carol

Tomorrowland

Peter's Friends

Street Kings

Shrek's Thrilling Tales

Stuart Little: The Animated Series

Blackadder: Back & Forth

Stuart Little 3: Call of the Wild

Mutant Pumpkins from Outer Space

Monsters vs Aliens

The Night Manager

Mrs. Capper's Birthday

The Young Visiters

Arthur Christmas

A Life On Screen: Stephen Fry

The Cellar Tapes

Jools Holland: My Life in Music

Chance

House

Discovering the Real World of Harry Potter

Roadkill

The Amazing Maurice

Avenue 5
Production Credits
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