
Hugh Laurie
10 FOLLOWERS • 50 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

Saturday Night Live

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

Family Guy

LIVE with Kelly and Mark

The Graham Norton Show

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

Late Night with Seth Meyers

The Simpsons

American Idol

The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson

SNL Digital Shorts

Blackadder

Spooks

Veep

The Jay Leno Show

Tracey Takes On...

In the Know

Catch-22

Why Didn't They Ask Evans?

Spice World

Despicable Me 4

Sense and Sensibility

Tehran

The Man in the Iron Mask

Hop

The Personal History of David Copperfield

Stuart Little 2

Stuart Little

Blackadder's Christmas Carol

Valiant

101 Dalmatians

Tomorrowland

Stuart Little: The Animated Series

Street Kings

All the Light We Cannot See

Shrek's Thrilling Tales

Stuart Little 3: Call of the Wild

Monsters vs Aliens

Mutant Pumpkins from Outer Space

Friends

Arthur Christmas

The Night Manager

House

Avenue 5

The Amazing Maurice

Chance
Production Credits
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