Stephen Fry profile
Actor profile

Stephen Fry

24th August 1957 Hampstead, London, England, UK Acting

Stephen John Fry is an English actor, screenwriter, author, playwright, journalist, poet, comedian, television presenter and film director, and a director of Norwich City Football Club. He first came to attention in the 1981 Cambridge Footlights Revue presentation "The Cellar Tapes", which also included Hugh Laurie, Emma Thompson and Tony Slattery. With Hugh Laurie, as the comedy double act Fry and Laurie, he co-wrote and co-starred in A Bit of Fry & Laurie, and the duo also played the title roles in Jeeves and Wooster. As a solo actor, Fry played the lead in the film Wilde, was Melchett in the BBC television series Blackadder, starred as the title character Peter Kingdom in the ITV series Kingdom, and is the host of the quiz show QI. He also presented a 2008 television series Stephen Fry in America, which saw him travelling across all 50 U.S. states in six episodes. Fry has a recurring guest role as Dr. Gordon Wyatt on the Fox crime series Bones. Apart from his work in television, Fry has contributed columns and articles for newspapers and magazines, and has written four novels and two volumes of autobiography, Moab Is My Washpot and The Fry Chronicles. He also appears frequently on BBC Radio 4, starring in the comedy series Absolute Power, being a frequent guest on panel games such as Just a Minute, and acting as chairman for I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue, where he was one of a trio of hosts who succeeded the late Humphrey Lyttelton. Fry is also known in the UK for his audiobook recordings, including as reader for all seven Harry Potter novels.

235 Movies 134 TV Shows 369 Credits
Filmography

Movies & TV Shows

We Are Home poster
We Are Home 10th September 2024 as Self - narrator (voice)
Greed poster
Greed 7th September 2019 as Self
Marked poster
Marked 18th December 2014 as Father Christmas
Doors Open poster
Doors Open 26th December 2012 as Professor Robert Gissing
Eichmann poster
Eichmann 22nd September 2007 as Minister Tormer
Tooth poster
Tooth 13th February 2004 as Pedro
Best poster
Best 10th May 2000 as Frazer Crane
Geri poster
Geri 2nd January 1999 as Self
Oscar poster
Oscar 12th October 1997 as Self
Wilde poster
Wilde 1st September 1997 as Oscar Wilde
I.Q. poster
I.Q. 24th December 1994 as James Morland
Stalag Luft poster
Stalag Luft 27th October 1993 as Wing Commander James Forrester
Veep poster
Veep 22nd April 2012 as Nikolai Genidze
Kingdom poster
Kingdom 22nd April 2007 as Peter Kingdom
Legends poster
Legends 17th November 2006 as Self (uncredited)
Bones poster
Bones 13th September 2005 as Gordon Wyatt
Extras poster
Extras 21st July 2005 as Stephen Fry
QI poster
QI 11th September 2003 as Self - Presenter
24 poster
24 6th November 2001 as Alastair Davies
Click poster
Click 6th April 2000 as Self
The Simpsons poster
The Simpsons 17th December 1989 as Terrance / Hazel / MI5 Man (voice)
Blackadder poster
Blackadder 15th June 1983 as General Sir Anthony Cecil Hogmanay Melchett